The Patriots made the uncommon transfer of buying and selling a participant presently on injured reserve Saturday.
The staff despatched large receiver Ja’Lynn Polk, a 2024 second-round choose, and a 2028 seventh-round choose to the Saints for a 2027 sixth-rounder.
Head coach Mike Vrabel addressed the transfer Sunday on 98.5 The Sports activities Hub’s pregame present.
“I simply suppose it was a very good begin for him elsewhere,” Vrabel stated. “We want him the most effective. He labored extraordinarily laborious to get again after which was reinjured. We had been going to be with out Ja’Lynn this 12 months anyhow, and we felt like what was finest was to type of give him a recent begin.”
Polk ended final season with a shoulder damage. He suffered a shoulder damage once more within the Patriots’ preseason opener towards the Commanders and underwent season-ending surgical procedure.
Polk completed his Patriots profession with 12 catches for 87 yards and two touchdowns. Solely two gamers — QB Drake Maye and OL Caedan Wallace — from the Patriots’ 2024 NFL Draft class stay on the 53-man roster, and two extra — CB Marcellas Dial and OL Layden Robinson — are on their injured reserve record.
