Romeo Doubs Camp Update — August 16: Three Touchdowns in One Practice, Five in a Week
2026 NFL Season · Monday, Aug 17
Romeo Doubs caught three touchdown passes at Saturday's practice and two more in the joint practice with the Colts, including a deep sideline score from Drake Maye. The June read said you know what you're getting with Doubs; camp says exactly that.
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Romeo Doubs caught three touchdown passes in a single Patriots practice on Saturday, including a grab over Charles Woods, per Nicole Yang at The Boston Globe. That capped a week in which he also scored twice in Tuesday's joint practice against the Colts: a go-ball touchdown from Drake Maye down the left sideline and another score in Maye's three-straight red-zone sequence, per the Patriots' own takeaways. Five scoring catches in one week of August practice is the loudest stretch of anyone in this receiver room, and this room includes A.J. Brown.
The June preview's core claim was that Doubs is the most repeatable receiver profile there is. Three nearly identical seasons in a row, all on the same metronomic volume of just over five targets a game, and targets are the stickiest signal in football. Last season's six touchdowns ran a little hot for that volume, so the honest expectation was some settling. The open question was structural: with Brown imported to the top of the target tree, does the new number-one squeeze the volume that made those three identical seasons, or does a 14-win passing game simply pay Doubs the same six touchdowns a different way? New England's 39 million in guarantees said the team expected the second answer.
This week is the second answer, in practice form. Doubs is running as the clear number two opposite Brown and finishing everything near the end zone, with Maye going to him deep and in the red zone in the week's most competitive setting. None of this is game evidence yet, and August touchdowns are not September targets. But the specific worry, that Brown's arrival would push Doubs to the margins of the offense, has no support in anything the beat has filed this window.
Does the June read hold? CONFIRMED — the claim was a stable role on stable volume with the touchdowns as the swing, and camp shows the role secure and the scoring connection with Maye ahead of schedule.
Next week, the checkables: whether Doubs plays in the second preseason game and draws starter targets, and how the red-zone looks divide once Brown and Henry are on the field for the same snaps. We'll check next Sunday.
_Data via nflverse._
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