Rhamondre Stevenson Camp Update — August 31: Both Third-Back Contenders Are Gone
2026 NFL Season · Monday, Aug 31
The third-back competition our last episode tracked ended with neither contestant winning it: Hassan Haskins was released the day the Patriots traded for Corey Kiner, and Lan Larison was cut with the roster trim on Sunday. Stevenson made the fifty-three as one of three backs and did not play the finale, resting with the starters for a third straight game.
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The backfield behind Rhamondre Stevenson was replaced wholesale in a single weekend. Saturday the Patriots acquired Corey Kiner from Arizona for a 20 28 seventh-round pick and released Hassan Haskins the same day, per the club's announcement; Sunday, Lan Larison went out among the 36 players released to reach 53, per the team's transactions log. Both contestants in the third-back fight our last episode tracked are gone, and the job went to a back who arrived by trade the day before the deadline. Evan Lazar's post-camp review at the team's website had framed that call as Haskins' between-the-tackles power against Larison's upside as a sub-package back — one day before the team chose neither.
Stevenson's own week was quiet by design. He made the 53 as one of three running backs alongside TreVeyon Henderson and Kiner, per Nick Goss at NBC Sports Boston, and he did not play Thursday's finale at Cleveland — the starters rested a third straight game, per Lazar — so no touches for him appear anywhere in this window's reporting. The one variable that did move was his committee partner's health: Henderson turned an ankle slipping at practice on Monday, August 20-fourth, per Michael Hurley at NBC Sports Boston, with the follow-up reporting calling it minor in appearance and expecting him ready for Week One, per Josh Alper at ProFootballTalk. Nothing in the reporting projects any shift in the split, and neither will we.
Our last episode watched for finale touches, answered no, and for what cutdown does to the room behind him, answered above: rebuilt from outside. The June read bet that Stevenson's touchdown rate would fall back and his share would drift toward the younger back, and August never put that to a test — this is now two straight windows with no reporting on the split itself. What his role claims rest on is real enough: on our numbers he led the 49 qualifying backs in rushing yards over expected per attempt last season, on a hundred 30 carries. Intact, unexercised, untested. More when the real games arrive.
_Data via nflverse._
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