{"id":872712,"date":"2026-04-23T12:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872712\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:03:19","slug":"new-england-patriots-vrabel-to-miss-final-day-of-nfl-draft-to-seek-counseling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872712\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Patriots\u2019 Vrabel to miss final day of NFL Draft to seek counseling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel has his final press conference of the 2025-26 season at Gillette Stadium\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/XNT7ID3RARHFPJOSFO3DQVNQPI.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"546\"\/>Patriots coach Mike Vrabel \u201cwon\u2019t be with the team for the third day\u201d of the NFL Draft Saturday as he has \u201ccommitted to seeking counseling, starting this weekend.\u201d Boston Globe via Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">Patriots coach Mike Vrabel will not \u201cbe with the team for the third day\u201d of the NFL Draft Saturday as he has \u201ccommitted to seeking counseling, starting this weekend,\u201d following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/04\/12\/report-russini-benched-as-nyt-investigates-photos-of-her-vrabel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">emergence of photos with him embracing NFL reporter Dianna Russini<\/a>. Vrabel \u201cplans to be with his family this weekend outside of Massachusetts.\u201d Vrabel said that he \u201cwill still be in contact with the Patriots on Saturday for the final day of the draft,\u201d but he \u201cexpressed confidence\u201d in EVP\/Player Personnel Eliot Wolf and VP\/Player Personnel Ryan Cowden to lead the draft room. Eight of the Patriots\u2019 selections are on the final day of the draft (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48566969\/mike-vrabel-seek-counseling-not-patriots-day-3-nfl-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESPN.com, 4\/22<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patriots coach Mike Vrabel \u201cwon\u2019t be with the team for the third day\u201d of the NFL Draft Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-872712","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116453927700876023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872712","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=872712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}