He was supposed to be done, finished, out of football and perhaps headed to Australia to try rugby. Now, Tim Tebow is, as Mike Garofolo of USA Today reports, “… on his way to Foxborough to join the New England Patriots.”

No telling, yet, how Patriots coach Bill Belichick will use Tebow, though it is certain he will not be the team’s starting quarterback. Nobody has enough self-confidence to come into camp thinking he is going to beat out Tom Brady. Tebow can take a kind of comfort in that.