Logan Mankins Rumors & News

It's that time of year again. Every offseason, NFL Network compiles a list of the Top 100 players in the NFL from the past year, as decided by current players. In the 2013 list, the players voted Patriots guard Logan Mankins the 82nd best player in the league. New England Patriots guard Logan Mankins has once again made it into NFL Network's Top 100 players list, chiming in as the 82nd best NFL player from the 2012-2013 season. He is the first Patriot to be named to the Network's list. Mankins has cracked the Top 100 in every year of the countdown's existence, but suffered a steep drop...

New England Patriots guard Logan Mankins has once again made it into NFL Network's Top 100 players list, chiming in as the 82nd best NFL player from the 2012-2013 season. He is the first Patriot to be named to the Network's list. Mankins has cracked the Top 100 in every year of the countdown's existence, but suffered a steep drop from his ranking a year ago. He checked in at No. 39 on the 2011 list, dropped to No. 64 in 2012, and dropped ever further down to No. 82 this past season. The 31-year old All-Pro gritty guard is widely considered to be one of the best guards, if not the best,...

If somebody asked you to do your best Logan Mankins impression, where would you start? Would you grow an intimidatingly thick handlebar mo'? Flip tables and desecrate the image of Ndamukong Suh at the mere mention of SpyGate? Rush like a bull at the closest unassuming body every time Tom Brady takes a sack? Play through an entire season with a debilitating injury? RT Sebastian Vollmer reportedly took the least enjoyable but most noble route this season. According to sources first cited by the Boston Herald's Karen Guregian, Vollmer underwent arthroscopic knee surgery on Wednesday in B...

TEAM TALK Paul Perillo tackles this week's mega-edition of the "Ask PFW" mailbag: Early free agent edition. Patriots Today - Mankins greets blood donors. (3.25 min. video) Patriots Today - Offseason storylines on tap. (2.41 min. video) PFW In Progress - The PfW crew break down the latest offseason news, and update us on everything Patriots. (2 hour program.) LOCAL LINKS Jeff Howe reports Logan Mankins played a game only six months after ACL surgery last year, and that was what set off a domino effect with his other injuries. Mike Reiss catches up with Logan Mankins who was ...

Offensive lineman and New England Patriots captain Logan Mankins stopped by the Kraft Family Blood Donor Center for a charitable visit on Tuesday afternoon. Mankins and his wife, Kara, spent several hours speaking with donors and patients in their "Celebrate Volunteerism" t-shirts. The Kraft Family Blood Donor Center—adorned in New England Patriot regalia—provides blood products to patients in both the Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The facilities combine to administer more than 60,000 blood transfusions each year. Mankins touched on a variety of to...

So much for the mantra that the Patriots don't pay their top players well. After years of avoiding the label of a top-heavy team, the New England Patriots have become a top-heavy team. Tom Curran of CSNNE writes: Tom Brady, Vince Wilfork and Logan Mankins combined 2013 salary cap hits will consume almost 35 percent of the Patriots available cap room, according to NFL salary documents. Brady's $21.8 million hit is bigger than the combined hits of Wilfork ($10.6 million) and Mankins ($10 million). With two years remaining on his deal, Brady is now into the heavy part of the contract h...