{"id":687749,"date":"2026-06-06T10:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687749\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T10:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:28:14","slug":"mike-vrabel-confirms-horrible-news-after-dianna-russini-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687749\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Vrabel confirms horrible news after Dianna Russini controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots are coming off a brutal loss in the Super Bowl to the Seattle Seahawks. However, rather than how the Pats would get back to the mountaintop, the offseason was dominated by tabloid-adjacent headlines.<\/p>\n<p>After pictures were published of head coach Mike Vrabel spending time with reporter Dianna Russini at an adults-only resort in Arizona, more photos of them over the years continued to find their way online, resulting in a full-blown news cycle that resulted in Russini stepping down from her role with The Athletic and Vrabel attending counseling.<\/p>\n<p>In the aftermath of what has already been an eventful offseason, Vrabel is now confirming some bad news for the Patriots\u2019 2026-27 team regarding tight end Julian Hill and a knee injury he suffered during a voluntary offseason practice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJulian won\u2019t be able to play this season, plain and simple. Devastating. Awful. I really enjoyed the person and want to have him around here as much as we possibly can. He won\u2019t be able to play this season,\u201d Vrabel <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/03\/sports\/patriots-lose-15-million-free-agent-signing-julian-hill-for-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said&quot;}\" data-rapid_p=\"53\" data-v9y=\"1\">said, per the NY Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s just disappointing because of the impact he made in a short amount of time with his teammates, the person that he is, the way he practiced,\u201d Vrabel said. \u201cWe want Julian to be a part of us as much as possible, but he\u2019s not going to do that on the field this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New England had just inked Hill to a three-year, $15 million deal in March. Hopefully, he\u2019ll make a full recovery and return to the field at the top of his game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots are coming off a brutal loss in the Super Bowl to the Seattle Seahawks.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[297664,8225,1815,349,99],"class_list":["post-687749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-julian-hill","tag-mike-vrabel","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687749","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=687749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}