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Getty Images Tua Tagovailoa will start at quarterback for the Dolphins on Sunday and he was at practice on Thursday, but the team’s relief pitcher wasn’t on hand. According to pool reporter Alain Poupart of SI.com, quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick was not at the team’s second practice of the week...

Getty Images If the Dolphins are going to the playoffs, they need Tua Tagovailoa to lead them there. That’s because Ryan Fitzpatrick, the quarterback who has shared time with Tagovailoa this season, has tested positive for COVID-19, NFL Network reports. Fitzpatrick did not practice today...

Getty Images When the pool report noting Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick did not attend Thursday’s practice was released, it featured word on Jake Rudock doing quarterback drills at the session. Rudock was not on the roster when Thursday began, but he had been listed on the league’s wire...

Getty Images The Chiefs, Bills and Steelers have already clinched playoff berths in the AFC. The other playoff spots will go to four of five teams: The Titans, Colts, Browns, Ravens and Dolphins. And the Dolphins are the most likely team to be left out. Based on Sunday’s Vegas lines, the...

Getty Images Dolphins head coach Brian Flores made the decision to pull quarterback Tua Tagovailoa in the second half of last Saturday’s game against the Raiders and the move to Ryan Fitzpatrick paid off with a last second victory. The win put the Dolphins in position to clinch a playoff berth...

Getty Images The Dolphins have signed wide receiver Isaiah Ford to the active roster from their practice squad. Miami traded Ford to New England in early November, but he re-signed with the Dolphins’ practice quad once the Patriots cut him earlier this month. Ford was elevated for Miami’s last...

Getty Images Kicker Jason Sanders came up big for the Dolphins last Saturday night. Sanders hit a couple of field goals in the first half of the game, but it was his work in the fourth quarter that really stood out. Sanders tied the game with a 22-yard field goal with four minutes left in the...

Getty Images Dolphins linebacker Elandon Roberts had to leave last Saturday’s win over the Raiders on a cart after he hurt his knee and he won’t be back on the field for Week 17’s game against the Bills. Head coach Brian Flores said at his Wednesday press conference that Roberts suffered a...

Getty Images Last week, Browns coach Kevin Stefanski had the inside track to coach of the year. Then, the Browns lost to the Jets. The night before Cleveland fell to 10-5 and had its playoff chances shrink, the Dolphins enjoyed something close to divine intervention in the City of Sin. But...

Getty Images Because the Chiefs have already clinched the AFC’s No. 1 seed, head coach Andy Reid said Monday he plans to rest some starters in his team’s Week 17 contest against the Chargers. Having won the AFC North, Pittsburgh’s Mike Tomlin made a similar declaration on Tuesday, announcing...

Getty Images Bills head coach Sean McDermott said at his Tuesday press conference that wide receiver Cole Beasley is week-to-week with a leg injury suffered against the Patriots on Monday. Beasley went out for a pass in the fourth quarter and pulled up toward the end of his route. The wide...

Getty Images It’s Tuesday. Which means it’s time to hand out the awards for the sixteenth week of the regular season. That happened on Tuesday’s PFT PM. As usual, MDS, Charean Williams, and I named an offensive player of the week, a defensive player of the week, a rookie of the week, and a...

Getty Images Coaches and players talk about the “24-hour rule” all the time, saying that they give themselves one day to ruminate on the previous win or loss before moving on to the next game. But sometimes things happen that are more difficult to get past. That’s apparently the case for...

Getty Images The Dolphins turned to Ryan Fitzpatrick at quarterback in the fourth quarter of last Saturday’s game against the Raiders and he led them to 13 points, including the game-winning field goal by Jason Sanders. Some people noted a change in the kind of plays the Dolphins were running...

Getty Images The last time that Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph started against the Browns, he wound up being blasted in the head by a helmet-wielding Myles Garrett during a post-play fracas. Rudolph will get another chance to face Garrett and the Browns in Week 17. Steelers head coach Mike...

Getty Images The Steelers’ decision to rest Ben Roethlisberger and other key starters on Sunday against the Browns is great news in Cleveland. Not so much in Baltimore, Indianapolis and Miami. With the Browns, Ravens, Colts and Dolphins all competing in the AFC wild card race, a win for the...

Getty Images If Sunday ultimately will be Frank Gore‘s final NFL game, he will end his career with exactly 16,000 rushing yards. While it may not have been the last game of Gore’s career, it will be Gore’s last game in 2020. Coach Adam Gase told reporters on Monday that Gore won’t play in Week...

Getty Images The Dolphins will reportedly be without one of their top wideouts for Sunday’s game against the Bills. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that wide receiver and kick returner Jakeem Grant suffered a high-ankle sprain in Saturday’s win over the Raiders. The injury is expected to...

Getty Images The NFL announced schedule changes for Week 17, and not surprisingly, the Washington Football Team’s game against the Eagles will be the last of the 256 games played this season. The league moved the Washington-Philadelphia game to Sunday Night Football on NBC next week with...

USA TODAY Sports The Raiders didn’t want to score a late touchdown. The Dolphins wanted them to. Although a touchdown from the Raiders would have given the Dolphins more time, the Dolphins also would have had to score a touchdown to win or perhaps tie (if Las Vegas had gone for two and made...