We are just a few hours away from the first practice of this year’s New England Patriots training camp. Yesterday the team’s veteran players arrived at Gillette Stadium to go through physicals and the conditioning test, and — with one exception — to be cleared for work. And once this work commences today, some of them will have a lot to prove at this point in their respective careers; for different reasons and under different circumstances.
Here, we take a look at the five veterans who by this modest estimation may have the most to prove over the course of this summer.