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Getty Images The Kansas City Chiefs may not be playing this week but they’re still making roster moves. The team activated tackle Martinas Rankin off the physically unable to perform list on Tuesday and waived defensive end Demone Harris. Rankin returned to practice for the Chiefs on Oct. 21...

USA TODAY Sports The NFL’s MVP in most years needs a full season to become clear. This year, an unlikely candidate could be making a second-half push for consideration. Although it has become largely a quarterback prize, running backs can still win it. It last happened in 2012, when Vikings...

Getty Images Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is off to a start the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Mahomes has 25 touchdowns and one interception so far this season. This is the first time in NFL history that a player has had 25 touchdowns and only one interception through the first...

Getty Images Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes became the fastest player to 100 touchdown passes in NFL history when he threw his third touchdown pass of Sunday’s win over the Panthers. That touchdown was caught by Tyreek Hill and Hill added another one before the day was out. He’s accounted...

USA TODAY Sports The Panthers have yet to force a Chiefs’ punt, with Kansas City getting points on three of four first-half possessions. Yet, Carolina leads 17-13. The Panthers did hold the Chiefs to two field goals of 39 and 55 yards by Harrison Butker. Demarcus Robinson scored Kansas City’s...

Getty Images The Chiefs have their first lead of the day. The teams traded missed field goals in the second half before Kansas City scored on a 4-yard catch by rookie Clyde Edwards-Helaire from Patrick Mahomes. It was Edwards-Helaire’s first receiving touchdown of the season. Travis Kelce...

Getty Images The Chiefs moved to 8-1 with their fourth consecutive victory, but the Panthers did not make it easy. Carolina pulled out all the stops, going 3-for-3 on fourth down, including a fake punt, gaining 435 yards, attempting two onside kicks and matching the Chiefs almost blow for...

Getty Images Chiefs pass rusher Taco Charlton walked off after being injured in the first quarter. Charlton, though, has a fracture in his lower leg, coach Andy Reid announced after the game. The Chiefs will place Charlton on injured reserve. Charlton was injured on a 7-yard run by Curtis...

Getty Images Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes added to his list of accomplishments on Sunday afternoon. Mahomes’ third touchdown pass of the day was the 100th of his career. He reached that mark in his 40th regular season game, which is faster than any player in NFL history. Dan Marino was...

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. One of those early games will pit the Bears against the Titans in Tennessee. The Titans will not have linebacker Jadeveon Clowney for that contest as...

Getty Images The NFL soon could be adopting a very real incentive for its teams to develop minority coaches and executives. Peter King of NBC Sports reports that, at a virtual ownership meeting scheduled for Tuesday, owners likely will vote on a measure that would reward teams whose minority...

Getty Images The Chiefs will once again be without receiver Sammy Watkins. Kansas City has downgraded Watkins to out, due to a lingering hamstring injury. Watkins had been listed as questionable for Sunday’s game against the Panthers. Watkins suffered the injury in Week Five against the...

Getty Images Chiefs coach Andy Reid and Panthers coach Matt Rhule will face off on Sunday, but they once could have been on the same staff, if not for a decision that Reid now calls himself “dumb” for. For six seasons while Reid was coach of the Eagles, Rhule was an assistant at nearby Temple...

Getty Images Seven weeks later, he’s back. Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey, fully healed (apparently) from a high ankle sprain suffered in Week Two against the Buccaneers, officially returns to the active roster, one day before the Panthers face the Chiefs in Kansas City. The...

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...

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 Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones’ stint on the reserve/COVID-19 list was a short one. Jones is back at the Chiefs’ facility today, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. Presumably that means he has tested negative and the team is satisfied there’s no risk to him being...

Getty Images The Panthers are set to get Christian McCaffrey back this weekend. McCaffrey has been out since Week 2 with an ankle injury, but has been practicing for the last two weeks and head coach Matt Rhule said at his press conference that he anticipates activating the running back from...

Getty Images The Chiefs announced earlier today that a staff member had tested positive for COVID-19 and, because of that, they were closing their team facility after practice. NFL Media reports that it was Rick Burkholder, the team’s vice president of medicine and performance, who tested...

Getty Images The Chiefs’ preparations for Sunday’s game against the Panthers will move to remote mode after Thursday’s practice. In a statement, the team announced that a staff member has tested positive for COVID-19. The team will practice as scheduled, but they will then close the facility...