Quinn Sypniewski showed up for the first time since undergoing surgery on his left knee last month, and the tight end did not have a timetable for his return.

“Right now, it’s all kind of up in the air,” he said. “Just depends on how well everything takes and settles. I’m just waiting to see. I’m going back to the doctor every three weeks to get new x-rays and new images and see how everything is fitting back together. I definitely expect to play this season. Whether or not I do the entire camp or a little bit of camp, it just depends on how fast I can move along. Whenever Tess [trainer Bill Tessendorf] says I’m good to go and my doctor says I’m good to go, I’m going to be back out there.”

Sypniewski said he underwent a procedure to re-graft the bones in his left knee. That’s the same knee in which he tore a ligament during mini-camps more than a year ago and sidelined him for the entire 2009 season.

Sypniewski, who is using crutches, said his doctor has told him that he can begin moving his knee Tuesday and work his way off crutches for the next two weeks. But after that, the process is murkier.

“It’s just frustration for this to take so long,” he said. “I got my surgeries, got everything done with, and I was back and good to go. It’s just been one long process where I thought everything was going to be good to go and then I found out that it wasn’t, and they had to go back in and clean it up again. … As soon as everything is good to go, I’ll be back out there.”