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Getty Images Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury admits he doesn’t know whether his starting quarterback will play in the season finale. With Kyler Murray limited this week with a right hamstring injury that knocked him out of Sunday’s game, Brett Hundley has gotten more reps in practice. Murray...

Getty Images All 32 teams will be playing their final regular season game on Sunday. They have handed in their final injury reports of the week and all injury designations for those games are below. Dolphins at Patriots The Dolphins ruled out CB Jomal Wiltz (shoulder). LB Vince Biegel...

Getty Images The Rams went all in this year, but without the cards. Next year, they could end up being dealt a hand from a short deck. Splurges of the past will likely catch up with the Rams, making it hard for them to pay everyone they’d like to pay. Coach Sean McVay addressed the inevitable...

Getty Images With the Rams oficially out of the playoff race, there’s started to be discussions about what kind of changes will be made before the team gets back to work in 2020. One potential change being talked about is the departure of defensive coordinator Wade Phillips. Phillips got a...

Getty Images They would have been limited in practice on Wednesday, if practice had happened. On Thursday, practice actually happened — and they were both limited. Quarterback Kyler Murray (hamstring) and linebacker Chandler Jones (thumb) were limited in practice, three days before a...

Getty Images As the Cardinals try to end the season on a three-game winning streak, two of their key players would have been limited in practice on Wednesday, if the Cardinals actually had practiced. Quarterback Kyler Murray (hamstring) and linebacker Chandler Jones (thumb) received the...

Getty Images The Rams paid a heavy price to acquire cornerback Jalen Ramsey from the Jaguars this season in hopes that his arrival would help them get back to the playoffs. It didn’t play out that way. The Rams were eliminated from the playoffs with last Sunday night’s loss to the 49ers and...

Getty Images Rams safety Eric Weddle has been through plenty of seasons that ended without a playoff berth, but this one is hitting him a bit more than others. Weddle said it is always painful to miss the playoffs, but he finds himself more “sentimental” this year because he knows this might...

Getty Images Kyler Murray injured his hamstring on a 4-yard run on the Cardinals’ first series of the second half. He did not return, which leaves his status for the season finale in doubt. “I couldn’t make a guess,” Kingsbury said, via Josh Weinfuss of ESPN. “We obviously won’t put him out...

Getty Images Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray will play if he’s “able to play,” coach Kliff Kingsbury said earlier Monday. The rookie has cleared one hurdle to finishing the season on the field. An MRI on Murray’s injured hamstring showed no tear, Ian Rapoport of the NFL reports. It’s “just...

Getty Images The field goal that lifted the 49ers past the Rams on Saturday night also eliminated the Rams from playoff contention, which means they’ll be sitting at home after advancing to the postseason the last two years. They are the second team in the last 10 years to lose the Super Bowl...

Getty Images The 49ers’ walk-off win over the Rams was fueled by a pair of converted third-and-16 attempts. So do the 49ers actually have a plan for third down and 16? “We actually do, but yes, we do and it’s not a fun area,” coach Kyle Shanahan told reporters after the 34-31 win. “Until...

Getty Images For the first time as an NFL head coach, Sean McVay won’t be playing beyond Week 17. And he’s ready to approach that challenge the same way he approaches every other challenge: Head on. “I mean it’s fresh right now,” McVay told reporters after a loss to the 49ers that knocked the...

Getty Images There’s nothing like a failed season to spark significant adjustments to a football team. The Rams, after making it to the playoffs for the first two years of Sean McVay’s career, are out. In an effort to get back in, there could be more than a few tweaks. An unnamed Rams veteran...

Getty Images The NFL’s ultra-simple coin-toss procedures may become even more simple, because for some they apparently aren’t simple enough. Last Sunday, referee Walt Anderson proved once again that common sense ain’t by twisting the Cowboys’ effort, after winning the toss, to defer the option...

Getty Images The Rams will have kicker Greg Zuerlein tonight. That became obvious Friday when the team didn’t sign another kicker. Zuerlein was scheduled to kick Friday to test his injured right quadriceps. The Rams worked out former Cowboys kicker Brett Maher this week in case Zuerlein...

Getty Images Brandin Cooks hadn’t scored since Week Two. He had a 2-yard touchdown catch in the third quarter of the Rams’ victory over the Saints. He hadn’t scored since. Cooks, who has never had fewer than three touchdowns in a season, ended his scoreless streak on the Rams’ first drive...

In his ninth game with the Rams, cornerback Jalen Ramsey made his first interception. It was his first interception of the season, in fact. Ramsey’s 10th career interception came on a Jimmy Garoppolo pass intended for Emmanuel Sanders near the end of the first quarter. He returned it 13 yards...

Getty Images The Rams listed cornerback Jalen Ramsey as doubtful to return to Saturday night’s game after injuring his knee, but he is back in action already. Ramsey left with 8:36 remaining in the second quarter, heading to the locker room. But he returned for the Rams’ next defensive...