New England Patriots wide receivers N'Keal Harry and Phillip Dorsett returned to practice on Tuesday, per Nora Princiotti of the Boston Globe. Harry is coming off the injured reserve list after dealing with an ankle injury while Dorsett returned from a hamstring injury that kept him sidelined for one game.

Now that Harry is back on the practice field, the Patriots will have three weeks to decide if they want to put him on the active roster, or shut him down for the rest of the year and keep him on the IR.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick said that Harry would need to prove that he can practice at a competitive level before the team would decide that he is ready to be activated.

“Physically he needs to be able to show he can go out there and participate competitively at the practice level that we’re at,” said Belichick, via CBSN Boston. “Hopefully that’s where he’ll be, but we’ll make our final evaluations on that before we put him out there.”

If the team decides he is ready to play, the earliest he will be eligible to play would be on November 3rd against the Baltimore Ravens.

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