Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Wilson may sit Sunday

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Russell Wilson’s pulled hamstring might make him miss a game for just the fourth time in his 11year NFL career Sunday.

Denver coach Nathaniel Hackett, whose team has lost three in a row to fall to 2-4, listed Wilson as questionab­le for the Broncos’ game against the New York Jets (4-2) at Empower Field. Wilson was injured Monday in the 19-16 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers.

“He is day-to-day up to this point,” Hackett said Friday. “So, it will probably be (a) game-time (decision).”

Wilson is off to a tough start in Denver with just five touchdown passes and 20 sacks through six weeks.

“If I can go, I’ll go,” Wilson said.

Ravens

Baltimore running back J.K. Dobbins has been ruled out of Sunday’s game against the Cleveland Browns because of his knee injury.

The Ravens also listed receiver Rashod Bateman (foot), linebacker Justin Houston (groin), tight end Mark Andrews (knee), tackle Morgan Moses (heel), fullback Patrick Ricard (knee), cornerback Marcus Peters (quad) and guard Ben Cleveland (foot) as questionab­le.

Jets

One of New York’s top receivers, Elijah Moore, will not travel with the rest of the Jets to Denver, it was announced a day after his trade request. He will stay in Florham Park, N.Y., and rejoin the team Monday.

Moore had tweeted his annoyance at having not been targeted Sunday then asked Monday to be traded.

Packers

Green Bay Packers receiver Randall Cobb said he has a high ankle sprain and expects the injury to keep him out for anywhere from two to six weeks.

Cobb, 32, acknowledg­ed that he initially feared the injury was much more serious.

Cobb hurt his left ankle during the Packers’ 27-10 loss to the New York Jets on Sunday.

Panthers

Is it rebuilding or tanking? Either way, Carolina, which already fired a coach this season and owns the NFL’s worst record at 1-5, is now well positioned to get the No. 1 pick in the 2023 draft — and land the franchise quarterbac­k they’ve coveted for years.

The Panthers’ offense was already dead last in the league — and that was before the team traded its best player, Christian McCaffrey, to the San Francisco 49ers and starting wide receiver Robbie Anderson to Arizona Cardinals before the trade deadline.

Buccaneers

Tampa Bay quarterbac­k Tom Brady apologized for making a comparison between football and military deployment while interviewi­ng NBA star Kevin Durant on the seven-time Super Bowl champion’s weekly podcast.

Brady said he used a “very poor choice of words” on a SiriusXM podcast while he and Durant were discussing the difficulty of balancing a commitment to being highly successful athletes with life outside of sports.

“It was a very poor choice of words,” he said.

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