{"id":5679,"date":"2024-11-07T21:31:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T21:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2024-11-07T21:31:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T21:31:20","slug":"braking-news-patriots-considering-another-major-change-on-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=5679","title":{"rendered":"BRAKING NEWS: Patriots Considering Another Major Change On Offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-1962242\"><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??-->The Patriots handed offensive lineman Mike Onwenu a pretty hefty contract this offseason, inking him to a three-year, $57 million deal.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n<p>New England has \u2014 for lack of a better term \u2014 jerked the fifth-year pro around this season, moving him between right tackle and right guard on a near-weekly basis. It\u2019s been out of necessity at times, but there\u2019s a lingering feeling that those constant position changes have impacted the 26-year-old negatively.<\/p>\n<p>Onwenu finished with a 71.5 PFF grade in 2023, having settled in at tackle and found his footing in a spot where many assumed he\u2019d continue to play in 2024. He\u2019s down to 66.5 in 2024, which would mark his fourth consecutive season with a lowered PFF grade.<\/p>\n<p>Patriots offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt doesn\u2019t seem too worried about any of that, though, admitting Thursday that there was consideration to move him to a third position \u2014 left guard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike\u2019s our best offensive lineman so we\u2019re going to put him where he can be most successful for us,\u201d Van Pelt said, per Kevin Stone of New England Football Journal.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Onwenu was seen practicing on the left side Wednesday and has played there before, but you would have to go all the way back to his sophomore season in 2021 \u2014 when he got benched for poor performance.<\/p>\n<p>New England hasn\u2019t given him a single snap on the left side (402 total) since, keeping him at right guard (1,666) and right tackle (1,844), per PFF.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots might want to reconsider the move, not only for the fact that it didn\u2019t work out great the first time but because they\u2019re flirting with disaster on the continuity front. The Tennessee Titans\u2019 pressure rate was cut in half when Onwenu shifted inside to right guard last week, which is a good thing. Layden Robinson and Sidy Sow \u2014 his potential replacements at that spot \u2014 each have already been benched this season, which is a bad thing.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>If it ain\u2019t broke\u2026<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Patriots could be making another major change along the offensive line Sunday, with one notable player moving at practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5679","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>BRAKING NEWS: Patriots Considering Another Major Change On Offense - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=5679\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BRAKING NEWS: Patriots Considering Another Major Change On Offense - 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