The New England Patriots offensive line stabilized in latest weeks, however it’s nonetheless the weakest positional group on the staff.
The Patriots haven’t performed a lot to enhance the unit through the season, bringing in a castoff like Ben Brown and signing Michael Jordan from their follow squad.
However there was a possibility for the Patriots so as to add a Professional Bowl left sort out, albeit contemporary off recovering from a torn ACL. New England determined to bypass that probability and as an alternative watched the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs on Friday signal D.J. Humphries to a deal that may pay him a max worth of $4.5 million for the remainder of the season, in line with NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport.
Given the state of New England’s offensive line, diehard Boston sports activities fan and Ringer founder Invoice Simmons was irate over the Patriots not pushing tougher to signal Humphries.
“This makes me mad,” Simmons wrote on the X platform. “The Pats have a (expletive) of cap house, a awful O-line, a unbelievable rookie QB and the flexibility to take artistic gambles for somebody like this. It’s an inexpensive franchise that pretends they aren’t low cost. They’re low cost.”
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The Chiefs, after all, supplied Humphries one thing the Patriots can’t: an opportunity to win a Tremendous Bowl this season. However maybe the Patriots may have negated that by throwing extra money at Humphries, who at 30 years previous and coming off a extreme damage in all probability doesn’t have many massive paydays left in his profession.
Humphries was medically cleared Friday, per Rapoport, and has a observe file of being an impactful performer at a significant place. The 2015 first-round draft choose spent eight seasons with the Cardinals and performed almost each offensive snap for the Cardinals from 2019-21. The Cardinals clearly appreciated Humphries and handed him a three-year, $66.8 million contract extension in 2022 earlier than slicing him two years later.
Rapoport famous Humphries visited the New York Giants earlier this season, however no rumors ever surfaced connecting him to the Patriots. And even with Humphries out there, the Patriots determined to face pat as an alternative of upgrading and can proceed to roll with Vederian Lowe and Demontrey Jacobs at their sort out spots.
In accordance with Over The Cap, the Patriots have the third-most cap house in the meanwhile within the NFL at $38.2 million. And by not signing Humphries at a place of want, they should go on a spending spree this offseason to to attempt ditch a budget narrative that at the moment surrounds the franchise.
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