The voluntary part of the NFL offseason is officially over.

With one more voluntary OTA in the books on Friday, the team now turns its attention towards mandatory mini camp next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. While Friday’s OTA was another slower-paced session and only lasted about an hour, there was still some impressive performances. Here’s everything you need to know from the hillside at Gillette…

-Lots of absences again today. Those on the list included JuJu Smith-Schuster, Jalen Mills, Matt Judon, Tyquan Thornton, Jonathan Jones, Josh Uche, Cody Davis, Anfernee Jennings, Kayshon Boutte, Mike Onwenu, Reilly Reiff, Davon Godchaux, Lawrence Guy, Trent Brown and Bryce Baringer.

-During early individual position drills, I didn’t see a single drop from receivers or tight ends. It’s against air so there shouldn’t be, but still, after last year’s debacle, every detail for this offense is important.

-Lots of special teams work, particularly kick off return throughout various points of the afternoon. Jabrill Peppers, Ed Lee and Isaiah Bolden received.

-With so much special teams work today, I finally really noticed tight end Johnny Lumpkin up close and holy crap. This dude’s enormous.

-At 12:27 after some light 7-on-7 work with Trace McSorley at QB, the team began working on no huddle offense. Mac looked good in this session, hitting DeVante Parker on a deep post, Hunter Henry on an identical ball, Kendrick Bourne on a quick out, Pierre Strong on a check down, Mike Gesicki on an out to the sideline and Parker again on a quick slant. During this time, Bill Belichick was watching from the offensive backfield.

-Daniel Ekuale had to run a lap for jumping offside.

-Christian Gonzalez continues to be locked up in man-to-man on seemingly every snap. He’s clearly going to be “that guy” for the Pats, or so we all hope.

-Zappe took over in the same situation after Mac’s drive and it turned into the Raleigh Webb show as he caught a quick out then went up and grabbed a ball over Shaun Wade. URI’s Ed Lee also had an impressive leaping grab on a ball from Zappe, catching it over Josh Bledsoe.

-Chris Board came flying in untouched on a blitz and got an easy “sack” of Zappe before one final completion to Webb on a slant.

-The team broke into another special teams period at this point and once again, Corliss Waltman hits bombs and the whole left foot thing has to be an element Belichick likes. Nick Folk was back too, splitting kick off reps with Chad Ryland. Both guys struggled kicking into the slanted goal posts, but were making kicks on the “normal” ones.

-The D-line briefly worked on block shedding during this time.

-At 12:43 the team went back to 11-on-11 and Mac spiked his first throw in the dirt. After that, a few throws were behind receivers, but they were able to make some impressive catches. Parker had a sick grab, reaching behind him to pluck it.

-Marte Mapu has been all over the place so far and he was a ball hawk during this time, tipping and nearly picking a ball intended for Gesicki over the middle. Soon thereafter, Mack Wilson had to do pushups for dropping a pick on another tipped ball.

-Hunter Henry and Connor McDermott each had to run laps for false starts.

-Parker almost reeled in a deep ball but it just glanced off his finger tips with Jack Jones in coverage. Bourne hauled in a quick slant on the next throw. He looks MUCH bigger and I still think he’s an extremely underrated part of this offense.

-Kyle Dugger had an INT on another tipped ball by Ja’Whaun Bentley. That was the last rep for Mac in this particular session with Zappe taking over. Zappe quickly hit a quick out to new running back James Robinson.

-On a ball behind Matt Sokol, Mapu finally got his INT, basically just ripping it away, although the ball was behind and sort of fell into his lap.

-Kevin Harris reeled in a TD on a wheel route from Zappe and on one of the final snaps, Mapu again got his hand on a ball, nearly picking off a slant. Anthony Firkser added a nice diving catch late.

-The team went into walkthrough mode for the next 20 minutes or so before calling it quits around 1:10, officially ending the voluntary part of the offseason.

Once again, it’s hard not to be encouraged by everything we’ve seen so far, but it’s still early. The offense and defense have both had flashes, but we’ll really start to learn about this team next week during the three days where everyone has to be there.