Jakobi Meyers took an indirect path to his spot atop New England’s receiver depth chart, just as the Patriots went the scenic route to finally find another promising young wideout.
The Patriots spent the last 10 years searching the deep reaches of college rosters to find their next Troy Brown, Wes Welker, Julian Edelman or Danny Amendola clone.
New England’s slot receiver prototype was vertically challenged, shifty, unheralded, quicker than fast and probably carried a lunch pail to work. Jeremy Ebert, T.J. Moe, Jeremy Gallon, Wilson Van Hooser (that’s a real person), Jonathan Krause, Austin Carr, K.