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Getty Images The last time Case Keenum was involved in a game in Minnesota, he threw the pass that became the Minnesota Miracle when Vikings wideout Stefon Diggs caught it and ran for a touchdown with no time left in a divisional round game against the Saints. Keenum will be back in Minnesota...

Getty Images The Vikings practiced without wide receiver Adam Thielen on Tuesday due to the hamstring injury he suffered in Sunday’s win over the Lions, but head coach Mike Zimmer isn’t ruling him out Thursday’s game against Washington. Zimmer told reporters on Tuesday that Thielen is...

Getty Images All the quarterback questions in Washington are immediate, as the Case Keenum-or-Dwayne Haskins debate rages. But quietly, they’re getting some bit of good news. Via Les Carpenter of the Washington Post, injured quarterback Alex Smith has been throwing at the team facility...

Getty Images Washington linebacker Ryan Kerrigan (elbow) returned to a full practice Tuesday after the team estimated him as limited Monday. Running back Adrian Peterson (ankle) remained out but said earlier Tuesday he expects to play Thursday night against his former team. Besides Kerrigan...

Getty Images Three weeks ago, the biggest question regarding Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins related to how the team would escape a fully-guaranteed contract that runs through the 2020 season. Today, the biggest question is whether Cousins can keep the best stretch of his career going. On...

Getty Images Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen expressed optimism about playing against Washington on Thursday night, but that was doused a short time later by word that the Vikings did not share that outlook about his injured hamstring. Monday brought the first injury report of the week and...

Getty Images Washington didn’t practice Monday, less than 24 hours after a 9-0 loss to the 49ers, but the team still had to produce an injury report. Washington listed both quarterback Case Keenum and running back Adrian Peterson on its injury report. The team estimated Keenum a full...

Getty Images After the 49ers beat Washington on Sunday in a driving rainstorm that held the final score to 9-0, San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan gave the game ball to his father, former Washington coach Mike Shanahan. “That was something I planned on doing for a while,” Kyle Shanahan told...

Plenty of 49ers defenders turned FedEx Field into their own personal slip-and-slide, celebrating their shutout-ending sack of Case Keenum by diving headlong into the rain and the mud. But for veteran cornerback Richard Sherman, the mood was more of relief to be out of it. Via Roman Stubbs of...

Getty Images Washington has been espousing a deep belief in the run game ever since Bill Callahan took over as the interim head coach in the wake of Jay Gruden’s firing and Sunday’s game against the 49ers provided an opportunity to fully embrace that approach. It was pouring rain and sloppy on...

Getty Images Neither rain, nor defeat, nor gloom of 2019 will stay Dwayne Haskins from the not-swift-enough completion of his appointed rounds on the bench. Even after Case Keenum threw for 77 whole yards against the 49ers Sunday, Washington interim coach Bill Callahan made it clear he wasn’t...

Getty Images Nothing was perfect about this game. But the 49ers still are. After taking an ugly, rainy, nasty 9-0 win over Washington, the 49ers remained undefeated on the season (6-0). The conditions were brutal in the nation’s capital, with heavy rain turning the FedEx Field turf into a...

It took a few years, but Shanahans have gotten their revenge. After Sunday’s 9-0 win over the 49ers at Washington, San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan gave the game ball to his father, Mike Shanahan, who was fired by Washington as the team’s head coach in 2013. Kittle added that the team was...

Getty Images Vikings receiver Adam Thielen suffered a hamstring injury on Sunday against the Lions. He hopes to be available when the Vikings return to action in only four days. “We’ll evaluate it, see where it’s at after getting an MRI and then hopefully I’ll get ready to go,” Thielen said...

After Sunday’s win over the Lions in Detroit, Vikings receiver Adam Thielen expressed optimism that he’ll be ready to play on Thursday night. The Vikings do not share that optimism. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the team fears that Thielen’s status is more week-to-week than...

Getty Images Just when it appeared that 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo have remembered how to pass, he made another play to keep Washington in the game. The 49ers quarterback was just picked off by reserve safety Troy Apke, moments after a 28-yard completion that dwarfed the 10 yards he...

Getty Images The window for making trades closes in nine days. Most teams will play two games between now and then. And the outcomes of those games will help determine who does, and who doesn’t, get active in the trade market, as sellers or as buyers. For potential sellers, the next two games...

Getty Images Cleveland General Manager John Dorsey hinted this week that he’s been trying to trade for Washington’s holdout left tackle Trent Williams. Those attempts have apparently been ongoing all season. Mike Garafolo of NFL Network reports that Dorsey has been reaching out to Washington...

Getty Images Week Seven of the 2019 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Chiefs 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 release...

Getty Images Washington is playing against one of the league’s top defenses this weekend, so could use all hands on deck. The team will not have all hands on deck. Running back Chris Thompson has been ruled out because of the toe injury which has kept him out of practice all week. That puts...