FOXBORO — After 25 years of anticipation, Vederian Lowe finally found the end zone Sunday for the first time in his football career.

The Patriots’ left tackle hauled in a 4-yard touchdown pass from Drake Maye during the fourth quarter of New England’s 28-22 loss to the Los Angeles Rams at Gillette Stadium. Despite the final result, Lowe beamed while discussing the play postgame, calling it “a lifelong dream.”

“I’ve never caught a touchdown ever in any level of football that I’ve ever played at. But it’s always been a dream of mine since I was a little kid,” Lowe said. “I always thought I could play tight end growing up, and I always thought I had fairly great hands. I always talk stuff with the O-line saying I’ve got the best hands on the O-line.

“But I’ve been waiting for a moment like this, and I’m just glad that when the play got called, everybody executed and we were able to score a touchdown.”

The gadget play called for Lowe to block edge rusher Jared Verse while Maye faked a handoff to Rhamondre Stevenson, then leak out into the flat. Head coach Jerod Mayo said the team successfully ran it three times in practice after installing it this week, giving the coaching staff confidence that Lowe could pull it off.

“I said, ‘About damn time,’” Lowe said. “I’ve been waiting all my life to catch a pass.”

The Rams were fooled. Lowe didn’t have a defender within 10 yards of him when he hauled in Maye’s high-arcing pass in the end zone. He was the first Patriots offensive lineman to catch a touchdown pass since Nate Solder in the 2014 AFC Championship Game.

“When our big guys came in, I was like, ‘Oh, (expletive), I think this is the time.’ And I was ready for it,” Lowe said. “Like I said, I’ve been waiting my whole life to catch a touchdown, let alone it being in the NFL. So I was just ready for it. I knew exactly what I had to do. … I just had to catch it, and I knew I was going to do that.”

Unfortunately for Lowe, he also was involved in another pivotal play that went against New England. His illegal formation penalty wiped out a third-down completion to Hunter Henry and derailed what had been a productive Patriots drive.

Lowe said officials warned him twice before flagging him.

“I thought I was lining up correctly, looking at the guard’s alignment and lining up on the guard’s alignment,” he said. “What really sucks about that call is that it came on a conversion. I feel like that really killed the drive after that, and I feel like that’s why it really hits as hard as it does for me.

“Because that’s such a simple fix, such an easy thing to fix, and we always harp on pre-snap penalties and our procedure and being sound in that to just give ourselves a chance. It really sucked to get a call like that. Going forward, I made sure for the rest of the game, it didn’t happen again, but it just really hurt getting that on a conversion.”