FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- It isn’t often that a practice squad player faces a full-blown media crush on his first day on the job, but that’s the way it unfolded Tuesday for running back Bishop Sankey with the New England Patriots.
Part of that is a reflection of the intense, thorough coverage from one of the league’s largest media corps. But probably more than that is that Sankey isn’t the typical practice squad player, having entered the NFL in 2014 as a second-round draft choice with the Tennessee Titans, and also that the Patriots could use a boost at the position with Dion Lewis opening the season on the reserve/physically unable to perform list.