Mac Jones has missed two games with an ankle sprain and isn't getting a lot of reassurance from Bill Belichick that he'll get his job back as the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots.

"We'll see," Belichick said when asked if Jones will reclaim his QB1 role once healthy. "I don't know."

The Patriots were forced to go with rookie Bailey Zappe during Week 4's loss to the Green Bay Packers after veteran Brian Hoyer suffered a head injury. The fourth-round pick quarterbacked the team in their blowout win over the Detroit Lions last week.

"I'm not going to get into a lot of hypotheticals on all those different things that might or might not happen," Belichick said. "That's just, to me, a waste of time. I'm not going to sit around and dream up scenarios and all of that. We'll take things as they come and go from there."