Practice 18 was a walkthrough with little information coming out of the session as the team prepared for their upcoming joint practices against the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n
Absent:<\/strong>\u00a0CB Christian Gonzalez, LB Chad Muma, LB Xavier Holmes, C Ben Brown, WR Kyle Dixon, OG Greg Van Roten (not signed yet)<\/p>\n PUP\/NFI:<\/strong>\u00a0LB Harold Landry, S Brenden Schooler<\/p>\n Returned:<\/strong>\u00a0WR Kobe Prentice<\/p>\n RB 3 competition has gotten interesting with Hassan Haskins and JaMycal Hasty, \u00a0who were both working with the starting and backup quarterback.<\/p>\n EDGE rushers Gabe Jacas and Quintayvious Hutchins also received some 1st<\/sup> team looks against Drake Maye<\/p>\n Jesse Luketa and Christian Elliss participated in practice after each player had left practice early on Monday. \u2013 Sophie Weller<\/p>\n WR Efton Chism III:<\/strong> The second-year wide receiver continues to be prominently featured on offense and in the kicking game. On Tuesday, he was part of the first-team offense around starting quarterback Drake Maye again while also serving as a personal protector on the punt team. It very much is starting to feel like the Patriots are trying to find as many roles as possible for him in order to justify having him on the roster. \u2013 Bernrd Buchmasser<\/p>\n (Note: Kayshon Boutte doesn\u2019t play any position on Special Teams \u2013 MM)<\/p>\n S Mike Brown:<\/strong>\u00a0Time will tell whether or not Brown can make a late push for the third safety spot, but he very much has held onto a valuable job throughout training camp: personal punt protector, a position he again played on Tuesday. While the aforementioned Efton Chism has started seeing reps in that role as of late, Brown\u2019s experience \u2014 he has 141 in-game snaps as a PP on his career r\u00e9sum\u00e9 \u2014 might give him an edge and could ultimately secure him a spot on the 53-man team. \u2013 Brian Hines<\/p>\n (IMO Brown\u2019s defensive liabilities doesn\u2019t warrant keeping him, that is why the team is trying Chism at the Personal Protector position \u2013 MM)<\/p>\n I wrote about Greg Van Roten on Monday before he was actually signed late yesterday.\u00a0 Matt Sidney a resident Giants expert from Fansided\u2019s GMenHQ had this to sat about newly signed O Lineman.\u00a0 \u00a0“Greg Van Roten is an unreal late-offseason signing. While he primarily plays right guard, he can play all three interior positions. Over the last two years with the Giants, he started all 34 games, never missing a snap.<\/em><\/p>\n GVR is the ultimate locker room\/glue guy and a veteran the G-Men will no doubt miss this upcoming season. The Pats are getting a real one, and their interior depth just got a major upgrade.”\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n Van Roten started at Right Guard for the 2023 Las Vegas Raiders under Josh McDaniels.\u00a0 This will give Van Roten a leg up in learning the playbook since he has already played in the Josh McDaniels offense.\u00a0 Van Roten played all 17 games that season.\u00a0 He has started and played all the games the last three seasons.<\/p>\n The corresponding move was to waive recently signed TE Mitch Van Vooren<\/strong>.\u00a0 To his credit Van Vooren did have a catch in the Pre-season game against Indy.\u00a0 The 6\u20195\u201d 255-pound TE was a Track Star at Marquette before transferring to St. Norbert \u00a0to play football.\u00a0 Last season the UDFA was in camp with Seattle and Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Analyzing Patriots Training Camp Day 18, Greg Van Roten’s signing boosts O-line depth. Efton Chism III and Mike Brown compete for special teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":74099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_pfeai_meta_description":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[23130,23633,23269,23466,23768,22718,2211,24832,23380,24395,256,23278,24845,24435,24846,44,23787,73,319,24636],"class_list":["post-74293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patriots-news","tag-brenden-schooler","tag-christian-elliss","tag-christian-gonzalez","tag-drake-maye","tag-efton-chism-iii","tag-greg-van-roten","tag-harold-landry","tag-hassan-haskins","tag-jamycal-hasty","tag-jesse-luketa","tag-josh-mcdaniels","tag-kayshon-boutte","tag-kobe-prentice","tag-mike-brown","tag-mitch-van-vooren","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-patriots-training-camp","tag-preseason","tag-special-teams","tag-undrafted-free-agent"],"yoast_head":"\nPractice Notes<\/h3>\n
Comings and Goings<\/strong><\/h3>\n