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The NFL Report: The NFL kicks off in Australia + Sam Darnold and AJ Brown injured in season opener
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33 min
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Sep 11, 2026
Published
Fri, September 11, 2026
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Sam DarnoldA.J. BrownAlvin KamaraBryce YoungCooper RushDrake MayeGeorge KittleJa'Marr ChaseJaxon Smith-NjigbaJosh JacobsMatthew StaffordPatrick MahomesRome OdunzeRomeo Doubs
Player analysis
Player insights
A.J. Brown
NegativeInjury9:12
A.J. Brown is dealing with a high ankle sprain, which typically results in missing multiple games. Mike Vrabel did not confirm his status for Week 2, noting that Brown will undergo further tests to determine his availability.
Insight pageAlvin Kamara
NegativeInjury30:13
Alvin Kamara was limited in practice due to a knee injury, but he is still expected to play in the Saints' week one matchup against the Lions.
Insight pageBryce Young
NegativeValue30:28
Bryce Young enters his fourth season with the Panthers without a contract extension, despite being eligible for six months. Owner David Tepper deferred questions regarding his future to GM Dan Morgan.
Insight pageCooper Rush
NegativeRole25:33
Cooper Rush took all first-team reps in practice due to Tua Tagovailoa's oblique injury. Bucky Brooks suggests that if Rush starts, the team should lean on Bijan Robinson and quick completions to playmakers like Drake London and Kyle Pitts.
Insight pageDrake Maye
NegativeUsage12:18
Bucky Brooks notes that Drake Maye struggled with decision-making and turnovers in the season opener, specifically trying to do too much rather than taking what the defense gave him. Brooks remains confident in Maye's resilience and ability to improve with Josh McDaniels.
Insight pageGeorge Kittle
PositiveInjury27:42
George Kittle is officially active and playing after recovering from an Achilles injury sustained during the playoffs in January.
Insight pageJa'Marr Chase
PositiveInjury28:53
Ja'Marr Chase is fully cleared for Sunday's game against the Buccaneers with no injury designation after participating fully in practice with his knee.
Insight pageJaxon Smith-Njigba
PositiveBreakout12:00
Jaxon Smith-Njigba caught a 45-yard touchdown pass from Drew Lock in the fourth quarter, a play the team had not practiced because Lock was the backup quarterback.
Insight pageJosh Jacobs
NegativeInjury31:54
Josh Jacobs is currently on the commissioner's exempt list following a domestic incident and will miss the Packers' game against the Vikings on Sunday.
Insight pageMatthew Stafford
NegativeMatchup16:57
Bucky Brooks expects the 49ers' new defensive coordinator, Raheem Morris, to challenge Matthew Stafford with complex disguises, split-safety looks, and five-man fronts to force post-snap reads.
Insight pagePatrick Mahomes
PositiveInjury22:03
Patrick Mahomes is confirmed to play in the Monday night game against the Broncos, exactly nine months after tearing his ACL. He expressed confidence in his rehab and readiness to compete.
Insight pageRome Odunze
NegativeInjury29:52
Rome Odunze's status for the upcoming game against the Panthers is uncertain due to a calf injury; he was a limited participant in practice, and his official status will be confirmed when the injury report is filed on Friday.
Insight pageRomeo Doubs
NegativeUsage15:00
Romeo Doubs had a costly drop on a deep ball that resulted in an interception, highlighting missed opportunities in the Patriots' passing game.
Insight pageSam Darnold
NegativeInjury7:29
Sam Darnold is likely out for Week 2 against Arizona due to a hip injury sustained in the season opener; however, Ian Rapoport reports the injury is not as serious as initially feared, as the hip is not broken.
Insight pageNegativeInjury29:09
Sam Darnold is dealing with an unusual muscle strain in his hip area; while there is currently no consideration for him to be placed on injured reserve, his specific timetable for a return remains to be determined.
Insight pageTua Tagovailoa
NegativeInjury25:17
Tua Tagovailoa is dealing with an oblique injury and is officially limited, making his status for the Sunday game against Pittsburgh uncertain. Cooper Rush took first-team reps in his place.
