{"id":62415,"date":"2025-08-30T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/?p=62415"},"modified":"2025-08-30T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:06:23","slug":"morse-thoughts-on-peppers-release-and-other-patriots-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2025\/08\/30\/morse-thoughts-on-peppers-release-and-other-patriots-transactions\/","title":{"rendered":"MORSE: Thoughts on Peppers Release and Other Patriots Transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Jabrill Peppers Released<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I am shocked by this move!\u00a0 Three days after the initial cutdown, the Patriots released Peppers?\u00a0\u00a0 What happened in the last three days?\u00a0 PFF had Peppers with a 90.1 rating on average of the last 4 seasons, which is 4<sup>th<\/sup> best overall.<\/p>\n<p>Peppers sounded like the perfect Mike Vrabel type of player.\u00a0 He is a hard hitter and responsible safety, a leader on the team, a tone-setter.<\/p>\n<p>Here are six scenarios:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peppers had another drug incident or Domestic incident. Phil Perry reported \u201cNothing off-field, I\u2019m told. No incidents. If that\u2019s what folks are wondering\u201d.\u00a0 Mike Giradi also chimed in with \u201ccan tell you there were no off-field issues for Peppers that led to the release. He obviously dealt with legal issues a year ago that landed him on the Commissioner&#8217;s List\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Peppers was being dropped down to a backup and Peppers didn\u2019t take it well. Peppers played a lot in that last Pre-Season game versus Giants.\u00a0 Report from patriots.com are now surfacing that Peppers played exclusively with the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> team Defense during practices this week.\u00a0 The beat writers could not report on this due to the agreement they have with the team on reporting what goes on in these practices.<\/li>\n<li>Did they try and trade Peppers and couldn\u2019t find a trade partner? Andrew Callahan stated that he checked with some contact around the league and they say that Peppers wasn\u2019t shopped.<\/li>\n<li>Did they ask Peppers to take a pay cut?<\/li>\n<li>Peppers&#8217; skill set doesn\u2019t fit what the new Patriots Defensive scheme is<\/li>\n<li>Did Peppers refuse to play on Special Teams?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Patriots owe Peppers $4.32M in guaranteed money. That is about what they saved from the Kendrick Bourne contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots are not deep enough to be dumping good veteran talent like Peppers.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Vrabel stated the reason that Peppers played in the Giants game was because he wanted to see him play with Woodson.\u00a0 Did they not like what they saw?\u00a0\u00a0 If so, why wait until Friday when they could have done this at the cutdown day?<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Callahan of the Boston Herald speculated \u201cPeppers&#8217; release is a surprise. Based on his performance in practice and the preseason, there isn&#8217;t much basis for cutting him, especially given their depth. Without speculating specifically, other considerations likely factored\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Why did the Patriots wait until 9 days before the opening game to release Peppers?\u00a0 It was curious that the move was made on a Friday of a Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Curious that all of the original Captains from last season\u2019s team have been let go.\u00a0 Hunter Henry was named Captain after Ja\u2019Whuan Bentley\u2019s season ending injury.\u00a0 He is the only Captain left from last year.<\/p>\n<p>This move cannot come down on Eliot Wolf!\u00a0 There is no way that Wolf could make this move without getting the approval of Head Coach Mike Vrabel.\u00a0 This kind of decision is not being made in a vacuum.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Eric Gregory Signed, Jabrill Peppers Waived<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Gregory enters his first season in the NFL after going undrafted in the 2025 Draft. He played six years at Arkansas and appeared in 61 games, starting 44 of them from 2020-24. He totaled 135 tackles, 18.5 tackles for loss, and 9.5 sacks.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas turned to Gregory to start during the COVID-shortened 2020 season and kept him in the rotation and starting lineup for years to come. He played all over the defensive line for the Razorbacks but was mainly aligned in the B-gap. His most productive season was his last in 2024 when he netted 42 tackles, five tackles for loss, and three sacks. Pro Football Focus graded him out at 75.3 overall and 82.3 in run defense for that season.