Actually a little above waist-high for Gronkowski. For the defender, it hit him in the upper part of the numbers as he leapt a bit.
Looks like a bad call, those happen more in the last 2 minutes, maybe they need to rely on the cameras more. This should be remedied, I’m definitely not for the Patriots but it is always more important to see a fairly called game.
The refs need to be consistent and perhaps they are being consistent in not calling this in the last 2 minutes as they let a lot of things go.