Arian Foster was in Boston this week. Friday evening, Foster posted a photo to his Instagram account of his smiling family standing outside Fenway Park before the Red Sox-Indians game. fam at fenway. A photo posted by feeno (@arianfoster) on May 20, 2016 at 3:38pm PDT According to ESPN’s Mike Reiss, Foster’s visit to New […]
It’s no secret I’ve thought the Patriots really needed to add an early-down back this offseason yet one never came, so I’d be totally fine with bringing Arian Foster aboard. We know he’s coming off a significant injury — a torn achilles — one that players often never fully recover from.
But we did see Vince Wilfork bounce back to form in 2014 after tearing his in 2013, so it’s not impossible that Foster could have something to offer this season.
The Pats would have to put him through a bunch of medical tests long before signing him, so it’d make sense they’d have him in to check him out at this point. Ideally, they could start him off on the PUP list, bring him along slowly and then hopefully have him ready for the playoff push.
Of course, this doesn’t solve any problems for early in the season, where Brandon Bolden and James White are the only guys who’ve played in the system and aren’t coming off an injury. But the Pats are usually all about feeling things out early in the season anyway, with an eye toward pushing all the right buttons when the games really start to matter.
Depending on how the medical tests went this week (assuming that’s why the Pats had him in), we could see Foster signed to a one-year deal that would be good for both sides, just don’t expect any significant contributions before November-ish.