Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman was a limited participant in the team’s practices last week because of a thigh injury, but he played all the way through the team’s victory over the Dolphins last Sunday without showing any sign of difficulty because of injury.
That was also the case when he spoke to the media after the game, but Edelman did pick up another knock at some point between the start of that game against the Dolphins and the end of practice on Wednesday. Edelman was listed as a limited participant again on Wednesday, but he was listed with both a concussion and a thigh injury on the team’s injury report.
Players going through evaluation for a concussion typically don’t meet with the media, so it seems unlikely that Edelman was diagnosed with a concussion at that point. Symptoms don’t always appear right away, however, and there’s a chance he suffered the concussion at practice, although, as Phil Perry of CSNNE.com points out, the Patriots were in shells and sweats on Wednesday.
Whenever Edelman was injured, he’ll need to pass through the concussion protocol before he’s allowed into the lineup for a game. That leaves it as a waiting game to find out if Edelman will be in the lineup as the Pats try to clinch at least a first-round bye against the Jets in Week 16.
