Butterflies are regularly related as images of good karma and ground-breaking change. For New England Patriots new kid on the block linebacker Chase Winovich, butterflies hold a more profound importance. They bring recollections of his late grandma.

At the point when Winovich recorded his first vocation solo sack in the final quarter of Sunday’s 43-0 defeat of the Miami Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium, he had tears in his eyes.

Why? A few plays already, Winovich saw a butterfly gliding around over the field, sending him an incredible token of his grandma.

“My grandma, who passed away, she generally said she’d return as a butterfly,” Winovich told journalists during a postgame talk with, by means of NESN’s Zack Cox. “What’s more, I was destroying a tad on the field … I saw a butterfly coasting around, and I resembled, ‘That is got the chance to mean something.'”

On the sack, Winovich beat Dolphins left handle Jesse Davis on the way to bringing down Miami’s reinforcement quarterback Josh Rosen, one of New England’s seven sacks Sunday.

“And after that definite enough, a few plays later, fortunately I got back home (for the sack),” Winovich said. “My colleagues had incredible inclusion and set it up for me. I knew something unique was coming.”

Following his first performance sack in the NFL, Winovich collaborated with individual Patriots linebacker Jamie Collins for a split sack of Rosen later in the final quarter.

“It’s only something to work off of,” Winovich said. “I’m anticipating seeing where it goes from here.”

Not exclusively did the butterfly furnish good karma with his first sack, it featured how Winovich, New England’s third-round pick in the 2019 NFL Draft, has changed into an incredible piece to the predominant Patriots resistance.