Christian Gonzalez has been ruled out for Sunday's New England Patriots opener against the Las Vegas Raiders at Gillette Stadium. Head coach Mike Vrabel broke the news on his star cornerback Friday afternoon during his chat with reporters in Foxboro.

Vrabel was asked for an update on the status of Gonzalez, who hasn't practice in over a month since leaving the team's first padded practice of training camp with a hamstring injury. His update was a quick one.

"Out," Vrabel fired off. "Anyone else?"

Well, yes. How about rookie left tackle Will Campbell, who popped up on Thursday's injury report as a limited participant with an ankle injury and was limited again Friday?

"Questionable," said Vrabel.

Thus ended the medical portion of Vrabel's first Friday press conference as head coach of t

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