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Getty Images The Jets are getting running back La’Mical Perine and kicker Sam Ficken back to practice, coach Adam Gase said Wednesday. It opens a three-week window for the Jets to activate the players back to the active roster. The Jets placed Perine and Ficken on injured reserve Nov. 24...

Getty Images A pair of companies were cited for violations in the death of a construction worker at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. in June. According to Nathan Fenno of the Los Angeles Times, Fabritec Structures LLC and ZD Inspections LLC were given a total of five citations with penalties...

Getty Images The Seahawks, who long have had one of the best home-field advantages in the NFL, will finish the season without fans at Lumen Field. The team announced Tuesday that the stadium will remain empty when they host the Rams in their final regular-season home game of the 2020 season...

Getty Images The Jets may be 0-13, but Rams head coach Sean McVay isn’t worried about his team losing focus and concentration on the task at hand this week. Los Angeles is 9-4 and currently has the lead in the NFC West through its tiebreaker over Seattle. With the league’s No. 1 total defense...

Getty Images The Carolina Panthers will have to find a different kicking option for their practice squad. According to Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network, the league told the Panthers they must waive practice squad kicker Lirim Hajrullahu due to issues surrounding his visa to work in the United...

Getty Images The NFL announced schedule changes for Week 15 and Week 16. The league moved the Detroit at Tennessee game at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday to CBS. It previously was scheduled for a FOX broadcast. The NFL already had announced other changes to the Week 15 schedule. In Week 16, the NFL has...

Getty Images Rams head coach Sean McVay may not want to publicly commit to rookie Cam Akers being his team’s No. 1 running back, but Akers sure looked the part last Thursday. He recorded 171 yards rushing and caught a pair of passes for 23 yards, giving him 194 yards from scrimmage. Akers was...

Getty Images A few days after browbeating the Chargers 45-0, the Patriots came back to the Southern California stadium and lost to the Rams 24-3. New England could barely muster anything offensively, and the Patriots inserted Jarrett Stidham at quarterback in the fourth quarter to relieve Cam...

Getty Images During the 2019 playoffs, the 49ers embraced the run and abandoned the pass because: (1) the run was working; and (2) the pass wasn’t. On Thursday night, the Rams showed flashes of what the 49ers did in January. With rookie running back Cam Akers having a career night, gaining 171...

Getty Images Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald is leading the league in sacks after another big game on Thursday night, but bringing down Cam Newton wasn’t what impressed Donald’s coach most. Instead, Rams coach Sean McVay said today that what he really loved was seeing Donald sprinting...

Getty Images After the Patriots lost 24-3 to the Rams on Thursday, New England head coach Bill Belichick said quarterback Cam Newton remains the team’s starter. That’s after Newton completed just nine of his 16 passes for 119 yards, had just 16 yards rushing, got sacked four times, and threw a...

Getty Images Burned by the Todd Gurley contract, the Rams wanted to move away from the workhorse tailback model and incorporate something more like the 49ers utilize — a multi-faceted, three-headed monster that never relies on any one guy to carry the load. The problem with that approach is...

Getty Images Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald added 1.5 sacks to his season total on Thursday night, and he’s now the league leader. Donald has 12.5 sacks this year, the most in the NFL. Pittsburgh’s T.J. Watt is second with 12. The 24-3 win was a dominant performance by the Patriots’...

Getty Images Rams head coach Sean McVay wasn’t interested in looking backward after Thursday night’s win over the Patriots. McVay was asked whether he drew extra satisfaction from beating the Patriots after losing to them in Super Bowl LIII and said that nothing will “get back the hurt and the...

USA Today Sports For much of the season, the Rams have employed a rotation at running back. That seems to be over with the emergence of Cam Akers. The second-round pick rushed for 171 yards in Thursday’s 24-3 victory over the Patriots — the most rushing yards of any rookie this season. Per NFL...

USA TODAY Sports For the third consecutive week, the Rams have scored a defensive touchdown. This time, though, it wasn’t Troy Hill. Kenny Young intercepted Cam Newton and returned it 79 yards for a touchdown. Newton, who was pressured by Leonard Floyd, got rid of the ball quickly, but Damien...

Getty Images The Patriots have three trips into the red zone. They have three points. Cam Newton threw a pick-six; the Patriots were stopped on downs; and Nick Folk kicked a 29-yard field goal. Thus, New England has little to show for the first half when it gained 162 yards and had a takeaway...

Getty Images Cam Akers had only 50 carries for 201 yards in his first eight games in the NFL. He has 50 carries for 305 yards and two touchdowns in two games plus three quarters. The Rams rookie, a second-round choice out of Florida State, has his first career 100-yard game with a quarter left...

Getty Images With the Patriots trailing 24-3 with 10:12 remaining in the fourth quarter, Jarrett Stidham replaced Cam Newton at quarterback. Newton was questionable entering Thursday Night Football with an abdominal injury that Jay Glazer of FOX Sports reported before the game has “caused him...

USA TODAY Sports For the second week in row the New England Patriots were a part of a blowout result at SoFi Stadium. But this week they were on the wrong side of the ledger. Cam Akers rushed for 171 yards, Jared Goff threw for a touchdown and ran for one as well, and Kenny Young delivered a...