{"id":30462,"date":"2025-08-14T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=30462"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:16:20","slug":"breaking-news-patriots-announcement-seen-as-precursor-to-shake-up-in-backfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakingnews.azontree.com\/?p=30462","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS : Patriots Announcement Seen as Precursor to Shake-Up in Backfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d.newsweek.com\/en\/full\/2702122\/patriots-head-coach-mike-vrabel-players.jpg?w=1200&amp;f=387dde09696c45402afeeba0276dea19\" alt=\"Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel with players.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rookie\u00a0who led the Big Ten in yards per carry\u00a0in his final year with the Buckeyes (7.1) has already given Patriots fans their most exciting moments of the preseason \u2014 and after an announcement by head coach Mike Vrabel on Wednesday, the 5-foot-10, 210-pound ball-carrier could be seeing an increased role in a revamped Patriots running game.<\/p>\n<p>Four-year veteran running back Rhamondre Stevenson \u2014 the Patriots&#8217;\u00a02021 fourth-round\u00a0draft pick out of Oklahoma \u2014 had been slated to fill the role of primary ball carrier out of the backfield, as\u00a0he has since his rookie year.<\/p>\n<p>But Stevenson was absent from the joint practice session on Wednesday, and\u00a0Vrabel announced that the 27-year-old\u00a0is now dealing with an injury of some kind. The head coach did not specify the nature of Stevenson&#8217;s ailment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s probably something coming out of the game,&#8221; Vrabel announced, referring to Friday&#8217;s preseason contest against Washington. &#8220;I think some residual stuff from the game. Hopefully, we&#8217;ll get him back here sooner rather than later. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s anything that&#8217;s significant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another busted coverage that leads to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Patriots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Patriots<\/a> TD. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2azK6h5A3G\">pic.twitter.com\/2azK6h5A3G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; VikingzFanPage (@vikingzfanpage) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vikingzfanpage\/status\/1955702832750809102?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But whether the injury is &#8220;significant&#8221; clearly remains to be seen, and is impossible to know without knowing exactly what type of injury Stevenson has incurred.<\/p>\n<p>If it is more serious than Vrabel implied, Henderson may see himself in line for a quick promotion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The timing of the injury is unfortunate given how well rookie running back TreVeyon Henderson has performed in training camp and the preseason,&#8221;\u00a0wrote USA Today Patriotswire reporter\u00a0Danny Jailett on Wednesday. &#8220;Could we be looking at a situation where Henderson surpasses Stevenson on the depth chart?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots coach Mike Vrabel issued an update Wednesday that could have long-term repercussions for the team&#8217;s running backs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-england-patriots"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - 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