Insight pageTutu Atwell
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Episode Transcript
0:00You know the feeling, you make a pick in your fantasy draft and the entire room groans because they wanted that player.
0:07Or you grab a small school rookie off waivers and you start him right before he goes off in primetime.
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0:50The new NFL season is here and you should be listening to NFL Daily as we march along to Super Bowl 61.
0:57Last year, we had Mike McDonald, Sam Darnold on the field after the game, but that was last year.
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1:13Matthew Stafford coming off his MVP season. On a dazzling dart from Matthew Stafford.
1:18Big-time trades that shake up the NFL. AJ Brown is loose!
1:21And of course, those Seahawks trying to run it back and win another Lombardi trophy.
1:26The Seahawks win Super Bowl 60! They are bringing the Lombardi back to the Northwest!
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3:50One game down, and we have another one tonight.
3:53Football in excess. Rams burning the midnight oil against Christian McCaffrey.
3:56See what we did there. We have the latest from Melbourne ahead of the TNF-NFC Grudge Badge.
4:02Are the Seahawks, meantime, looking for another quarterback? Can't have it for that matter.
4:06How bad is the A.J. Brown injury? We have the day-after injury news from the Stunner in Seattle.
4:12Plus, will Patrick Mahomes be a different player Monday night?
4:16It's exactly nine months after his injury. All of it is next on the NFL Report.
4:21Another edition of the NFL Report. Another game day edition.
4:24We are presented by Nationwide. My name is Andrew Siciliano from our studios in Los Angeles.
4:29Coming up, more moving pictures of the Rams and the 49ers on the field in Melbourne.
4:34Plus, might the Falcons have to go with yet a different quarterback in Pittsburgh Sunday against the Steelers?
4:40That story is coming up. We begin, however, with what is news to me?
4:45Our latest headlines. And we begin with the injury news from Seattle.
4:49The good news and the bad news on Sam Darnold.
4:52The bad news is he is likely out for week two in Arizona.
4:56That's according to NFL Network insider Ian Rappaport. The good news is it looks like last night's hip injury is not as serious as it could have been.
5:05The hip is not broken. Here's Mike McDonald at roughly 6 p.m.
5:09Eastern time. No update, honestly, from earlier. So, but it's been positive news.
5:14So, right now I think we're just working through the extent of the injury and then putting a plan in place to get back rocking and rolling.
5:22So, it is silver lining as we have, you know, some extra time here.
5:27We'll kind of get things back up and running on Monday.
5:30Actual Monday. Calendar Monday, not football Monday. Actually, it'll be Monday.
5:34We'll be back, okay? It'll be a football Monday and a calendar Monday.
5:38So, hopefully by then we'll have a really accurate picture of plan of attack and what we'll do that week.
5:45The good news is Sam Darnold is also in the building.
5:48Mike McDonald, like Kyle Shanahan, doesn't know what day it is.
5:52A.J. Brown, there's this as well. Rappaport, a Mike Arifola report.
5:56It's a high ankle sprain, which is not good.
5:58That usually means multiple games missed. Mike Vrabel got off a red eye, went to the podium in Foxborough, was not ready
6:06to say Brown definitely isn't playing week two, but...
6:09No, I don't think that A.J. will be running more tests, but we'll update you here next week.
6:14He wasn't able to finish the game. And, you know, we'll continue to evaluate, continue to run tests.
6:20But, you know, I don't know if he'll be available going forward here for the next week, but we'll see.
6:27And, you know, I know he'll do everything that he can to get back as quickly as possible.
6:33And once we get the reports, then we'll figure out what the treatment plan is.
6:38By now, you know who won the game. If you didn't, we'll show you the highlight.
6:43They unveiled the championship banner before the game at Lumen Field.
6:46The loudest stadium, hands down to the NFL on a beautiful night.
6:5074 degrees. Everything felt right until early. Look at the clock here.
6:54This is the opening possession. Darnold hit as he threw.
6:57Draymont Jones, the former Titan, played with Vrabel in Tennessee.
7:01Cleveland native. He is the one that got on this.
