Patriots agree to terms with sixth-round pick Kayshon Boutte

Posted by Charean Williams on May 4, 2023, 6:29 PM EDT
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The Patriots drafted 11 players. They agreed to terms with one of those Thursday.

Mike Reiss of ESPN reports that sixth-round receiver Kayshon Boutte is set to sign a deal expected to be $4.027 million over four years.

In three seasons at LSU, Boutte made 131 receptions for 1,782 yards and 16 touchdowns.

He joins a receivers room that includes JuJu Smith-Schuster, Kendrick Bourne, DeVante Parker, Tyquan Thornton and Lynn Bowden Jr.

The teams’ other selections last weekend were Oregon cornerback Christian Gonzalez (first round), Georgia Tech defensive end Keion White (second round), Sacramento State safety Marte Mapu (third round), Troy center Jake Andrews (fourth round), Eastern Michigan guard Sidy Sow (fourth round), UCLA guard Atonio Mafi (fifth round), Michigan State punter Bryce Baringer (sixth round), Liberty receiver Demario Douglas (sixth round), Michigan State cornerback Ameer Speed (sixth round) and Jackson State cornerback Isaiah Bolden (seventh round).

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27 responses to “Patriots agree to terms with sixth-round pick Kayshon Boutte”

  1. This is likely going to be the only decent late round pick for the Pats. He struggled last year due to changing systems. Some routine could get him up to speed again.

  2. Ultimate boom or bust prospect, but at low risk. Not sure if it was a slow healing ankle or something else that made this formerly projected 1rst round pick slide so far. If a little structure in the Patriot culture can help, he could be a nice score for the Pats.

  3. The Patriots will be back on top in their division this year followed by Buffalo, Miami, and then the overrated Aaron Rodgers and the Jets. Buffalo is all done their brief moment of relevance is over

  4. MAYBE he turns into a good NFL player…but I saw 1 LSU game this year and this guy was poting like a little baby because he wasn’t getting the ball. He totally checked out of the game. I never saw a player so disinterested. I would not want him on my team.

  5. If the Pats are back on top of the division this year – that would be a pretty neat trick.

    So much big talk from Patriots nation (like there has been since Brady left, and every year, they seem to have fallen a little short). I’ll never count the GOAT coach out, but it’s fun to hear their fans work through the new realities of the NFL.

  7. One non Patriots fan says the Pats will win the division, and now all Patriots nation is predicting it. That’s how the low IQ crowd thinks.

    Still, no fan base can top the unfulfilled dreams and bluster of Bills Mafia.

  8. billsrthefuture says:
    May 4, 2023 at 7:29 pm
    If the Pats are back on top of the division this year – that would be a pretty neat trick.

    So much big talk from Patriots nation (like there has been since Brady left, and every year, they seem to have fallen a little short). I’ll never count the GOAT coach out, but it’s fun to hear their fans work through the new realities of the NFL.

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    That simplyu isn’t true. I don’t know one Pats fan who liked Cam Newton and the team hit the reset button during a pandemic in 2020. They needed some luck to do anything that year.

    2021 a new QB came in with a bunch of new players and rebuild that would last a few years was underway, and they at least made the playoffs with a rookie QB, which is actually rare.

    Thinking they have a chance to get a wild card during that time or maybe challenging for the division late into the season, is not making any strong predictions.

    Lying and constantly repeating misinformation won’t work. You people have been watching a choking franchise for decades.

    I have secondary embarrassment for you because you talk like you’ve earned something. It’s going to really suck for you when, year after year, the Bills never do anything.

  9. The Patriot fans fear Buffalo and it’s painfully obvious. Same with Kansas City. They still haven’t come to terms with the fact that they’re now just another team. That next 20 years of dominance still hasn’t materialized.

  10. williamshatnerstoupee says:
    May 4, 2023 at 8:56 pm
    The Patriot fans fear Buffalo and it’s painfully obvious. Same with Kansas City. They still haven’t come to terms with the fact that they’re now just another team. That next 20 years of dominance still hasn’t materialized.

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    Again, not true. Some of us enjoy the process of teambuilding and love watching the master work.

    What I didn’t like was Brady sucking in postseasons from 2007-2012. That was 5 seasons of him wasting postseasons with a finesse shotgun spread base 50 times a game, ignoring a run game, where it clearly wasn’t working. THAT was worse because some of those teams were very good.

    When you hit a reset button, whether it’s 2009 or 2020, it takes some time. You must be new to this. BB is a determined person and a great teacher. The best ever to do it. NE will get BETTER, not worse.

  11. Bill B sucks as a general manager and as a coach his average,without Tom Brady he would of gotten fired just like he did in Cleveland,he should thank Tom Goat Brady for all his got

  12. fanfrommontreal says:
    May 4, 2023 at 7:35 pm
    The Pats drafted twelve players.

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    So this is just one of 12 rookie contract signings. These Bills fans are freaking out on just this one so I guess thats 11 dramas to go. I really wish they could just win something so they maybe would feel so much need to compensate.

