Daily news and links for Tuesday.
TEAM TALK
- Evan Lazar highlights Josh McDaniels discussing the progress of the offense and more takeaways from Monday’s practice. Rookies making progress: Pats assistants discuss growth of first-year players; More.
- Mike Dussault’s Patriots OTA Notebook: Andrews’ impact lingers, Stevenson locked in, Farmer and Woodson learning fast; More.
- Press Conferences: Josh McDaniels (11 min. video) – Offensive coaches: Ashton Grant, Doug Marrone, Thomas Brown, Tony Dews, and Todd Downing (18 min. video) – ILB coach Zak Kuhr (8 min. video) – Mike Onwenu, Brenden Schooler, Cole Strange, Rhamondre Stevenson. (20 min. video)
- Photos: Patriots OTAs.
- Press Conference: David Andrews retirement speech, with special congratulations messages. (41 min video)
- Highlights: David Andrews’ former teammates offer congratulations on his retirement. (9 min. video)
- Photos: Two-time Super Bowl Champion David Andrews retries.
LOCAL LINKS
- Alex Barth’s OTA Notebook: Diggs returns, Maye’s best day of the spring, Busy day for UDFA wide receiver Efton Chism; Who’s next at left guard? Mapu at linebacker; More.
- Mark Daniels gives us seven takeaways from OTAs: Drake Maye catches fire; Jahlani Tavai suffers injury; Rhamondre Stevenson makes the play of the day; Attendance; More.
- Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry’s share their OTA takeaways: Diggs returns, offense bounces back.
- Andrew Callahan’s Patriots OTAs takeaways: Drake Maye rises, Stefon Diggs returns, rookie WR shines; More.
- Karen Guregian highlights QB coach Ashton Grant detailing how Drake Maye is handling the ups and downs of learning the new system.
- Doug Kyed explains how the structure of Mike Vrabel’s practices has been benefitting top pick Will Campbell.
- Doug Kyed points to how the Patriots’ defense, plus Mike Vrabel’s coaching is benefitting Will Campbell.
- Karen Guregian hears from Rhamondre Stevenson detailing how Mike Vrabel and coaches helped him through difficult time.
- Karen Guregian looks at whether Stefon Diggs’ return means he’s out of Mike Vrabel’s dog house.
- Lauren Campbell relays Ian Rapoport saying the Patriots have zero plans to release Stefon Diggs and that “they intend to play him a lot of money.”
- Tom E. Curran says there seems to be ‘no tangible fallout’ expected from Diggs’ situation.
- Mike Reiss reports longtime Patriots center David Andrews said Monday that he retired from the NFL after 10 seasons because he wanted to play for only one team.
- Matt Vautour has the story of how David Andrews, the undrafted kid from Georgia, turned out to be the perfect New England football player.
- Chris Mason notes Bill Belichick got a special shout out in David Andrews’ retirement speech.
- Luke Graham tells us which Patriots UDFAs got the biggest contracts.
- Nick O’Malley mentions how a Science YouTuber asked Tom Brady to throw at his head, to help him collect data on the unique physics of throwing a football.
- Pats Chat podcast: Phil Perry and Michael Hurley say Drake Maye improves in latest OTA; Trying not to overreact to a standout performance from UDFA rookie Efton Chism; More! (73 min.)
NATIONAL NEWS
- Myles Simmons (ProFootballTalk) Josh McDaniels: Drake Maye is doing a great job of processing, making corrections.
- Charean Williams (ProFootballTalk) Patriots OL Mike Onwenu limited by hand injury.
- Patrick Andres (SI) Patriots’ Josh McDaniels comments on Stefon Diggs upon WR’s arrival at OTAs.
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) Patriots decline to say whether Stefon Diggs has passed key physical in contract.
- Good Morning Football (NFL.com) Debate: Will the Patriot Way work with WR Stefon Diggs? (5.34 min. video)
- Mike Florio (ProFootballTalk) Emotional David Andrews says he didn’t want to play for any team other than the Patriots.
- Frank Schwab (Yahoo! Sports) Which players can beat out Cam Ward and Ashton Jeanty for Rookie of the Year?
- Blake Silverman (SI) Jeremy Fowler provides TE Kyle Pitts update amidst Falcons trade rumors.
- John Breech (CBS Sports) How Tom Brady could get passed in the NFL record book in 2025 by a player who’s not even a quarterback.
- Kevin Skiver (Sporting News) Madden covers by year: Full list of NFL players on cover since 2000, from Eddie George to Christian McCaffrey