If Tom Brady ends up having to serve his four-game suspension, the New England Patriots will likely need to lean heavily on their running game in the early part of the season. Unless LeGarrette Blount can get himself into shape, he won’t be much help.
Ben Volin of The Boston Globe reports that Blount failed his conditioning test at the first day of training camp on Wednesday. The veteran back was was asked to run 20 sprints of 50 yards in under eight seconds each, and he was only able to do 12 of them. As a result, Blount has been placed on the non-football injury list.