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He ran behind a stacked OL in college and really isn't that special of a RB. He's getting outperformed by Dion Lewis currently.
I'm not sure why people have the negative perception of James White that they do. He had the same role his rookie year that Vereen had his rookie season.
Vereen's rookie season - 57 total yards on 15 touches
White's rookie season - 61 total yards on 14 touches
He ran behind a stacked OL in college and really isn't that special of a RB. He's getting outperformed by Dion Lewis currently.
White was healthy and the RB corps was banged up and mediocre (at best) last year. That he couldn't get on the active game-day roster most weeks and that the team signed guys off the scrap heap and PS instead of giving him a
look is quite telling.
Vereens rookie year we had Green-Ellis and Woodhead. Last season we had Ridley/Blount and Vereen. I can say without question White had the more talented RBs in front of him.Sure look similar if you ignore that Vereen was a more highly touted player coming out of school, injured most of his rookie year and stuck behind a number of more proven/trusted players.
White was healthy and the RB corps was banged up and mediocre (at best) last year. That he couldn't get on the active game-day roster most weeks and that the team signed guys off the scrap heap and PS instead of giving him a
look is quite telling.
White might pan out, but he was - by all accounts - not a great prospect coming out of school. Having watched a good deal of him at Wisconsin, I don't see a guy with the type of skills Vereen had coming out of college. White gets touted as a pass down guy but he wasn't a great receiver in college (only one year of plus production as a receiver). He showed very little in training camp and preseason (after pretty glowing reviews in mini-camp) and was not given any opportunity to grab some playing time when Ridley went down.
Given how poor the Pats RB talent is this year, there should be no excuse for him not to make the roster. His only competition for the 3rd down job is Cadet who is terrible.