Ronnie Perkins didn’t see the field for the Patriots in his first NFL season, getting the old rookie redshirt year behind a stacked outside linebacker group. But an old teammate of his offered a reminder of Perkins’s potential at the NFL Combine.
Oklahoma guard Marquis Hayes, who’s entering the 2022 NFL Draft, spoke highly of Perkins during his combine media availability and talked about what it was like to go against the Patriots’ 2021 third-round pick in practice.
“We went against each other a little bit. He’s an end and I’m a guard, but when he’d slide in to play 3-technique a little bit, I kind of got a glimpse of what he was going to do,” Hayes said of Perkins, adding the two are both originally from St.