  13. williamshatnerstoupee says:
    May 4, 2023 at 8:56 pm
    The Patriot fans fear Buffalo and it’s painfully obvious. Same with Kansas City. They still haven’t come to terms with the fact that they’re now just another team. That next 20 years of dominance still hasn’t materialized.

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    Comparing the Pats to KC, the current team that the Bills cant seem to get past, is fair. Both the Pats and KC have served as the team with no one they couldn’t get past so their fans get envied by the fan bases of other teams that never gave that to them. These try to compensate for their inferiority complex with false bravado on the articles about the teams that they have felt inferior to in order to yap at their fans. Not unlike a Yorkshire Terrier.

  14. williamshatnerstoupee says:
    May 4, 2023 at 8:56 pm
    The Patriot fans fear Buffalo and it’s painfully obvious. Same with Kansas City. They still haven’t come to terms with the fact that they’re now just another team. That next 20 years of dominance still hasn’t materialized.
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    Patience young padawan…Rome wasn’t built in a day, & the plague didn’t help matters either….PATS are just letting a few of the wannabes get a taste before they get put back down in their places as Bill reassembles dynasty #3

  15. Boutte may turn out to be the steal of the draft at WR. He is a true #1 WR. The division is winnable if the Patriots can get at least average production at QB and the offense. The defense, running game were all A+ last year.

  16. I am skeptical about Boutte given the character issues. A leopard doesn’t change its spots. Bill can fix technique, emphasize strengths and cover for weaknesses, and let guys heal and recover but he isn’t a psychologist.

    Ted is spot on when he calls out posts that claim a couple of fan comments to PFT represent Patriots fans as a whole. As for Belichick, no coach is more respectful to other teams, their coaches and players than Bill. He was respectful to Buffalo even during historic on field winning percentage by the Patriots.

    That said, I think regular readers know billsrthefuture is, by in large, a respectful commentator and that shatner (who hasn’t posted an original thought on any thread I have seen) is the opposite.

  17. Agree that he’s a boom or bust type player. Lucky for Boutte that Bill O’Brien is back in New England. If this was 2022 all over again, he wouldn’t make it pass training camp. At least O’Brien gives him a chance to become a legitimate NFL WR. Love the pick.

  18. The Patriot fans fear Buffalo and it’s painfully obvious.

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    They don’t, at least not the most.

    What they fear the most is that driving Brady out of Town becomes a taboo in Boston, like Curse of the Bambino.

  19. How come Tom Brady has zero winning seasons when he doesn’t have elite coaching? I thought he was good! Guess not. Can’t blame him for retiring in shame…

  21. “Lying and constantly repeating misinformation won’t work.” That was funny.

  22. BB is a determined person and a great teacher. The best ever to do it. NE will get BETTER, not worse.
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    Let’s make our deal then, kid. You’ve ducked me long enough. Have some courage.

  23. That said, I think regular readers know billsrthefuture is, by in large, a respectful commentator and that shatner (who hasn’t posted an original thought on any thread I have seen) is the opposite.
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    Everything I said is true, big guy. The winning left with Brady. It’s been three years and the Patriots have faded noticeably. Don’t get upset when someone tells you how it is. All the chest beating doesn’t work. Your time is past. Face facts.

  24. The Curse of the Bambino sold some books for Dan Shaughnessy but it was a fairytale. What doomed the Red Sox was owner Tom Yawkey’s racism that led to the Red Sox being one of the last teams to integrate. That attitude led them to try out both Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays and conclude neither was MLB talent and an 86 World Series Championship drought.

    The Patriots are innovators with progressive ownership and coaches that turn college qbs into Super Bowl MVP wide receivers and 6th round draft picks into GOATs.

  25. The Patriots are innovators with progressive ownership and coaches that turn college qbs into Super Bowl MVP wide receivers and 6th round draft picks into GOATs.

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    Ask yourself why those “easy” throws and “easy” routes are gone since Brady left.

    1st round, QBR etc only tell QB’s ability of connecting with deep threats, it tells nothing about QB’s ability of passing progressions. It has nothing to do with Belichick or OC.

    Innovation? LOL, who makes a design of throwing 5 yards on 3rd and 7 work? (Watch Brady’s throw from own 3 yard line in first SB)

  26. The idea that the Red Sox Championship drought was due to racism is ridiculous. Yes, Yawkey was a racist. Abhorrent. It took the Sox 12 years after JRobinson to integrate(1959). But the Sox didn’t win a championship until 2004. Yawkey died in 1976. Illogical to assume racism prevented the Sox from winning. The percentage of blacks in MLB today is only about 7 percent. In 1990 it was less than 20.

  27. Ask yourself why those “easy” throws and “easy” routes are gone since Brady left.

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    Easy throws left with Gronk, that’s why in 2019 Brady kept smashing tablets on the Patriots sideline.

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