Before his first season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tom Brady gathered a handful of his teammates for unofficial workouts at Tampa’s Berkeley Preparatory Academy.
This week, Mac Jones followed suit.
Greg Auman, who covers the Buccaneers for The Athletic, noted on Twitter that the throwing sessions featuring Jones and several New England Patriots pass-catchers also took place at Berkeley Prep.
“(T)aking a page out of Brady’s off-season playbook …” Auman tweeted.
It’s not clear why Jones and Co. chose Tampa as the site for their spring meetup, but they did have an in at this particular school: Patriots wide receiver Nelson Agholor, who took part in both sessions, is a Berkeley Prep alum.
Joining Jones and Agholor were Kendrick Bourne, Jakobi Meyers, J.J. Taylor and newly acquired wideout DeVante Parker, who arrived in time for workout No. 2 after his trade from the Miami Dolphins was finalized Tuesday. There was no sign of receiver N’Keal Harry, whose days in New England likely are numbered following the Parker deal.
The Patriots will reconvene in Foxboro, Mass., on April 18 for their official offseason program, with their first full practice scheduled for May 23.
