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Getty Images Every week we bring you all the inactives from the 1 p.m. ET games in one post, constantly updated with the latest information. Check back to see the full list as it becomes available 90 minutes ahead of kickoff. Ravens at Washington Football Team Ravens: T Ronnie Stanley, QB...

Getty Images Saints quarterback Drew Brees has given rise to real questions about his arm strength, causing some to suggest that the Saints should use backup-of-all-trades Taysom Hill when it’s time to take a shot down the field. So, naturally, the Saints may use Hill in a spot where deep...

Getty Images The Lions are the masters of blowing double-digit leads. With their last two losses of last season and their first two losses of this season, the Lions became the first team in NFL history to lose four consecutive games, having led all four of them by at least 10 points. And now...

Getty Images In the first quarter today in Detroit, the Saints looked like a team that had just been through an ordeal and wasn’t ready to play. Then they fixed things. The Saints, whose ability to play at all was briefly called into question by a false positive COVID-19 test, fell behind the...

Getty Images The NFL’s experience with COVID-19 unfolded, as one source explained it to PFT late Saturday, like an average golfer who somehow managed to finagle a par on each of he first three holes of the course. Despite the early success, a triple-bogey was always inevitable. The...

Getty Images All teams have played three games. At least two teams won’t play at all in Week Four. Four more teams may not play in Week Four. The pandemic suddenly has affected pro football in a major way, and there’s no reason to think it will get any better, especially with flu season...

The Saints, and the rest of the NFL, got some good news on Sunday morning. Saints fullback Michael Burton, who tested positive for COVID-19 on a test that was taken before the team flew to Detroit on Saturday but didn’t come back until the team had already arrived in Detroit, was re-tested and...

Getty Images Before the season, the NFL boasted of a new contact-tracing technology that would keep players from getting too close together and that would make it easier to work backward to identify others who need to be tested and/or evaluated in the event a player tests positive. During the...

Getty Images On Saturday, the Saints flew to Detroit. Once they arrived, they embarked on the usual routine that unfolds the night before a game. Then, things changed. At roughly 10:40 p.m. ET, the Saints learned that fullback Michael Burton had tested positive for COVID-19. The news threw the...

Getty Images Week Four of the 2020 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Broncos and it continues with 13 more games on Sunday, which means that the 26 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing on Monday night won’t release...

Getty Images Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas was at practice again Friday, but the story was all the guys who weren’t. Via Amie Just of the New Orleans Times Picayune, the Saints were without five starters during the open portion of practice Friday. That group included starting...

Getty Images As it turns out, Michael Thomas appearing at practice wasn’t a promising sign. The Saints just released their final injury report for Sunday’s game against the Lions, and their star wide receiver was among six players ruled out. Thomas had practiced on a limited basis Wednesday...

USA TODAY Sports Receiver Emmanuel Sanders hadn’t done much for the New Orleans offense in his first two games with the team. In his third game, the switch flipped. Appearing on Uninterrupted’s 17 Weeks podcast of SiriusXM/Pandora, Sanders explained that his touchdown reception from Drew Brees...

Getty Images A couple of Saints players went from limited practice on Wednesday to missing practice on Thursday, but neither member of that duo was wide receiver Michael Thomas. Thomas was a limited participant in practice for the second straight day as he works to return from the ankle injury...

Getty Images The Lions announced they have activated safety Jayron Kearse. Kearse returns after serving a three-game suspension for violating the substance abuse policy. Kerase, a seventh-round choice of the Vikings in 2017, signed with Detroit in the offseason. He played 62 games with five...

Getty Images Everyone knows the criticism of Drew Brees and talk that, at 41, the Saints quarterback is on his last legs. He is averaging an NFL-low 4.8 air yards per throw through three games, according to NFL Next Gen Stats, and his completion percentage of 70.2 is his lowest since 2016. His...

Getty Images The Saints have been a bit off on offense all season, but they took a step in the right direction today. Via Amie Just of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, wide receiver Michael Thomas was back on the practice field Wednesday, during the period of practice reporters were allowed to...

Getty Images Considering that Saints coach Sean Payton was fined $100,000 for not wearing a mask in the opener, it makes sense that he’s looking to save a little money where he can. So after some experimentation, he found an economical alternative. “The simple, $1.75 surgical mask, just felt...

Getty Images One of the questions that’s been asked around the Saints in the early weeks of this season is whether quarterback Drew Brees‘ skills are diminishing at a concerning rate. Defensive end Cam Jordan fielded that question during an appearance on The Rich Eisen Show Tuesday. Jordan...

Getty Images On Monday, we go positive. (For the most part.) On Tuesdays, one specific segment of PFT Live focuses on the negative. It’s the Goats (in a Bad Way) draft. The Week Three edition appears in the attached video. Some of them are obvious. Cowboys defensive lineman Trysten Hill...