open to trading a receiver<\/a> while it pares down its roster.<\/p>\n\u201cI love having depth, but I would say that we\u2019re always going to try to look to improve, whether that\u2019s by adding draft capital, obtaining a player or keeping the guys we have,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want to try to provide competition throughout the roster at each position. I think that\u2019s something that\u2019s critical. I think that\u2019s what good teams do every year, year in and year out, that they\u2019re making the roster as competitive as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Currently, wideout is one of the Patriots\u2019 deepest positions. Along with Brown, Doubs and Boutte, the team also has returning contributors Mack Hollins, DeMario Douglas, Efton Chism and Kyle Williams on its 90-man roster, plus undrafted rookies Kyle Dixon, Nick DeGennaro, Kobe Prentice and Cameron Dorner. Most teams only carry five or six receivers during the season, meaning there could be an odd man out among New England\u2019s veterans.<\/p>\n
Trading Boutte could ease that roster crunch while also netting the Patriots some draft capital. But that would also mean losing a player who was one of Maye\u2019s more reliable targets last season.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegardless of where I\u2019m at, I still got to prove it,\u201d Boutte said. \u201cYou hear the talk online, everything like that. Every year, I\u2019ve been proving, so I feel like everybody say a lot of stuff, and then it backfire. It\u2019s kind of the story of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boutte also is motivated to produce this season as he enters the final year of his rookie contract.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, truth be told, I think if you was in a contract year at your reporting job, you\u2019d kind of want that to be your best year,\u201d he said when asked whether his contract status gives him \u201cextra motivation.\u201d \u201cSo whatever that looks like for me, we\u2019ll look at all the options and see what the best position is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOXBORO \u2014 Kayshon Boutte has seen the trade rumors. He knows how crowded New England\u2019s wide receiver room…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":959730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,6306,126564,126565,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,126566,25256],"class_list":["post-959729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-england-patriots","tag-football","tag-kayshon-boutte","tag-kayshon-boutte-patriots","tag-kayshon-boutte-trade","tag-mike-vrabel","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-newengland","tag-newenglandpatriots","tag-nfl","tag-patriots","tag-patriots-trade-rumors","tag-patriots-wide-receivers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117010236975275706","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959729","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=959729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}