FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The New England Patriots have a significant void to fill with receiver Julian Edelman’s four-game suspension for violating the league's PED policy to open the 2018 season, and the first five practices of training camp have provided an early snapshot of how it might unfold.
The biggest winners? Receiver Phillip Dorsett, tight end Jacob Hollister and running back Rex Burkhead.
Things can always change, and they probably will in some form, but what the initial stretch of training camp reinforced is that the Patriots are going to tap all positions to account for the loss of one of quarterback Tom Brady’s go-to-guys.