Dont'a Hightower, linebacker tricampeão do Super Bowl, torna-se o novo treinador de linebackers dos Patriots sob o comando do técnico Jerod Mayo. Dont'a Hightower, three-time Super Bowl champion linebacker, becomes Patriots' new linebackers coach under head coach Jerod Mayo.

Dont'a Hightower, ex-linebacker do New England Patriots e três vezes campeão do Super Bowl, está se juntando à equipe técnica do time como treinador de linebackers sob o comando do novo técnico Jerod Mayo. Dont'a Hightower, a former New England Patriots linebacker and three-time Super Bowl champion, is joining the team's coaching staff as a linebackers coach under new head coach Jerod Mayo. Hightower jogou toda a sua carreira na NFL com os Patriots depois de ser convocado em 2012 e ganhou três Super Bowls. Hightower played his entire NFL career with the Patriots after being drafted in 2012 and won three Super Bowls. Mayo já havia mencionado Hightower como potencial futuro treinador em abril do ano passado. Mayo had previously mentioned Hightower as a potential future coach in April last year.