Joejuan Williams

A Patriots defender who recently finished his rookie year was arrested on drug charges in highway in his native Tennessee last week, police said. Cornerback Joejuan Williams was pulled over Friday for speeding on I-40 and was found to have “a controlled substance,” prescription drugs he didn’t have a prescription for and drug paraphernalia, according to the Tennessee Highway...

Following an impressive preseason in which rookies flashed up and down New England’s roster, contributions from the majority of those same first-year players on the Patriots have failed to materialize. Even without much of a youth infusion, New England remains 11-3 and in the driver’s seat to secure the No. 2 seed in the AFC playoff picture and the...

Tom Brady isn’t the only notable Patriot heading into the final year of his contract.

Mercifully, another preseason has come to a close and we’re less than a week away from the start of the NFL’s 100th season. As far as the Patriots are concerned, they didn’t escape the exhibition calendar completely unscathed, losing starting center David Andrews to blood clots in his lungs indefinitely and special teamer Brandon King for the season with a...

We’re halfway through the preseason, and as far as preseasons go, it’s been a great one for the Patriots. For the first time in a long time, young talent is popping all across the roster as the team prepares for the all-important third game of the exhibition season on Thursday vs. the Carolina Panthers. Of course, the strength of this...

By the time Jakobi Meyers had finished up yet another dominating performance in Saturday’s 22-17 win over the Tennessee Titans in preseason game No. 2 for the Patriots, you may still have been thinking to yourself that you’d seen the beginning of this movie before. An undrafted free agent receiver comes to Foxboro and wows in the preseason, only never...

Nobody does Friday afternoon news dumps like the National Football League. From the time Josh Gordon’s reinstatement was announced after 6 p.m. on Friday, the anticipation was building towards his return to Gillette Stadium, where the Patriots held practice on Monday afternoon.

Wide receiver Jakobi Meyers, defensive end Chase Winovich, cornerback Joejuan Williams, running back Damien Harris and quarterback Jarrett Stidham all had moments in New England’s 22-17 win in Nashville which bode well for not only the future, but the present as well.

Winning Super Bowls as frequently as the Patriots comes with what could only be classified as a first-world problem in the NFL: A revolving door of assistant coaches.

On the opening day of the 2018 NFL season, the Patriots sported the league’s third-oldest roster, with an average age of 26.8 years old. The adage of going young need not apply in Foxboro.