MORSE: Patriots Training Camp Day 2

Here’s an overview of what happened during the Patriots’ practice on Sunday, July 26, 2026:

Patriots Training Camp Day 2

Gabe Jacas Officially Signed – The Patriots put him on the Active/ Non-Football Injury list. Head coach Mike Vrabel said the team would take a cautious approach. – Mike Reiss

Jacas was seen working on the lower field doing conditioning. NFI indicates that Jacas may not have passed his physical. I’m not sure Jacas even attempted his conditioning test.

Absence from Practice – EDGE Gabe Jacas, WR Jeremiah Webb, FB Reggie Gilliam

PUP – EDGE Harold Landry, TE CJ Dippre

NFI – RB Terrel Jennings, Brenden Schooler

With Morgan Moses sat out of team drills, Caleb Lomu was the starting right tackle. He again got some jumbo TE snaps where Marcus Bryant would be the RT. Bryant was the second-team LT today, with James Hudson at RT. – Greg Bedard

Play of the Day

Kayshon Boutte. Sunday saw him make another leaping and diving grab that ended with his helmet off again (maybe his chin strap should be tightened?). The Patriots are getting him on the field with Brown, so he’s making a bid to stick around and make the receivers’ numbers game very uncomfortable. – Greg Bedard

QB Passing

Drake Maye – 6 of 12

Tommy DeVito – 6-8 (including a Stevenson drop). A nice bounce-back day for DeVito

Behren Morton – 5-6. Morton continues to impress.

Behren Morton has put together back-to-back good practices with the third unit. “Morton’s poise in the pocket has stood out the past two days. Got quick pressure at the top of his drop, stepped up to scramble, then saw his outlet and hit Myles Montgomery underneath.” – Taylor Kyles, CLNS Media

DreMont Jones – Jones is not a big fan of the Pro Football Focus grading method. Our EDGE group is a lot better than PFF is grading us. Jones also mentioned that he lost to the Patriots twice last year. He was traded at the deadline from Tennessee to Baltimore. Jones played in 18 games last season and didn’t get a bye week. “I get a weird flak for not playing the run well because of stupid ass PFF,” Jones smiled in an interview with 98.5 The Sports Hub, adding. “I don’t know what happened. I felt like my first year, it was like, whatever, but the next thing you know, over the last five years, PFF is like Jesus Christ. It’s the bible of football now… I think we’ve got to go back to the old school ways of watching film and understanding a player’s actual job within a play instead of guessing and assuming what a player does and grading him upon that.” – Greg Bedard

UDFA LB Khalil Jacobs looks noticeably better than LB Nnamdi Obiazor at off-ball linebacker right now, both in the rotation and overall skill level. – Pete Collins

Dell Pettus played the big Nickel position today – Taylor Kyles

Backup group of DBs included Kindle Vildor LCB, Charles Woods Slot CB, and Kobee Minor RCB.

Defense Rules the Day

How good did the Defense play? They had 9 Run Stuffs in the practice. Milt Williams had a pass knockdown. Christian Gonzalez, John Saunders and Carlton Davis had PBUs. Christian Elliss was in a great position to make a Tackle for Loss on a swing pass to Rhamondre Stevenson. He gave Stevenson a bump in his chest just to let him know that he would have blown up the play.

Andy Borregales was 6 for 6 on Field Goals

Mack Hollins, AJ Brown, and Kyle Williams had their first catches of Training Camp. Hollins was interviewed after practice and stated that he thinks he could play for 10 more years. Williams had a nice downfield reception from DeVito against Karon Prunty.

Eli Raridon and Tanner Arkin got some plays with the 1^st team offense. Raridon had beaten Kevin Byard down the seam, but Maye air-mailed it and overthrew him.

Comings and Goings – The Patriots announced late Saturday they claimed WR Koby Prentice off waivers. Prentice, a 2026 UDFA signed with Carolina and was waived on July 24^th. The Patriots put in a claim and were awarded Prentice. The speedy WR played three seasons at Alabama and finished at Baylor. At Alabama, as a true freshman in 2022, he started 10 of 13 games. His stat line was 31 receptions for 337 yards, 10.9 YPC, and 2 TDs. In 2023, his stats dropped a bit with 13 Games,18 receptions, 314 yards, 17.4 YPC, and 2 TDs. 2024, he had an upper body injury that cost him two games and probably affected him all season. His stats dropped in 2024 to 10 games, 11 receptions, 129 yards, 11.7 YPC, and 1 TD. This prompted Prentice to transfer to Baylor, where he flourished. In 2025, he played 11 games for the Bears. Prentice had 26 receptions, 380 yards, 14.62 YPC, and 6 TDs. The 5’9.4”, 184-pound WR ran a reported 4.37 40-yard dash at his Pro Day. He has no Special Teams experience in college, but with his speed, I would expect to see him returning kickoffs. The claim on Prentice may have been precipitated by the injury late in practice to Jeremiah Webb.

The corresponding move was to waive OT Sebastian Guitierrez. This from Patriots.com – Guitierrez, 28, spent a brief time on the New England practice squad in 2022 and then had two stints on the practice squad during the 2025 season. The 6-foot-5, 315-pounder originally entered the NFL as a rookie free agent with the Denver Broncos out of Minot State on May 13, 2022. He has spent time with the Las Vegas Raiders, Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns and Indianapolis Colts either in training camp or on the practice squad. He was elevated from the practice squad and played in one game for the Raiders in 2022 and one game for the 49ers in 2024. Gutierrez went to training camp in 2025 with San Francisco and Cleveland.

Jeremiah Webb was added to the Reserve/ Injury List and will be out for the season. Webb signed a three-year contract as a UDFA last season but couldn’t make the 53-man roster. He spent the year on the Practice Squad and signed a Futures Contract after the Super Bowl. This leavse an open roster spot.

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About Mark Morse

Merrimack Valley native and lifelong fan of the New England Patriots. My earliest memories of the Patriots were attending as a child with my dad, the off-season practice at Phillips Academy. I was at the Patriots game at Harvard Stadium in 1970 where Bob “Harpo” Gladieux was called out of the stands by the stadium announcer over the PA to play in the game. Analyzing the draft since ESPN first started to televise it in 1980 and former writer for the Lowell Sun Newspaper.

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