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However, Newsome also hinted that re-signing both may not be financially feasible. The Baltimore Sun expects McClain to be a higher priority. Johnson was the more effective player in 2011, but is nearly four years older than McClain. He’ll turn 31 in August.

Patrick Mahomes missed him high on what should have been an easy second touchdown on Kansas City’s final offensive play of the game. Almost all of Kelce’s work was of the checkdown-and-falldown variety, with his touchdown coming as a Denver defender fell to leave him uncovered at the two-yard-line on fourth-and-goal. Rejuvenated with 40 targets since Week 8, Kelce figures to be back in the TE1 overall picture against Buffalo next week even if he doesn’t exactly show much juice in the open field at this point.

The boo birds were out in full force in Chicago as the Bears offense strung together another abysmal performance, failing to score a touchdown for the second straight game. A combination of offensive line failures, receivers not gaining separation, and Caleb Williams holding the ball long led to a whopping nine sacks by the Patriots defense. Williams did not turn the ball over but could not push the ball downfield, averaging just 4.0 yards per attempt. The Bears have major issues to address all the way down to the coaching staff before the offense will see improvement. Williams is a back-end QB2 against the Packers for Week 11.

If you were curious: Hunt’s previous career-high in targets was nine, and he had not been targeted more than seven times in any game since the novel coronavirus hit. Denver’s defense came after Patrick Mahomes with such gusto that he was forced to make Hunt a checkdown target, and a 26-yard catch-and-run after avoiding the sack narrowly edged Hunt over Travis Kelce as the No. 1 Chiefs receiver by yardage on the day. Non-Hunt running backs received two carries on the day in 19 snaps, almost all of which were on passing downs. Hunt will be a volume low-end RB1 play against the Bills next week.

Kamara was once again the entire New Orleans offense with Chris Olave (concussion) sidelined. It could have been a much bigger stat line for Kamara if he hadn’t dropped an easy 60-yard touchdown to ice the game late in the fourth quarter. Kamara was elusive throughout, and nearly broke a couple long runs in the first half. He now has 57 touches over the past two weeks in a Saints offense with precious few viable offenses pieces remaining. Kamara will be locked in for another heavy workload in Week 11 against the Browns.

He missed an open Travis Kelce in the end zone for what would have been a six-point lead assuming the Chiefs hadn’t gone for two, but Kansas City’s special teams came up with a blocked field goal to win the game at the last minute. Mahomes took four sacks and escaped several others, scrambling three times for 19 yards and having another sack waived off by penalty as backup tackle Kingsley Suamataia was abused several times by Broncos defenders. We also got a whole video package of Mahomes favoring his clearly-injured left ankle. Denver’s defense played well, but the Chiefs offense continues to not have a real second gear. They head into a Week 11 clash at Buffalo in a spot where Mahomes is a low-end QB1 at best for fantasy purposes.

Kincaid left the game in the second quarter but was able to return early in the third. However, he was hobbling around while on the field and was removed from the game. His status will be one to watch heading into next week’s game against the Chiefs.

The Cardinals’ first-round rookie remained unable to practice this week. The 5-4 Cardinals sit atop the NFC West and could surely use him down the stretch, so hopefully he can begin practicing after the Cardinals’ Week 11 bye. The Cardinals also declared S Jalen Thompson, LB Julian Okwara, OL Christian Jones, TE Travis Vokolek and WR Xavier Weaver inactive. Newly acquired LB Baron Browning will make his debut.

The stud linebacker will miss his third straight game but slot CB Michael Carter II (back) is available and the offensive line will at least be intact. RG Alijah Vera-Tucker (ankle) and LG John Simpson (groin) are both active. The Jets also declared DT Solomon Thomas, OT Carter Warren, RB Izzy Abanikanda and G Jake Hanson inactive.

The Titans, sporting one of the league’s best secondaries, will go into Week 10 without Sneed and Edwards. It’s a potential boon for Justin Herbert and the LA pass catchers in an offense that has been much more pass heavy over the past few weeks.

A long-term absence would be another tough blow for a Bucs team that has had to absorb its fair share of injuries already this year. Wirfs was replaced by Justin Skule against the 49ers and presumably Skule would be the starter going forward if Wirfs — who has played through injuries impressively before — can’t go in Week 11. Wirfs had a 92.5 PFF pass block grade entering today’s game.