7:04Looks pretty innocuous. But remember, every hit when you're watching at home, where you don't even look up from your phone, feels
7:11like a car crash to these guys, and Darnold would hop to the locker room.
7:16He would eventually leave and go to the hospital for tests.
7:20He would not be there when JSN, early fourth quarter on a fourth down, takes this from Drew Locke, a play that
7:27they said he hadn't even practiced because Locke is the number two.
7:31You don't get number one reps. That's a 45-yard touchdown, and we are tied.
7:35Now look at the clock. Seattle's out of timeouts.
7:38Just don't do this, Drake May. What are you doing?
7:41He's getting picked by Josh Jobe. Three fourth-quarter picks.
7:44And hi, Bucky Brooks. You caught me just like in stunned disbelief.
7:48Bucky Brooks, who's going to be on NFL Game Day Preview coming up shortly.
7:53Bucky, how do you, if you're Drake May and you were second to the MVP voting, throw the ball away when a
8:00field goal sends the game to overtime? This is the thing.
8:04Like knowing Drake May, going all the way back to our Tar Heel connection, I'm really surprised to see him fall apart in these moments.
8:12I know he had struggles last year in the postseason.
8:15And sometimes you just try to do too much.
8:18In that moment, Drake May was trying to do too much.
8:22But what I'm confident is he's resilient. He and Josh McDaniels will get on the same page.
8:27They'll find a way to minimize and eliminate some of those turnovers.
8:31Because overall, I think the Patriots are good. He's a good player.
8:35He just has to lean back on what he knows to be true.
8:39Take care of the ball. Give the ball to the open man.
8:43And don't try to do too much. Because this offense, this system, the playmakers around him, look, there are plenty of completions baked into it.
8:51He just has to trust what he sees and allow the playmakers to do the work for him.
8:57Look, there were plays to be made. We showed Romeo Dobbs there.
9:01He had the deep ball that he couldn't hang on to, which turned into a pick.
9:06He had the other drop, which proved costly. But, Bucky, real quick, when May threw the ball downfield and tip of the
9:13cap to Mike McDonald and this defense, he was seeing ghosts, to use the Sam Darnold phrase.
9:19Yeah, you know what's interesting, like we can talk about that egregious area at the end, but the one where he threw
9:26over the middle, where they're running basically like a dagger concept.
9:30But the scoring is so far away, I'm like, where is he going with the ball?
9:35He just has to be patient. Take what is there.
9:38Allow the offense to really work for him. He just has to get back to being a very patient and disciplined quarterback.
9:45When he does that, he'll rack up the yards, and he'll get the touchdowns that he wants.
9:51All right, you guys are getting ready for the Rams and the 49ers.
9:55Miles Garrett is on the field. This is at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
9:59He looks rested. He looks ready. By the way, you can see his breath.
10:04It's winter, remember, in Australia. People are all bundled up.
10:07Let's do a primetime preview presented by Nationwide Bucky Brooks.
10:10We'll get to the Rams defense in a second.
10:13Let's start here, however, with the other side of the ball.
10:17Raheem Morris is basically Sean McVay's best friend. Like, if he had to list his besties, Raheem Morris, the new defensive coordinator
10:24of the 49ers, is on that very short list.
10:27What is he throwing at Matthew Stafford tonight? Oh, he's going to throw a bunch of different things at him.
10:34The one thing that we know about Raheem Morris, this defense is going to be a little different than the one that Robert Sala presented.
10:42Robert Sala was a little more static, a little more what you see is what you get.
10:47Raheem Morris is going to change the look. He's really big into having his team's disguise.
10:52They're going to show one look from a single hide and go to split safeties.
10:57They'll do it in inverse, do other things. They're going to make Matthew Stafford have to make reads post-snap.
11:04But it's not really that. Five-man fronts, you're going to see a lot of that.
11:08You're going to see five-man fronts. They're going to try and make sure they take care of the running game.
11:15And then he's going to play peekaboo with who's dropping, who's coming.
11:19He is really going to play games with this front.
11:22We'll see. The DBs from the Niners have talked about how dynamic, how fun it is to play in this defense.
