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Getty Images As the virus continues to spread in unprecedented fashion, it’s affecting more and more NFL teams. It’s finally affecting an NFL team that previously had avoided any such issues. “The Steelers were informed this morning that a staff member tested positive for COVID-19, and he has...

Getty Images Officially, Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott is listed as questionable for Sunday’s game against the Steelers, with a hamstring injury. Unofficially, the Cowboys reportedly are preparing to play the game without him. Via Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News, the Cowboys...

Getty Images Linebacker Avery Williamson finally has joined the Pittsburgh roster. The Steelers have activated Williamson nearly a week after acquiring him in a trade with the Jets. The delay arose from the COVID-19 waiting period. Williamson will be able to play for the Steelers on Sunday...

Getty Images Week Eight of the 2020 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Packers and it continues with 12 more games on Sunday, which means that the 24 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing on Monday night won’t...

USA TODAY Sports Incoming Jackson State coach, and Pro Football Hall of Famer, Deion Sanders has landed his first big-name recruit. He didn’t have to travel far to find him. Via ESPN.com, Shadeur Sanders has changed his commitment from Florida Atlantic University to his father’s college...

Getty Images The Cowboys aren’t revealing who they will start at quarterback Sunday against the Steelers, but Cooper Rush or Garrett Gilbert sure would appreciate having Ezekiel Elliott at running back. The Cowboys list Elliott and pass rusher Aldon Smith as questionable for Sunday’s game...

Getty Images In every draft, every team has a regret (or two or three). Some are bigger than others. Some are harder to explain than others. Take the 2017 draft. Everyone knew the Cowboys would take a pass rusher after Benson Mayowa led them with six sacks in 2016. It was just a matter of...

Getty Images If only the pandemic truly had disappeared after the election. The nationwide COVID-19 outbreak continues, with six-figure cases and single-day records over each of the past two days. And the NFL is feeling the impact of it. Currently, 15 teams have issues with the virus, in one...

Getty Images Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy offered an update on running back Ezekiel Elliott‘s hamstring injury on Friday. Elliott has been limited in each of the team’s practices this week and McCarthy said, via Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News, he “didn’t do as much” in...

Getty Images The Steelers were confident they would have defensive lineman Cam Heyward this week, and they will. Heyward (quadriceps) was a full participant all week and does not have a designation. Heyward played every game the past two seasons and has 23 tackles, 1.5 sacks and an...

Getty Images Vikings coach Mike Zimmer intended to compliment Everson Griffen with his comments Thursday. The defensive end instead took Zimmer calling him a “good player” as a diss. On Friday, Zimmer confirmed he was trying to pay respect to Griffen and remains uncertain why Griffen took...

Getty Images The Cowboys are 1 1/2 games behind the Eagles in the NFC East. But at 2-6, on a three-game losing streak, facing the undefeated Steelers on Sunday and starting their fourth quarterback of the season, this season is lost. The Cowboys could have traded pass rusher Aldon Smith. The...

Getty Images When Randy Gregory got on the field for the Cowboys in Week Six, it was a return to football that some didn’t expect for Gregory, who has been suspended multiple times for violating the league’s substance abuse policies. Gregory is now opening up about how getting help for anxiety...

Getty Images It doesn’t have quite the same stakes as George Costanza vs. Lloyd Braun, but there’s a competition in Dallas that has on the line something much better, or depending on how Sunday’s game goes much worse, than a Water-Pik. Cooper Rush and Garrett Gilbert are battling for the...

Getty Images The Steelers activated offensive lineman Stefen Wisniewski from injured reserve Wednesday. They placed inside linebacker Ulysees Gilbert III on injured reserve. Wisniewski injured a pectoral muscle in the Steelers’ season-opening win over the Giants. He started Week 1 at right...

Getty Images Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott mentioned all the team’s injuries this season during his interview session Wednesday. He did not mention his own. Elliott was limited in Wednesday’s practice with a hamstring injury. “We’ve had a lot of injuries this season,” Elliott said. “I...

Getty Images The Cowboys’ fortunes have fallen so far since Dak Prescott‘s injury that there’s now talk that the Cowboys might be better off giving up on this season and prioritizing a higher pick in the 2021 NFL draft. Jerry Jones doesn’t quite see it that way. Jones said he could see...

Getty Images Wednesday morning has not brought news of any new positive COVID-19 tests for teams that have put players on the reserve/COVID-19 list in recent days. Mark Maske of the Washington Post reports that the Bears, Cowboys, Lions, and Ravens all had nothing but negative test results in...

Getty Images The Ben DiNucci era officially is over. There was one? The rookie seventh-rounder got one start in place of Andy Dalton, who is replacing Dak Prescott in Dallas. This weekend, with Dalton on the COVID-19 reserve list, the Cowboys will go with a quarterback other than DiNucci. Via...

Getty Images The Cowboys need a new punter. Dallas punter Chris Jones will have surgery for a core muscle injury tomorrow and will miss multiple games, coach Mike McCarthy told reporters today. Jones has been the Cowboys’ punter for a decade. This year he’s having a so-so season, with an...