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Patriots kickoff 2016: A look at Ryan Allen

Size: 6-foot-2, 215 pounds

College: Louisiana Tech

NFL experience: Three seasons

Two punters were selected in the 2013 NFL Draft; Allen was not one of them. Yet, he has made much more of a name for himself than Jeff Locke and Sam Martin, consistently being a top-ten punter in the NFL. It wasn’t easy for the Patriots to release Zoltan Mesko in final cuts three years ago, but the Patriots are better off with the Louisiana Tech product.

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Allen has started every regular season and playoff game over the course of the past three years.