There haven't been many bright spots for the Patriots this season, but one of them has been wide receiver Jakobi Meyers.
After having 26 catches for 359 yards as a rookie, in 11 games so far this year he has 42 receptions for 505 yards and has emerged as one of the Patriots' top receiving threats.
Speaking via video conference Thursday, Meyers acknowledged he's realized his ceiling his higher than others and even he himself thought.
“I’ve proven to myself that I can do it,” he said. “But at the same time, I can be better, you know? I feel like I’ve had some decent games out there, but there’s so much stuff that I’ve learned on film that if I did this, then it would have been even better (or) if I did that, it would have been an explosive play.
“So I’ve proved that, yeah, I can make plays in the NFL. But at the same time, the ceiling is much higher than what I thought, or I’m sure a lot of people thought it was for me.”
Meyers noted he's spent a lot of time watching film to try and get better that way.
“I don’t think you can watch too much film, because you can’t really have too much information,” he said. “So maybe you watch film and you missed something last time that you picked up this time, but because you put in those extra minutes or hours, you saw it. And as far as taking it from the film to probably the practice field or something, just repetition.
“There’s always going to be something you messed up. Nobody comes out here and plays a perfect game. So just making sure if I try something on the practice field, going and watching it on film and then remembering pretty much what I was thinking in that situation or what the defender did to me, and just making sure that I can continue to work on that or remember that next time I do it.”
Meyers has three more games to build on his already productive season and build towards being even better in 2021.
