Wide Receiver · New England Patriots

Kayshon Boutte

No. 9 · 4th season

Boutte will show up when he has to, but he'd rather be somewhere else

There's a version of this where skipping voluntary workouts means nothing. Players do it all the time. But when the word "trade" starts circling alongside it, the absence reads differently.

Kayshon Boutte is a wide receiver heading into his fourth year with the New England Patriots. Four years is long enough to know where you stand, and sometimes long enough to decide you'd rather stand somewhere else. The details of what has made New England feel like the wrong place are not part of this report — but the signal is clear enough.

Boutte skipped the team's voluntary offseason practice sessions. He has said he will attend the mandatory spring minicamp — the one where showing up is not optional. That distinction matters. He's not burning anything down. But he's not pretending either.

A player willing to be traded is a player who has looked at what's in front of him and decided the math doesn't add up. Whether the Patriots feel the same way is the other half of a conversation that hasn't happened publicly yet.

So he'll be in the building when required. After that, the question of where he actually belongs is still wide open.

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