Hey all --

Sorry we're a bit tardy; the Monday night game has us all mixed up and we forgot momentarily that it was Wednesday -- aka The Day Of The First Injury Report.

And what an injury report it is. In what's surely a bit of gamesmanship, both the Patriots and the Colts have 17 players -- 17! -- listed as questionable, including four of the five New England players that ended last week as "probable."

So, herewith, the prodigious lists of the wounded:

PATRIOTS

Questionable:
CB Willie Andrews (thigh), WR Reche Caldwell (knee), LB Don Davis (lower leg), RB Kevin Faulk (ankle), WR Jabar Gaffney (hand), TE Daniel Graham (ankle), CB Ellis Hobbs (wrist), G/C Russ Hochstein (knee), WR Chad Jackson (hamstring), T Nick Kaczur (shoulder), TE Garrett Mills (thigh), G Stephen Neal (shoulder), DL Richard Seymour (elbow), CB Antwain Spann (shoulder), TE David Thomas (hand), DL Ty Warren (shoulder), S Eugene Wilson (hamstring).

Probable: QB Tom Brady (right shoulder)

All together now: all but Brady were reported to have missed a portion of practice.

Caldwell, Gaffney, Mills and Thomas are all new additions to the list; Jackson is making an appearance after being taken off before the Bills game two weeks ago. Davis, Faulk, Andrews, Spann and Brady were all listed as probable just before Monday's game with the Vikings.

And you'll notice Tully Banta-Cain is not on the list, though he was the only player not reported to be at practice today. Pats' PR maven Stacey James said the official word is Banta-Cain's absence was excused for personal reasons. So our theory that he was able to spend some time with his new son and girlfriend seems correct.

COLTS

Out: DT Montae Reagor (head)

Questionable: RB Joseph Addai (wrist), LB Gary Brackett (knee), T Ryan Diem (upper arm), DE Dwight Freeney (shoulder), CB Matt Giordano (calf), CB Nicholas Harper (knee), WR Aaron Moorehead (back), LB Rob Morris (hamstring), LB Keith O'Neil (ankle), DT Darrell Reid (abdomen), RB Dominic Rhodes (lower back), S Bob Sanders (knee), P Hunter Smith (right groin), WR Brandon Stokley (knee), TE Ben Utecht (low back), K Adam Vinatieri (right groin), WR Terrence Wilkins (knee)

Reagor, Diem, Girodano, Harper, Morris, Sanders and Stokley all were reported to have missed a portion of practice.

Got all that?

shalise