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I don't know how I'd feel about Matt Forte. One one hand, he's one of the better RBs in the league, and is equally talented running and catching.
I don't know if it would be all that much more production thought than what we already have, and it might really hamstring the cap. (And he's a FA after 2016, iirc) He'll also be 30 in December.
I don't know. I'll have to think about this one.
Yeah, the salary's why I think it's a no-go. Just don't see it happening.
In some alternate world where his contract was mostly signing bonus and we could get him for cheap, though? Absolutely, he would be unbelievable here. He's Shane Vereen but with the ability to actually run between the tackles and break through arm tackles. Line him up in those 3-4TE formations and you could credibly split 5 out wide or pack everyone in and run it down their throat. And if you can do those two extremes out of the same formation, you can do pretty much anything.
He's not enough of an upgrade over Lewis to be worth $5.7M in cap space that the Pats don't have, but he is an upgrade and it would be a sight to behold.