FOXBOROUGH - Not long after San Francisco beat the Los Angeles Rams in Thursday Night Football, sparked by Mac Jones and Kendrick Bourne, a trio of former Patriots, led DeMario Douglas, reached out to the 49ers receiver.

It was a group chat with Douglas, Tyquan Thornton and JuJu Smith-Schuster, now with the Kansas City Chiefs, all joining in to congratulate Bourne, who starred in the Niners 26-23 win catching 10 passes from Jones for a career-high 142 receiving yards.

Bourne was cut by the Patriots in late August. But that didn’t completely cut his ties to New England, as the castoffs still keep in touch.

Thornton and Smith-Schuster have also found success outside of New England, but this was Bourne’s first real splash.

“It was me, Ty, JuJu and (Bourne) all in a group chat, and I t

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