Vereen. No question.
And I think what a lot of people are forgetting is that 2014 was the first healthy season of Vereen’s career. He played just 8 games in 2013. So it will be a bit of buyer beware if a team wants to give him a huge contract based on what he did in the Super Bowl.
I don’t think the Pats are ready to hand the reigns to James White and the passing-down back is a huge role in the Patriots offense. It will be interesting to see how it plays out, because I don’t think they’ll be willing to spend much on him. They really can’t.
As for Ridley, the one-year prove it deal coming off the injury makes sense, but I could also see them rolling with Blount/Gray/Gaffney and maybe taking an early-down back in the draft. I think they’re in okay shape regardless.