The New England Patriots did things in Super Bowl LII that had never been done before. And yet, going through the list doesn’t do much good now.
That is, at least for the most part.
On a night in which the Patriots did not punt and Tom Brady passed for a breaking-his-own-record 505 yards, three names were on the receiving end of 396 of them.
Those three to make up that 78 percent were Rob Gronkowski, Danny Amendola and Chris Hogan, and what they did had also never been done before.
Check back through the Super Bowl archives and you’ll fail to find another 100-plus trio, according to NFL Research.