{"id":401904,"date":"2025-11-24T19:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401904\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T19:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:05:13","slug":"patriots-rookie-left-tackle-will-campbell-to-miss-a-couple-of-weeks-with-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/401904\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots rookie left tackle Will Campbell to miss \u2018a couple of weeks\u2019 with knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New England Patriots seem to have avoided the worst-case scenario with rookie left tackle Will Campbell\u2019s knee injury, but they still face a stretch of games without the left side of their starting offensive line.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because Campbell and rookie left guard Jared Wilson are likely to miss at least one game \u2014 and potentially more.<\/p>\n

Campbell\u2019s injury is more meaningful, given his importance to the Patriots. He was the No. 4 pick in April\u2019s NFL Draft and has played admirably while protecting Drake Maye\u2019s blind side. While it doesn\u2019t appear that Campbell\u2019s injury will end his season, the initial belief, according to a source close to Campbell, is that the 21-year-old suffered an MCL sprain and will miss multiple games. News of the sprain was first reported by NFL Network.<\/p>\n

It seems likely that New England will place Campbell on injured reserve, which would make him unavailable until Week 18 at the earliest. But with the Patriots battling for the No. 1 seed in the AFC (and thus a first-round bye in the playoffs), there\u2019s a chance they could give Campbell extra time to heal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a couple of weeks, and we\u2019ll have to make a decision on the roster,\u201d coach Mike Vrabel said of Campbell\u2019s injury. \u201cBut it\u2019s nothing, hopefully, that\u2019s going to put him out the entire season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson, a third-round pick, also seems likely to miss at least one game, though he may avoid injured reserve. Wilson suffered a high ankle sprain, according to NFL Network<\/a>, but there\u2019s hope that Wilson could return earlier than the usual four to six weeks NFL players usually need to recover from that injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cToo soon to tell,\u201d Vrabel said of Wilson\u2019s status going forward. \u201cSee how the rehab goes and how he responds there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Patriots\u2019 bye week will come at a good time, with the team off in Week 14 after playing the New York Giants on \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d next week. But if a player is placed on injured reserve, he must miss four games, not four weeks.<\/p>\n

With Campbell and Wilson likely out, the Patriots will have to move some pieces around on the offensive line after experiencing unusual steadiness there until Sunday. They have started the same front five in 11 of their 12 games this season.<\/p>\n

Ben Brown will likely take Wilson\u2019s place at left guard, but the decision on how to replace Campbell is more intriguing. Rather than a traditional swing tackle \u2014 an offensive tackle who could step in for either the left or right tackle \u2014 the Patriots seem to prefer a backup at each of the tackle spots.<\/p>\n

When right tackle Morgan Moses briefly missed time during Sunday\u2019s win over the Bengals, rookie seventh-round pick Marcus Bryant replaced him. But when Campbell left Sunday\u2019s game, Vederian Lowe filled in at left tackle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a busy training staff this morning,\u201d Vrabel said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots seem to have avoided the worst-case scenario with rookie left tackle Will Campbell\u2019s knee…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":401905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,533,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-401904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-new-england-patriots","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115606239635343926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}