{"id":246559,"date":"2025-07-29T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/246559\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:36:10","slug":"patriots-place-rookie-fullback-on-injured-reserve-sign-linebacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/246559\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots place rookie fullback on injured reserve, sign linebacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linebacker R.J. Moten made his Patriots practice debut Tuesday, wearing No. 46.<\/p>\n<p>Moten, an undrafted rookie out of Florida, joined New England following a stint with the Michigan Panthers in the UFL. A former safety at the University of Michigan, the 6-foot, 224-pound Moten tallied 88 total tackles, two sacks and five passes defended across 88 collegiate games.<\/p>\n<p>To clear a 90-man roster spot, the Patriots placed UDFA fullback Brock Lampe on injured reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Signed in May out of Northern Illinois, Lampe was viewed as a viable candidate to crack the 53-man roster, as offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels\u2019 scheme traditionally has featured a fullback. James Develin and later Jakob Johnson filled that role during McDaniels\u2019 prior Patriots tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Lampe participated in Monday\u2019s training camp practice but was absent from Tuesday\u2019s session. Following his move to IR, the Patriots no longer have a fullback on their roster.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: July 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linebacker R.J. Moten made his Patriots practice debut Tuesday, wearing No. 46. Moten, an undrafted rookie out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,49401,49402,20419],"class_list":{"0":"post-246559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-england","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-newengland","12":"tag-newenglandpatriots","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-patriots","15":"tag-patriots-roster","16":"tag-patriots-roster-move","17":"tag-patriots-training-camp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114939152821665426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}