FOXBOROUGH — It took 135 catches in the NFL, and two touchdown passes, but Jakobi Meyers finally has a touchdown reception.
With the game out of hand late in the fourth quarter Sunday against the Browns, Brian Hoyer connected with Meyers near the goal-line and he was able to make a defender miss for a 11-yard touchdown.
As soon as he got into the end zone, the entire team ran to celebrate with the wide receiver, including virtually the entire sideline of players not in the game.
This meant a lot to Meyers.
“Honestly, the fact that everybody celebrated with me means more than the touchdown,” he said. “I feel like it says a lot about your teammates and what they think of you, and just the fact that they were all there. I know they’ve been waiting on that, they’ve been real patient.”
Here’s how he and his teammates reacted to the play.
Mac Jones: “I told him today, I was like, ‘You're going to score’ before the game – I didn't know it was going to come from Hoyer. It was great. I was super excited. We were out together and the ball – I was so concerned about the ball. I was like, ‘We've got to find the ball.’ I guess they found it. That was good. But I think Jakobi is a great teammate and he's a great team player and that's much deserved and he's going to get more.”
Kendrick Bourne: “I think it was just the highlight of the game. How it was all going and, then, to end that way with him getting his first, congrats to my guy. He’s been working so hard. He works hard every day and he deserves it. I told him he might go on a touchdown streak now. It was just dope for him breaking the tackle too and then making the play, but again, shoutout to the whole team executing on the play to make the play happen. It takes everybody.”
Bill Belichick: “It's great every time we score, but yeah, Jakobi has been a part of a lot of big plays that have put other guys in a position to do that and good to see him score. But the most important thing is the contributions that everybody made to the team winning the game and giving a solid performance for four quarters out there. I think everybody's just happy that that happened, and they should be, because they worked hard to make it happen.”
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