{"id":447405,"date":"2023-07-29T14:27:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=447405"},"modified":"2023-07-29T14:27:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T18:27:29","slug":"ezekiel-elliott-to-practice-with-new-england","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ezekiel-elliott-to-practice-with-new-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Ezekiel Elliott to practice with New England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free-agent RB Ezekiel Elliott is scheduled to practice with New England Patriots today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Source: 2x All-Pro RB Ezekiel Elliott is visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Patriots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Patriots<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>This could impact the RB-needy AFC East, as well as the Dalvin Cook derby, since he and Elliott are considered the top backs available.<\/p>\n<p>Zeke looked terrific in the videos he posted of his workouts. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Qe62DFGc0r\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Qe62DFGc0r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Schultz_Report\/status\/1685291443768672256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The running back (27), dismissed by the Dallas Cowboys during the offseason in a salary-cap move, had a career-low 876 rushing yards in the past campaign, but he finished with 12 TDs.<\/p>\n<p>New England needs a player like him as Pats will begin to train at full speed in the upcoming days with a crucial role n the running game.<\/p>\n<p>That will be Ezekiel\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> free-agent visit since the Cowboys let him go.<\/p>\n<p>Third-season pro-Rhamondre Stevenson is New England\u2019s best RB, but the Patriots don\u2019t have many elite options besides him. The organization released James Robinson last month and didn\u2019t replace him yet.<\/p>\n<p>After New England\u2019s training camp began, veteran Ty Montgomery left with an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n<p>The only other options that the Patriots have in the RB position are the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> years Pierre Strong and Kevin Harris, and 3rd-year player J.J. Taylor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free-agent RB Ezekiel Elliott is scheduled to practice with New England Patriots today. Source: 2x All-Pro RB Ezekiel Elliott is visiting the #Patriots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":447406,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18403,17487,17324],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[18404,18130,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The free agent will visit Patriots.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447405"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=447405"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=447405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}