Romeo Doubs Camp Update — August 23: Deep Routes Join the Job Description

The Romeo Doubs note out of the Eagles joint practices was about geography: Evan Lazar, in his two-day offensive takeaways at the Patriots' website, charted Doubs as showing rapid improvement and expanding his work beyond the slot into deep routes. That is a role sentence, not a highlight sentence, and for Doubs it is the more valuable kind. He was also one of the nine receivers Drake Maye completed passes to in Wednesday's session, per Brian Hines at Pats Pulpit, on the day Maye went 15 of 18 against Philadelphia's starting defense by Ian Logue's charting at PatsFans.com — with Lazar naming Doubs alongside A.J. Brown as the receivers Maye's chemistry is building through. Like the rest of the front-line offense, Doubs was not part of Saturday's 24 to 21 win, where the receiver reps went to the roster bubble, per the team's game observations.

Last window's story was volume of touchdowns — five scoring catches across a week of practices. This window's story is that the coaches keep widening where he lines up and what he runs, which is the better long-term signal even though it photographs worse. The June read called Doubs the most repeatable profile in the room — three nearly identical seasons on steady targets — and said the only structural question was whether Brown's arrival squeezes that volume; a number two whose route tree is growing, not shrinking, is that question continuing to answer itself in his favor.

What to watch as cutdown to 53 arrives Sunday, August thirtieth: whether Doubs plays in the preseason finale, and whether the deep-route work Lazar charted shows up in how the offense scripts its opening-week install. We'll check after cut day.

_Data via nflverse._