FOXBOROUGH — The pace that must be adopted to carve out a role in the NFL ranks takes some time to get used to.
For Patriots rookies like Christian Gonzalez, Demario Douglas, Marte Mapu, Keion White and others, the hours away from the practice field offers little respite from the deluge of information put upon them.
“It’s just a bunch of meetings, coming to practice, doing all that,” Gonzalez said Friday morning at Gillette Stadium. “And then you got to do it all when you get home. It’s not a lot of time. But you just got to try to soak everything in as much as you can.