{"id":55658,"date":"2020-08-10T12:09:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T17:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=55658"},"modified":"2021-08-30T03:06:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T03:06:53","slug":"patriots-signing-free-agent-tight-end-jordan-leggett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=55658","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Finalizing Deal With Free-Agent Tight End Jordan Leggett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The New England Patriots are finalizing a deal with free-agent tight end Jordan Leggett pending COVID-19 testing, a source confirms a report from NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The former Jets and Bucs tight end was waived by Tampa Bay last Thursday after the team traded for Rob Gronkowski and no longer needed Leggett on the roster.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Leggett, who was a fifth-round draft choice by the Jets in 2017, missed his entire rookie season due to a knee injury. He appeared in 15 games in 2018, then spent the 2019 season with the Buccaneers, bouncing back and forth between the practice squad and active roster.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Although Leggett only has 14 career catches in three seasons, all in 2018, the former Clemson star has the size (6-5, 258) and receiving ability to be an effective move tight end in the league.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">During his time at Clemson, Leggett was a legit pass-catching weapon for quarterback Deshaun Watson en route to winning the 2016 national championship over Alabama.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 0px; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.250%;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/streamable.com\/e\/n4vf9z\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In 2016, Leggett caught 46 passes for 736 yards and seven touchdowns for the Tigers with great hands and is smooth after the catch to avoid tacklers in the open field. 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However, he does show some decent push off the line in his base blocks as an in-line tight end.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">During the 2017 draft process, the feeling among scouts was that Leggett is best suited for a move or joker tight end role that primarily catches passes and isn\u2019t asked to block much.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Patriots needed a veteran tight end after Matt LaCosse decided to opt-out of the 2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic, the eighth Patriot to do so, a league-high.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last season, New England\u2019s tight ends were the least productive group in the entire NFL, ranking dead-last in receptions from the position, forcing Bill Belichick to use two third-round picks on tight ends in April\u2019s draft.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 25-year-old joins a tight end depth chart that includes rookies Devin Asiasi and Dalton Keene along with 2018 seventh-round pick Ryan Izzo and fullback Jakob Johnson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Patriots are finalizing a deal with free-agent tight end Jordan Leggett pending COVID-19 testing, a source confirms a report from NFL Network&#8217;s Ian Rapoport.\u00a0 The former Jets and Bucs tight end was waived by Tampa Bay last Thursday after the team traded for Rob Gronkowski and no longer needed Leggett on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":131993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[557,210],"class_list":["post-55658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-jordan-leggett","tag-patriots"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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