New England Patriots: 7 standouts from minicamp

Find out which players on the New England Patriots turned heads at mandatory minicamp.

The New England Patriots reported for mandatory minicamp this week. Both rookies and veterans attended the three-day program as they began to re-acclimate themselves with their football lives.

During his press conference on Wednesday, Coach Bill Belichick said:

"“It’s a teaching camp. Skills guys can run around, but we don’t have many run plays – hardly any – and the passing plays, we don’t want to power rush the linemen into the quarterback and things like that. We’ll see more of that in camp.” – Bill Belichick"

OTAs and minicamp are for learning — nobody’s expecting anyone to be perfect. It’s to prepare for training camp and familiarize the players with the playbook. Belichick went on to say:

"“I mean, nobody’s going to make the team out here in this week or next week. It’s not what this is for, but it will put them in position to compete later on and then we’ll see what happens.” – Bill Belichick"

New England has one more week of OTAs and then training camp kicks off in late-July. As for right now, these are seven players who stood out in mini-camp.