"Bucs DT Albert Haynesworth did not practice Wednesday, but GM Mark Dominik stressed that was by design and not a result of the player's unwillingness.

Dominik said it's an effort by the team to be smart with the veteran's workload. He said there will be weeks when coaches give Haynesworth, 30, multiple days off if that's what it takes for him to be ready to go when on game days.

Haynesworth was listed on the injury report as having a knee injury, one that caused him to miss two games this season.

"He's obviously a 30-year-old veteran who has played a lot of football in his career," Dominik said. "If that means sometime we feel like he needs two to three days off in a row, we're going to do that.

"(There is) no set pattern of how we're going to practice him. We're just going to make sure we keep him in condition and ready to play.""