Jakobi Meyers On His Failed Lateral Last Season: That Was A Humbling Experience

After four seasons with the Patriots, Jakobi Meyers is moving on to the Raiders. He would like to forget one of his 60 career games versus the Raiders from the previous year.

Yet, nobody will allow him.

Jakobi Meyers On His Failed Lateral Last Season: That Was A Humbling Experience

Meyers, who signed a three-year, $33 million deal with the Raiders, received a question about . . . that play.

“I was waiting on this. Thank you. I appreciate you,” Meyers said, joking, via CBS Boston.

Las Vegas signing WR Jakobi Meyers citing his incredible team chemistry with the Raiders pic.twitter.com/eikFygFuxw

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On the last play of regulation in Week 14, Rhamondre Stevenson travelled 23 yards before lateraling to Meyers. A Raiders defensive lineman intercepted Meyers’ throwback pass to Mac Jones and returned it for an unlikely walk-off score.

“That was a humbling experience. As a man, as a football player, that was just tough,” Meyers said. “I knew what it meant to the team I was on at the time, so it really hurt me because family is really big for me. When I went through it, in the moment, my heart was broken. But days after, just seeing how guys rallied around me, it built me up as a person.

Jakobi Meyers had this unthinkable play last year to lose the game vs. the Raiders.

Now he'll be playing for them.

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“So now I know whenever one of my teammates messes up, who I want to be in the situation. How I want to help them and what type of love, what type of support I want to give.”

Meyers said he truly can’t explain the play and why he did what he did.

Raiders to sign WR Jakobi Meyers to a 3-year deal worth $33M including $21M guaranteed. (via @RapSheet) pic.twitter.com/2C3FS9VdSx

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“Now, if you ask me directly what happened, I don’t know. That’s the truth,” Meyers said. “I really don’t know. It just. . . . I had the ball, and then I didn’t have the ball. That was the end of it. But as far as growth, it taught me a lot about myself and how I want to help people in the future.”

Certainly, that’s a good takeaway for Meyers to have as he has processed the mistake, which proved costly as the Patriots missed the playoffs by just a game.

Sources: The #Raiders are signing #Patriots FA WR Jakobi Meyers to a 3-year deal with $33M with $21M guaranteed. Another NE-Las Vegas tie-in, and a weapon for Jimmy Garoppolo. The deal was negotiated by Drew Rosenhaus and Robert Bailey. pic.twitter.com/tOUDNVrDUF

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But has time allowed Meyers to better understand what happened on the play? He still said that he doesn’t know exactly why he lateraled the ball again after Rhamondre Stevenson tossed it to him.