Patriots training camp notebook<\/a>. In the meantime, here is who caught our eye during the session.<\/p>\nQB Drake Maye: The Patriots\u2019 starting quarterback was close to perfect on Friday, stacking a second straight strong practice. Maye completed 19 of 21 combined pass attempts in 7-on-7s and 11-on-11s, with his lone incompletions being by choice: he took one throwaway in 7s and another in 11s, even though the latter was seemingly picked off by Christian Gonzalez for the interception.<\/p>\n
Still, Maye impressed. Not only is he spreading the ball around well, he also is making multiple highlight-reel throws each day. On Friday, a 7-on-7 touchdown to Romeo Doubs over Gonzalez\u2019s outstretched arms was a highlight, as was a deep touchdown to A.J. Brown.<\/p>\n
The connection with those two is developing nicely, and so is the Patriots\u2019 passing offense as a whole. Ultimately, it all goes back to No. 10.<\/p>\n
Other performances of note<\/p>\n
WR Romeo Doubs: After A.J. Brown had his best of camp on Thursday, the other high-profile offseason addition at wide receiver followed suit on Friday. Doubs had his best practice of the summer, having successful reps in 1-on-1s, 2-on-2s and 7-on-7s \u2014 the latter including a contested touchdown versus Christian Gonzalez. He was not targeted in 11-on-11s, but it still felt like big step in the right direction.<\/p>\n
WR Cameron Dorner: The Patriots\u2019 undrafted rookie receivers are unlikely to compete for roster spots; there simply is too much talent ahead of them on the depth chart. They are in a fight for the practice squad, however, and Dorner seems to have started separating himself from the bunch. He had another good practice on Friday and has built a good rapport with third-string quarterback Behren Morton.<\/p>\n
OT Caleb Lomu: With Morgan Moses limited, the Patriots\u2019 rookie tackle saw increased action on Friday. He responded with an up-and-down performance. While Lomu did look solid during team drills, he had a rough 1-on-1 blocking period. Most of the media tent had him going 0-4 in his matchups with losses to Bradyn Swinson twice and once each against Elijah Ponder and Amari Gainer. He seemed to particularly struggle with speed.<\/p>\n
OL Mehki Butler and OL Caedan Wallace: It looks like the second-string offense has a new member. After the former third-round pick Wallace served as both a backup left and right guard during the spring and early training camp, sophomore Mehki Butler filled that role on Friday. That is a nice promotion for Butler, while the end of the road might be nearing for Wallace.<\/p>\n
The Patriots will hold their seventh practice of training camp<\/a> on Saturday. Gates are scheduled to open at 9:15 p.m. ET for that session, with practice again set to start approximately an hour later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a second straight day, the New England Patriots put on their full pads on Friday. This meant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75372,36480,23434,99],"class_list":["post-796421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-england-patriots-analysis","tag-new-england-patriots-opinion","tag-new-england-patriots-training-camp","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796421","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=796421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}