Each throw tells a story.
And during NFL training camp, whether it is 7-on-7 in shorts and shells or 11-on-11 in full pads, those stories add up.
But Brian Hoyer knows that the statistics don’t always do.
For the 34-year-old quarterback, now in his third stint with the New England Patriots, there is context behind the out route that became an interception or the skinny post that became a touchdown. Even the checkdown to the flat that became neither.
There is information to gather that often goes beyond a 9-for-16 morning on the practice fields behind Gillette Stadium.