Great news: The NFL season finally starts this week.

The Patriots kick off their season on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET against Tom Brady’s Raiders, though the GOAT won’t be back in Foxboro to watch the game.

With less than a week to go before the season begins, Patriots fans have a lot of questions about their team.

We answer them in our weekly mailbag.

I look at it as a positive sign that the new Patriots regime spent the offseason moving on from so many long-tenured players or burying them on the depth chart. Meanwhile, Stevenson is not only still on the team, but he spent all summer as the top-unit running back.

Kendrick Bourne, David Andrews, Davon Godchaux, Deatrich Wise, Jonathan Jones, Jabrill Peppers, Joe Cardona and Ja’Whaun Bentley are gone, and all summer it looked like Kyle Dugger

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