Patriots sign Michael Jordan to future contract

With the practice squad no longer crowded after the 2023 season, the Patriots signed Michael Jordan to a future contract.

The 25-year-old linebacker was removed from the Packers’ practice squad prior to their divisional round loss to the 49ers and is now headed to New England. Jordan was a fourth-round pick by the Bengals in the 2019 NFL Draft after spending two years with Cincinnati and two years with Carolina. The 6-foot-6, 316-pounder has started 29 games and appeared in 55 games at the NFL level.

The Patriots have considerable depth on the interior offensive line — Sidi Sowu, Attonio Maffei and Jake Andrews were all mid-round picks last spring — but with James Ferentz’s contract Upon expiration, a new vacancy may arise at the backup spot.

It’s unclear who has the final say on Jordan’s signing, with Kraft saying he wants the decision to be collaborative.

“We have a lot of people internally who have had the opportunity to train and learn under one of the greatest coaches of all time and a guy with a very special football intelligence. In the short term, we are looking to work together,” Kraft said last week. “Our team has a tremendous opportunity to position itself given the salary cap space we have, and we’ve never been drafted lower — we’ve never been drafted lower in my 30 years of coaching. We rely on people internally who we are still learning and evaluating. So we will let this situation evolve and evolve and we will appoint someone before making key decisions.

“In the meantime, we’ll probably start doing interviews and looking for people from the outside. But my bias has always been, in all our family businesses, to try to develop a culture from within where we understand each other. I’ll just give you a little Fact. In the 30 years we’ve owned this team, today – so actually 31 – this is the third coach our family has hired. During that time, the NFL has hired a total of 244 coaches, which means With an average of about eight coaches per team, that means there will be a turnover every three and a half years. “We want to maintain continuity in the company, attract the most capable talent, and then try to build stability, so in a hurry Before hiring people, we want to know what we have in-house. “

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