11:29Let's see if they can prevent the big plays from happening.
11:33Because what I do know about Matthew Stafford, there is not a deep ball that he's going to turn down.
11:39He is going to test them. We've got to see if the Niners can stay over the top.
11:45Yeah, he's going to dial it up whenever he has that opportunity.
11:49And the Rams and the Niners split last year.
11:52They split home and home. This is technically a Rams home game.
11:56Conversely, we showed you Miles. First time Chris Shula, no Aaron Donald, but first time Chris Shula gets to take Miles Garrett out on the track.
12:04Early in camp, Bucky, I found it fascinating, he was in the edge meeting room.
12:09In other words, like the linebacker, outside linebacker meeting room.
12:12We're not going to see Miles drop in coverage tonight, are we?
12:16Absolutely not. That would be a fireball offense for Chris Shula if you have Miles Garrett.
12:21The single-segling stat league is dropping back in coverage.
12:24What you're going to see is the 3-4, look, it's all semantics.
12:28They're going to put him on the edge. He's going to rush.
12:32I'm excited to see how the other guys get loose because Miles Garrett commands so much pressure.
12:38Kobe Turner, Byron Young. Byron Young had 12 sacks last year and he didn't have a dominant player opposite him.
12:44So imagine how many one-on-ones he's going to face this year.
12:48And then when they bring that other guy back, you know the three-time defensive player of the year, they're going to be able to get after it.
12:57But against the Niners, that's more than enough to give them problems because if the Niners aren't able to run the ball,
13:04Brock Purdy is going to see a lot of number 95 in his face, but he's also going to see a couple other guys win their one-on-ones.
13:13In obvious passing situations. All right, Bucky, stay right there.
13:16We're going to get some other news in real quick.
13:19Starting in Kansas City, if we could do that with Patrick Mahomes.
13:23We've only done this show a couple of weeks now, but this, I think, and I'm counting, this is the third time
13:30we've done a Mahomes says he's going to be ready to play week one story.
13:35By now, I believe him. He is going to play Monday night.
13:39The Chiefs host the Broncos at Arrowhead. It's going to be exactly nine months to the day since Mahomes torn ACL.
13:46And this has always been the goal is to get out there and play week one.
13:51And so it was a long off season, a lot of work, a lot of great people around me, trainers, Brittany, my family supporting me.
13:59But now we get to go out there and play the sport that I love.
14:04So super excited. I get to play at Arrowhead against a great opponent and then go out there and be myself.
14:11You've got to go out there and be yourself.
14:14I've built up the strength. I've built up all the days of rehab so that I can be myself.
14:20You know, I'm not going to keep myself out of harm's way like I always will.
14:25I try to take big hits and stuff like that.
14:29But I'm a competitor. I signed up for this and I'm going to go out there and play football.
14:35And I think that's how I've always rolled no matter what it is.
14:39And that's how I'll probably roll the rest of my career.
14:43No, I think that's what makes me who I am is that I just love competing.
14:48You know, playing quarterback is one thing, but you've got to love competing to have success in this league.
14:54And you see that with the guys around this league nowadays.
14:58And so I'll try not to lay any blocks, hopefully, unless it's needed.
15:02But other than that, I'm going to go out there and be myself and play football.
15:07And we've built up all this strength over the offseason for that.
15:11And so why not go out and maximize it?
15:14Get it. Mahomes, he's good. Tua, not good necessarily.
15:17Tua's status, I beg your pardon, for week number one is very much up in the air now.
15:23He's the Falcons QB one for now, but he dropped to his knees in practice today and he grabbed his back.
15:29The team says it's an oblique injury. He's officially limited.
15:33They're in Pittsburgh Sunday. And today, Cooper Rush took all the reps with the ones.
15:38Yeah, we took the whole practice. So early on, got told I was going, so we went.
15:43How much does even just one day like that help get everything?
15:47Huge. It's huge. All those reps matter. It's a big advantage for me, especially, you know, if you have to go in
15:54there, at least you had some reps. Bucky Brooks, am I crazy if I say I think the Falcons have a better chance to win in Pittsburgh?
