After a third-straight loss, the Patriots expect a boost this week on offense with Jerod Mayo confirming on Monday morning that Kendrick Bourne will be activated off of the PUP list after sitting out the team’s first four games.
Bourne was part of the team’s travel party to San Francisco as the Pats took on the 49ers, the team where he spent the first four seasons of his career, registering 137 catches and 21 touchdowns during that span.
“Yeah, he’s about ready to go,” Mayo told The Greg Hill Show on Monday morning. “I thought it was good to bring him on the trip just to get back in the routine and the process of being on an away trip.”
Bourne was on a career pace last season before going down with an ACL injury in Week 8 against the Dolphins. At that point, just under halfway through the season, he had 37 catches for 406 yards with four touchdowns. When projected out to the rest of the season, Bourne was likely to approach 80 catches and nearly 1,000 yards, totals that would easily surpass his best year which came in 2021 with the Patriots when he had 55 catches and 800 yards with five touchdowns.
After an admitted down year in 2022, Bourne was on a mission in 2023, a mission that was cut short and can now finally resume.
“I didn’t give the team my best effort,” admitted Bourne in summer 2023 about his 2022 season. “Personally we as players have to be our best so we can give the team the opportunity to win and I feel like I didn’t do that. So I’ve been grinding, trying to get bigger, weighing more, just being a more solid receiver and being able to do more.
“I don’t really go off stats, I go off how I feel, how I look and I just wasn’t in a good place, now I just want to avoid that. So it was a good learning process, it was good that it happened to me, and it’s always good to learn from hard times, struggling times.”
His return comes at just the right time, with the Patriots offense struggling to jumpstart their…
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