The New England Patriots will need to make some roster moves following the season-ending injuries to Jerod Mayo and Stevan Ridley.

“I think it’s something we are just going to have to evaluate here in [the] next day or two,” Belichick said at a news conference Tuesday. “I will talk with Nick Caserio and our coaching staff and Nick’s staff and we will just have to try to figure it all out here. It’s a real short week. So, I’ll have to take all of those things into consideration and try to figure out what would do, if we would make one, who would it be and so forth. Haven’t decided that yet and we will see how it goes here.” 

Belichick explained the roster-building process and how to look at depth at positions. 

“I would say, in general, that when you put the roster together you try to create as much depth as you can on the roster,” Belichick said. “But I think as you look at every team in the league, there are certain spots on each team where you have a little less depth than others, and if anything happens at those positions, you have fewer people to work with. 

“And if you have situations at a position where you have more depth -- still challenging -- but you have more people to work with. Just a question of either how you want to handle a team in terms of numbers or the quality of players in terms of the strength of the players you put on your final roster. 

“When you start, you are going to be thinner at some positions than at others, then you just have to wait to see how the season plays out to see how that materializes because there’s really no good way to forecast even though we’ve looked at it every year and continue to look at it.”