{"id":93548,"date":"2025-08-25T01:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93548\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T01:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:33:08","slug":"will-patriots-find-trade-interest-for-s-kyle-dugger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/93548\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Patriots find trade interest for S Kyle Dugger?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Patriots last week began shopping<\/a> safety Kyle Dugger, along with outside linebacker Anfernee Jennings, as Andrew Callahan of the Boston Herald reported Wednesday. <\/p>\n

They apparently aren\u2019t getting interest for Dugger, so they are amplifying their desire to move on from the five-year pro in hopes of drumming up interest. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media tweeted Sunday about the team\u2019s interest in trading Dugger.<\/p>\n

It has been obvious for a while that the Patriots don\u2019t see Dugger as part of their future.<\/p>\n

He has tumbled down the depth chart since Mike Vrabel\u2019s arrival. <\/p>\n

Dugger practiced with the scout-team defense last week and has played deep into preseason games. He played 39 snaps \u2014 57 percent of the defensive snaps \u2014 in Thursday\u2019s preseason game against the Giants after 45 in the second preseason game.<\/p>\n

Dugger played last season on a high-ankle sprain that went misdiagnosed for almost three months<\/a> and required tightrope surgery on his right ankle in January. Dugger has yet to fully rebound, a recovery that\u2019s been made harder by learning a new defense.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s weird<\/a>,\u201d Dugger told Callahan after Thursday\u2019s game. \u201cThere\u2019s little stuff like that where some stuff feels fine. And then other times, it\u2019s like \u2018Woah, OK. That didn\u2019t feel like it normally feels.\u2019 I don\u2019t always know where there\u2019s going to be rust, and that\u2019s kind of been the hardest part. One [play I] will be where I know I can be, and then [I\u2019m] not in some areas.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Patriots signed Dugger to a four-year, $58 million contract extension in the 2024 offseason. His $9.75 million salary is guaranteed, and he is scheduled to count $15.264 million against the team\u2019s cap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Patriots last week began shopping safety Kyle Dugger, along with outside linebacker Anfernee Jennings, as Andrew Callahan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-93548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93548","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=93548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}