Tyler Gaffney showed a lot of promise during last year’s preseason but on Monday he became a player looking for a new football team.<\/p>\n
The Patriots announced that they released the former sixth-round pick out of Carolina, with Gaffney\u00a0once again having been let go by the club. \u00a0Gaffney shined in last year’s preseason game against New Orleans, carrying 9 times for 64-yards, including a 44-yard touchdown but was the odd man out during the team’s final cutdown in 2016 but was later signed to the practice squad on October 17th, 2016.<\/p>\n
Gaffney worked hard and had his moments, but was simply never able to move his way up what became a talented and crowded depth chart in New England’s backfield. Monday’s\u00a0decision to release him now simply gives him additional time to hopefully find a new landing spot.<\/p>\n
With the addition of recently acquired Rex Burkhead, the Patriots currently have Burkhead, D.J. Foster, Dion Lewis and James White joining fullback James Develin on their roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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