FOXBORO \u2014 Patriots defensive coordinator Terrell Williams is back at Gillette Stadium for the first time in months after a health scare.<\/p>\n
Head coach Mike Vrabel announced Tuesday morning that Williams had made his return to the facility. Wililams was kept out of spring practices while dealing with an undisclosed medical condition.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Terrell) is here and ready to go,\u201d Vrabel said. \u201cPlayers were excited to see him. I was excited to see him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vrabel first announced that Williams would be away from the team ahead of rookie minicamp in May.<\/p>\n
\u201cI came back home here to Detroit, for spring break, and had a little medical scare. I mean, it wasn\u2019t a little medical scare. It was a medical scare,\u201d Williams said via video conference call during the spring. \u201cSince then, per doctor\u2019s orders, I\u2019ve kind of stayed here, in Detroit, and been handling that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams said at the time that he would reveal the details of the medical condition when the timing is right. He hasn\u2019t spoken to the media since May.<\/p>\n
Williams stayed involved with players and the team through video conference calls. Inside linebackers coach Zak Kuhr filled in as the Patriots\u2019 on-field defensive playcaller through Williams\u2019 absence.<\/p>\n
\u201cReally want to thank the New England Patriots organization, but in particular Stretch (vice president of football operations and strategy John Streicher) and Mike Vrabel,\u201d Williams said. \u201cVrabes has been unbelievable. I mean, I talk to him at least once a day, and he\u2019s he\u2019s been unbelievably supportive in everything that we\u2019re doing. We communicate every day. \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd (inside linebackers coach) Zak Kuhr has done an unbelievable job while I\u2019ve been away, and we\u2019ve communicated daily on just the things that need to get done. And I\u2019ve also been in communication with the players often, so it\u2019s been good for me. But again, I\u2019m not away, I\u2019m not off the football team. I\u2019m just, I\u2019m working remotely right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Williams, 51, spent 2018 through 2023 with Vrabel on the Titans as his head coach\u2019s defensive line coach. He spent the 2024 season as a defensive line coach\/run game coordinator before being hired as a first-time defensive coordinator by the Patriots this offseason.<\/p>\n
Williams has also coached defensive line in college and with the Raiders and Dolphins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOXBORO \u2014 Patriots defensive coordinator Terrell Williams is back at Gillette Stadium for the first time in months…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[80,833,839,7,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,15,835,832,208,836,834,831,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-227504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-drake-maye","10":"tag-eliot-wolf","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-mike-vrabel","13":"tag-new-england","14":"tag-new-england-patriots","15":"tag-newengland","16":"tag-newenglandpatriots","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-nfl-draft","19":"tag-nfl-news","20":"tag-nfl-rumors","21":"tag-patriots","22":"tag-patriots-2025","23":"tag-patriots-news","24":"tag-patriots-rumors","25":"tag-robert-kraft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114897908601787267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}