Former Pats Player Says Playing For the Patriots ‘Was a Low Spot’ in His life

Sometimes the Patriot Way isn’t all that great. For Kenny Moore, it was awful. The cornerback was cut just before the season in 2017 after he went undrafted out of Valdosta State. Moore was with the Patriots for just four months, but he said his time there nearly drove him to quit football altogether.

Via Golongtd.com:

“I thought I was done with football,” he said, via Go Long with Tyler Dunne. “My mental capacity and my mental space? I was just maxed out.”

Moore said he hated the vibes in New England, and repeatedly butted heads with cornerbacks coach Josh Boyer.

“It just felt robotic,” Moore said, via Dunne. “You don’t want to do anything else but go home and go to sleep because tomorrow is about to be crazy. I really felt like I was in the military. Like, damn.”

“That was one of the low spots of my life, because that’s really when I felt like, ‘I’m probably not built for the league,’” he said, via Dunne. “And having that feeling of, ‘You’re not good enough,’ that’s a bad feeling. You feel like you don’t belong. I lost all of my joy and passion. I didn’t even want to play football. I didn’t want to go to work anymore.

“I was depressed. I was trying to fight my way out of it.”

He is, no doubt, the best player most of America does not know. And how the #Colts cornerback got to this point? It is wilder than you can imagine, from fighting depression in New England to dominating in Indy.

You can't break Kenny Moore.

At Go Long:https://t.co/743rmIllw4

— Tyler Dunne (@TyDunne) March 19, 2021

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Moore signed a four-year contract extension with the Colts before the 2019 season worth more than $33 million.