Pats Inactives: Thomas, Taylor, Neal, Aiken, Pryor, Wheatley, Ohrnberger

[pats1]

New England Patriots (realpatriots) on Twitter

Today's Patriots inactives are Taylor, Wheatley, Ohrnberger, Neal, Aiken, Pryor, Brace and Thomas.

Here's how the inactives were listed on the injury report:

DT - Myron Pryor
DOUBTFUL - Chest*

RB - Fred Taylor
QUESTIONABLE - Ankle**

OG - Stephen Neal
QUESTIONABLE - Ankle**

WR - Sam Aiken
QUESTIONABLE - Shoulder**

OLB - Adalius Thomas
-none-

OG/C - Rich Ohrnberger
-none-

CB - Terrence Wheatley
-none-

DT - Ron Brace
-none-


And the active players on the injury report:

DOUBTFUL
CB - Darius Butler (Not Injury Related)*

QUESTIONABLE
OLB/DE - Tully Banta-Cain (Shoulder)**
QB - Tom Brady (Right Shoulder/Finger/Rib)**
WR - Julian Edelman (Forearm)**
DE - Jarvis Green (Knee)**
OT - Nick Kaczur (Ankle)**
RB - Fred Taylor (Ankle)**
DE - Ty Warren (Ankle)**

PROBABLE
OLB/DE - Rob Ninkovich (Knee)***
CB - Shawn Springs (Knee)***
OT - Sebastian Vollmer (Head)***
TE - Benjamin Watson (Back)***

* = did not participate in practice
** = limited participation in practice
*** = full participation in practice


Today's Expected Depth Chart:

QB - Brady
QB - Hoyer

RB - Maroney
RB - Faulk
RB - Morris
RB - Green-Ellis

TE - Watson
TE - Baker

WR - Moss
WR - Welker
WR - Edelman
WR - Stanback
WR/S - Slater

LT - Light
LG - Mankins
C - Koppen
RG - Connolly
RT - Kaczur

OT - LeVoir
OT - Vollmer

LE - Warren
NT - Wilfork
RE - Green

DT - Wright
DT - Adams

LOLB - Banta-Cain
SILB - Mayo
WILB - Guyton
ROLB - Woods

OLB - Ninkovich
OLB - Burgess
ILB - Seau
ILB - Alexander

LCB - Springs
RCB - Bodden
S - Meriweather
S - Sanders

CB - Wilhite
CB - Butler
S - Chung
S - McGowan
CB - Arrington

K - Gostkowski
P - Hanson
LS - Ingram

 

[TheComeback]

No Neal again? Seems like we lose every game he doesn't play.

 

[JSn]

Jeeeeez. Super sucky. Interesting though that four tackles are active.

 

[patriotscpfc]

Is Butler inactive??

In your post it says he is, but in all of the tweets, it says he isn't.

Though there are only 7 named inactives which means one of Edelman and Stanback are the 3rd QB.

No Aiken isn't good.

 

[patriotscpfc]

Jeeeeez. Super sucky. Interesting though that four tackles are active.

Was my first tweet about the game.

Maybe we move Light or Kaczur inside.

Vollmer has to start at LT.

 

[tombonneau]

So stanback is the #3 wr. Ouch


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[patriotscpfc]

RON BRACE

He is the 8th inactive player.

No 3rd QB.

Titus Adams makes it ahead of Brace.

 

[BelichickFan]

So stanback is the #3 wr. Ouch

Looks like Edelman is back.

 

[patriotscpfc]

Looks like Edelman is back.

Edelman would be #4 or the #2 Slot guy

 

[CrazyDave]

Looks like Taylor's warmup went poorly.
Maybe next week.

 

[chris66]

No Neal again? Seems like we lose every game he doesn't play.

Thats because he is the second best guard rated this year. Mankins is rated tenth.

ProFootballFocus.com - By Position

 

[BelichickFan]

Edelman would be #4 or the #2 Slot guy

We'll see. I bet he gets more snaps than Stanback.

 

[pats1]

RealPatriots just updated their tweet. It now has Brace listed as one of the inactives.

As far as Butler goes, the first version of this post was just a guess and wasn't reflective of the actual inactives.

Again, now that Brace is included among the inactives, we know that Edelman and Stanback are fully active, i.e. not 3rd QBs.

 

[TheComeback]

From the tweet itself, 2 minutes ago:

# Today's Patriots inactives are Taylor, Wheatley, Ohrnberger, Neal, Aiken, Pryor, Brace and Thomas.

Edelman is the #3 option, Stanback is the #4. I'm fine with that. I don't know what Wheatley's problem is, and Ron Brace must be having real problems adjusting to the NFL. I thought that pick was stupid with the defensive line as stacked as it was--and with Rey Maualuga still available. Maualuga reminds me of Bruschi.

 

[pats1]

From the tweet itself, 2 minutes ago:

# Today's Patriots inactives are Taylor, Wheatley, Ohrnberger, Neal, Aiken, Pryor, Brace and Thomas.

Edelman is the #3 option, Stanback is the #4. I'm fine with that. I don't know what Wheatley's problem is, and Ron Brace must be having real problems adjusting to the NFL. I thought that pick was stupid with the defensive line as stacked as it was--and with Rey Mauluga still available.

Again, that was the second tweet. The first did not include Brace.

 

[MoLewisrocks]

So the 3rd WR this week is Stanbeck... Not sure why Edleman is the #3 since it limits him to the 4th quarter unless total disaster strikes...

My concerns for The Franchise emanating from 2006 on and only underscored down the stretch in 2007 are coming to fruition, and that really disappoints me. He needed better weapons, not necessarily a top tier WR on the back 9, and most of all he needed to be protected from cumulative abuse. If anything over the last couple of seasons the level of abuse has gotten worse instead of better.

 

[The Dynasty]

I would expect to see the Pats run the ball a little more than usual today, with Carolinas poor run defense and Bradys health. As well as lacking depth at WR

 

[MoLewisrocks]

RealPatriots just updated their tweet. It now has Brace listed as one of the inactives.

As far as Butler goes, the first version of this post was just a guess and wasn't reflective of the actual inactives.

Again, now that Brace is included among the inactives, we know that Edelman and Stanback are fully active, i.e. not 3rd QBs.

Well that's a little better.

 

[upstater1]

From the tweet itself, 2 minutes ago:

# Today's Patriots inactives are Taylor, Wheatley, Ohrnberger, Neal, Aiken, Pryor, Brace and Thomas.

Edelman is the #3 option, Stanback is the #4. I'm fine with that. I don't know what Wheatley's problem is, and Ron Brace must be having real problems adjusting to the NFL. I thought that pick was stupid with the defensive line as stacked as it was--and with Rey Maualuga still available. Maualuga reminds me of Bruschi.

Mauluaga was picked ahead of Brace.

 

[tombonneau]

From the tweet itself, 2 minutes ago:

# Today's Patriots inactives are Taylor, Wheatley, Ohrnberger, Neal, Aiken, Pryor, Brace and Thomas.

Edelman is the #3 option, Stanback is the #4. I'm fine with that. I don't know what Wheatley's problem is, and Ron Brace must be having real problems adjusting to the NFL. I thought that pick was stupid with the defensive line as stacked as it was--and with Rey Maualuga still available. Maualuga reminds me of Bruschi.

Sorry. The initial post here made it seem like Edelman was the emergency QB option only.