Former first-round pick and starting left guard Cole Strange was among the 21 players the Patriots released Tuesday to meet the NFL’s 53-man roster deadline.
Former first-round pick and starting left guard Cole Strange was among the 21 players the Patriots released Tuesday to meet the NFL’s 53-man roster deadline.
Strange and fifth-round rookie outside linebacker Bradyn Swinson headlined a group of mostly expected cuts. Strange lost his starting job to third-round rookie Jared Wilson after the first week of training camp this summer, the team’s first under Mike Vrabel’s coaching staff. He also struggled to adapt to playing center and right guard, both new positions for a career-long left guard who experimented at center upon returning from a torn patellar tendon last season.
