Remember Patrick Chung’s 364 days as a Philadelphia Eagle? His three-year, $10 million contract that reunited him with former Oregon offensive coordinator Chip Kelly? His release and return to the organization that once drafted him No. 34 overall after only 12 games, 59 tackles and three passes defensed elsewhere?
Chung’s NFL career arc has been his own.
And where the safety is now in head coach Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots defense isn’t where he was upon re-signing for a base salary of $740,000 and a cap number near $1.1 million in April 2014.
“I don’t have any expectations,” Chung told reporters on his re-introductory Patriots conference call that spring.