The Boston Herald has long been part of Kyed's journey covering the NFL. Some of his first Twitter follows while working a regular 9-5 and writing on the side dreaming of a job as an NFL reporter were then-beat writers Karen Guregian and Ian Rapoport. A year after Jeff Howe took over for Rapoport, I was replacing Howe on the beat at NESN. Kevin Duffy and Andrew Callahan have been some of my closest friends on road trips and toughest competitors in coverage.