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Getty Images Running back Aaron Jones didn’t practice for the Packers on Friday and his status for Sunday’s game against the Texans will remain up in the air heading into the weekend. The Packers listed Jones as questionable to play in Houston as a result of the calf injury that kept him off...

Getty Images Week Seven of the 2020 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Eagles 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 Packers already have 14 names on the injury report. They’re about to have a fifteenth. Via Matt Schneidman of TheAthletic.com, running back Aaron Jones isn’t at practice on Friday. He’ll be listed on the injury report. His availability for Sunday’s game against the Texans...

Getty Images The Packers may need to do some shuffling on the offensive line for Sunday’s game against the Texans. Left tackle David Bakhtiari left last weekend’s loss to the Buccaneers with a chest injury and he sat out practice for the second straight day on Thursday. If he remains out on...

Getty Images Texans interim coach Romeo Crennel made a questionable decision with 1:50 remaining Sunday. Up seven points, he opted to go for two rather than kick the extra point. Crennel has defended the decision, which resulted in an incomplete pass and a loss to the Titans in overtime...

USA TODAY Sports After the Packers lost to the Buccaneers last Sunday, quarterback Aaron Rodgers said he thought the team “needed kind of a kick in the ass” after cruising to four wins in their first four games. Rodgers doesn’t want the team lingering on that boot to the rear, however. He...

Getty Images Through six weeks of the season, 10 teams have one win or fewer. While some of those teams are destined to win more games when they play each other (two of the one-win franchises square off tonight), multiple teams could soon be slipping out of contention, even with seven teams per...

Getty Images The Texans are 1-5 and the trade deadline comes in less than two weeks, so it isn’t surprising to see players from the team have their names come up in trade chatter. It’s something that quarterback Deshaun Watson would like to see come to an end. Watson said on Wednesday that the...

Getty Images In the offseason, Texans General Manager Bill O’Brien traded for receiver Brandin Cooks. But in the first four games of the season, Texans coach Bill O’Brien didn’t find much use for Cooks in his offense. Then O’Brien was fired four games into the season, and since then Cooks has...

Getty Images The Texans claimed defensive tackle Eli Ankou off waivers from the Colts. Houston placed Ankou on the exempt/commissioner permission list. The Texans have familiarity with Ankou, having signed him as an undrafted free agent out of UCLA in 2017. Ankou has played 20 career games...

Getty Images Of all the various analytics quirks that slowly have become commonplace in football, there’s one I can get behind: Going for two when up seven late in regulation. The logic is simple. Converting the two-pointer ends the game. Failing keeps it a one-score game, with an extra point...

USA TODAY Sports After Titans running back Derrick Henry scored a touchdown in overtime to give his team a 42-36 win over the Texans, Texans defensive end J.J. Watt said he put the loss “squarely on my shoulders.” Watt said that because he considers himself the leader of a defense that also...

Getty Images The NFL, as it should, likes to point out positive aspects of a season in progress, especially when it comes to the scoring of points and other things that make the game exciting. Here’s something the NFL won’t be issuing a press release about. Nearly a third of the league stinks...

Getty Images Mike Vrabel played for Bill Belichick and played with Tom Brady, so he learned how to be evasive with his answers. The Titans coach, though, deserves coach of the week consideration for using the clock rules in his team’s favor. Whether he admits it or not — and he won’t — that’s...

Getty Images The Ravens surprisingly cut safety Earl Thomas during training camp. Not surprisingly, he filed a grievance, given that he had a $10 million guaranteed salary in 2020. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the Ravens currently are carrying $5 million in 2020 cap space for...

Getty Images Titans coach Mike Vrabel showed some quick thinking and a thorough knowledge of the NFL’s timing rules late in Tennessee’s comeback win over Houston on Sunday. With the Titans trailing 30-29 and Houston having the ball on second-and-1 with 3:28 to play, Vrabel sent safety Josh...

Getty Images Titans running back Derrick Henry was an unstoppable force in Nashville on Sunday. Henry ran 22 times for 212 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner in overtime of the 42-36 win over the Texans. He took a Ryan Tannehill pass 53 yards to set up that score and his first...

USA TODAY Sports The Texans had a chance to give the Titans their first loss of the season. They couldn’t close it out, losing 42-36 in overtime. Romeo Crennel’s questionable decision on the two-point conversion with 1:50 remaining will be dissected all week. The Texans scored on a 1-yard pass...

Getty Images The Texans were up seven points after scoring a touchdown with 1:50 to play in Sunday’s game against the Titans, but interim head coach Romeo Crennel wasn’t content to extend that lead to eight with an extra point. Crennel went for two, but a pass to Randall Cobb was incomplete...

Getty Images Ryan Tannehill has never thrown more than 27 touchdowns in a season. He is on pace to shatter that this season with 12 touchdowns through 4 1/2 games. Tannehill, who had three touchdown passes Tuesday night, had three in the first half Sunday to give the Titans a 21-10 halftime...