The New England Patriots are leaning on familiarity in a time of need.<\/p>\n
New England made a series of roster moves<\/a> on Tuesday, signing tackle Thayer Munford Jr. to the active roster and guard Bill Murray to the practice squad \u2014 and in addition, placing cornerback Alex Austin on injured reserve and releasing running back Jonathan Ward from the practice squad.<\/p>\n Munford\u2019s addition serves as a full circle moment, as he was originally signed to the practice squad before being poached by the Cleveland Browns \u2014 who then released him and signed him to the practice squad.<\/p>\n Murray\u2019s, come to think of it, is another full circle moment, as he originally entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent and spent two seasons on the practice squad before being released and signing with the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n The Patriots needed depth after losing both Will Campbell (knee) and Jared Wilson (ankle) during Sunday\u2019s victory over the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a> \u2014 with the rookie duo expected to miss an extended period of time<\/a> despite remaining on the active roster. Vederian Lowe and Ben Brown, who replaced them during the win, are expected to get first crack<\/a> at starting in their place.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots are leaning on familiarity in a time of need. New England made a series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1178,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,351],"class_list":{"0":"post-554589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jared-wilson","10":"tag-new-england","11":"tag-new-england-patriots","12":"tag-newengland","13":"tag-newenglandpatriots","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-patriots","16":"tag-will-campbell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115613443348665862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554589","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=554589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}