{"id":816045,"date":"2026-03-16T23:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/816045\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T23:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T23:06:16","slug":"patriots-add-converted-long-snapper-in-second-week-of-nfl-free-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/816045\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots add converted long snapper in second week of NFL free agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New England Patriots will enter the spring with a second long snapper on the roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lalos, 28, was among a group of specialists in Foxborough for workouts and now joins 2025 seventh-round draft choice Julian Ashby on the offseason depth chart. A convert from defensive end, the former first-team All-Ivy League selection out of Dartmouth entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Appearing in six games during his rookie year with the New York Giants, Lalos saw 72 snaps on defense and 72 snaps on special teams. Six tackles, one fumble recovery and one interception were registered through a series of elevations as well as a stint on the 53-man roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The 6-foot-5, 270-pound Big Green alum proceeded to spend all of 2021 on the NFC East practice squad and was waived out of his futures contract at the league\u2019s cutdown deadline the following training camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lalos later spent parts of 2022, 2023 and 2024 with the New Orleans Saints. In between transactions, he was selected by the now-inactive Seattle Sea Dragons in the XFL draft and totaled 35 tackles, 1.5 sacks, one forced fumble and one interception during his lone spring season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After making the switch to long snapper, the Philadelphia Eagles invited Lalos to rookie minicamp on a tryout basis in 2025. He went on to take part in multiple NFL workouts last campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots will enter the spring with a second long snapper on the roster. Lalos, 28,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,57412,726,728,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-816045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-new-england-patriots-free-agency","10":"tag-new-england-patriots-news","11":"tag-new-england-patriots-roster","12":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116241366113573221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816045","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=816045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}