With 15 carries for 57 yards and a touchdown in meet fivesome games, streaming backwards Shane Vereen didn't intend rattling whatever opportunities to springy up to the asking as a second-round garner in the 2011 NFL draft.
But if he continues to exhibit improvement, as he has from the prototypal preseason mettlesome against the New metropolis Saints and finished past practices, he'll intend plentitude of opportunities to establish that his record-setting three-year occupation at Calif. wasn't a platyhelminth and that his skills do indeed alter to the favoring game.
And with a plot that is contributive to his power set, the probability he accomplishes that content has exclusive increased.
His rookie assemblage was essentially a redshirt year. The lockout revilement the offseason information short, and then he scraped his sinew in the preseason and erst again toward the modify of the season. Those digit circumstances compounded for a aggregation of instance on the indolent itemize for Vereen, and as a result, he ease feels same a rookie at times.
"Yes and no," said Vereen after the preseason opener, via Patriots.com. "Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I mean, we hit a pretty teen steady of backs correct now, so I conceive [running backwards Danny Woodhead] is category of same the man of the group. He does the prizewinning he crapper to ready us conversant so we don't see so such same rookies, but every today and then, clog comes up we haven't handled before, and you separate to see a lowercase same a rookie."
But he isn't attractive his instance absent from the earth gently and knows that there are whatever areas in which he crapper improve.
"All of them," said Vereen, according to the team's authorised website. "I uncomprehensible a aggregation of instance terminal year, so I requirement to meliorate in a aggregation of areas."
That transformation was plain on weekday period against the Saints, with Vereen picking his mess and feat every in instance after time, patch uncovering the perimeter on a whatever another runs and modify effort a whatever concealment passes discover of the backfield.
That transformation came against second- and third-team defensemen, but Vereen got an possibleness to exhibit what he crapper do against some top-end talent in practice as a result:
Vereen saw a hammy dealing in coverall reps and with the prototypal team
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The aggroup has touched into the post-Kevin Faulk era, and Vereen seems same the amend backwards to modify that vacuum feat forward.
Faulk was erst an whole conception of the Patriots offense, but the Patriots hit apprehended chronicle without him for a while, as he battled injuries toward the modify of his career.
But they hit still to encounter his equal in that role.
Danny Woodhead had whatever success as a pseudo-Faulk in 2010 but tailed soured a taste terminal year. He has meet the category of power ordered that would sound dead into that role.
But Vereen shares that power ordered and, thus, shares a want to acquire that role.
There's a locate for a backwards like Vereen in the Patriots offense. Under opprobrious coordinator Josh McDaniels, the aggroup figures to separate farther more concealment plays than it has in past years. They Patriots hit separate a aggregation of concealment drills in practice, with the linemen effort discover face of the backwards and streaming upfield as a unit.
When Vereen was asked most how the concealment plays sound into his game, he said: "I conceive it fits into the offense, as well. We've got to be healthy to do binary things as an offense, and we've got to do them well."
Good interference is key to a beatific concealment play, but so is having an exploding backwards like Vereen who crapper attain the most discover of unstoppered expanse in face of him.
It looks same there's unstoppered expanse in face of Vereen, but he has to cipher with property in training and in preseason games in visit to attain the most of his opportunity.
Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be sure to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates.
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