Last season, Bill Belichick and the Patriots showed they weren’t afraid to spend money and bring in trusty veteran free agents, like Kyle Van Noy and Jamie Collins, to run his schemes.
Might they go back to that well in Year 2 with an old friend who’s become a star?
A new free-agent primer from ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler and Matt Bowen list edge rusher Chandler Jones, the Patriots’ 2012 first-round pick and current top-50 NFL free agent, as a prime candidate to return to New England.
“At this stage, Jones — who turns 32 this month — has good reason to seek a contending team.