The New England Patriots’ season opener against the Philadelphia Eagles also presented the first chance for the team’s rookie class to showcase themselves. And showcase they very much did: New England saw prominent contributions from several of its first-year players in all three phases of the game.
Let’s quickly go through all of them to find out how they performed against the Eagles. We will start with first-round draft pick Christian Gonzalez and work our way down from there.
CB Christian Gonzalez (1-17): Gonzalez was touted as a Day 1 starter coming out of Oregon and he lived up to that billing.