“Loves music, can’t sing a bit,” said receiver Jabar Gaffney. And to borrow from the title of one of West’s songs, “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” sometimes you can’t tell Stallworth a thing because he can’t hear you. “He says, ‘What?’ a lot,” said Washington. “He doesn’t hear us a lot.

Everybody to this point understands that’s just how he is, and you might have to say - and even the coaches might have to say it - two or three times to him, but he eventually gets it.” Stallworth always has been a big music fan and he doesn’t discriminate against any genre. He clicks through the iPhone to reveal an eclectic collection that in addition to Beethoven and Mozart includes Kenny Loggins’s “Danger Zone,” Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again,” and songs from Bon Jovi.

(Singer Jon Bon Jovi made an appearance during training camp, standing with coach Bill Belichick during practice.) Stallworth said his varied musical tastes are a reflection of his personality. “I’ve always listened to a lot of different music,” said Stallworth, who grew up in Sacramento. “It’s always been whatever, R B, rap, rock, country. I listen to all kinds of music. That’s just the way I am. That’s not only the music I listen to, I think it’s more of my personality.

“I think I’m real diverse to where I feel like I can go anywhere and I can do anything. That’s pretty much like my personality. I majored in psychology. I read all kinds of books from health books to, obviously, psychology, to cookbooks, and I don’t even know how to cook. I think that’s just part of my personality, the diversity in everything that I do.” It’s also been part of his playing routine with the Patriots.