Prior to Thursday evening, the New England Patriots had a selected sort when it got here to drafting a large receiver. That participant was usually undersized, ran a 4.4-second or sooner 40-yard sprint, a 6.9 or faster three-cone drill and didn’t put up gaudy stats in school. The system in the end failed to provide desired outcomes. N’Keal Harry, the Patriots’ decide at No. 32 total within the 2019 NFL Draft, checks none of these containers. He’s huge — 6-foot-3, 225 kilos — and failed to succeed in these most popular metrics, operating a 4.53-second 40 and ending the three-cone in 7.05 seconds. And he produced in an enormous manner at Arizona State, catching 213 passes for two,889 yards with 22
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Patriots Work Out Three Free-Agent Wide Receivers Including Julian Talley
FOXBORO, Mass. — The New England Patriots brought three free-agent wide receivers to Gillette Stadium on Wednesday for tryouts. The Patriots worked out Alan Bonner, Julian Talley and Austin Willis, according to a source. The Patriots need healthy bodies at wide receiver with four players at the position currently banged up. Bonner, a Jacksonville State product, was cut from the Houston Texans’ practice squad last month. The 25-year-old 5-foot-10, 191-pound receiver was a sixth-round pick by the Texans in 2013. Talley, who went undrafted out of UMass in 2012, was cut from the New York Giants practice squad last week. The 26-year-old 6-foot-1...