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Center Garrett Bradbury (65) and quarterback Drake Maye of the New England Patriots practice during training camp this summer. (Photo By Matt Stone\/Boston Herald)<\/p>\nFOXBORO \u2014 The Patriots have a strong combination of veteran leadership and promising rookies on their offensive line this season.<\/p>\n
One of their top leaders is center and seventh-year NFL veteran Garrett Bradbury.<\/p>\n
Bradbury was released by the Vikings on March 17 and signed with the Patriots just one day later after they had released their own long-time center, David Andrews.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s early, but Bradbury hasn\u2019t allowed a single pressure so far. He has PFF\u2019s highest pass-blocking grade for a center through two weeks with an 88.4 mark.<\/p>\n
Boston sports fans might not like Bradbury\u2019s favorite athlete growing up, but they\u2019ll appreciate his favorite movie.<\/p>\n
Center Garrett Bradbury (65) and quarterback Drake Maye of the New England Patriots practice during training camp this summer. (Photo By Matt Stone\/Boston Herald)<\/p>\n
Get to know Bradbury better in our new Patriots Q&A series.<\/p>\n
First football memory: The first thing that comes to mind is middle-school conditioning. I didn\u2019t start playing until seventh grade. I played summer baseball, but then we\u2019d have early\u2011morning football conditioning. It was absolutely terrible. A bunch of my friends and I were throwing up. But then we\u2019d hang out by the pool afterward. Those ended up being some of the best days because we had no idea what we were doing, dying at 7 a.m. during our summer off, but those are some of the best memories.<\/p>\n
Top high school football memory: Winning states my junior year (at Charlotte Christian School). That was probably it. (Bradbury played tight end and defensive line through high school.)<\/p>\n
Top college football memory at NC State: My last game in college \u2014 at Chapel Hill in a rivalry game. We had five rushing touchdowns. There was a fight that broke out at the end of the game. I think we won the game and the fight. I give Drake (Maye) some crap about that.<\/p>\n
What made NC State special: Probably the people. I had really some good coaches and awesome teammates I\u2019m still good friends with. Being not too far from home, so my family got to come up to most of the games. But, yeah, definitely the people<\/p>\n
What you would be doing if you weren\u2019t a football player: Oh gosh. I have no idea. I have no idea. If I hadn\u2019t become an NFL player, I probably would\u2019ve gotten into coaching. But I don\u2019t know. I\u2019d rather just keep playing for a living.<\/p>\n
Favorite athlete growing up: First one that comes to my mind is Derek Jeter. My dad would go to New York for business and always bring back Yankees gear. I got to go to a few games. I just liked the way he led himself and led his team. Respected him from afar.<\/p>\n
Position in baseball:\u00a0Catcher and first base.<\/p>\n
Favorite movie: \u201cGood Will Hunting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Favorite musical artist: For a long time it\u2019s been Eric Church. I\u2019ll say Eric Church.<\/p>\n
Best friend or best friends on the team: All the offensive linemen. Hunter Henry, and Drake Maye \u2014 I lived with Drake in the spring, so we got pretty close then. I hadn\u2019t had a roommate in a while besides my wife. And really, the whole O\u2011line room.<\/p>\n
Funniest player on the team: I\u2019m gonna go probably Pop (DeMario Douglas). I could listen to him all day.<\/p>\n
What you like most about New England: How accessible everything is after being in the Midwest for six years. My wife and I took a day trip this summer to the Cape, took a day trip to Newport. You can get to a lot of cool places. There\u2019s a lot of good food. There\u2019s a lot to explore. We haven\u2019t even scratched the surface, but looking forward to it.<\/p>\n
Player across the league who\u2019s unheralded or underappreciated:I have to go with my boy in Minnesota, Brian O\u2019Neill, right tackle. He gets some appreciation, but I don\u2019t think enough. He does a lot for them.<\/p>\n
Hidden talent: I wish golf. I wish it was golf. I do play a lot of golf, but I can\u2019t say it\u2019s a talent quite yet. I\u2019ll go with ping\u2011pong. I like ping-pong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOXBORO \u2014 The Patriots have a strong combination of veteran leadership and promising rookies on their offensive line…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[80,833,839,7,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,15,835,61050,832,208,836,19972,834,831,61051,61052,724,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-382517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-drake-maye","10":"tag-eliot-wolf","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-mike-vrabel","13":"tag-new-england","14":"tag-new-england-patriots","15":"tag-newengland","16":"tag-newenglandpatriots","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-draft","19":"tag-nfl-news","20":"tag-nfl-patriots","21":"tag-nfl-rumors","22":"tag-patriots","23":"tag-patriots-2025","24":"tag-patriots-game","25":"tag-patriots-news","26":"tag-patriots-rumors","27":"tag-patriots-schedule","28":"tag-patriots-stats","29":"tag-pats","30":"tag-robert-kraft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115235948298753737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382517","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=382517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}