{"id":580076,"date":"2026-04-12T16:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580076\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:53:07","slug":"report-mike-vrabel-wont-be-participating-in-patriots-pre-draft-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/580076\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Mike Vrabel won’t be participating in Patriots’ pre-draft press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, Patriots coach Mike Vrabel conducted a pre-draft conference<\/a>. This year, he won\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

Mike Reiss of ESPN reports that V.P. of player personnel Eliot Wolf will conduct the team\u2019s pre-draft press conference on Monday at 2:00 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

From Reiss\u2019s article: \u201cVrabel — who has been in the news this week, as The Athletic is reinvestigating the coverage of NFL reporter Dianna Russini and the nature of her relationship with him, sources familiar with the matter told ESPN — isn\u2019t expected to address reporters until the draft<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teams often make coaches available on multiple occasions during draft weekend, often on each day of the draft.<\/p>\n

It remains to be seen whether anyone even asks Vrabel about the situation the next time he speaks. There will be many other questions to ask regarding the team\u2019s new players, and no one will want to be the one who asks the question Vrabel won\u2019t want to answer.<\/p>\n

Given the widespread interest in the story, outlets that ordinarily don\u2019t cover the team may seek access to the next Vrabel press conference, whenever it is. Those folks, if any get in, will be far more willing to go there than the people who have to deal with Vrabel on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the question of what he will say, if\/when he\u2019s asked about it. He may simply repeat his original statement to the New York Post: \u201cThese photos show a completely innocent interaction and any suggestion otherwise is laughable<\/a>. This doesn\u2019t deserve any further response.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Michael Holley said on Friday\u2019s PFT Live after I read that quote, \u201cNobody\u2019s laughing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

At some point within the next two weeks, we\u2019ll see whether Vrabel will be doing any more talking on the situation. Or whether he\u2019ll simply issue a revised statement in the coming days that ends with a claim that he will have nothing further to say about the matter. He could then refer to that statement if\/when he\u2019s ever asked about it during a press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, Patriots coach Mike Vrabel conducted a pre-draft conference. This year, he won\u2019t be. Mike Reiss of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-580076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}