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Evan Rothstein has worked as a behind-the-scenes football prodigy for the Patriots since 2021. He was seemingly the Ernie Adams replacement for Belichick and has a sort of football mystique to him, similar to Adams.
Rothstein came into the NFL in 2012 with the Detroit Lions, where he spent two seasons as a special teams quality control coach, before moving into a role titled “Special Projects” in 2014. He was then the Lions offensive assistant coach/research & analysis from 2015-2017, before becoming research & analysis/ head coach assistant from 2018-2019 and then dropping the head coach assistant part in 2020.
He joined the Patriots’ research & analysis department in 2021, when following Matt Patricia from the Lions, and finally began to transition into a more defined on-field role in 2022 as an offensive assistant. Last season, he was the assistant quarterbacks coach, and it was reported he would be returning to the Patriots.
His return will likely be as an assistant quarterbacks coach, but one has to wonder if he will head back into a front office type role and remain behind the scenes like a “Moneyball” guru.
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