The Facts: The Patriots announced the release of Chandler on Wednesday.

Diehards Line:Chandler signed with the Patriots as a free agent last year and his arrival created some hype about two tight end packages with Rob Gronkowski, but Chandler had minimal impact for New England. He didn’t have a catch in the last four weeks of the regular season or in either postseason game, which likely made it easy for the Patriots to decide to move on and pocket over $2 million in cap space.