It wasn't all that surprising that Welker was working out with the Patriots this week, but what was surprising is that he was running routes and cutting on that bum knee that held him out of the playoffs.
Welker seems to be way ahead of schedule, and people were amazed by what he was already able to do on the practice field...
"It's very impressive to me," Randy Moss said. "I'm a big fan of Welker's way before he came here, back when he was in Miami. So I can't wait to have him back on the field, whenever that day comes."
Yet, if Welker is ahead of schedule he isn't telling anyone. He declined to talk to reporters and refuses to put a date on his comeback, which after reading his quotes makes sense.
"If you have that healing on its own, it almost becomes stronger," he said at the Wes Welker Foundation's football camp in Oklahoma City on May 15. "It's hard to put a timetable on anything. And plus, whenever you put a timetable on it, now people expect you. If you're not ready then, they're like, `What's wrong?'"
I really hope he makes it back and is 100%. He is one of the hardest workers in the NFL, and the Patriots offense really runs through him a lot of the time. When he got hurt I thought there was no way we would see him before December, but maybe he can be back earlier, if he is making this kind of progress.
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