The guys knee cap fractured from getting his toe stuck in the turf. I don’t know that it’s got anything to do with him being out of shape 2 months ago.
It’s a freak accident, again. Some guys are just snake bitten and things keep happening to them. Becton seems to be one of those guys which absolutely sucks for us.
In the short term we need to bring in a guy, and preferably two. We all wanted a guy when we had a healthy Becton, now that he’s seemingly done, we need a replacement for him, and a replacement for the depth guy/insurance policy we wanted Before the injury.
Next year, we absolutely need to invest strongly in a 3rd tackle. It won’t make sense to move Becton next year, no one will trade anything of value for him, and it would be pointless to cut him, so we might as well let him compete. That said he can’t be handed a job and we need to have a legitimate competitor for that spot. In all honesty, we now basically have to bring back Fant, and quite possibly invest in him for longer than we would necessarily like to. In an ideal world we’d start developing a Fant replacement next offseason, but we can’t do that as we need to invest highly to cover for Becton. So that means that ideal scenario (2-3rd round pick on a future starting T for Fant) gets pushed to 2024 offseason
It’s all ugly and no one is going to be happy about any of the way this turned out