Devin McCourty doesn’t want false rumors hurting Butler’s potential (and likely) free agency.

Malcolm Butler’s Super Bowl benching was a surprise to everybody not within the Patriots’ organization — but everybody on the inside knew it was coming.

That’s what Butler’s teammate Devin McCourty told NJ Advance Media, saying rumors he was benched for disciplinary reasons simply weren’t true. “As far as I know, all of that is the furthest thing from the truth,” McCourty...

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