Julian Edelman, N'Keal Harry, Damiere Byrd, Gunner Olszewski, Mohamed Sanu, Matthew Slater
N’Keal Harry has missed three of the last five Patriots practices, and in his absence Damiere Byrd has done well with added reps. Mohamed Sanu has been quiet, but his experience could beneficial after a shortened offseason. Gunner Olszewski has impressed as one of the team’s quickest pass-catchers, plus he’ll provide value as a punt returner.
“Gunner’s improved tremendously,” Bill Belichick said this week. “Again, both physically and from a football standpoint. He’s a smart kid, he works extremely hard. He’s tough, he’s very, very competitive. He needs to learn how to do a lot of different things for us and he continues to work on things that will expand his opportunities. So it’ll be interesting to watch him take advantage, or try to take advantage of those opportunities, and watch him play and see how all of that’s coming together.
"His overall background, knowledge, understanding, being a professional athlete, training, some of his fundamental athletic skills – he’s refined those quite a bit and he’s much, much, much further ahead from where he was last year.”