{"id":645145,"date":"2026-01-01T08:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/645145\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T08:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:41:28","slug":"patriots-rookie-will-campbell-excited-for-return-after-miserable-injury-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/645145\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots rookie Will Campbell excited for return after &#8216;miserable&#8217; injury absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOXBORO \u2014 Patriots rookie starting left tackle Will Campbell had a profane reaction when he first suffered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2025\/12\/29\/mike-vrabel-provides-positive-injury-update-on-patriots-rookie-will-campbell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">knee injury<\/a> last month against the Bengals.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a four-letter word that starts with an F. We\u2019ll let you figure it out on your own.<\/p>\n<p>But Campbell was excited for his return to practice on Wednesday, the first day he could be back on the practice field after being placed on injured reserve four weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeen working hard over these past couple of weeks, just trying to get back,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cSo to be able to finally get back out there today, I\u2019m excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 first-round pick said Wednesday that these are the first games he\u2019s ever missed due to injury in his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was miserable,\u201d Campbell said. \u201cIt obviously isn\u2019t fun, but it\u2019s a part of this game. And just tried to attack the rehab process and get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rookie was asked if he\u2019d like to take snaps in Week 18 against the Dolphins before the postseason begins the following week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not my call. I\u2019m worried about one thing, and that\u2019s in 30 minutes (at practice),\u201d Campbell said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how that goes. And then after that, we\u2019ll worry about tomorrow, and then Friday and so on and so forth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vederian Lowe has been filling in for Campbell at left tackle. The Patriots have gone 3-1 in the LSU product\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOXBORO \u2014 Patriots rookie starting left tackle Will Campbell had a profane reaction when he first suffered a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[80,833,839,7,838,1167,249,2326,2094,6,15,835,61050,208,836,19972,834,61051,61052,724,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-645145","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-patriots","21":"tag-patriots","22":"tag-patriots-2025","23":"tag-patriots-game","24":"tag-patriots-news","25":"tag-patriots-schedule","26":"tag-patriots-stats","27":"tag-pats","28":"tag-robert-kraft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115818954174582283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645145","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=645145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}