Rob Gronkowski To Travel With Patriots For Game vs. Bills

New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski missed the Week 7 contest against the Chicago Bears due to his terrible back injury, but now he is ready to travel with his team for Monday night’s football against the Buffalo Bills.

Rob Gronkowski did not really confirm that he will play, but he was really confident about his travelling with the team. “Obviously I feel better. I’ve been taking steps every single day forward. Definitely at this time last week, we’re way better now,” Gronk said. He was listed questionable on the injury report.

Gronk sort of refused to respond questions about his back injury and his chances of playing with the Bears. “That was last Saturday. Next question,” the tight end said. Yes, he really sounded like head coach Bill Belichick on this one.

Belichick almost never makes comments on injuries. This time he detailed the development of events in the club.

“It was a back. Had it cleared up Saturday night, we would have brought him out Sunday morning. We wouldn’t have wanted to travel him out there, and put him on the plane and put him through everything, we didn’t think that would help it. We thought maybe if he just rested here, and see how he felt the next day; we listed him as doubtful, which it was. Could it have turned around? Possibly. Did it? No,” Belichick said.

Gronk did not attend practice this Wednesday, and was listed as limited in practice on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. “I feel good. Just doing everything I need to do, whatever the training staff says, whatever I can do out on the field, whatever coaches ask me to do — just taking it day by day, one step at a time to get back out on the field,” Gronk said.

The tight end grew up in Western New York and attended pretty much every Bills games. “It’s always special. This is my seventh, eighth time going up there, playing in Buffalo, and it’s always an honor, always special to be where you grew up watching them. You can’t ask for a better football atmosphere either, especially this coming Monday night. It’s going to be rocking there. It’s going to be popping. It’s going to be one of the most electric atmospheres you can get in football.”