FOXBOROUGH — Jerod Mayo has been a Patriot since the team drafted him in the first round in 2008, and he really didn’t want to go anywhere this offseason.
“My family is here,” the linebackers coach said Tuesday as the Patriots continued their first week of the 2023 offseason program. “I love it here in Boston. I pretty much was raised here at this point. It would take a lot for me to leave.”
That doesn’t mean Mayo wants to remain linebackers coach forever. He was going to interview for the Panthers’ head coaching vacancy in January, and probably others, before the Patriots stepped in and announced Jan.