For the first time since 2022 with the New England Patriots, Jakobi Meyers enters training camp as his team’s WR1.
It was a role he assumed following the Davante Adams trade last season. Meyers finished with 1,027 yards, his first career season breaking the 1,000 mark, along with a career-high 87 receptions. What’s even more impressive, he accomplished this with a 0 percent drop rate.
“He could play both inside and outside receiver. He’s got experience doing both,” Kelly said. “His ability in terms of catching the football, his drop rate, I think, is zero. Anything thrown in his direction, he seems to somehow come down on. I think he’s got a really good understanding of coverage and schemes, where he knows how to get himself open at the appropriate time. … [He’s] the leader of that group, and we’re young at the at the wideout spot. But for those guys to be able to rely on someone like Jakobi to kind of, ‘Been there, done that’. He’s been in two organizations, and was really good at both.”