A long list of Wednesday absences grew longer on Thursday for the New England Patriots.
Damien Harris and Adrian Phillips joined an additional six sidelined members of the active roster as AFC East preparations for the Miami Dolphins continued.
The running back has missed the past month due to a thigh injury yet missed practice for personal reasons. The safety, now dealing with an illness, has played in every game this season while seeing 63 percent of the snaps on defense to go with 38 percent of the snaps on special teams.