21.   Gone is nose tackle Erik Howard, who signed with the Jets.

22.   Grady Jackson, the new nose tackle, sat out the Seattle game.

23.   Good nose tackles are hard to find.

24.   He is not quick on his feet, but as nose tackle, he does not have to be.

25.   He played strictly nose tackle last season after seeing action at nose and defensive tackle as a freshman.

26.   Henry, as all New England fans know much too well and Drew Bledsoe knows best of all, lined up at nose tackle on the play.

27.   Henry was in at nose tackle, which he seldom plays.

28.   He went from occasional special-team player to starting nose tackle.

29.   He strode along Main Street toward the stadium, wearing a black overcoat, bulling into the breeze like a Big Ugly trampling a nose tackle.

30.   He wound up at California, as a walk-on, and played nose tackle.