ATLANTA — Rob Gronkowski rumbled down the field, got past two defenders and hauled in the football to set up New England’s go-ahead touchdown. If this was the farewell performance for the Patriots tight end, he went out in playmaking style. Was it his biggest catch ever? “You tell me,” Gronkowski said after New England’s 13-3 […]

BRUNSWICK — This time of year, you see news clips and read stories about someone that knows someone that played with someone that is at, and maybe if they’re lucky, in the Super Bowl. With the New England Patriots playing in their ninth big game in 18 years, folks around here know all too well of […]

ATLANTA — In two years, Patriots linebacker Dont’a Hightower still has never heard Stephon Gilmore yell. Not in practice. Not in a game. Not ever. “He’s stays quiet, it’s not just because y’all are in here,” Hightower said with a chuckle this week. “He doesn’t talk. He’s a mute.” Gilmore’s also — silently — assumed the […]

ATLANTA — Practically every member of the Los Angeles Rams has a favorite story about Aaron Donald’s feats of ridiculous athleticism. Michael Brockers loved the moment at Carolina in 2016 when Donald beat the Panthers’ left guard and launched himself like Superman, swallowing up Cam Newton while airborne. Nickell Robey-Coleman preferred the game at San Francisco […]

ATLANTA — Patriots defensive backs and twins Devin and Jason McCourty both have a lot on their minds as they prepare for Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup with the Rams. Jason is thinking about the past and the magnets their mother, Phyllis Harrell, collected and used to post various keepsakes on the refrigerator of their childhood home […]

ATLANTA — James Develin will reach into his past every now and then by pulling out one of his notebooks from his junior and senior years at Brown University. The New England Patriots fullback flips through a few pages, shakes his head and can barely recognize what he scribbled on them on his way to earning […]

ATLANTA — Teammates have called their relationship a “bromance.” Patriots quarterback Tom Brady himself openly uses the word love to describe his bond with Julian Edelman, a receiver he’s come to depend on during his career. As the duo prepares to play in a fourth Super Bowl together, each says the connection might be tighter ever […]

ATLANTA — Todd Gurley says he often communicated with two other former Georgia running backs, Sony Michel and Nick Chubb, during the 2018 season. Now that Gurley and Michel are having a Super Bowl reunion as the leading rushers for the Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots, respectively, that conversation is on hold. Gurley says […]