For the second straight summer, Julian Edelman is recovering from an injury. So for the second straight summer, he is watching more practice than he would like. The New England Patriots receiver is dealing with a thumb injury and is on the team’s physically unable to perform list, which holds him away from practice.

He has attended training camp practices and watched on the sideline. That’s likely why he is preaching patience on Instagram.

“Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting,” Edelman wrote on Saturday.