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Getty Images The Seahawks are getting some help at the safety position. Quandre Diggs has been traded from Detroit to Seattle, Tom Pelissero of NFL Network reports. The trade includes Diggs and a 2021 seventh-round draft pick going to the Seahawks, with the Lions getting a 2020 fifth-round...

Getty Images Sunday wasn’t a great day for the Lions, but it was a good day for wide receiver Marvin Jones. Jones became the first Lion to catch four touchdown passes in a game since 1950 and he became the third player in NFL history — Jerry Rice and Sterling Sharpe are the others — to catch...

Getty Images Three weeks ago, the biggest question regarding Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins related to how the team would escape a fully-guaranteed contract that runs through the 2020 season. Today, the biggest question is whether Cousins can keep the best stretch of his career going. On...

Getty Images Every week we bring you all the inactives from the 1 p.m. ET games in one post, constantly updated with the latest information. Check back to see the full list as it becomes available 90 minutes ahead of kickoff. Raiders at Packers Raiders: T Trent Brown, WR Dwayne Harris, WR Zay...

Getty Images It’s very good that the Vikings didn’t trade Stefon Diggs. Fellow starting receiver Adam Thielen was injured on Sunday while making a beautiful, back-of-end-zone, toe-tap touchdown catch. It’s unclear how Thielen was injured, but he slammed into the blue wall that borders the...

Getty Images Did you start Lions wide receiver Marvin Jones in fantasy today? If so, we’ve got good news for you. Jones caught three touchdown passes in the first half today against the Vikings. Even when he had a bad play, dropping a pass in the end zone, Matthew Stafford went right back to...

Getty Images Three weeks ago, Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins was the subject of such withering criticism that some wondered how he could possibly remain in Minnesota — other than that his guaranteed contract gave the Vikings little choice. In the NFL, a lot can change in three weeks...

Getty Images Vikings receiver Adam Thielen suffered a hamstring injury on Sunday against the Lions. He hopes to be available when the Vikings return to action in only four days. “We’ll evaluate it, see where it’s at after getting an MRI and then hopefully I’ll get ready to go,” Thielen said...

Getty Images The window for making trades closes in nine days. Most teams will play two games between now and then. And the outcomes of those games will help determine who does, and who doesn’t, get active in the trade market, as sellers or as buyers. For potential sellers, the next two games...

Getty Images It’s Sunday morning. You want to get ready for Week Seven. You have plenty of choices on TV. You also have plenty of choices that don’t require you to sit there and watch the screen you’ll be sitting there and watching from 1:00 p.m. ET until after 11:00 p.m. ET tonight. Toward...

Getty Images Week Seven of the 2019 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Chiefs and it continues with 12 more games on Sunday, which means that the 24 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing on Monday night won’t release...

Getty Images The Vikings asked Dan Bailey to take a pay cut in the offseason and then traded for Kaare Vedvik in the preseason. Bailey, though, won the job and has looked like Dan Bailey again so far this season. He is 8-for-9, missing a 47-yarder wide left in Week Two. “I think the...

Getty Images The Lions admitted that they settled for too many field goals on Monday night, but they’re lucky they have a kicker they can count on — one of the best in NFL history. Lions kicker Matt Prater kicked the 50th field goal of at least 50 yards in his career on Monday night in Green...

Getty Images Former Lions offensive tackle Lomas Brown thinks he’d be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame if he’d played for some other teams. But Brown says Hall of Fame voters don’t give the Lions enough respect. “If I’m brutally honest [about why], I just think it’s the Lions,” Brown told the...

Getty Images Running back Tra Carson lost his spot on the Packers roster when the team signed wide receiver Ryan Grant on Wednesday, but he won’t be leaving the NFC North. The Lions announced on Thursday that they have claimed Carson off of waivers. Running back Paul Perkins was dropped from...

Getty Images Lions tight end T.J. Hockenson briefly lost consciousness when he landed on his head after trying to hurdle Chiefs safety Tyrann Mathieu in Week Five, but the injury didn’t cause him to miss any games. The Lions had a bye in Week Six and the first-round pick cleared the concussion...

Getty Images Former NFL defensive lineman Justin Bannan is sitting in a Colorado jail, on charges of suspicion of attempted first-degree murder. According to Mitchell Byars of the Boulder Daily Camera, Bannan was arrested on a number of charges, including first-degree assault and first-degree...

Getty Images After police arrested longtime NFL defensive lineman Justin Bannan for suspicion of attempted first-degree murder, he told them he was hiding from the Russian mafia. According to Mitchell Byars of the Boulder Daily Camera, police said the shooting of a woman appeared to be...

Getty Images Lions defensive end Trey Flowers was flagged for two bad hands to the face penalties on Monday night, turning what could have been a Lions win into a loss. Flowers is trying to move on and wants his teammates to do the same. Flowers said the Lions would be wise to put their focus...

Getty Images Former NFL referee John Parry never believed in the concept of a sky judge, an extra official watching the game from a booth with a monitor in front of him. Then he watched Monday night’s game from a booth with a monitor in front of him. Parry, who now works for ESPN, was highly...