Brothers Devin and Jason McCourty have never had the chance to play with each other in the NFL, but with the Tennessee Titans releasing Jason on Thursday, the door is now open — in theory.
Devin McCourty, a safety for the New England Patriots, said he hoped that his team was interested in the services of his brother, a cornerback.
“I’m excited for him,” Devin said Friday, via Karen Guregian of the Boston Herald. “I was hoping he would be out of Tennessee a couple years ago just to experience something different. I think obviously now everyone is saying ‘he’s going to come here, he should come here.’ But you never know. I hope we’re interested in him.
“Like I’ve said before, we’ve loved to play together, but I think first and foremost, he has to do what’s kind of right for his family and where he could actually play and be out there playing. He’s not at the point in his career where he just wants to sit on the bench. He wants to get a chance to get out there and compete. I’m excited for him. It’s a little bit of the unknown, but he’s my brother, he should do all right. He should just tell people he’s related to me.”
Devin is willing to lobby Bill Belichick to sign his brother, though he’s not terribly optimistic that he’ll listen.
“If he did listen to me, I would definitely shoot him a text message and tell him, ‘I don’t know if he heard the news, but Jason McCourty is a free agent.'” McCourty said. “He’ll listen to me sometimes about my opinion on the deep middle, but scouting players, he stays away from me. But I usually have a good thing with the Rutgers guys, so you never know.”
Belichick is certainly aware, and there’s some reason to think this is more than just some silly pipe dream. Some things would probably need to happen first for this to come to fruition, though.
