LOOK: Mike Vrabel bloodied breaking up fight at Patriots practice

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Jul 28, 2025; Foxborough, MA, USA; New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel heads to the practice fields for training camp at Gillette Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Eric Canha-Imagn Images

Joint preseason practices between different NFL teams often come with some pent-up emotions spilling out onto the field, often leading to the occassional in-practice scuffle between players. Of course, rarely does it actually involve a NFL head coach getting involved, let alone coming away bloody from the incident.

At least it did before second-year New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel reportedly put himself into the middle of not one but two fights that broke out during Wednesday’s joint preseason practice with the Washington Commanders . Vrabel, who played 14 seasons in the league — including eight with the Patriots, was seen bleeding from his face after jumping in to break up the second of the aforementioned fights, according to various reports from the practice.

According to the Boston Herald’s Zack Cox, Vrabel “took friendly fire” from Patriots rookie offensive lineman Will Campbell after jumping into a pile of Commanders and Patriots after a Washington defender — Cox suggested it was Von Miller — took offense to being shoved to the ground by New England rookie running back TreVeyon Henderson .

Mike Vrabel is allegedly bloodied after breaking up an altercation between players. Legend pic.twitter.com/9lj6I6zKNF

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Patriots receiver DeMario “Pop” Douglas said Vrabel reportedly joked: “Hey, you should’ve seen the other guy” when asked about getting bloodied, per Cox.

“That shows a lot,” Douglas said, according to New England Football Journal’s Kevin Stone. “He’ll do anything for us. … That’s love.”

Patriots starting quarterback Drake Maye said another player compared Vrabel’s bloody face to the pictures of President Donald Trump after his July 13, 2024 assassination attempt in Butler County, Pa.

“Yeah, I saw it,” Maye said, according to WEEI. “Somebody said it was like the Trump gunshot wound, so I was laughing at that.”

Of course, this isn’t the first time Vrabel bloodied himself as a coach at practice.

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