{"id":178852,"date":"2025-08-27T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/178852\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T04:48:10","slug":"nfl-cutdown-day-recap-as-patriots-keep-eight-wrs-on-53-man-roster-nbc-sports-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/178852\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL cutdown day recap as Patriots keep eight WRs on 53-man roster \u2013 NBC Sports Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to Know<\/p>\n<ul class=\"what-to-know__list\">\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">The Patriots trimmed their roster to 53 players ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s 4 p.m. ET deadline.<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">Wideouts Efton Chism, Javon Baker and Kendrick Bourne all made the team.<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">Veterans Kyle Dugger and Anfernee Jennings also are staying in New England despite trade speculation.<\/li>\n<li class=\"what-to-know__item\">Phil Perry and Tom E. Curran reacted to the team&#8217;s moves <a href=\"https:\/\/tom-curran-patriots-talk-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\/digging-deep-on-the-patriots-roster-cuts-and-keeps\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/tom-curran-patriots-talk-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\/digging-deep-on-the-patriots-roster-cuts-and-keeps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on the Patriots Talk Podcast<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The New England Patriots made a host of roster cuts Tuesday to shrink their roster to 53 players by 4 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>But their most notable moves were the ones they didn&#8217;t make.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots opted to keep eight wide receivers on their initial 53-man roster, as veteran Kendrick Bourne, second-year wideout Javon Baker and undrafted rookie Efton Chism III all made the team. Veteran safety Kyle Dugger and linebacker Anfernee Jennings both survived roster cuts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/video\/nfl\/new-england-patriots\/callahan-patriots-having-very-little-luck-trading-dugger-and-jennings\/727760\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsboston.com\/video\/nfl\/new-england-patriots\/callahan-patriots-having-very-little-luck-trading-dugger-and-jennings\/727760\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">and trade speculation<\/a> to stay on the squad as well.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s likely another shoe to drop soon, as players could be placed on injured reserve or released after Tuesday&#8217;s deadline. But for now, here&#8217;s a recap of an eventful day of transactions (and non-transactions) in New England:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to Know The Patriots trimmed their roster to 53 players ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s 4 p.m. ET deadline.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":178853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[101196,101197,29325,94667,101198,76568,533,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-178852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-anfernee-jennings","9":"tag-efton-chism","10":"tag-javon-baker","11":"tag-kendrick-bourne","12":"tag-kyle-dugger","13":"tag-mike-vrabel","14":"tag-new-england-patriots","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115098924176356907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}