16:03Stefanski's never done that, by the way, with Cooper Rush.
16:06You're crazy. And that's so disrespectful to Tua Tagovailoa.
16:09He led the league in passing a few years ago.
16:12Led the league in completion percentage a few years ago.
16:16We're going to talk about Cooper Rush with 17 starts.
16:19It's an upgrade over Tua Tagovailoa. Here's what I'll say in a one-game deal with Kevin Stefanski.
16:25If Kevin Stefanski is smart, he's going to make sure that it goes to the playmakers.
16:30B. John Robinson should have a heavy workload. Find a way to get some easy completions to Drake London, Kyle Pitts, some
16:37of the other playmakers on the perimeter. This is one where you go to the team and say, hey, let's make it easy for Cooper Rush.
16:45Let's not put too much on him. We can put it on the other guys, the defense, the playmakers, the weapons, and
16:53let's find a way to get a win. It's going to be tough in Pittsburgh, but remember this about Pittsburgh.
16:59Mike McCartney's first game in Pittsburgh, he is also acclimating to a team.
17:03So if Kevin Stefanski is going to go and steal a win in the Berg, this is the best time to do
17:10it, even if he has to go in there with Cooper Rush.
17:14Technically, Stefanski's Browns did win in Pittsburgh in the postseason in 2020, but Stefanski wasn't there.
17:20He was in his basement. With COVID. Bucky Brooks in the studio for NFL Game Day Preview.
17:25Coming up with Cody Kessler, Mike Yam, anywhere on NFL Channel.
17:29Thank you, Bucky Brooks. Meantime, let's get to Cincinnati for some Bengals news.
17:33Jamar Chase is good to go. They play the Buccaneers on Sunday.
17:37No injury designation. Full participant today with the knee.
17:40FYI, Jamar, the game is at 1 o'clock. I don't have none this year besides make it to the Super Bowl, win the AFC.
17:48So that's my only goal this year. A lot of the stuff can come by itself.
17:53When you look ahead to Sunday, first game, what excites you most about that day, getting out there?
17:59Well, I'm finding out the games at 1 o'clock.
18:02I don't like that. To be honest. I do not like planning at 1 o'clock games.
18:07So that means I got to wake up a little earlier than usual.
18:11When did you find this out? Today. I've heard two.
18:14Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what's your wake-up call? I don't have a wake-up call, but I'm about to make one now.
18:21I'm about to make one now. Yeah. The game's at 1, Jamar.
18:25By the way, do people still get wake-up calls?
18:28Is that a thing? Bryce Young is about to start his fourth year with the Panthers Sunday.
18:34They get the Bears. But Young will do so without a new contract, despite being extension eligible for six months now.
18:40Listen to the owner, David Tepper. You know, that's a question for Dan Morgan.
18:45If you need his number, I'll give it to you.
18:48No, you don't want to bring him over here.
18:51Sure, well, you can talk to him. Go grab him.
18:54You may talk to him. Well, do you envision what would prompt you guys to offer him an extension?
19:01I'm not saying we have or we haven't either.
19:04You should talk to Dan. Look, success is success, and you know it when you see it.
19:09All right. Maybe they get success, and maybe they beat the Bears on Sunday.
19:14Meantime in Green Bay, Packers running back Josh Jacobs pleaded no contest today to multiple misdemeanors, including battery.
19:20This is after a May domestic incident. The battery charge is a $1,000 fine.
19:24The other charge can be dismissed in a year if Jacobs fulfills the terms of an agreement with prosecutors.
19:30Jacobs still right now on the commissioner's exempt list.
19:33Packers get the Vikings on Sunday without Josh Jacobs.
19:36Coming up next on the NFL Report, we spin the QB carousel.
19:40What does year three look like for Jaden Daniels in Washington as they open up at the NFC East against the Eagles?
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19:58I'm JJ Zacharyson, host of the award-winning Late Round Podcast.
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22:13Plus.nfl.com. Terms and conditions do apply. It's an eight-game early, four-game late kind of Sunday, Sunday, Sunday for week number one.
22:19Here's what your schedule looks like. Mention Bryce Young.
