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Wide receiver Allen Robinson was a full participant in Bears practice on Wednesday, but he was out of action on Thursday. Robinson is listed with a hamstring injury and a downgrade like Thursday’s would often be a bad sign for Sunday’s Wild Card round game against the Saints. Robinson’s practice workload has followed this pattern [more]

Kaulig Racing intends to run select NASCAR Cup Series races in 2021, including road courses and superspeedway events, as well as the Daytona 500.

"I cannot say definitely we will not bring anyone in, it’s just not likely because of the situation in the world," Klopp said before Aston Villa - Liverpool

The Texans have hired a General Manager. Now, they turn their attention to getting a head coach. Bill O’Brien, fired in October, previously held both roles. The Texans’ hiring of Nick Caserio as their new G.M. immediately brought speculation that Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels might follow from New England. Caserio was the Patriots’ former [more]

Washington’s Alex Smith is expected to play in Saturday’s wild-card matchup with Tampa Bay, but how much the quarterback will be on the field is still in question. Backup Taylor Heinicke took the majority of Thursday’s first-team snaps, as head coach Ron Rivera mentioned Smith’s calf is still sore. Given Smith’s status, Rivera’s suggested there’s [more]

The Texans aren’t waiting to see whether quarterback Deshaun Watson asks for a trade. They’re pre-emptively putting out word that Watson will not be traded. “Under no circumstances will the Texans trade Watson,” writes John McClain of the Houston Chronicle, adding that, even if Watson asks for a trade, “he’s not going anywhere.” It’s an [more]

The Browns play their first playoff game since 2002 in three days. The game remains on, but the NFL surely is holding its breath after two more Browns players — safety Ronnie Harrison and practice squad linebacker Montrel Meander — went on the COVID-19 reserve list Thursday. The league has maintained it will not reschedule [more]

It looks like defensive end Everson Griffen is angling for a return to the Vikings. Griffen spent 10 years with the Vikings before signing a one-year deal with the Cowboys as a free agent last offseason. Griffen was traded to the Lions during the season and is now set for free agency. In recent days, [more]

While the MVP award has become a quarterback award, the Offensive Player of the Year has become the best running back or receiver of the year. Titans running back Derrick Henry clearly was that player this year. He iced the award in the Week 17 game against the Texans with 34 carries for 250 yards [more]

New York will take on even more of a Tom Thibodeau identity.

Bills head coach Sean McDermott didn’t have an update on the availability of wide receivers Stefon Diggs and Cole Beasley when he spoke to reporters before Thursday’s practice, which left it to the injury report to provide an idea about whether they will play against the Colts on Saturday. Diggs and Beasley were both listed [more]

The Jets need a good coach, and they’ve talked to one of the more underrated coaches of the past generation. The team has announced that former Bengals coach Marvin Lewis has been interviewed for the job. Lewis, currently the co-defensive coordinator at Arizona State, coached the Bengals from 2003 to 2018. Lewis took the Bengals [more]

There was good news and bad news for Cleveland’s COVID-19 situation on Thursday. The good is that the Browns activated starting safety Andrew Sendejo off the reserve/COVID-19 list. He missed Cleveland’s Week 17 win over Pittsburgh after being placed on the list on Dec. 29. In 14 games, Sendejo recorded 67 total tackles, two passes [more]

A day after offensive coordinator Chan Gailey resigned his position with the team, the Dolphins have announced another departure from head coach Brian Flores’ coaching staff. Defensive line coach Marion Hobby will not be back with he team in 2021. The team’s announcement called it a mutual parting of ways, which is a nice way [more]

After being first announced to run 12 races in 2021, Raphael Lessard will run the full NASCAR Camping World Truck Series schedule for GMS Racing.

I know it’s officially now the “Super Wild Card” playoffs. Other than to make that point, I won’t call it that. (I prefer “Super Duper.”) But what I will do, along with MDS, is make picks for the six games to be played this weekend. Before that, we need to wrap up some loose ends [more]

Colts defensive tackle DeForest Buckner was able to get on the practice field Thursday, but the team isn’t sure he’ll be able to go on Sunday. Buckner has been listed as questionable due to the ankle injury he’s been dealing with for several weeks. Buckner has not missed any game action, although head coach Frank [more]

The Browns have a lot working against them for their first playoff game in nearly two decades — including their head coach and offensive play caller being out after testing positive for COVID-19. But quarterback Baker Mayfield is making no excuses as the team virtually prepares. “It’s adapt and play,” Mayfield said Thursday, via Keith [more]

The deal brings him back for a year with a cap hit of $2 million.

The team looks different. Will the results look different too?

Washington coach Ron Rivera says he might use both of his quarterbacks, Alex Smith and Taylor Heinicke, on Saturday against Tampa Bay. In practice, Heinicke is getting most of the work. Smith is still not 100 percent healed from a calf injury, and Rivera told reporters today that Heinicke took most of the snaps at [more]

Aaron Rodgers has played 16 seasons. In nine of those seasons, the Packers quarterback has played all 16 games. Never has he entered the postseason as fresh as he feels this postseason. Rodgers was sacked only 20 times, second-fewest in the NFL behind Philip Rivers among qualifying quarterbacks. It is the fewest sacks Rodgers has [more]

49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers will not be back with the team for the 2021 season. Sowers joined 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan’s staff in 2017 as an intern under the Bill Walsh NFL Diversity Coaching Fellowship and was later hired as a full-time coach. She worked with the team’s receivers, but will be moving [more]

Speculation about Saints quarterback Drew Brees‘ future has been a constant for the last few seasons and it’s ramped up a bit this year after the rib and lung injuries that caused him to miss four regular season games. Brees had a bit of fun with that at his Thursday press conference by saying that [more]

Plenty of people in media rank open G.M. and/or coaching jobs. Even some of the candidates for those jobs (and sometimes their opinions are subject to change based on whether they get a given job). The topic of my own ranking of the open jobs has come up this week, on PFT Live and elsewhere. [more]