FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — When receiver Kendrick Bourne took a brief cross, lower to the sideline, and tight-roped it 41 yards for a landing in the New England Patriots‘ victory over the Tennessee Titans in Week 12, the response because the play unfolded was notable.
“Bourne Ultimatum!” CBS play-by-play man Ian Eagle stated.
“Bourne to run after the catch!” exclaimed Patriots radio play-by-play man Bob Socci.
Then after the sport, even coach Bill Belichick had some enjoyable, playfully re-enacting Bourne’s stiff-arm method in the locker-room celebration.
It all mirrored the excitement, and enjoyable, that Bourne has dropped at New England since signing a three-year free-agent deal with a most worth of $22 million in the offseason. Every time he touches the ball, there’s potential for dynamic outcomes.
“KB has given us a lot of explosive plays through the course of the year,” Belichick stated.
Bourne’s 623 receiving yards lead the Patriots regardless of his standing because the staff’s No. 3 possibility with regards to enjoying time (50.8% of the snaps).
According to NFL Next Gen Stats, Bourne’s reception proportion is 11.1 factors increased than anticipated, second greatest amongst extensive receivers (minimal 30 targets). He has additionally gained the sixth most yards after the catch above expectation, per NFL Next Gen Stats.
Given his run-after-the-catch success, it is no shock that offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels has discovered different methods to get the soccer into Bourne’s fingers, which incorporates six rushes for 78 yards (13.0 avg.).
“It’s definitely new for me. I’ve never really ran the ball the way they use me here. I enjoy it, I love it,” the 6-foot-1 and 190-pound Bourne stated. “It gives us versatility, and Josh does a really good job of doing it at the perfect time. He’ll run ‘right, right, right’ and then we’ll come back and go left, and defenses are just confused. They don’t know what’s going on. … It’s just a different threat.”
Bourne’s arrival this offseason after 4 years with the San Francisco 49ers wasn’t met with the identical buzz as others in the Patriots’ huge-bucks free-agent class. Bourne stated the Philadelphia Eagles have been one other staff that expressed curiosity, nevertheless it was New England that was most aggressive, so there wasn’t a lot consideration to go elsewhere.
He has wasted little time making strikes on and off the sector.
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Matthew Berry, Stephania Bell and Field Yates break down Kendrick Bourne’s latest success for the Patriots.
Bourne rapidly partnered with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts to function an honorary board member. And true to how he describes himself on his Instagram account, as an entrepreneur, he is working with his brokers at Disruptive Sports in the Non-fungible Token (NFTs) area on art work that captures his distinctive aptitude.
The mixture of TDs and NFTs fits him effectively. And, in fact, wins.
“I want to be everything they want me to be. I’m trying to grow as they planned,” Bourne stated. “That’s everything for any player — what they expect of you, you want to do at the best of your ability. When you get better at it, it feels better, and you get more confident. I’m getting more confident.”
