When the Patriots fly on the team’s custom Boeing 767, some of the longest-tenured players like to take up a whole row to themselves so they can lie down comfortably. Tom Brady usually stretches out over three seats in the middle section.
Last Thursday, Kyle Laman was sprawled out, Brady-style, across three seats on the Patriots’ plane. But he had his own row out of necessity, not comfort. A 15-year-old freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Laman was shot in his right foot and ankle in the Feb. 14 attack at the school that killed 14 students and three adult staff members.