{"id":385809,"date":"2026-01-02T01:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/385809\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T01:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:09:14","slug":"patriots-sign-2025-nfl-drafts-final-pick-to-active-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/385809\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots sign 2025 NFL Draft\u2019s final pick to active roster"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOXBOROUGH \u2013 All season long, Kobee Minor<\/a> has competed with the best receivers on the Patriots<\/a> roster.<\/p>\n

While on the practice squad, the rookie cornerback played a big role on the scout team, otherwise known as \u2018the dirty show.\u2019 It\u2019s where players imitate the opposing team\u2019s scheme to prepare the Patriots<\/a> starters for their upcoming matchup.<\/p>\n

This season, Patriots coaches were impressed with Minor, who was the last pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, and his ability to compete in practice. That\u2019s one reason why the team signed the seventh-round pick off their practice squad and to the 53-man roster on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cKobee works his tail off. An extreme competitor,\u201d Patriots defensive play-caller Zak Kuhr said. \u201cWhen he\u2019s on the dirty show, the dirty defense, giving a look, he\u2019s competing. He\u2019s competing with everybody out there \u2013 Mack, Diggs. He\u2019s not backing down. He brings a physical style to the corner position, and he\u2019s just gotten better throughout the year, throughout the weeks. I think it\u2019s well deserved.\u201d<\/p>\n

After signing Minor, the Patriots finish the season with their entire 11-man draft class on the roster.<\/p>\n

Minor played in college at Texas Tech, Indiana, and Memphis before the Patriots drafted him with pick 257 in the seventh round. Being the final pick, Minor became 2025\u2019s Mr. Irrelevant. <\/p>\n

This season, the Patriots were impressed with the rookie enough to elevate him to the game-day roster three times. That\u2019s the maximum number of elevations allowed for a player, so if the Patriots wanted to use Minor again, they\u2019d have to sign him, and that\u2019s what happened on Thursday.<\/p>\n

In three games, he\u2019s contributed on special teams and provided depth at cornerback. Minor is the fifth cornerback on the Patriots roster behind Christian Gonzalez, Carlton Davis, Marcus Jones, and Charles Woods.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the Patriots also signed veteran center Brenden Jaimes and cornerback Myles Battles to the practice squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOXBOROUGH \u2013 All season long, Kobee Minor has competed with the best receivers on the Patriots roster. While…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-385809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}