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Dont'a Hightower: 'I'll take a torn shoulder any day to get a Super Bowl ring'

Dont’a Hightower hasn’t exactly been on the party circuit this offseason like teammates Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman. He has hasn’t been testing his skills in other athletic venues, like Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady.

Surgery in February to repair the torn labrum he played with throughout the postseason has pretty much grounded the linebacker during the offseason.

“Yeah, it’s kind of been a bummer, not being able to do a lot of stuff I want to do right now,” Hightower said during an interview with the Herald Wednesday. “I can’t fish, I can’t go to the range .