While the Patriots remained mostly silent, the NFL community littered the Internet with a wide range of reactions yesterday to Aaron Hernandez’ guilty verdict.
The Pats had no official comment after the conclusion of Hernandez’ murder trial. Also, current and former players had no interest in passing along their reactions when reached by phone. If they had an opinion, the consensus was their reaction had already been conveyed when the story first surfaced in 2013.
Running back Jonas Gray, who was never Hernandez’ teammate, was the only current Patriot to offer a literal response to the verdict.