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By Albert
Breer
June 03, 2019
TEN
TAKEAWAYS
8. Tom Brady will get a lot of attention at
this week’s minicamp, but maybe most interesting to me in New England will
be Michael Bennett, a Swiss army knife of a defensive
lineman who could be tasked with replacing a lot of the production that Trey Flowers (another versatile
inside/outside type) gave the Patriots the last couple years. Having
spent the offseason in Hawaii, as he has the last few years, Bennett will debut
on the Foxboro practice fields this week. One thing that should help him is the
way Bill Belichick and his staff deploy their defensive linemen—Flowers (who played 70.2 percent
of the snaps) was the only D-lineman on the roster who played more than 50
percent of the team’s snaps. While the Patriots will have to spread
Bennett’s workload out, it’s a good bet that they’ll work to preserve the
33-year-old Bennett.
