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The 14-2 Lions will play the 14-2 Vikings on Sunday. The winning team will earn a bye week and home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs. The losing team will be 14-3, but will open the playoffs on the road against a division winner with either a 10-7 or 9-8 record.

Word heading into Week 17 was that the Dolphins would release defensive lineman Calais Campbell if they were eliminated from playoff contention, but they beat the Browns and remain alive heading into their season finale against the Jets. Campbell will be on the roster to help push for the final

The Browns don’t have any playoff hopes heading into Week 18, but that isn’t making defensive end Myles Garrett more focused on individual pursuits. Garrett is tied with Bengals defensive end Trey Hendrickson for the league lead with 14 sacks and finishing in first place would give him his first

Mike Vrabel is the latest candidate to get an interview for the Jets’ head coaching job. Vrabel will interview at the Jets’ facility today, according to Zack Rosenblatt of TheAthletic.com. A consultant for the Browns this season, Vrabel’s contract with Cleveland expired this week, freeing him up to begin the

The Browns is the Browns — and the Browns is determined to move out of downtown. On Thursday, the team issued a statement explaining that it has “officially execut[ed] a clause” that will allow it to “tak[e] steps forward” in the purchase of a 176-acre site in Brook Park. “We

The Buccaneers have played without tight end Cade Otton and safety Antoine Winfield Jr. in recent weeks, but both players are moving in the right direction heading into Week 18. Otton, who has missed the last two games with a knee injury, and Winfield, who has missed three with his

Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson remained out of practice Thursday, putting his status for Sunday’s season even more in question. Richardson, who said Wednesday he was feeling “way better than last week,” with a back issue that has kept him from practicing since Dec. 20. He also was on the report

Seahawks defensive tackle Leonard Williams is in his 10th NFL season and has been recognized for years as one of the best at his position. But he’s only made the Pro Bowl once, in 2016. And he’s not happy about that. “It’s pretty disappointing, if I’m being honest,” Williams said

Ravens head coach John Harbaugh said early this week that he expected running back Justice Hill back from a concussion for their Week 18 game against the Browns, but Hill won’t be in the lineup. The concussion is no longer the issue keeping Hill out, however. Hill missed practice all

When playing the Lions, the message for any defense is to expect the unexpected. Whether it’s a repeat of a trick play the team has used in the past or another new wrinkle, they’ll do something aimed at fooling defenders into thinking the offense will be doing the opposite of

It is growing increasingly likely that running back Alvin Kamara (groin) and quarterback Derek Carr (left hand) have played their last game for the Saints this season. Both players remained out of practice Thursday. Carr has missed the past three games with a broken left hand, and Kamara sat out

The Cowboys added defensive end Micah Parsons to the practice report Thursday. He was limited with a wrist injury. Parsons needs half a sack to continue his streak of double-digit sack seasons. He has 50 sacks in his four-year career. The Cowboys also added defensive tackle Mazi Smith (pelvis) to

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes remains on the practice report with his ankle injury. He had another limited practice Thursday. Mahomes won’t play this week as the Chiefs already have clinched the No. 1 seed in the AFC, and they have a bye next week. So, he will have more than

The Jets announced they have completed an interview with Louis Riddick for the team’s General Manager position. Riddick, 55, currently is an NFL and college football analyst for ESPN and ABC. Before joining ESPN in 2013, Riddick worked in the front office of the Commanders and Eagles. Riddick, who interviewed

From time to time in the NFL playoffs, teams that earn a bye week have a hard time firing up the engines against a team that played and won in the wild-card round. In the first year of the 12-team college football playoffs, a bye turned out to be ticket

Coach Mike McCarthy isn’t ready to discuss his future, but he is willing to acknowledge the obvious. Sunday could be his final game with the Cowboys. “I’ll be honest with you: I go to the stadium much earlier this time in my career than I used to,” McCarthy said Thursday,

I hate New Year’s resolutions. We already have enough shit to feel bad about. Why should we be obligated to impose on ourselves unwanted standards that we’re destined to fail to meet? I’ve made one New Year’s resolution in the last 21 years. January 1, 2004. I decided that, if

The Jets announced they have completed an interview with Ron Rivera for the vacant head coaching position. Rivera was most recently the head coach of the Commanders from 2020-23 where he had a 26-40-1 record and made the playoffs his first season with the team. Before that, Rivera served as

The pivot to streaming has happened. In the third year of exclusive streaming (but for the local markets in each game) on Prime Video, Thursday Night Football averaged 14.23 million viewers per game. The biggest audience happened on December 5, when 18.48 million tuned in for Packers-Lions. The low point

The UFL returns in late March, for a second season. When it does, Friday night games on Fox will be a weekly staple. The schedule, released on Thursday by the UFL, has a game on Fox every Friday night of every week of the regular season. All 43 games (40

The Chargers got wide receiver Ladd McConkey back on the practice field Thursday. McConkey was out of practice on Wednesday due to a toe injury, but the rookie was able to return for a limited session. The rookie has 77 catches for 1,054 yards and seven touchdowns this season. Running

The Eagles don’t need quarterbacks Jalen Hurts or Kenny Pickett for Sunday’s game against the Giants, but getting them back on the practice field would be a positive development for next week’s playoff opener. They’ll have to wait a little bit longer for that to happen, however. Hurts and Pickett

The Browns will not have their top cornerback when they play the Ravens on Saturday to end their 2024 season. Denzel Ward (shoulder) has been ruled out for Week 18 after he did not practice all week. Ward, 27, has had a strong season, leading the league with 19 passes

Commanders head coach Dan Quinn has said that the team is going to fight to keep the NFC’s No. 6 seed by winning Sunday’s game over the Cowboys. It looks like receiver Terry McLaurin will be able to help them do it. McLaurin (ankle) was a full participant in practice

The Saints are mourning the loss of a Caesars Superdome employee who was one of 14 people killed in the New Year’s terrorist attack in the city. Matthew Tenedorio worked as an audiovisual technician. His family created a GoFundMe page for his burial costs. They wrote, “On Jan. 1, 2025,

The Bengals signed running back Kendall Milton from the the practice squad to the active roster, the team announced Thursday. Milton, a rookie out of the University of Georgia, has played in one game and has spent 13 games on Cincinnati’s practice squad. He played five offensive snaps against the

The Steelers are set to have Joey Porter Jr. back in the lineup on Saturday, but another cornerback could miss their game against the Bengals. Porter missed Week 17 with a knee injury, but he practiced all of this week and has no injury designation for Saturday night. Donte Jackson