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Jue will compete with Terrence Kiel to start with Marlon McCree at safety. He’s expected to be ready for camp.

Harbaugh did also say “We’d love to be the fifth seed.” The Steelers are locked in to that seed with a win on Saturday, which happens before Los Angeles plays on Sunday. Harbaugh said “we’ll do what’s best for the team” when asked about resting starters if seeding isn’t at stake. Reading between the lines, we’d say it’s more likely than not that Harbaugh rests the starters in Week 18 if the Steelers win on Saturday night.

The team wants to extend Allen’s consecutive starts streak. Overall, McDermott said he plans to use “a blend of regular starters and other players they want to get a look at.” That probably means that other Bills fantasy fixtures like James Cook and Khalil Shakir could also rest for Week 18.

He’ll miss at least the next four games. Rankins has been listed as out with an illness for several weeks, he hasn’t practiced since Week 11. Hopefully whatever Rankins has isn’t as serious as that makes it sound, but his first year with the Bengals was brought to an abrupt halt thanks to the injury. He finishes the regular season with seven starts, one sack, and 10 solo tackles. Bengals beat reporters seem to believe Rankins will be released and has played his last snaps with the team.

At last, our questions have been answered. Canales and the Panthers hope to “finish strong” against the Falcons in Week 18’s contest between two underperforming NFC South teams. Young threw for 203 yards and two scores in last week’s loss to the Buccaneers and has thrown for 771-6-3 while completing 60.3 percent of his passes in his last four games. Young still has a lot to prove as he prepares for the upcoming offseason. A strong finish against the Falcons will go a long way of boosting his confidence heading into 2025.

Waddle has missed the last two weeks since leaving Week 15’s loss against the Texans with a knee injury. He got in two limited sessions in practice last week. We’d probably want to see at least a full session here before trusting he’ll play. With Tyler Huntley looking more likely to be the starting quarterback on Sunday against the Jets, this may not exactly be a smash spot for Waddle.

His 21-day window opens today and he is apparently practicing ahead of Baltimore’s Week 18 game against the Browns. Kolar broke his arm in late November against the Chargers. The third-year tight end will get back into the Baltimore TE rotation with Mark Andrews and Isaiah Likely once activated.

The Commanders can improve their seeding in the NFC playoff race, as a win over the Cowboys would secure the No. 6 seed for them heading into the postseason. The Commanders already secured their spot in the playoffs with Sunday’s win over the Falcons, a higher seed could now ensure what they hope will be a more favorable matchup in the Wild Card round of the NFC playoffs.

Jackson further writes the Browns are “pretty much starting from scratch at quarterback in the spring.” Ian Rapoport linked the Browns to Aaron Rodgers and Kirk Cousins as “competition” in 2025. But perhaps Watson has not even earned the benefit of the doubt to be competition after three lost years in Cleveland and a long-term recovery from his torn Achilles. Complicating matters is that the Browns have a shot at the No. 1 pick and will likely pick No. 2 or No. 3 after their Week 18 game against the Ravens, one in which Baltimore needs to win to clinch the AFC North. Baltimore is favored by 18 points.

Garrett has publicly said that he wants to see what the Browns plan to do at quarterback and what the overall direction of the organization is before signing an extension. “Nobody wants to trade Garrett, but it’s hard to see a path toward a significant turnaround in the next 12 months. For at least the last three seasons, the organization’s overarching strategy has been to spend its way out of problems and then spend more when necessary. It’s all led to this,” writes Jackson. We are a little more optimistic on the idea that Garrett will stay with the Browns than Jackson is, but it wouldn’t be a surprise if he asked for a trade before the league’s new year in March.

He practiced in full for most of last week, but the decision to hold him out reportedly came down to conditioning. It’s almost impossible to understand what a Week 18 Olave looks like without also figuring out the health of Derek Carr and Alvin Kamara, but if Olave played with Spencer Rattler in Week 18 he’d probably not be worth using in fantasy leagues given how weak that offense has looked the last three weeks.