Few rookies are fortunate enough to experience the post-Super Bowl victory side of Bill Belichick. It’s a brief moment somewhere between “Do your job” and “No days off.” But Malcolm Mitchell has seen it.
The wide receiver out of Georgia is among the few.
“He smiled at least for 10 minutes straight,” Mitchell said of his head coach Friday while appearing on NFL Network’s Total Access. “And he gave me a hug. I got a hug. I think that’s the first time we ever touched each other.”
The hug was well-deserved for Mitchell, a fourth-round pick last April who caught 32 passes for 401 yards and four touchdowns in the regular season, before being ruled out for the divisional round and returning to catch one pass for five yards in the AFC Championship Game.