FOXBOROUGH — For the first time this season, a large group of reporters circled around Terrell Jennings’s locker to talk with the 24-year-old practice squad running back.

Antonio Gibson , whose locker is directly next to Jennings’s, had gone down with a season-ending ACL surgery. With the Patriots suddenly in need of a third running back, promoting Jennings could be a consideration.

“Me and Antonio are actually really close,” Jennings said. “That’s my locker buddy as well. So, he told me ‘it’s your time, it’s time to go.’ I took that hard because that’s my brother. I’m with him every day.

“To see him go down like that, it hurt me to the core. So, I would be wrong if I don’t go out there and do my job.”

The 6-foot, 217-pound running back is a self-described lifelong “underdog.”

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