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Getty Images The Jets will not have quarterback Sam Darnold in the lineup when they return from their bye week. Darnold will miss another game with a right shoulder injury. Jets head coach Adam Gase announced that Joe Flacco will start against the Chargers. Darnold missed the team’s Week 9...

Getty Images The Dolphins started 1-3. They now are 6-3 — their best start since 2001 — after winning their fifth consecutive game, the last three of those started by rookie quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. Tagovailoa got plenty of help from his friends again as the Dolphins beat the Chargers...

USA TODAY Sports Dolphins rookie quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has won his first three games as a starter, including most recently a 29-21 victory over fellow rookie Justin Herbert and the Chargers. After the game, Tua spoke for a few minutes by phone to PFT. He said that the process of getting...

Getty Images Tua Tagovailoa has gotten a lot of help in his three starts. Two weeks ago in an upset of the Rams, the Dolphins Defense scored on a 78-yard fumble return by Andrew Van Ginkel; they set up a 1-yard touchdown drive on Kyle Van Noy‘s strip-sack of Jared Goff; and the special teams...

Getty Images The Dolphins made veteran running back Jordan Howard inactive Sunday. It comes as a bit of a surprise since he started last week against the Cardinals. But Howard gained only 19 yards on 10 carries last week, and he has 33 yards on 28 carries in five games this season. The...

Getty Images The Dolphins are looking for their fifth-straight victory on Sunday and they’ll have to make their attempt without the help of running back Matt Breida. Breida missed last Sunday’s win over the Cardinals with a hamstring injury and he was listed as questionable to play against the...

Getty Images The Chargers placed running back Justin Jackson on injured reserve Saturday, the team announced. Jackson left last week’s game with a knee injury, and the Chargers already had ruled him out for Sunday’s game against Miami. The Chargers signed running back Kalen Ballage to the...

Getty Images The Dolphins three players on the COVID-19 reserve list earlier this week. They will have one of them Sunday. Miami removed linebacker Kyle Van Noy from the list Saturday, allowing him to play against the Chargers on Sunday. Defensive tackle Christian Wilkins will not play as he...

Getty Images The Chargers will be without defensive end Joey Bosa again this weekend. Bosa has been in the concussion protocol since being injured in Week 8 against the Broncos. He was ruled out for this Sunday’s game against the Dolphins on Friday. It’s a significant absence for the Chargers...

Getty Images Week 10 of the 2020 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Colts 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 Former Chargers defensive tackle Charles DeJurnett died this week, the team announced Friday. He was 68. DeJurnett died after a battle with cancer, former Chargers coach Hank Bauer announced on Twitter. The Chargers selected DeJurnett in the 17th round of the 1974 draft. But he...

Getty Images Chargers running back Austin Ekeler has been out since injuring his hamstring in the fourth week of the regular season, but it sounds like he thinks his return to action is on the horizon. In a video posted to his Twitter account on Thursday, Ekeler can be seen running sprints on...

USA TODAY Sports Several teams have alternate uniforms that look better than their primary uniforms. The Dolphins, in the opinion of many, definitely should embrace their throwback configuration over their current helmets, jerseys, and pants. As explained by Armando Salguero of the Miami...

Getty Images Philip Rivers entered Thursday night’s game against the Titans needing only three yards to catch Dan Marino on the all time passing list. Rivers quickly got it. The Colts quarterback has leapfrogged Marino, who retired with 61,361 yards. The next rung on the ladder will take...

Getty Images The NFL will bend for the Masters, but it won’t break. According to Sports Business Daily, CBS will switch from the final round of the delayed-since-April golf classic if the final holes haven’t been played by 4:00 p.m. ET on Sunday, when CBS televises a regional slate of games...

Getty Images Sunday’s meeting between the Miami Dolphins and Los Angeles Chargers will be the first matchup of the season that sees a pair of first-round quarterbacks from the 2020 NFL Draft square off against each other. Tua Tagovailoa will be making his third ever start for Miami while...

Getty Images When the Miami Dolphins went on the clock with the fifth pick in the 2020 draft, they could have taken either quarterback Tua Tagovailoa or quarterback Justin Herbert. They chose Tua. They considered Herbert. “[W]e met with him several times,” coach Brian Flores told L.A. media on...

Getty Images Defensive end Joey Bosa didn’t practice at all last week after suffering a concussion and didn’t play against the Raiders, but he’s moving toward a return to the Chargers lineup in Week 10. Chargers head coach Anthony Lynn said on Wednesday that Bosa will take part in individual...

Getty Images The Chargers are 2-6, but they’ve been in every game this season, with all of their losses coming down to the final moments, including Sunday’s loss to the Raiders, in which an apparent game-winning touchdown on the last play was overturned by replay. So why do they keep losing...

Getty Images Raiders cornerback Isaiah Johnson played 30 snaps on defense over the first eight weeks of the season, but he saw a big spike in playing time on Sunday. Johnson, a 2019 fourth-round pick, was pushed into the lineup after injuries to Trayveon Mullen and Keisean Nixon and he was in...