... being drafted 21st overall in 2006, Laurence Maroney's career in New England was defined by waiting.

He waited behind Corey Dillon for a year as a rookie, and had a promising sophomore year though it was overshadowed by the explosive '07 record-setting offense. 

Nonetheless, injuries and ineffectiveness made Maroney the outcast in a backfield where his youth would seemingly give him the advantage. If it wasn't his tapdancing, it was his injuries. If it wasn't either, he was fumbling at the most costly, inopportune times imaginable.

The Bleacher Report - NFL