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What's going on everyone? Taylor Kyles here for CLNS Media reporting live just after Patriots practice, where we found out that after it took the Patriots four quarters to get their ground game going in the season opener versus the Seahawks, that ground game might be getting some reinforcements in the form of Treveyon Henderson and Ben Brown, both of whom were inactive last week due to different injuries.

Now, the explosiveness was severely lacking in that Patriots ground game, so obviously having a big play threat like Treveyon Henderson would be massive, especially against another stout front in the Pittsburgh Steelers, who are gonna be coming into Foxborough this week.

Now, on the other end of the spectrum of course, A.J. Brown is expected to miss six weeks, as he has been placed on short-term injured reserve after suffering a high ankle sprain during the season opener.

Here's what Mike Vrabel had to say about what it's gonna take to replace A.J. Brown's production, and just how important it's gonna be for the rest of the people in that wide receiver room to step up.

I mean, I, I don't think, uh, tweak is really the, um, the answer.

I mean, we're looking at, you know, trying to install here, and you know, putting guys in, in spots that are, you know, best for them and best for us.

We'll go through our game plan and, you know, just like we did when A.J. was out there, it was sometimes he was the X, sometimes he was the F, uh, the Z.

You know what I mean? We'll have to move guys around, uh, different positions.

But first, uh, some good news.

Treveyon Henderson, Ben Brown come back to practice today.

Uh, Mike Vrabel spoke a little bit as well about how the Patriots may adjust to, uh, the A.J. Brown injury, which we'll dive into a little bit more here, uh, with questions as well.

But, uh, what happened down in Foxborough today, and, uh, what can you kinda tell us about, uh, the vibes after last Wednesday's loss to, uh, the Seahawks?

I think they're moving on.

So if he's good to go, that's gonna be great news.

He's been dealing with that ankle injury he suffered when they were on blower field, and everybody was slipping and sliding all day, and, um, unfortunately wound up with him having to miss week one because of that.

Then Ben Brown, I believe it's been a knee injury for him, so [lip smacks] obviously you're hoping he doesn't necessarily have to play.

And they're going to have some reinforcements, it looks like, according to Coach Vrabel.

We'll talk about the updates on Travion Henderson and Ben Brown.

We'll talk about some practice squad notes, and we'll have another video on that probably later.

But so much to break down.

and get right into it.

Mike Reese had the report first, and it's a big one.

Travion Henderson and Ben Brown will return to practice today per Mike Vrabel.

And it was a little bit of a confusing statement because he said, yeah, they're going to return to practice.

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in Pittsburgh? We got to lock in Pittsburgh and become really big Cardinals and Browns fans this weekend, right? Like we need, like part of the benefit of taking Pittsburgh here is that we get a cull of the entries through one of the two big favorite losses.

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them, yeah.

If you saw-- If you watched our short yesterday, you already saw this, so you probably already know most of it.

Ben Brown, he is out.

He was ruled out on Monday, uh, so gonna be short on offensive lineman, especially in that center position.

We're gonna have Greg Van Roten probably play that backup center position.