There always was going to be an odd man out in the New England Patriots’ jam-packed running back room. On Wednesday, Sony Michel became that man.
The Patriots traded Michel to the running back-needed Los Angeles Rams in exchange for fifth- and sixth-round draft picks (which reportedly could become a single fourth-round compensatory selection).
The 2018 first-round draft pick was enjoying a very strong summer — “awful good,” in the words of running backs coach Ivan Fears — but similarly impressive showings by two younger members of his position group made him expendable.