Going into next season, the new england patriots continue to add coaches, with starting linebackers coach and head coach jerod mayo as the team’s head coach.
The team filled the linebackers coach vacancy on friday, which was filled by their new bench manager.
According to nfl insider ari meirov, the afc east club will sign former defender dont’a hightower. The patriots have added t.c. reilly to their roster.
Next season, McCartney, scott peters, alonzo highsmith, and bobby brown will be on the team. In addition, they retained brian belichick, last year’s safeties coach. dont’a hightower will return to football next season after two seasons out of the sport. Hightower spent his entire ten-year professional career with the new england patriots, including his 25th overall pick in the 2012 nfl draft.
As a rookie, the alabama crimson tide product tallied 60 tackles before registering a career-best 97 tackles in 2013. Hightower continued his good play in 2015, registering 89 tackles and six sacks as the patriots won the super bowl. Hightower continued his good play in 2015, but he made his pro bowl debut in 2016 and earned second-team all-pro honors. During the regular season, the six-foot-three, 260-pound second-level defender recorded 65 tackles, 2.5 sacks, and a safety. The patriots, along with hightower, won the super bowl once more. The now-33-year-old returned to the game the following season, completing 48 tackles and winning his third super bowl.
Hightower made it to the pro bowl once more in 2019, but he did not play in the 2020 season due to the covid-19 epidemic, and he would return in 2021. Jerod mayo spent five seasons with him, and the two are now teaming up for a coaching session. after six-time super bowl champion bill belichick does not sit on the sidelines next season, the patriots will flip the page on a new chapter. Last season, new england won just four games, their lowest total since 1992.
New england scored 13.9 points per game against 21 picks, the second-lowest average in the nfl, thanks to the quarterback tandem of mac jones and bailey zappe.
They also finished in the bottom ten for yards per rush attempt, rushing yards, and rushing touchdowns. The defense did a little better job of holding opposing running backs to a league-best 3.3 yards per carry. They also surrendered just 19 touchdowns, the fourth-lowest total in the NFL.
