{"id":11706,"date":"2024-11-23T21:27:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T21:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=11706"},"modified":"2024-11-23T21:27:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T21:27:35","slug":"news-move-patriots-elevate-two-players-to-the-active-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=11706","title":{"rendered":"NEWS MOVE: Patriots Elevate Two Players to the Active Roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-require=\"modules\/smoothScroller\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>FOXBOROUGH, Mass.<\/strong> \u2013 The New England Patriots elevated LB Keshawn Banks (pronounced \u2013 KEY-shawn) and TE Jack Westover to the active roster from the practice squad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Banks<\/strong>, 24, was elevated to the active roster last week and saw his first regular season action against the Rams on special teams. The 6-foot-3, 255-pounder, was signed by New England to the practice squad on Oct 23, 2024. He originally entered the NFL as a rookie free agent with the Green Bay Packers out of San Diego State on May 1, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Banks spent the entire 2023 season on the Green Bay practice squad. He was elevated to the active roster for the Packers NFC Divisional playoff game at San Francisco on Jan. 20, 2024 and made his NFL debut with limited action on defense and special teams. Banks went to training camp with Green Bay this past summer but was released prior to the start of the regular season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Westover<\/strong>, 25, was signed by New England to the practice squad on Oct. 2, 2024. The 6-foot-2, 245-pounder, was originally signed by Seattle as a rookie free agent out of Washington on May 5, 2024 and released by Seattle on Aug. 30, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in 53 games during his college career and was named a 2023 All-Pac 12 honorable mention after finishing the season with 46 receptions for 433 yards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Patriots elevated LB Keshawn Banks and TE Jack Westover to the active roster from the practice squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NEWS MOVE: Patriots Elevate Two Players to the Active Roster - 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