With organized team activities being kicked off on Monday, the New England Patriots announced new jersey numbers for their veteran offseason acquisitions (i.e. all players brought aboard not via the draft or rookie free agency) as well as a handful of other changes. With time aplenty during the offseason, let’s use this chance to dig a little deeper and find out who previously donned those 29 new numbers.
Let’s start with the lowest handed out by the team and go through them one-by-one.
2 — DB Jalen Mills
Most recently worn by: Brian Hoyer
Most prominently worn by: Doug Flutie
Free agency addition Mills announced the switch to single digits — thus taking advantage of the league’s new jersey rules — earlier this offseason, making him the first defensive back to wear such a number.