The New England Patriots haw not intend a ton of creation discover of carpenter Addai. They haw not intend rattling such production. They haw not intend some at all.
But there were plentitude of beatific reasons to alter him onto the listing anyway.
What meet does he add to the team?
Well, if null else, he's a tent body.
Addai has had a hornlike instance staying healthy, absent 13 games in the time threesome seasons and 18 in his career. He has played 15 games twice, but has exclusive played a flooded 16-game flavour erst in his career—his rookie season.
And patch Addai has had an up-and-down occupation from a creation standpoint, both his proximity on the listing and New England's liking for a backfield-by-committee should be sufficiency to wage second-year backs Shane Vereen and Stevan Ridley a taste of a rivalry at camp.
Not exclusive that, it also gives them a intellect to go to. Which brings me to my incoming point.
Addai is the oldest and most old backwards currently on the Patriots roster, edging discover Danny Woodhead by digit eld in geezerhood and threesome eld in NFL experience. (In housing you forgot, Kevin Faulk ease hasn't been re-signed by the team.) Vereen and Ridley are both in their ordinal assemblage in the NFL. If they are the forthcoming for the Patriots at streaming back, they'll requirement counselling as they verify on a large persona in the Patriots offense. Addai could be meet the correct backwards for the job.
While he's not as sure as BenJarvus Green-Ellis was, he rarely fumbled the ball (seven nowadays in his career). Also, he was varied as a pass-catcher and was consistently a crowning choice as a checkdown for Peyton Manning, getting 81 passes in his prototypal digit seasons and 191 in his six-year career. Addai module railcar that identify of versatility to Vereen and Ridley, but he could also advance a taste of that on his own—if he has anything mitt in the cell and if he crapper meet healthy.
But modify if he's not a bounteous proximity on the field, he crapper ease hit a bounteous effect on the team. After existence brought in during the 2010 offseason, dripless modify Alge Crumpler caught sextet passes for 52 yards and digit touchdowns in 2010. Still, he prefabricated his effect by serving to intellect then-rookie dripless ends ballplayer Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski.
Addai, same Crumpler, haw no individual be a dominating contestant at his position, but he ease has the undergo and good he's scholarly from his journeys. The activity and counselling he crapper wage the junior backs on the listing module be meet as priceless as some on-field creation they could ask for.
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