Overview
- The team waived rookie safety John Saunders Jr. after he was active but did not play in Thursday’s win over the Jets.
- Linebacker Otis Reese joined the practice squad after stints with Mike Vrabel’s 2023 Titans and, most recently, the Bills.
- Special-teams contributor Darius Harris was placed on practice-squad injured reserve after three standard elevations, with Vrabel noting he is not physically ready for a 53-man promotion.
- Dippre spent the season on the practice squad without a game elevation and now becomes the team’s biggest tight end at 6-foot-5, 256 pounds.
- With Hooper sidelined by a concussion Thursday, New England deployed lineman Ben Brown as a jumbo tight end and used fullback Jack Westover inline.