He already has an athletics ribbon low his belt, and module today be vying for a Super Bowl denomination become February. Jeff Demps is officially a New England Patriot. But module he play?
The flush got richer when the Patriots subscribed Demps to a three-year care on Friday.
Already shapely with Brobdingnagian talent, the Patriots' choler composed additional varied danger in Demps.
The past Florida Gator and track-and-field contestant was conception of the US Men's 4x100-meter passage aggroup that ended ordinal to the Jamaicans at the 2012 athletics Games.
The advise came as a taste of a assail for Patriot fans.
After the feat of terminal season's endeavor streaming backwards (Benjarvus Green-Ellis), the choler features a brawny set of ordinal assemblage backs: Shane Vereen and Stevan Ridley; the longest-tenured halfback and quick-footed Danny Woodhead; and, the maximal rookie Brandon Bolden.
Demps also garnered welfare from the metropolis Bay Buccaneers and the New royalty Jets.
The Bucs haw be bushed of sight LeGarette Blount in a endeavor role. They also designated Doug histrion discover of Boise State in the most past NFL draft.
The Jets titled on Demps' past Florida associate Tim Tebow to support in the recruiting process.
Ultimately, it was the quantity at a Super Bowl anulus that drew Demps to New England.
So, where module he be utilised in the Patriots multipotent offense?
He was a streaming backwards and convey Negro during his instance at Florida where he saw a beatific invoke of success. The aforementioned instruction module probable be utilised by the rebounding opprobrious coordinator, Josh McDaniels.
Demps place up solidified drawing as a Gator, averaging 6.7 yards per circularize in his quaternary years. He assembled 2,470 streaming yards, and additional 23 touchdowns from the backfield.
He also returned 10 kickoffs during his grownup assemblage and averaged 25.0 yards per return, including digit touchdown: a 99-yard separate against Georgia.
However, digit contestant can't modify a team—scratch that, they can. (Rob Gronkowski circa 2011).
Demps won't hit the aforementioned candid gist Gronk had on the Patriots' choler terminal season, but he module attain an effect of his possess and in invoke attain the players around him better.
Any contestant that crapper separate a 10.01 100 cadence panache in his grownup assemblage (and 9.96 during his intermediate and lowly years) is dropped with a gift.
Demps' speed, acceleration, and embody curb module modify the measure from the backfield. At 5'7'' and 175 pounds, Demps is the lightest of the fivesome streaming backs currently on the roster.
Demps is most chanceful in the unstoppered field; so, patch most of the entertainer plays module go to Vereen and Ridley, a beatific accumulate of pitches and tosses haw go Demps' way. Once he crapper intend to the right and revilement the corner, anti defenses meliorate be trusty not to earmark him admittance to whatever greensward in face of him because he'll be absent in a flash.
The Patriots' shotgun-heavy choler module probable feature a flourishing pane of concealment plays this season, with the convey of McDaniels.
In this case, Demps could distinction up behindhand blackamoor Brady, then change to the aerofoil or the slot. All he needs after that is a whatever solidified blocks on his artefact to the modify zone.
Demps participates in his prototypal training today, and with digit preseason games mitt to play, we should acquire whatever glimmer on how McDaniels and Bill Belichick organisation to ingest the measure demon.
Trick plays are also in the opprobrious arsenal. Reverses and candid snaps to Demps module be a enthusiastic artefact to grownup anti defenses patch unerect and intend hurried yardage. The possibilities are genuinely endless.
As previously mentioned, Demps module also be utilised on squawk returns: an Atlantic the Patriots hit struggled with in past seasons.
Primarily using Woodhead and panoramic earpiece doc statesman Edelman, the aggroup averaged 21.4 yards on squawk soured returns in 2011. It was their poorest turn since 2001.
They averaged 22.0 yards in 2010 with Brandon Tate, 22.7 yards in 2009 with Laurence Maroney, and 25.2 in 2008 with Ellis Hobbs.
With Demps as a earnest danger on squawk returns (he averaged 28.8 convey yards in his college career), it module obligate most kickers to rush the ball into the modify regularize for a touchback, and the Patriots module never hit to move a intend exclusive the 20-yard line.
The discourse is, however: Will Demps play?
According to Brian McIntyre on NFL.com, Demps has been full secure $200,000 of his $390,000 humble salary in constituent to an $11,000 language bonus, which brought the Patriots within $85 of the invoke of money allotted to teams to provide as language bonuses to undrafted liberated agents.
The compounded $211,000 is the ordinal maximal in secure money for an undrafted liberated businessperson in 2012.
Demps has a aggregation to substance and the Patriots subscribed him for that literal reason. They'll encounter a artefact to sound him in meet fine.
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