According to multiple media reports, the Patriots and veteran wide receiver K.J. Osborn have mutually agreed to part ways, as New England is waiving the five-year veteran.
Signing with the Patriots in March, the 27-year-old only appeared in seven out of a possible 13 games for the team, catching seven balls on 18 targets for 57 yards and one touchdown.
Osborn spent the first four seasons of his career with the Minnesota Vikings, where he was routinely a 50-catch guy opposite some of the league’s best wide receivers in Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison.
With the New England receiver room as young and unproven as it was heading into the 2024 season, Osborn was seen as someone who could bring some of that veteran wisdom over from playing alongside some of the greats at the position.
That didn’t happen, as Osborn instead was routinely a healthy scratch, and even publicly floated the prospect of wanting to be traded around the league’s trade deadline.
Free from his deal in New England, Osborn is now free to try and play football somewhere else.
We’ll see if another team is interested in trying to harness some of the upside he showed while with the Vikings.