Mike Vrabel doesn’t sound like someone who’s looking for more running back help. Terrell Jennings was elevated from the practice squad ahead of the Patriots’ Week 7 win over the Titans on Sunday, marking his second consecutive elevation since Antonio Gibson suffered a season-ending ACL tear. And Jennings did his job, rushing five times for a physical 18 yards while handling all of New England’s carries over its final two drives in Tennessee. After the 31-13 victory, Vrabel met Jennings in the hallway and delivered a simple message. “We found our five-minute back,” Vrabel told Jennings, as seen in a video posted by ESPN’s Mike Reiss. Vrabel’s declaration arrived six days after he answered a question about the Patriots’ approach to running the ball late in games. Story continues below advertisement “I think that when you talk about five-minute, you want to be protective of pressures and things like that,” Vrabel told reporters last Monday. “I think there’s a lot of variety in our run game throughout the season. To look at one specific play in one specific situation probably isn’t fair, but you’re free to do whatever you want. “You want to make sure that in those situations that you’re trying to get the ball downhill, you’re not trying to run sideways and create a holding penalty. That would stop the clock, lose yardage, all those things in five-minute that we’re trying to be good with, but also gain a first down to win the game. We’ll keep working. We’ve had some good runs, we’ve had some pitiful ones, too. Story continues below advertisement “We just have to make sure that there’s a consistency, that we’re coaching the details, that we’re coaching the demeanor, understand that it’s going to be some dirty runs in there and that we’re going to have to make a guy miss or break a tackle, things that we’ve done throughout the season, and be able to do all those while taking care of the football and trying to move the line of scrimmage. Probably wished we had some more production in the run game there at the end. We got the one first down, and then we were able to throw for the second one.” Whether Vrabel truly wants Jennings to be New England’s late-game finisher in close games is anyone’s guess. The former undrafted free agent is the kind of tough, physical runner who can wear opponents down in critical moments, but he remains unproven in the NFL. That particular job likely still belongs to starter Rhamondre Stevenson, who rushed 18 times for 88 yards and a touchdown and, most importantly, didn’t fumble. Jennings also probably won’t supplant rookie TreVeyon Henderson as the top backup, despite Henderson’s struggles in the first seven games. Story continues below advertisement With all that said, the Patriots can elevate Jennings just one more time before being forced to decide whether to release him or sign him to the 53-man roster.