shoulder injury of Jacoby Brissett Patriots loss

New England Patriots starting quarterback Jacoby Brissett sustained an injury to his throwing shoulder in the first quarter of Sunday’s 20-10 preseason loss to the Washington Commanders, with coach Jerod Mayo saying the veteran could have continued if the plan were to play him longer.

“I talked to him, but we’ll see [Monday]. You always feel a little bit more sore the next day,” Mayo said. “But he said he was good.”

Brissett grimaced after he was sacked by Washington’s KJ Henry on the sixth offensive play, with the 6-foot-4, 255-pound Henry coming in free due to a blocking miscue and the full force of his body landing on top of Brissett’s right shoulder. As Brissett came to his feet, he brought his left hand across his chest to clutch the front of the shoulder.

He stayed in the game, connecting on a 6-yard pass on the following play and then delivering a pinpoint deep throw to receiver K.J. Osborn, which was dropped.

Brissett was pulled from the game after that, which Mayo said was the plan beforehand so that rookie Drake Maye could play through the end of the second quarter.

“He would have been able to continue,” Mayo said of Brissett, who spent the rest of the night on the sidelines.

In place of Brissett, Maye finished 13-of-20 for 126 yards and one touchdown, which came on his first drive. Maye also had a 17-yard run, which was a key play to set up the team’s lone touchdown.

If Brissett’s injury turns out to be more significant,

Mayo and his coaching staff will then assess if they are comfortable turning things over to Maye, the No. 3 overall pick in the draft. Mayo wouldn’t commit to that after Sunday’s game, saying he needed to review the film.

“I would like to sit here and say 100 percent, he is our second-best quarterback on our roster right now,” Mayo said.

Potentially complicating that possibility is the surrounding offensive cast, particularly on the line. The Patriots’ top offensive line (minus center David Andrews) was called for eight penalties Sunday, and there was also one bad shotgun snap, another botched center-quarterback exchange and a blocking miscue on the play in which Brissett was sacked. Four of the eight penalties were for aligning incorrectly — three against left tackle Chukwuma Okorafor and one against right tackle Mike Onwenu.

In addition to Brissett and Maye, the Patriots have rookie Joe Milton III and third-year veteran Bailey Zappe on the quarterback depth chart leading into Tuesday’s deadline to trim the roster to 53 players.

From the beginning of training camp, Mayo has consistently maintained that Brissett is the starter, with Maye having a chance to win the job if he “lights it up.”

Asked if he feels ready if called upon for the season opener, Maye said: “Yeah, I think I would feel ready. I think I’m ready for whatever this football team asks of me and ready to get out there and try to help beat the Bengals Week 1.”

TEMPE, Ariz. —

Fanatics refiled its lawsuit against Arizona Cardinals rookie wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. 

late last week, expanding it to include fraud allegations against his father, Marvin Harrison Sr.

In the revised suit, which was filed Friday in the New York State Supreme Court, Fanatics named Pro Football Hall of Famer Harrison Sr. as a party in the suit, and it alleges he “aided and abetted Harrison Jr.’s fraud on Fanatics.”

The impetus for Fanatics’ suit against Harrison Jr., which was filed May 18, is an alleged breach of contract by Harrison Jr.

Fanatics’ refiled suit claims the defendants in the case “deliberately misled Fanatics into believing there was a binding contract between Harrison Jr., his company, and Fanatics, and that Harrison Jr. had signed that contract.”

The suit also claims that “Harrison Sr. further led Fanatics to believe that Harrison Jr. had signed the Binding Term Sheet.”

The new allegations stem from two affidavits

— one from Harrison Jr. and one from Harrison Sr. — filed on July 31 that stated it was Harrison Sr., not Harrison Jr., who signed the binding term sheet that is at the center of the lawsuit. Both affidavits were written to be true under the penalty of perjury.

Fanatics revised its counts from four to six while replacing two initial counts. Fanatics claims it was led to believe that it was negotiating the binding term sheet with Harrison Jr. through Harrison Sr., but that it would be Harrison Jr. who would sign the term sheet. That belief was dismantled with the July affidavits from Harrison Jr. and Harrison Sr.

In the revised suit, Fanatics claims the signature on the binding term sheet “bears a striking resemblance” to Harrison Jr.’s signature on both the W-9 form that Harrison Jr. had to provide for his company, The Official Harrison Collection, and the autographs being sold on the company’s website.

Along with the revised suit, Fanatics also filed examples of Harrison Jr.’s signature from the term sheet, an autograph from his company’s website and his W-9, along with his father’s signature. Fanatics claims that Harrison Jr., Harrison Sr. and The Official Harrison Collection “executed the Binding Term Sheet to further their own self-interest and to obtain negotiating leverage with other licensees in order to gain even larger profits.”

New details were provided in the revised suit, including that when Fanatics sent Harrison Sr. a copy of the binding term sheet in May 2023, Fanatics said its understanding was that the deal was between Harrison Jr. and Fanatics. The suit claims that Harrison Sr. never disputed that.

In his affidavit from July 26, Harrison Jr. said: “I never intended to be personally bound by the ‘Binding Term Sheet’ and I am not personally bound by it.”

The revised suit also claims that Harrison Jr., The Official Harrison Collection and Fanatics had three agreements “executed or contemplated”: a promotion and license agreement, the binding term sheet and an amended and restated promotion and license agreement.

Harrison Jr.’s affidavit from July 26, the third day of Cardinals’ training camp, centers around Harrison Jr. saying the agreement with Fanatics was between his company and Fanatics, and not between himself and Fanatics.

“It is not an agreement between Fanatics and me,” Harrison Jr. said in the filing. “I was never requested to, nor did I ever, sign any document that personally obligated me to do anything concerning the ‘Binding Term Sheet.'”

Also, in mid-August, a letter was sent to the judge from Fanatics’ attorney saying that both parties agreed on potential mediators. The court told the attorney, Robert Longtin, that the name of the mediator needed to be sent to the court by Sept. 6.

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