It took until the second day of the 2020 NFL Draft for the Patriots to make a pick.
And shortly after New England selected safety Kyle Dugger at No. 37, out of unknown Division 2 school Lenoir-Rhyne, the camera flashed to Bill Belichick’s war room on Nantucket and….
… hello Nike.
Nike is Belichick’s dog, an Alaskan Klee Kai, co-parented by longtime girlfriend Linda Holliday. Belichick introduced the dog to the world in September of 2018.
“It’s unconditional love,” Belichick told CNBC’s Suzy Welch in an interview a couple years ago.