Opening day countdowns are great. So are player profiles. Here at Musket Fire, we decided to combine them and create a Week 1 countdown-oriented, jersey number-dictated player profile series. Yesterday we looked at No. 38 Brandon Bolden, and the day before that it was No. 39 Travaris Cadet. Because today marks 37 days until the New England Patriots open 2015, we are profiling No. 37, rookie safety Jordan Richards.
Selected at the very back of the second round this spring by the Patriots, Richards is a Stanford man. In his senior season, Richards earned First-Team All-PAC-12 honors and the National Football Foundation Scholarship Award while captaining Stanford.