Vince Wilfork not letting a silly achilles injury keep him from team meetings

Vince Wilfork is maybe the Patriots best defensive player, and certainly the leader of that unit.

Unfortunately, he's also out for the year with an achilles injury.

That doesn't mean he can't be hanging around the facility though!

Boston Herald:

“Vince is always involved," Graham said. "He’s always involved, whether it’s helping those guys out with the stuff I probably don’t see. Vince is involved in the classroom when I put up the film to say, ‘This is how Vince did it. You all do it like that.' So Vince is always involved no matter how it is. I mean, he’s the guy that everybody in that room, including myself, we learn from. We try to emulate that because he’s the pinnacle of a good defensive lineman, and that’s the man who is our closest example of being a great football player, and that’s what we try to learn from.”

Belichick doesn't often like to have injured players on the field during games. He views it as a distraction. Still, that doesn't keep the players from hanging around the facility and being involved in all of the off-field stuff as well.

Even if we can't have Vince helping out the team's league bottom rushing defense, it's good to see that Vince is still there and at least contributing to the team mentally.