JuJu Smith-Schuster’s No. 7 jersey is a tribute to his mother, who has seven kids

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“My mother’s favourite quantity is seven. She had seven children, fortunate No. 7 … So, it was form of a quantity that I picked that represented a number of issues.”

The quantity seven is synonymous with luck.

However, for large receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, who wears No. 7 for the Patriots, the quantity carries a couple of which means.

“It form of represents a number of issues, my mother’s favourite quantity is seven,” Smith-Schuster stated. “She had seven children, fortunate No. 7, one in all my favourite soccer gamers in soccer wears No. 7, Vinicius Jr., yr seven [in the NFL]. So, it was form of a quantity that I picked that represented a number of issues.”

Additionally, the Patriots have six Tremendous Bowl wins. Whereas they went 8-9 and missed the playoffs final season, Smith-Schuster stated bringing a seventh title to Foxborough is a objective of his.

“Seventh Tremendous Bowl, there you go, add that in there too,” Smith-Schuster stated. “That’s all the time a objective of mine for positive.”

The 6-foot-1, 215-pound receiver is coming off his first Tremendous Bowl win with the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. The one Chiefs participant with extra catches, targets, and receiving yards than Smith-Schuster final season was Travis Kelce.

Smith-Schuster stated figuring out how a championship feels solely makes him hungrier to expertise it once more.

“I all the time puzzled why a man like Tom Brady, guys like Patrick Mahomes who’ve been there and finished that, why they all the time need to return,” Smith-Schuster stated. “It’s due to that feeling. Folks all the time ask me what it feels prefer to win the Tremendous Bowl and I used to be like, ‘It’s actually arduous to elucidate until you’re in that second.’”

“The one means you’ll be able to truly really feel that second is getting there,” Smith-Schuster continued. “So, that starvation on why these guys need to return, I find it irresistible. It’s the perfect.”

Smith-Schuster stated he hopes to make use of his expertise to show youthful gamers and add veteran management.

Smith-Schuster has the flexibility to line up each on the within and out of doors. He says it’s an honor to observe within the footsteps of earlier Patriots receivers.

“The slot place has been an enormous place right here with Troy (Brown), to (Julian) Edelman to all these nice guys who’ve been on this place,” Smith-Schuster stated. “It’s an honor to play that place. With the ability to play inside and out of doors, transferring round, however having that chance to say I’m on the within is very nice. It’s a praise.”

Matt Groh, Patriots director of participant personnel, was cautious to not evaluate Smith-Schuster to Edelman or Brown however stated that Smith-Schuster’s resume is sweet sufficient to face by itself.

Smith-Schuster was a Professional Bowler in 2018 when he hauled in 111 catches for 1,426 yards and 7 touchdowns. He performed a task in Kansas Metropolis’s championship run final yr and is trying to make a stable first impression in Foxborough.

“We’re actually excited to have JuJu. It’s good to see him out right here right now. He’s been working,” stated Groh. “The man loves ball. The man desires to compete, and the man is hard. So I do know we’re used to seeing these forms of gamers at his place round right here. So having Juju round right here, it’s a brand new face and a brand new title, however I don’t assume it’ll be an enormous deviation from what folks round listed below are accustomed to seeing.”