Heath Evans News

Just to make sure, the question is asked of Kevin Faulk: This is season number 11 for the running back, right? "Fortunately," Faulk replies quickly.

Chiefs FB Mike Cox , quoted on salina.com regarding the intensity of Todd Haley's workouts compared to Herm Edwards' offseason minicamp last year: "The workouts from last year to this year are night and day.

With five tight ends currently on the roster, including a pair of veteran acquisitions during the offseason, David Thomas knows the Patriots will have difficult decisions to make at the position.

One of the newest Patriots belongs to an elite group whose biggest name is Tom Brady.

Most of the Saints off-season renovations have been made to a defense that has lagged far behind the team's top ranked offense.

Fullback Heath Evans, loosening up Sunday during the final day of the Saints' three-day minicamp, said that leaving New England was a tough decision, but New Orleans was the place where he wanted to go.

Short at fullback, the New England Patriots on Thursday welcomed back a familiar face, signing versatile free agent running back Patrick Pass , who has not played in a game since 2007.

The Patriots open the 2009 season by hosting the Bills on "Monday Night Football" and one statistic that is sure to be heard between now and then is this: The Patriots have beaten the Bills 11 straight times.

The March second singing of Russ Hochstein earlier this year went relatively unnoticed by the masses in New England.

Apparently fed up from hearing critics continually question his toughness, Maroney finally came clean with the true nature of his injury.

We're looking at the fullbacks today in our position-by-position breakdown of the New Orleans Saints' roster.

The Patriots currently have 91 players on their roster, which is the most of any team in the NFL.

Of particular note was his contention players are no longer going to take hometown discounts to play in New England.

Having played zero minutes of competitive football in my life and watched approximately four college football games this past year, I'm in no position to tell the Patriots what to do with their 2009 NFL Draft picks this weekend.

When quarterback Matt Cassel and linebacker Mike Vrabel were traded in late February, the first domino fell and the recalibration of the Patriots' roster was underway.

With the addition of Fred Taylor [ stats ] , the Patriots [ team stats ] remain pretty well stocked at the position.

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Short-term need: Lead blocker. The Patriots didn't run many two-back sets with a standard fullback in 2008 -- they're more of a one-back team -- but had Heath Evans in that role when needed .

HAS ANYONE else noticed that in the span of about a month, the backfield that New Orleans Saints fans came to know and love over the past five years is a thing of the past? A mere memory.

The New England Patriots' season ended two months ago, but Sammy Morris has filled that time with a variety of activities that have taken him around the globe and back and impacted his life in nearly as many ways.