Month: December 2021

1:48 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Houston Texans cornerback Tremon Smith snapped the NFL’s longest active streak without a kickoff return for a touchdown when he ran one back 98 yards in the first quarter against the Jacksonville Jaguars. The kickoff return for a touchdown was the team’s first since 2009. Smith fielded the kickoff

1:48 PM ET Associated Press ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Former Bills linebacker Harry Jacobs, who was a key member of Buffalo’s 1964 and ’65 AFL champion teams, died Friday. He was 84. The team announced Jacobs’ death. He had been dealing with numerous illnesses, including Alzheimer’s, and living in a nursing home just outside Buffalo.

3:28 PM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University PITTSBURGH — Tennessee Titans wide receiver Julio Jones was ruled out for the remainder of Sunday’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers because of a hamstring injury. Jones played 26 snaps in the

3:28 PM ET MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — New York Jets safety Elijah Riley was strapped to an emergency spine board and carted off the field with a neck injury Sunday against the Miami Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium. He was immediately ruled out of the game by the Jets, who provided no further details. Riley

2:54 PM ET BALTIMORE — Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is out for Sunday’s game against the Green Bay Packers, which marks the first time he’s missed a game because of an injury in his four-year NFL career. The Ravens had held out slim hope that Jackson would play even though he hadn’t practiced all week

3:31 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Cornerback Amani Oruwariye got Detroit Lions fans out of their seats on Sunday with a perfectly timed diving interception of Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray in the third quarter. Oruwariye dove in front of Murray’s short pass to receiver A.J. Green for the pick, then got up and ran 50