There were four players working out separate from the rest of their teammates on Thursday, when the Patriots opened up training camp.
One was Wes Welker, who is on the physically unable to perform list.
The other three — Sam Aiken, Darnell Jenkins, Ron Brace — are on the non-football injury list.
"We have, unfortunately, a few guys that aren’t quite ready yet, but they’re all in that day-to-day category," was all head coach Bill Belichick had to offer in his news conference. "We’ll see how it goes on a day-to-day basis, but hopefully we’ll see them out here at some point here in training camp. We’ll just take it one step at a time. We’ve got a long way to go."
The players can be taken off both the NFI and PUP list at any time during camp.