22:22He and the Panthers get the Bears early. Bengals, Bucs, Saints, Lions.
22:26You see how this whole thing plays out. Eight games in that early window.
22:31Go sit on the couch. Go enjoy it. The late window has four games and some interesting ones.
22:37Chargers, a huge favorite at home against Mike LaFleur and the Cardinals.
22:41You got the Dolphins and the Raiders. Commanders and the Eagles.
22:44Cowboys-Giants are the Sunday night game in New York.
22:47Broncos-Chiefs, the Monday night game. Only one Monday night game this year.
22:51That game is on ESPN. Let's focus on that Packers-Vikings game.
22:55Let's do it. NFC North. That game is at US Bank.
22:58It's going to be Kyler Murray's Minneapolis debut. He is set to become the fourth different week one starting quarterback for Justin
23:05Jefferson and the Vikings in the last four seasons.
23:08I've kind of known his personality. I know just how he is as a person, as a player.
23:14So nothing really surprised me. What surprised me is his arm talent.
23:18Him being able to come out here and lead the guys every single day in practice and being vocal and just being
23:25more of a leader than I've seen in Arizona.
23:28So it's really cool just seeing him kind of step up into a road that we really needed him to really be in.
23:36Kyler Murray and Justin Jefferson playing for the Vikings.
23:39And Malik Willis takes the Dolphins into Vegas. It's one of the four games in the late window.
23:44All we've been talking about in this game is Fernando Mendoza.
23:48He's not even playing. Willis is, and he's doing so at 27 with the youngest roster in the league, average age 25.
23:55Just taking it one play at a time, making sure we're prepared before we even get there.
24:01And that's the main thing. Each week you've got to prepare.
24:04So when the game comes, it's a lot easier as far as mental, gymnastics, and hoops that you have to go through to execute a play.
24:13I mean, we'll get, I don't know how many reps.
24:16We've got 80 reps today. We'll continue to just build and get those reps, mental reps, and just continue to learn and get better.
24:24Obviously, there's going to be mistakes, but if we can learn from those mistakes in the long run, we'll be better off.
24:31Let's talk about the commanders. Does anyone have a feel for them at all this year?
24:36Last year, Jaden Daniels missed 10 games, knee, hamstring, elbow.
24:40When he was on the field, however, Washington was 2-5.
24:43I just think I didn't get into a flow, you know, in and out the lineup with injuries.
24:49But, you know, as for all the analytics people, stats, whatever, it is what it is, man.
24:54What I did year one, what I did year two, doesn't matter.
24:58I mean, that's what people are going to talk about, you know, recency, biases, and all that.
25:04Year two, it is what it is. Now we're on the year three.
25:08You know, whatever happens on Sunday, that's what people are going to talk about more than what they talk about year two.
25:15On to the next one. And it's going to be Daniels facing Jalen Hurts Sunday for the first time since they met
25:22in the NFC Championship game at the end of the 24 season.
25:26Daniels rookie season. And stop me if you've heard this before, but Hurts has yet another new offensive coordinator.
25:32This time it's Sean Mannion. He's the fifth since 2021.
25:36It's an ongoing thing. It's every year. Every year is different.
25:39And you assess it given where you are. And I think we're just going on our journey.
25:45We're on our process right now. So we're here.
25:48We've had our first day of practice in this official week, and we're just building from there.
25:53We're taking it a day at a time. Yeah, we're taking it a day at a time.
25:59I think the guys have built a lot of confidence, and we've gotten a lot of reps, and we've been very intentional over the time we've shared together.
26:08So we're just going to continue to work. Hurts and the Eagles were in the community Wednesday.
26:13They joined a nonprofit 9-11 day Wednesday in Philly for a large-scale meal pack event at the stadium Lincoln Financial Field for
26:21something called Philabundance, which is a local food pantry that addresses food insecurity through hunger relief efforts in the city.
26:27Great job by the Eagles helping out those who gave their lives or the families of those who gave their lives on 9-11.
26:35First responders, recovery workers, volunteers, and others in that Philadelphia community.
