$5M THE NUMBER

The Patriots settled a compensation grievance with Antonio Brown, ESPN reports. He is set to receive $5 million for playing one game in 2019 with the Patriots, catching four passes for 56 yards and a touchdown against the Dolphins. The Patriots gave Brown a $9 million signing bonus on Sept. 7. Half of it was to be paid on Sept. 23, three days after the Patriots cut him.

Mohashie “Mo” Rodriguez has made the cut. So add another South Florida member to the team in the NBA’s “bubble” at Disney World.

No, not just because he’s Jae Crowder’s personal barber, although the connection with the Miami Heat forward certainly doesn’t hurt. But when you cross competition with clippers, it was the logical result.

“The players all spoke highly of my professionalism, so here I am,” Rodriguez told the Sun Sentinel from his hotel room at Disney.

For Rodriguez, 34, the invitation to serve as one of the six barbers in the league’s quarantine setting, was, in many ways, a continuation of a personal winning streak. For as much as you can catch him at The Cut Stop Barbershop in Palmetto Bay, he also has been a regular on the competitive cutting circuit.

Yes, competitive cutting circuit.

“In the industry of barbering, I’m mostly known for competing,” he said. “I travel the world entering in different barber competitions. That’s how I built my name in the industry, and I started developing a following on social media of barbers from all over the world. And a lot of these barbers, they cater to NBA players, NFL players.

“So when they have a client who is an NBA player, a lot of time the guys will reach out to their own barber first, ‘Hey, do you know a guy in Miami that’s really good, that can take care of me?’ And they’re

Ira Winderman