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In this week's edition of "Reiss' P.A.T.", Mike Reiss checks in from OTAs at Gillette Stadium, visits with Bryan Morry, the executive director of the Patriots' Hall of Fame, and answers your Twitter questions....

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Eleven months ago, Bill Belichick seemed amused when asked a question about potentially breaking an "unwritten rule" by claiming injured tight end Jake Ballard on waivers from the Giants. The long story short: The Giants were ...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- One leftover from Tuesday's organized team activity was the status of second-year running back Brandon Bolden, who wasn't on the practice field with his teammates. Bolden's absence Tuesday was health-related, as he has been ta...

The Patriots signed 19 rookie free agents after the draft, and their contracts were analyzed by colleague Field Yates. This was one of the largest rookie free-agent classes for the Patriots in recent memory, in part because of the 90-man roster limit...

On Tuesday morning, five areas of interest for the Patriots' organized team activity were listed. Here is a follow-up based on what we saw on Tuesday's session: 1. Early signs of Brady-Amendola synergy. This came through as clearly as it could in ...

ESPNBoston.com's Mike Reiss was on SportsCenter this afternoon to discuss the integration of Danny Amendola into the Patriots' system (video above). Amendola, who has already worked some with Brady this offseason, said at Tuesday's OTA that he's s...

Every Tuesday on ESPNBoston.com, questions from Patriots followers are answered as part of a weekly mailbag. This week's mailbag has been posted and includes some of the following topics: 1. Brandon Spikes' absence from voluntary organized team ac...

ESPNBoston.com's Mike Reiss called into "SportsCenter" on Tuesday morning to discuss where we go from here after Ron Gronkowski's fourth surgery on his forearm. While it's a "less than ideal situation," according to Reiss, there was initial optim...

With OTAs underway, there are plenty of questions to answer.

Some areas that I'm most interested to watch at Tuesday's organized team activity open to reporters: 1. Early signs of Brady-Amendola synergy. The Tom Brady/Wes Welker connection produced incredible results in 2007 and from 2009-2012, but now it's...

The Patriots filled their final two spots on the 90-man roster on Monday, inking Rutgers rookie free-agent receiver Mark Harrison and Notre Dame kicker David Ruffer. Harrison is a bigger target (6-3, 231) and becomes the seventh Rutgers player on ...

Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes was absent from the team's first organized team activity, held at Gillette Stadium on Monday, a league source confirms. The reason for the absence was unclear, but as colleague Mike Reiss noted on Sunday, Spikes has...

A closer look at the contracts signed by Patriots draft picks Jamie Collins (second round, 52nd overall), Logan Ryan (third round, 83rd overall), and Steve Beauharnais (seventh round, 235th overall), and where they fit from an economic standpoint: ...

Welcome to SportsNation! On Thursday, ESPNBoston.com New England Patriots blogger Mike Reiss stops by to chat.Reiss joined ESPNBoston.com in September 2009 and is a native New Englander. He first started covering the Patriots in 1997 with the team's ...

Some Patriots-based items on the agenda for this week: Gronk's fourth surgery. Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski is scheduled to undergo the fourth surgery on his left forearm on Monday at Massachusetts General Hospital. Doctors feel confident tha...

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady leads off Peter King's "Monday Morning Quarterback" piece on SI.com, with King speaking to Brady about his offseason and also his charity of choice, Best Buddies. Brady tells King: "Going into my 14th year, I have ne...