FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- During the football season, Julian Edelman knows all about the 1 p.m. ET kickoff, as well as 4:25 p.m. and 8:20 p.m. He lives for game day.
But being away from the team during the time in which he served a four-game NFL suspension to open the 2018 season, Edelman grew accustomed to the 11 a.m. ET kickoff.
That’s when the team of people helping him, a group that notably included former teammate Rob Ninkovich, would arrive at various fields around Boston and its suburbs. This was the daily schedule -- whether it was at Harvard University in Cambridge; Ahern Middle School in Foxborough; Union Sports Complex in Weymouth; Milton Academy; Nobles and Greenough School in Dedham; Boston College in Chestnut Hill; and The Rivers School in Weston, which is also the alma mater of Patriots safeties coach Steve Belichick.