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While the New England Patriots offense is dealing with notable injuries — from left tackle Trent Brown’s illness Damien Harris NFL Jersey , to right guard Shaq Mason’s calf to tight end Rob Gronkowski’s back and ankle — the unit received an encouraging boost yesterday: running back Rex Burkhead, who was placed on injured reserve in late September due to a neck injury, returned to practice and will soon boost a running back corps that has deal with issues of its own.Let’s find out what Burkhead’s return means for the Patriots.Burkhead will have to wait a bit for his actual activationEven though he rejoined the Patriots’ practice yesterday, Burkhead is not yet part of the team’s 53-man roster and will not be able to appear in a game until week 13’s tilt against the Minnesota Vikings. After all, players need to sit out at least eight weeks after being placed on injured reserve before being able to return to actual game action. So while the 28-year old will eventually come back — unless he suffers a setback in practice — his on-field return will have to wait until at least December 2.New England adds much-needed depth at running backThat being said: the Patriots will soon receive a boost at a position group that certainly needs additional depth. While New England’s running back corps was one of the NFL’s deepest to open the year, injuries suffered by Jeremy Hill (out since week one; torn ACL), Burkhead (out since week three; neck) and most recently Sony Michel (out since week eight; knee) have forced the team to turn to wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson and primary receiving back James White. Getting Burkhead and Michel — the latter potentially as soon as Sunday — back will be big for the group and the offense as a whole.The Patriots have no IR-return designations leftTwo weeks ago, New England used its first return designation on cornerback Duke Dawson. The rookie was originally placed on injured due to a hamstring issue and will have to be activated by next Wednesday. But even if the team opted not to bring back Dawson and shut him down for good, it would no longer be able to designate other players on IR to return: a team only has two spots and Burkhead just took the second one. That means that all players currently on injured reserve will see their season come to an end: the aforementioned Jeremy Hill, wide receiver Riley McCarron Damien Harris NFL Draft , linebacker Ja’Whaun Bentley, cornerback Eric Rowe, and offensive lineman Brian Schwenke would all have been eligible to be reactivated off IR. Those who might still join them on the list will also not be back until 2019.Two transactions will soon have to be madeAs noted above, unless Dawson and Burkhead suffer any setbacks during practice, they will rejoin the 53-man roster in the not too distant future. A team only has 21 days to activate a player after the return designation was placed on him, after all. As a result, New England will soon have to make two roster moves. The most likely scenarios appear to be the releases of depth players like running back Kenjon Barner or offensive lineman James Ferentz, or injured players getting moved to what is now season-ending injured reserve. LAS VEGAS (AP) — Football fans bet legally on the Super Bowl from states other than Nevada for the first time Sunday, with the excitement spreading from Las Vegas to as far as Rhode Island.Sunday’s big game was the first major sporting event for sportsbooks in a handful of states that opened after the U.S. Supreme Court in May struck down a ban on sports betting. People lined up at sportsbooks starting Sunday morning, picking between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams as well as a wide variety of other outcomes Damien Harris Buffalo Bills Jersey , from heads or tails in the opening coin toss to whether Tom Brady would throw an interception.“I love to bet, and I like the atmosphere here,” Celina Montenegro, a resident of Austin, Texas, said while waiting for the game to start at the Westgate casino-hotel in Las Vegas. “They say this is the best place to watch the game other than being at the game.”This was the third Super Bowl that the Dallas Cowboys fan spent in Las Vegas. She picked the Rams as the winner this time.The Patriots defeated the Rams 13-3.Nevada’s effective monopoly on sports betting ended last spring, when the Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on that form of gambling. Casinos in seven other states — Rhode Island, Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey Youth Drew Bledsoe Jerseys , Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New Mexico — now accept wagers on sports. The list is expected to grow by next year.Lawmakers in at least 24 states have introduced or publicly contemplated sports betting bills already this year. The proposals range from allowing charities to offer sports betting at fundraisers in North Dakota to full sportsbooks with online wagers allowed in states including Kansas and Massachusetts.In Rhode Island, the only state in the New England that has legalized sports betting, two casinos took plenty of wagers on the Patriots since posting the odds on their boards. Several people placing bets in that state for the Super Bowl this week said they’ve wagered on sports in Las Vegas in the past.Jaymes Peckham went to Twin River Casino in Lincoln, Rhode Island, with his roommate and wagered about $100 on which team will win the coin toss and other proposition bets, which are wagers offered on unique and various outcomes. He said he likes having a place to bets on sports so close to his home in Central Falls, Rhode Island.“It’s nice and I’m definitely all for it, as far as tax revenue is concerned,” Peckham Drew Bledsoe Jerseys Stitched , 27, said. “It’s unique. I also think in future years, it’ll give people more of a reason to watch the games.”If he didn’t have a place to bet on the Super Bowl close to home, Peckham said he may have bet on the outcome of the Super Bowl with his friends. He said he knows people who use bookies and betting websites but he does not.In Las Vegas, the Westgate and the sportsbooks operated by Caesars Entertainment, including at the Linq casino-hotel, had the Patriots as 2 1/2-point favorite.Joel Mallari, of Tustin, California, made arrangements for a trip to Las Vegas with a friend after the game was set. They chose to watch the game at the Linq’s newly renovated sportsbook and put money on the Rams to win as well as on proposition and parlay bets.“We are here to make money and enjoy the game Youth Kevin Faulk Jerseys ,” Mallari said enthusiastically as he looked through a set of legal-size sheets with all the available wagers.“Betting makes things a little more exciting, even small figures,” his friend, Eric Alvarez of Riverside, California, said.