Washington’s Young is done for season with injury
Chase Young will not play the rest of this season after injuring his right leg and is scheduled to undergo surgery.
Washington coach Ron Rivera confirmed the prognosis for Young on Monday in the wake of the reigning Defensive Rookie of the Year going down during the first half of an upset of defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay.
Rivera did not reveal whether Young tore the ACL in his right knee and did not specify what the surgery is for. Washington said Sunday that Young left the game with a knee injury, and Rivera said it was possibly an ACL tear.
The 2020 No. 2 pick finishes his second NFL season with 1 ½ sacks. Rookie Shaka Toney is among the pass rushers who will fill in for Young at Carolina and the rest of the year. RAIDERS FALLING INTO FAMILIAR PATTERN >> The pattern to the season has become all too familiar for the Raiders: A promising start to the year followed by a second-half collapse that leaves them outside the playoffs.
That’s how both the 2019 and 2020 seasons went for the Raiders, and this season is in danger of heading that direction again for Las Vegas following a 41-14 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night.
“I really believe that this group is just different,” quarterback Derek Carr
said. “I’m around them every day, it’s just a different group.”
It hasn’t looked that way the past two weeks as a team that went into the bye with a 5-2 record following wins in the first two games under interim coach Rich Bisaccia has now lost backto-back games to the New York Giants and Kansas City. Both exposed serious issues for Las Vegas (5-4).
That’s what happened the past two years when the Raiders started 6-4 and 6-3, but failed to finish with a winning record either time.
Las Vegas once again got off to a sluggish start against the Chiefs, falling behind by at least 10 points in the first half for the fifth time in nine games this season. The Raiders managed to climb out of those holes the first two times to beat Baltimore and Miami in overtime, but haven’t the
past three times.
NFL HONORS TO BE AIRED LIVE >> NFL Honors, the prime-time television program during which The Associated Press individual league awards are revealed, will be held on a Thursday for the first time, and will be broadcast live by ABC.
The show on Feb. 10 will originate from the YouTube Theater at the SoFi Entertainment District in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, California, and also will be available on NFL Network and ESPN+.
In addition to the AP’s awards for MVP, Coach of the Year, Comeback Player, Offensive Player and Offensive Rookie, Defensive Player and Defensive Rookie, and Assistant Coach of the Year, the program will feature the league’s Walter Payton Man of the Year announcement.
The 2022 Pro Football Hall of Fame class also will be revealed during the telecast, which begins at 9 p.m. EST.
Other awards presented will include the Salute to Service; the Deacon Jones Award to the NFL sacks leader; and the Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award. MAYFIELD, BROWNS LOOK TO REGROUP AFTER LOSS TO PATS >> Baker Mayfield dragged himself to the postgame podium Sunday, limping on yet another injury he’ll need to get treated along with his damaged left shoulder and sore left foot for him to keep playing.
Though tough, Cleveland’s quarterback can’t take much more punishment.
The Browns are just as banged up, and their issues seem more than physical.
An X-ray on the team might reveal some cracks that may not heal in time to salvage this season, which is in jeopardy of turning into one of the most disappointing in the franchise’s history.
A demoralizing 45-7 loss to the New England Patriots returned the Browns (55) to last place in the AFC North and was the latest example of Cleveland’s wild inconsistency and perhaps some deeper foundational troubles.
“We just did not do a good enough job in any area — playing, coaching or you name it,” coach Kevin Stefanski said Monday. “No one feels good about how yesterday went.”
From play to play, week to week, there’s no telling which Browns team will show up — the one which destroyed the Cincinnati Bengals just eight days ago, or the one that Bill Belichick made look silly.
There are problems everywhere, some fixable in the short term, others that could take more time.
Stefanski’s game planning and play calling have been erratic. Slowed by the injuries, Mayfield isn’t playing like a franchise QB nearly often enough and the Browns aren’t scoring (17 points or fewer in five of the past seven games). STEELERS PLACE FIZTPATRICK ON COVID-19 LIST >> The Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday placed safety Minkah Fitzpatrick on the NFL’s reserve/COVID-19 list, where he joins quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
Teams are not required to release information whether players are vaccinated. If Fitzpatrick is, he would be required to be free of symptoms and have two negative tests 24 hours apart. If he is not vaccinated, the playmaking defensive back could be sidelined for at least 10 days.