26:38Meantime, up the road in New York, the Jets had players visit the 9-11 Memorial and Museum alongside Chairman Woody Johnson, Vice
26:45Chairman Christopher Johnson, and former quarterback Vinny Testa Verde.
26:48The visit gave an opportunity for players to reflect on 9-11 while learning more about the museum's mission.
26:54And it's an amazing museum. I highly recommend you go.
26:57So remembrance, education, and honoring those that we lost on that day 25 years ago.
27:02We continue on the NFL Report and we go back to the football.
27:07We'll tell you who is up and who is down.
27:10Actives and inactives from Melbourne. We got a game tonight.
27:13Don't go anywhere. Last night was fun. Let's play another game tonight.
27:17This game is the first ever in Australia. The Melbourne Cricket Ground.
27:21Isn't she lovely? This is from the Rams Twitter.
27:24By the way, we have actives and inactives. It's going to be Stetson Bennett as QB2 tonight for the Rams.
27:30The rookie 13th overall pick Ty Simpson is officially the number three emergency quarterback.
27:35And if you had any doubt, George Kittle and Nick Bosa both up and active and playing tonight for the San Francisco 49ers.
27:42That game is on the Netflix, as my dad would say.
27:46Let's do some quick hits, some breaking news as well.
27:49More details on Sam Darnold's injury from our old friend Tom Pellisso now working for the Netflix.
27:55Tests showed that Sam Darnold has an unusual muscle strain in his hip area.
27:59Tom says right now, no consideration of injured reserve, but his timetable to return remains TBD.
28:05Long weekend, obviously, for the Seahawks. They played on a Wednesday.
28:08Next up, they are in Arizona on a Sunday for week number two.
28:12The Bears play the Panthers and Roma Dunze status is very much up in the air.
28:18The Chicago wide receiver was a limited participant today in practice.
28:21He has a calf injury. The official injury report comes out Friday.
28:25It's back to that time of the year. We'll see what Roma Dunze status is when the Bears have to file that coming up tomorrow.
28:33Meantime, in New Orleans, Alvin Kamara also limited at practice today.
28:37He is, however, expected to play for the Saints week number one.
28:41They get the Lions. Kamara has a knee injury.
28:44He is kind of RB2 behind Travis HN, the running back formerly known as Travis Etienne.
28:49Okay, time for one more thing before we go.
28:52Jamar Chase is one of my favorite people. He was on the podium today.
28:56He waxed poetic for about 20 minutes, entertaining the Cincinnati media, talked about his new podcast, all those things.
29:03He also revealed that he now refers to his teammate, his running buddy T Higgins, as Black Jesus.
29:08Why, Jamar, do you call him that? He says it's an inside joke.
29:13Okay, well, tell us. He said, well, they were hanging out recently.
29:17And T Higgins smiled. And he said it brightened up the entire room and everybody was walking on air.
29:23So your new name, T Higgins, Black Jesus, whether you like it or not, that man is just the baddest man alive.
29:30Can I go back and quote Kyle Hamilton, the Ravens' safety on the top 100?
29:35He said, if the aliens ever attack the Earth, that we should all as Earthlings bring Miles Garrett to the aliens and say, this is our best human.
29:44He is our last hope to defend the planet against the aliens.
29:48That's Miles Garrett getting ready for his first game as a Ram.
29:52And I mentioned George Kittle. Here he is. He is on the field.
29:56Kittle is up and Kittle is active and Kittle is back from an Achilles injury.
30:01Not one that happened midseason. Not one that happened in August.
30:04George Kittle's injury happened in the playoffs in January.
30:07And he's back, as is Nick Bosa. So the only real question mark for this one was Aaron Donald, and he never even got on the plane.
30:16All the other injury question marks for this game, they have been answered, and they are going to be on the field.
30:23Rams, if you're keeping track at home, also have 2-2 Atwell down.
30:27Their former third-round pick, wide receiver, reacquired from the Dolphins a couple of weeks ago.
30:322-2 is inactive. Stetson Bennett, QB2, and Ty Simpson is the emergency quarterback.
30:36That's going to do it for us. Remember, we're here 7 o'clock Eastern time every day for the NFL Report.
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