Of the active 53-man roster, 17 of those players were undrafted in the NFL. That number doesn’t include undrafted special-teamer turned linebacker Dane Fletcher, who is now on season-ending IR. That’s nearly a third of this season’s active roster filled with players passed up by every single team time after time … after time. No, the Patriots didn’t sign them all out of college, but they saw enough out of some early on in their careers to scoop them up before they established themselves in the NFL.