The New England Patriots exhausted all options of adding a true coverage-dictating receiver to their offense and ended up with Bill O’Brien as offensive coordinator, a DeVante Parker extension and the additions of JuJu Smith-Schuster and Mike Gesicki.
Those players mentioned are more than fine as ancillary options, but the Patriots lack a true game changer. Unless Tyquan Thornton is a hit or the Patriots draft one early in 2024, there isn’t much they can do.
Teams do not let their elite, or borderline elite, young receivers go easily, especially on rookie contracts.