"I respect those guys a lot. I'm happy how they doing up here. I'm proud of them. I'm ready to go to war for them."

Defensive ends Aidan Hutchinson and Marcus Davenport are both believed to be out for the season, along with linebackers Malcolm Rodriguez and Derrick Barnes. Fellow linebacker Alex Anzalone is sidelined with a broken forearm as well.

“Whoever we have available, we’re going to get them ready to play, and we expect them to hold the line,” Campbell said. “We’ve got defensive injuries and that makes us do something differently on offense and special teams, we’ll do that.”