Gardner Minshew starts for Eagles vs. Jets with Jalen Hurts out

Gardner Minshew is the Eagles’ starting quarterback for today’s game against the Jets. Jalen Hurts, who had been listed as questionable, will miss today’s game with an ankle injury. For most of the week it appeared that Hurts was progressing toward playing against the Jets, but on Saturday Derrick Gunn reported that Hurts wouldn’t be [more]

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NFL closes the book on other fake vaccination cards (until someone else doesn’t pay their live-in chef)

Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians, who found out the hard way this week that two of his current players had tendered fake vaccination cards to the team, gets it. He knows that the chances his roster is the only one having players who used fake vaccination cards falls somewhere below slim and none. And he hopes [more]

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Kliff Kingsbury says Kyler Murray, DeAndre Hopkins will play against Bears

Word this week was that quarterback Kyler Murray and wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins would be back in the Cardinals lineup on Sunday and head coach Kliff Kingsbury offered confirmation of that on Sunday morning. Kingsbury told Stacey Dales of NFL Media that the two players will play against the Bears in Chicago. Both players were [more]

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Mike Tomlin used padded practice to let his team know last week wasn’t good enough

The Steelers had a spirited, padded practice on Wednesday, three days after being embarrassed by the Bengals. Coach Mike Tomlin, in a brand-new exclusive! interview with Steelers.com, the website owned and operated by the team, explained the reasoning for the aggressive approach to preparing for Week 13 against the Ravens. “More than anything, it’s about the [more]

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Report: Rams not optimistic about Darrell Henderson playing

The Rams have a couple of offensive players listed as questionable for Sunday’s game against the Jaguars and they have very different outlooks heading into the game. Head coach Sean McVay said on Friday that he would be surprised if wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. missed the game due to a hip injury and Beckham [more]

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NFL tentatively pegs 2022 salary cap at $208 million

Next year’s salary cap is expected to be where this year’s cap would have been, but for the pandemic. The NFL has essentially sent the in-house memo that the salary cap is expected to be $208 million in 2022. That represents a $25.5 million jump over 2021, and it lands roughly at the spot where [more]

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Alabama believes WR John Metchie III tore his ACL on Saturday

Alabama wide receivers have been a fixture in the first round in recent drafts, but one of this year’s prospects is believed to have suffered a serious injury in Saturday’s SEC title game win over Georgia. John Metchie III left the game after a non-contact left knee injury late in the first half and Mark [more]

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