Player Signing Patriots signing guard Alijah Vera-Tucker

40yrpatsfan · Mar 10, 2026

His Achilles injury happened over 3 years ago and no related issues since, so not worried about that. The first triceps was repaired 4+ years ago with no recurrence. The other arm happened just prior to last season. It's probably unlikely he'd re-injure either one.

He played his full rookie season, then missed half of season 2 with the first triceps, then missed over half of season 3 with the Achilles, then played all of season 4, then missed all of season 5 with the 2nd triceps. So he's played 2 full seasons and two half-seasons. One silver lining is he's still young, presumably hungry to play again, and doesn't have much wear on the tires. He's due for a couple of years of good injury luck.

manxman2601 · Mar 10, 2026

I'm counting on AVT having had all his bad luck and remaining injury free the rest of his career.

Having said that, every Patriots fan will have their hearts in their mouths every time he goes down on the field.

TomPatriot · Mar 10, 2026

hornetfb85 said:
Probably Google and reruns of Doogie Howser

So the Hornetfb85 way. Got it.

jimnance · Mar 10, 2026

FreeTedWilliams said:
The Pats are lucky he didn't tear anything signing the contract!

Go back to the deep freeze

jimnance · Mar 10, 2026

Great news. Was not expecting this.

Bill Lee · Mar 10, 2026

40yrpatsfan said:
His Achilles injury happened over 3 years ago and no related issues since, so not worried about that. The first triceps was repaired 4+ years ago with no recurrence. The other arm happened just prior to last season. It's probably unlikely he'd re-injure either one.

He played his full rookie season, then missed half of season 2 with the first triceps, then missed over half of season 3 with the Achilles, then played all of season 4, then missed all of season 5 with the 2nd triceps. So he's played 2 full seasons and two half-seasons. One silver lining is he's still young, presumably hungry to play again, and doesn't have much wear on the tires. He's due for a couple of years of good injury luck.

I deleted my earlier post, too pessimistic.

After reading your post, I'm all in on the hopium/copium train!

He left all that bad injury luck, along with the foul stench, back in Florham Park, NJ.

He's ours now, so he's destined for greatness!

TommyD4207 · Mar 10, 2026

Bill Lee said:
I deleted my earlier post, too pessimistic.

After reading your post, I'm all in on the hopium/copium train!

He left all that bad injury luck, along with the foul stench, back in Florham Park, NJ.

He's ours now, so he's destined for greatness!

Get on the train dude, if he stays healthy, he might be the steal of FA.

borg · Mar 10, 2026

Banking on a player who blows out muscles or tendons yearly is unwise.

Kristaps Porzingis agrees.

VJCPatriot · Mar 10, 2026

With Vera-Tucker we got a starting caliber guard in free agency. We just need a tackle now, maybe in the draft?

50-yard-line · Mar 10, 2026

Joey007 said:
Biiiig upside here. Let’s go.

Very surprised by this. Thought for sure they'd be going for a stop-gap here with Bitonio.

High risk, very high reward...

Given where they are and where they're trying to go, I'll take it. When he's healthy AVT is great. Let's hope he's put that injury bug behind him.

Since1960 · Mar 10, 2026

Well, look at it this way. Given his injury status to date we’re only (2) ACL’s away from the league’s first “Bionic Guard”! Hoping fir the best and lighting a candle just in case….

borisman · Mar 10, 2026

Ross12 said:
Pats ****ing scooped someone again lmao. He was supposedly signed by the Giants at like 2 PM…

That's what I thought but I saw it on X first and then I saw it was posted by Schefter so... I came here to see if we were being punked.

Nice!! The upside is huge if he stays healthy.

Wozzy · Mar 10, 2026

borg said:
Banking on a player who blows out muscles or tendons yearly is unwise.

Kristaps Porzingis agrees.

The good news is he already blew out both triceps, I don’t think he has a third one.

DaBruinz · Mar 10, 2026

Lagaffe_07 said:
Not a bad signing, not a great one either. Very risky. There is a chance that you end up starting Ben Brown for half the season.

this line need stability. if they were ready to pay 14M for a guy that is always injured why didn’t they pay 15.5M for David Edwards who almost never miss a game?

Jones and the FB were good signing but I don’t understand the logic behind this one. Vera-Tucker is a good player when healthy but with the state of our OL I don’t think we were in a position to take gamble like that.

Because David Edwards is not as good of a Guard as AVT. Edwards is a mediocre LG who the Bills were OK with letting walk.

Thunderhead · Mar 10, 2026

Easily my favorite signing so far. More OL help needed for sure, but this is a good start.

Wozzy · Mar 10, 2026

Great signing if he stays healthy, can he? He was mostly healthy last year. If they just held onto Cole Strange would they have been better off. Possibly.

Either way they still have some work to do on the OLine. They should keep layering on great prospect, eventually the unit will be dominant.

mayoclinic · Mar 10, 2026

TommyD4207 said:
For the record (in case I haven't been really, really clear for years), I love the Vera-Tucker signing, he's a binky for me, I've wanted the Patriots to make a run at him for years now.

Binky of mine, too. I have been clamoring for the Pats to sign him on the draft board.

Diffs4 · Mar 10, 2026

borg said:
Banking on a player who blows out muscles or tendons yearly is unwise.

Kristaps Porzingis agrees.

Dude, the Celtics won a championship with Porzingis and he was a very big reason why. I would not call that unwise in any way shape or form. And he got sick the next year, nothing to do with tendons. And they moved off him quite easily. To question the signing of Porzingis when it led to a championship is quite the thing.

mayoclinic · Mar 10, 2026

DaBruinz said:
Because David Edwards is not as good of a Guard as AVT. Edwards is a mediocre LG who the Bills were OK with letting walk.

David Edwards is a solid LG, but has nowhere near AVT's upside. He is also not very athletic. Campbell - AVT - Wilson is perhaps the most athletic left side in the league, and will be able to do some cool things.

AVT also incredibly versatile, has started at all positions except for center.

If healthy (I know, big "if"), it could be like having Joe Thuney in his prime.

hornetfb85 · Mar 10, 2026

TomPatriot said:
So the Hornetfb85 way. Got it.

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