It’s not quite Marshawn Lynch thinking Buffalo was in New York City, but Will Campbell’s radar for Foxborough was a little off, too. The Patriots first-rounder and Northern Louisiana native had never been to New England before visiting Foxborough in the pre-draft process. He was expecting Gillette Stadium to be in more of a concrete metropolis than Massachusetts suburbia.

“I was surprised there’s trees,” Campbell said following rookie minicamp on Friday afternoon. “I had never been anywhere up here before, so I always thought this was a little bit closer to Boston and there was a bunch of big city buildings and stuff like that. “When I got out here and they picked me up from the airport I was like, ‘Dang, there’s a lot of trees out here.’ I wasn’t expecting that.” In Campbell’s defense, national TV broadcasts are often guilty of showing b-roll of Boston for Patriots home games, despite the city being more than 20 miles from Foxborough.

With temperatures hovering around 50 degrees on a rainy afternoon, the rookies practiced indoors in the bubble for the first day of their minicamp. New England weather has been an adjustment for Campbell, too, but the tackle said that’s not a bad thing. “It’s probably the coldest weather I’ve been in awhile, so it’s nice,” Campbell said.