Overview

• The 2025 roster features 26 newcomers on the 53-man squad after 36 new additions last season, marking back-to-back years of majority turnover.
• New England enters this season with more newcomers than any other NFL team, underscoring the scale of its reset.
• The spring releases of center David Andrews and long snapper Joe Cardona removed the final direct ties to the Bill Belichick years.
• After a 4-13 season under Jerod Mayo, owner Robert Kraft pivoted and hired Mike Vrabel in January, and Vrabel signaled a broad reset with a distinctly different approach.
• The last comparable two-year turnover in Foxborough came in 2000–2001 at the start of the Belichick era, offering historical precedent for sweeping change.