A day after the Patriots drafted Mac Jones in the first round, their head coach Bill Belichick said that Cam Newton is “our quarterback” and that the team would see if Jones or Jarrett Stidham would challenge him for that role.
Back surgery has taken Stidham out of the running for the job and Jones hasn’t done anything to change Belichick’s mind about the pecking order. He was asked at a Saturday press conference about the timeline for naming a starter and responded by calling Newton “our starting quarterback.