The New England Patriots made a shocking move and released Jabrill Peppers on Friday. Peppers was a defensive captain at the start of last season.

Peppers has been with the Patriots since 2022. However, in Mike Vrabel's first year with the team, he now finds himself without a squad. Many questioned why Peppers was shockingly released, raising the question of whether his release had to do with Vrabel's scheme.

"(Scheme) was certainly not the issue," Vrabel told reporters when asked about why Peppers was released, according to the New York Post's Erich Richter. "There's a lot of reasons. I wouldn't say that's — we're gonna try to do what's best for the team, and we got a lot of different schemes that we can run in all three phases... . There's a lot that goes into it, and again, we're ju

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