<\/p>\n<p>Gregory, who had a draftable grade, signed a three-year, $2.995 million college free agent deal in May following the draft. He earned a $30,000 signing bonus, tied for the largest out of Cincinnati&#8217;s 14 UDFAs, and can earn a non-guaranteed $840,000 base salary this season.\u00a0\u00a0 The signing bonus is indictive that Cincinnati<\/p>\n<p>At the Combine he ran 5.14, 40-yard dash, and put up 28 reps on the Bench Press.\u00a0 From what I have seen, the Bengals were upset they lost Gregory.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Thayer Munford OT was signed to the Practice Squad and OT Jack Conley was waived.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Mumford, 6\u20196\u201d 354-pounds, was a 7<sup>th<\/sup> Round (#238) by Las Vegas.\u00a0 His career at Ohio State was outstanding.\u00a0 Having been selected 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Team All-Big 10 Left Tackle in 2019, 1<sup>st<\/sup> team in 2020 and 1<sup>st<\/sup> team LT in 2021 and followed that up with a position change to LG in 2022 and was selected 1<sup>st<\/sup> team again.\u00a0 He had 44 career starts, 0 sacks in 2019, 5 sacks in 2020, 0 sacks in 2021 and just 1 at LG in 2022!\u00a0 This gives them a player that provides roster protection at two positions.<\/p>\n<p>Conley, the 6\u20197\u201d 325-pound OL from New Caanan CT, played at Boston College, where Patriots Offensive Line coach Doug Marrone was a consultant for HC Bill O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p>I think there is a roster imbalance at the Defensive Tackle position with 6 on the active roster and 4 more on the Practice Squad.\u00a0 Are the Patriots planning to play a Three Defensive Tackles and 1 Edge player Defense?<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Money Is at the Root of Patriots Moves\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s beginning to look like money is the root of Patriots Roster moves and other moves they could have made.\u00a0 The Patriots tried to move him and when they couldn&#8217;t, they asked Kendrick Bourne to take a pay cut, he refused, and he was released.\u00a0 I guarantee that Jabrill Peppers was also asked to take a pay cut.\u00a0 He wouldn\u2019t and they released him.\u00a0 His release was before the Patriots were awarded Eric Gregory.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots inquired about Micah Parson but the amount of money they would have to pay him ($120M guaranteed), to go along with the two 1<sup>st<\/sup> round draft picks, and a starting DT (believed to be Barmore) was too much.\u00a0 That $120M has to put in escrow immediately and Robert Kraft would not do that.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Callahan also indicated today that the Patriots had a deal in place for Kyle Dugger, but the two teams couldn\u2019t agree on the amount of Dugger\u2019s salary the Patriots would retain.\u00a0 Peppers was insurance in case they were going to trade Dugger.\u00a0 With Dugger still on the team, Peppers and Dugger became redundant, so they jettisoned Peppers.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2024 Salaries Are a Problem \u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This you can blame on Eliot Wolf.\u00a0 The following salaries were agreed upon by Wolf when it became obvious that Free Agent players from other teams wouldn\u2019t sign to play in Foxboro.\u00a0 These are all contracts signed by Wolf in 2024!<\/p>\n<p>The following players are no longer with the Patriots:<\/p>\n<p>Jabrill Peppers: 3 years, $24 million<\/p>\n<p>Davon Godcahux: 2 years, $21 million<\/p>\n<p>David Andrews: 2 years, $12 million (inj.\/retired)<\/p>\n<p>Kendrick Bourne: 3 years, $19.5 million<\/p>\n<p>Josh Uche: 1 year, $3 million<\/p>\n<p>These players are still on the roster:<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Dugger: 4 years, $57 million (shopped)<\/p>\n<p>Anfernee Jennings: 3 years, 12 million (shopped)<\/p>\n<p>Christian Barmore: 4 years, $83 million<\/p>\n<p>Mike Onwenu 3 years, $57 million<\/p>\n<p>Rhamondre Stevenson: 4 years, $36 million<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Henry: 3 years, $27 million<\/p>\n<p>Jahlani Tavai: 3 years, $16 million (IR)<\/p>\n<p>Barmore had the blood clot issue that no one could predict.\u00a0 Stevenson developed a fumbling issue, and he has not lived up to his contract. \u00a0Onwenu didn\u2019t play well last year but has looked good so far this 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