"The sight of Jerod Mayo, Wes Welker, and Vince Wilfork all on the practice field was almost enough to make you forget they were still on the injury report.

You'd have to go back to the first quarter of the Patriots' Week 1 matchup against Buffalo to find a time when they were all available, and having them on the practice field yesterday was an obvious boost to the team.

"It was nice,'' linebacker Pierre Woods said with a grin. "Very nice. It's nice to have everybody out there. That way we can all get together, jell, go out there and do what we need to do.''"