Cam Newton relief at Patriots apply after five-day absence; no timetable for naming starting QB

Recent England Patriots QB Cam Newton returned to apply Thursday after sitting out the NFL’s five-day entry cadence below COVID-19 protocols, giving him three days to arrange for the club’s preseason finale on Sunday in opposition to the Recent York Giants.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick has had little to snort on Newton’s drawback, as an different standing on a assertion the club released that outlined the quarterback’s absence as a “misunderstanding” of the league’s protocols in the case of COVID-19 finding out accomplished a long way from group facilities. Most tantalizing unvaccinated players are field to the five-day re-entry policy.

“He didn’t skedaddle in opposition to group principles,” Belichick said of Newton, per NFL Community’s Mike Giardi, in conjunction with, “Your total QBs will gather work at the moment time.”

Belichick has been mum about who will launch between Newton and rookie Mac Jones, who has been impressive in practising camp, and reiterated Thursday he would no longer dangle a timetable for naming a Week 1 starter. He did acknowledge Tuesday, alternatively, that Jones had a expansive different in Newton’s absence. He evidently took lend a hand of it in joint practices with the Giants, whereas Newton’s contact with the Patriots for five days became once relegated to digital participation in conferences.

Jones has gotten the vast majority of reps between him and Newton in preseason action so a long way. Now, he’s gotten the vast majority of preparation for the Giants, as successfully.