FOXBORO — Mike Vrabel wasn’t ready to make a decision on whether Terrell Williams will be coaching Week 4 against the Panthers.

Williams has missed the last two games with an undisclosed health issue. He was in the facility last week but was not present for Sunday’s loss, when inside linebackers coach Zak Kuhr continued to call defensive plays.

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“We’ll kind of see where things are here going forward in the next couple of days,” Vrabel said Monday morning. “Terrell’s around, we’ve just got to make sure that we’re trying to build some consistency with how we do things.”

Vrabel wasn’t ready to say that the team is toying with the idea of moving Williams to an advisory role, and it sounds like Kuhr will likely be the defensive play-caller again this week.

“(Williams’) health is first and foremost. That’s critically important,” Vrabel said. “Just making sure that the consistency is there so that we know what to account for and plan for. I don’t want to say that it’s fluid, but we’ll see where things are, and if he’s going to continue to help us. I just don’t know, based on the availability, what that’s going to look like.

“So, the communication and everything that we’ve been doing over there has been good. His ability to help us has been really good. But I also don’t want to go back and forth. I don’t think that that’s good for anybody either. So, appreciate you asking about Terrell, but right now we’ll just kind of, I would say moving forward, kind of be where we were last week. That’s where I would anticipate it being this week.”

The Patriots’ defense allowed two quick scores to the Steelers in Week 3 before settling down and keeping its offense in the game through five giveaways.