The NFL preseason is here which means that football is officially back. Thursday night was the Patriots’ first preseason game of the year and it saw a couple of Michigan State rookies take the field for the first time in Bryce Baringer and Ameer Speed.
Baringer was the first punter selected in the 2023 NFL Draft which didn’t come as a major surprise even though he didn’t win the Ray Guy Award (I’ll avoid going off on a rant over this) while Speed was selected in the later rounds by New England to play primarily special teams.
On Thursday night, we saw both in NFL uniforms for the first time.