{"id":726785,"date":"2026-02-03T17:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/726785\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:52:15","slug":"patriots-robert-spillane-kind-of-dishes-positive-injury-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/726785\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots\u2019 Robert Spillane (Kind Of) Dishes Positive Injury Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye has <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2026\/02\/patriots-drake-maye-doesnt-budge-when-asked-about-shoulder-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">dominated the headlines<\/a>, but his teammates have some notable injuries of their own to keep an eye on ahead of Super Bowl LX on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Spillane, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>Spillane, who exited early in the club\u2019s AFC Championship over the Denver Broncos, did not practice all last week but provided <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@NFL\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">something of a positive injury update<\/a> during Super Bowl Opening Night on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m doing what I need to do,\u201d Spillane said. \u201cWe have a plan scheduled for me to return to play. I\u2019m just trying to do everything I can to make sure we\u2019re right on it\u2026 We\u2019re on the right track. We\u2019re where we need to be and the goal is to obviously go out there and be dominant on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spillane admitted that he \u201cran around\u201d during practice at Stanford on Monday, though he didn\u2019t practice in an official capacity and would have been listed as a non-participant had there been an injury report. The Patriots are being careful with the veteran, who missed four games during the regular season due to similar injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>New England still has three practices until taking on the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl LX, so there\u2019s time for injuries to heal and for the plan to be formulated before kickoff at 6:30 p.m. ET on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re in such a great place where it\u2019s confidence and light airiness,\u201d Spillane said. \u201cWe know we\u2019re going to be right where we need to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye has dominated the headlines, but his teammates have some notable injuries of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2050],"tags":[7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,9591,505,16165],"class_list":{"0":"post-726785","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-new-england","10":"tag-new-england-patriots","11":"tag-newengland","12":"tag-newenglandpatriots","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-patriots","15":"tag-robert-spillane","16":"tag-super-bowl","17":"tag-super-bowl-lx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116007977095437136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726785","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=726785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}