In advance of the most anticipated regular season game in NFL history, New England has made a flurry of roster moves over the past 24 hours, two of them involving the Patriots' injured reserve list.
First and foremost, in a move that almost all of us saw coming, running back and co-captain James White was placed on injured reserve Friday evening, less than a week after his devastating right hip injury during the Saints game. Though he's technically a candidate to return from IR, White's almost assuredly out for the duration of this 2021 campaign, as media reports earlier in the week suggested, given the presumed severity of his injury.