{"id":647291,"date":"2026-01-02T05:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647291\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T05:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:06:13","slug":"what-patriots-newest-roster-addition-brings-to-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/647291\/","title":{"rendered":"What Patriots\u2019 newest roster addition brings to the team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After the New England Patriots made the final selection in the 2025 NFL Draft, VP of player personnel Eliot Wolf spoke with the local media to give insight into his team\u2019s newest additions. When it was his turn to speak about cornerback Kobee Minor, it became clear that the team viewed his competitiveness as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patspulpit.com\/2025\/4\/26\/24417409\/patriots-nfl-draft-picks-explained-eliot-wolf-ryan-cowden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">highly valued trait<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Eight months later, that same competitiveness has helped Minor join the Patriots\u2019 53-man roster. On Thursday, ahead of New England\u2019s regular season finale against the Miami Dolphins, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patspulpit.com\/new-england-patriots-news\/117901\/patriots-re-signing-brenden-jaimes-miles-battle-practice-squad-report-53-man-roster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">promoted from the practice squad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cKobee works his tail off. An extreme competitor, which is why I love him,\u201d said Patriots inside linebackers coach and acting defensive coordinator Zak Kuhr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe\u2019s on the \u2018dirty show,\u2019 on the \u2018dirty defense,\u2019 giving the looks. He\u2019s competing. He\u2019s competing with everybody there. You know, Mack [Hollins], [Stefon] Diggs, whatever. He\u2019s not backing down. He brings a decently physical style play at the corner position and he\u2019s just gotten better throughout the year and throughout the weeks. So, I think it\u2019s well deserved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Minor was the last player in this year\u2019s draft to hear his name called, joining the Patriots as 2025\u2019s Mr. Irrelevant. The volatile nature of his college career \u2014 he spent time at Texas Tech, Indiana and Memphis \u2014 likely contributed to almost falling through the cracks on draft day, but New England scooped him up at the 11th hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 23-year-old failed to make it past roster cutdown day, but shortly thereafter found a home on the Patriots practice squad. He has resided there ever since, seeing game action on three separate occasions as a standard elevation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Minor played 40 total snaps between defense and special teams, registering one tackle. Now part of the active roster, he might get additional opportunities to add to those numbers, and do what he has done going back to his college days: compete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the New England Patriots made the final selection in the 2025 NFL Draft, VP of player personnel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,52113,728,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-647291","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-new-england-patriots-first-read","12":"tag-new-england-patriots-roster","13":"tag-newengland","14":"tag-newenglandpatriots","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115823770886870390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647291","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=647291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}