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Getty Images The Chiefs announced Tuesday they placed rookie safety Juan Thornhill on injured reserve. Thornill tore an anterior cruciate ligament in Week 17 against the Chargers. The second-round choice finished his rookie season with 58 tackles, three interceptions and a touchdown in 16...

Getty Images The NFL announced the four head referees that will lead the officiating crews for this weekend’s Divisional Round playoff matchups. Walt Anderson will have the Minnesota Vikings at San Francisco 49ers matchup in the Saturday afternoon window with Bill Vinovich leading the...

Getty Images The Chiefs are back at it this week and the time off since the regular season has been good for the team on the health front. Three players missed the final weekend of the regular season with injuries, but left guard Andrew Wylie, cornerback Morris Claiborne and defensive tackle...

Sometimes, the people who are closest to Deshaun Watson have a hard time describing how he does things. So maybe, it actually is just magic. Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle took an in-depth look at Watson’s ridiculous sack-escape against the Bills, in which he bounced off a pair of sack...

Getty Images The game ultimately wasn’t as exciting as it could have been, given the early exit of Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz with a concussion. Still, the wild-card game between Seattle and Philadelphia, broadcast by NBC, generated the largest audience of any TV show since Super Bowl...

Getty Images Although it hasn’t generated a lot of discussion over wild card weekend, a big hit that Texans linebacker Zach Cunningham put on Bills quarterback Josh Allen on Saturday could have put the Bills in range for a game-winning field goal in overtime. The hit took place on the Bills’...

Getty Images Texans defensive end J.J. Watt came through his first game back from a torn pectoral without any sign of a medical issue, so he’s set to play again in Kansas City this weekend. The question of how much he’ll be playing was asked of Texans head coach Bill O’Brien on Monday. Watt...

Getty Images Three road teams won in the wild card round of the playoffs, but the home teams are the favorites in the divisional round. San Francisco is listed as a 6.5 or 7-point favorite over Minnesota at various sports books, Baltimore is a 9.5 or 10-point favorite over Tennessee, Kansas...

Getty Images The NFL’s 12-team playoff field typically undergoes significant turnover. The final eight teams feature an almost complete overhaul from last year’s quarterfinalists. Seven of the eight teams that played in last year’s divisional round won’t be back: the Colts, Chargers, Patriots...

Getty Images The Bills opened the 2019 season by coming back to beat the Jets after falling behind 16-0, so Saturday’s game against the Texans turned out to be a fitting bookend to their year. Buffalo led 16-0, but couldn’t hold the lead and wound up losing 22-19 in overtime. Houston’s...

Getty Images Deshaun Watson‘s playoff debut saw the Colts shut down the Texans offense in a 21-7 win last year and the quarterback’s second postseason outing didn’t look like it would turn out much better. Houston didn’t score while picking up 92 yards on their first five possessions and...

Getty Images When Ron Rivera was introduced as the new Washington coach, he talked about how he and owner Dan Snyder agreed on a coach-centric organizational chart. Prior to that, however, Snyder was interviewing another potential team president. According to Adam Schefter of ESPN, Snyder met...

Getty Images The Houston Texans have finally taken a lead in their playoff battle with the Buffalo Bills. Texans running back Carlos Hyde caught a touchdown toss from Deshaun Watson with 4:37 to go in the fourth quarter, and the subsequent two-point conversion gave the Texans a 19-16 lead...

Getty Images In a weird, wacky wild card game, the Houston Texans fell behind 16-0 and stormed back to lead the Bills 19-16, before a Bills field goal put the game in overtime at 19-19. We saw the best of Deshaun Watson‘s skills and the worst of Josh Allen’s flaws along the way, but Allen did...

Getty Images It was the best of games, it was the worst of games. The Texans and Bills played a wild, crazy, insane, spectacular mess of a game today in Houston, with the Texans finally coming out on top after Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson made the play to set up the game-winning field...

Getty Images The Bills were nearing field-goal range in overtime to attempt a game-winner. Josh Allen scrambled for 4 yards to the Houston 38 on third-and-nine, which would have given Sean McDermott a big decision: Go for it, give Stephen Hauschka a chance for a long field goal or punt. But...

J.J. Watt‘s sack of Josh Allen in the third quarter ignited the Texans to their largest postseason comeback in team history. His comeback helped in the Texans’ comeback. The sack was the defensive end’s first since Week Five, three games before he tore a pectoral muscle. “That was a big play...

Getty Images Officially, the Texans listed wide receiver Will Fuller as questionable for today’s game against the Bills with a groin injury. Unofficially, he’s unlikely to play. The Texans regard Fuller as unlikely to be able to go when the first playoff game kicks off today at 4:35 p.m. ET...

Getty Images As a rookie, Bills quarterback Josh Allen ran the ball very effectively. This year, his per-game attempts are down slightly, and his per-attempt gain has dropped significantly. He clearly has the skills. In a three-game stretch after returning from injury, Allen gained 335 yards...