Mike Vrabel explains why Patriots traded Ja’Lynn Polk to Saints

The Patriots made the rare move of trading a contestant at the moment on injured reserve Saturday The association sent wide receiver Ja Lynn Polk a second-round pick and a seventh-round pick to the Saints for a sixth-rounder Head coach Mike Vrabel addressed the move Sunday on The Sports Hub s pregame show Related Articles Patriots inactives Rookie receiver s debut will have to wait Patriots elevate two players including draft pick Source Patriots trading former nd-round pick to Saints in pick-swap deal NFL Notes Why can t the Patriots win in Miami They can t explain it Patriots-Dolphins preview How Drake Maye and Mike Vrabel can conclusively win in Miami I just think it was a good start for him somewhere else Vrabel explained We wish him the best He worked extremely hard to get back and then was reinjured We were going to be without Ja Lynn this year anyways and we felt like what was best was to kind of give him a fresh start Polk ended last season with a shoulder injury He suffered a shoulder injury again in the Patriots preseason opener against the Commanders and underwent season-ending surgery Polk finished his Patriots career with catches for yards and two touchdowns Only two players QB Drake Maye and OL Caedan Wallace from the Patriots NFL Draft class remain on the -man roster and two more CB Marcellas Dial and OL Layden Robinson are on their injured reserve list