Long snapper used paper clip to deflate footballs last season

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Tom Brady and the Patriots may not be the only team guilty of deflating footballs last season.

ESPN's Adam Schefter dropped a bit of interesting information Tuesday, during what appeared to be a routine spot on ESPN. He said he knows of at least two other players that are guilty of deflating balls.

"There was one punter that I know, or long snapper last year, that carried a paper clip with him into games, and deflated footballs before he snapped them during the games. There's a backup quarterback that would deflate footballs for his starting quarterback."

Schefter added that just because other people did it doesn't excuse what the Patriots did, but he wanted to make it clear that this is not a lone incident. He did not name the long snapper or backup quarterback, but he says he knows who they are.

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Jordan Heck is a social media producer at Sporting News