Dolphins elevate Coleman, Cracraft for Ravens game
The Dolphins elevated offensive tackle Larnel Coleman from the practice squad, adding depth along their offensive line ahead of Sunday’s road matchup against the Baltimore Ravens.
Coleman, a seventhround pick of the Dolphins in 2021, was released in August as part of roster cuts before signing to the team’s practice squad. He got extended reps in training camp when tackle Greg Little was sidelined by an injury.
The team on Friday placed right tackle Austin Jackson on injured reserve, sidelining him for at least the next four games. Little is expected to start for Jackson. The move also left the Dolphins with seven offensive linemen on the 53-man roster; NFL teams must dress eight offensive linemen to have 48 players active on game day.
Left tackle Terron Armstead is questionable to play with a toe injury. If he cannot play, the Dolphins could move Liam Eichenberg from left guard to left tackle or have Coleman take Armstead’s spot in the lineup.
The team also elevated wide receiver River Cracraft for the second consecutive game. Cracraft played 10 offensive snaps and four special teams snaps in the Dolphins’ season-opening win over the New England Patriots.
Meanwhile, the Dolphins ruled tight end Hunter Long out for Week 2 after he surfaced on the injury report Friday with an ankle injury. Long, who played 10 offensive snaps against the Patriots, did not travel with the team to Baltimore and was originally listed as questionable.
Murray — got their fifthyear option picked up by the team that drafted them.
Of those six players, only Mayfield — who was traded from the Cleveland Browns to the Carolina Panthers in July — and Jackson haven’t received top-of-the-market deals from their original teams.
With the salary cap continuing to rise and Tagovailoa’s draftmates Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert next in line for mega deals, the contract Murray signed in July, worth $46.1 million a year, is expected to be the going rate for a franchise quarterback.
It’s the type of sizable commitment that shows an organization’s belief in a quarterback as its unquestioned
Packers-Bears preview: Green Bay defensive backs boasted before the season about the possibility of being the NFL’s best secondary.
It didn’t take long for them to get a reality check.
The Packers (0-1) are preparing for Sunday night’s game with the Chicago Bears (1-0) while trying to figure out what
Aleader, one that Grier to date hasn’t stated publicly. It’s also the type of commitment that could be made more confidently if Tagovailoa has the breakout season many are anticipating with McDaniel by his side.
Tagovailoa’s first game of the season, a 270-yard, one-touchdown performance in a win over the
New England Patriots, was a good start. However, as Tagovailoa has become one of the most polarizing players in the league, every game — and even throw — has naturally become a referendum on his future.
Just this week, the latest opinions of Tagovailoa were again all over the spectrum, from ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky’s went wrong in a seasonopening 23-7 defeat at Minnesota. The Packers lost that game in part because they couldn’t cover Justin Jefferson,
who scored two touchdowns and had nine catches for a career-high 184 yards.
“We know for a fact that we’re better than what we put out there,” cornerback Eric Stokes said. “We’ve just got to go out and show everybody.”
Green Bay had big hopes for its secondary after it signed Rasul Douglas to a new deal and welcomed back Jaire Alexander from a shoulder injury that sidelined him for most of the 2021 season. Alexander signed a four-year, $84 million extension with a $30 million signing bonus.
The Packers believed Alexander, Douglas and Stokes would form one of the league’s top cornerback trios alongside starting safeties Adrian Amos
and Darnell Savage.
The secondary looked ordinary against Minnesota as Kirk Cousins threw for 277 yards and two touchdown without an interception.
“That wasn’t good enough for us,” Amos said.
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Chargers: Los Angeles quarterback Justin Herbert,
Apraise of his Week 1 outing to former Saints coach Sean Payton’s belief that he’ll be benched sometime this season.
“I think it comes with the territory. I think it’s part of playing the quarterback position,” quarterbacks coach Darrell Bevell said. “You’re always going to be looked at. I think the year that Tua is in, everybody says, ‘Oh, this is the important one.’ But I couldn’t be more happy and excited about what Tua has been doing. The growth process that he’s had, the information that he’s digesting, learning a new offense again. He’s doing a really good job in it.”
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who has fractured rib cartilage after taking a hit during the fourth quarter of Thursday night’s 27-24 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, is day-to-day and his status will be evaluated again on Monday, according to coach Brandon Staley.
The Chargers (1-1) don’t return to the practice field until Wednesday, when they will begin preparing to host Jacksonville on Sept. 25.
Chase Daniel would be in line to start if Herbert can’t go. The 13-year veteran has six career starts, most recently in 2019 for the Chicago Bears.