NFL news updates: Rashee Rice undergoing tests, Anthony Richardson’s hip injury not so serious, Vikings remain undefeated

Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid told reporters Monday that wide receiver Rashee Rice is still undergoing tests, meaning that full clarity on a potentially season-ending knee injury may not come until later.

Ian Rapoport dashes the dreams of Jets fans hoping the team can unload Haason Reddick back to Philly. Aside from the fact that Philly wouldn’t take him back even if the Jets paid them, it’s against the NFL rules.

Nearly three years ago, it felt like a perfect fit. The Jacksonville Jaguars had a near-mutiny under head coach Urban Meyer, quarterback Trevor Lawrence looked like a mess, and the franchise was spiraling toward another double-digit loss season. In the expanse of Shad Khan’s ownership of the team, it felt like a rarefied opportunity with a generational quarterback was in jeopardy.

In response, Khan hired Doug Pederson.

Imagine Khan’s dismay Sunday, after watching his Jaguars lose a 24-20 agony game to a Houston Texans team that is following the precise trajectory that was charted by the Jaguars when Pederson got his hands onto the team. By Year 3 of his tenure? Jacksonville was supposed to be battling for AFC supremacy and Lawrence should have taken lengthy strides toward the league’s elite tier of quarterbacks. Instead, time in Jacksonville is a flat circle and the Jaguars are mired in Friedrich Nietzsche’s trench of eternal recurrence.

This is another way of saying the Jaguars are what they were … and may inevitably become what they have already been.

Read the full story here.

#Broncos promising young RB Tyler Badie, who left yesterday’s game on a backboard, has full movement of his arms and legs and is back in Denver with the team, sources say. Very positive.

He did suffer a back injury that may land him on IR, but there is a chance he can be back. pic.twitter.com/35vb1YWHLe

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) September 30, 2024

Mon, September 30, 2024 at 8:47 AM PDT

Every NFL season has its fair share of surprises where teams over or underperform based on the preconceptions that people had for them coming into the year. Through the quarter mark of the season, there hasn’t been a team that’s exceeded initial expectations more than the Washington Commanders, who sit at 3-1 and currently hold a one-game lead for first place in the NFC East.

That is just incredible, considering they were coming off of a season where they were bad enough to need a new coaching staff and quarterback — but they’re off to a roaring start. A week after they scored 38 points against the Bengals, the Commanders went to Arizona and absolutely lit up the Cardinals en route to a 42-14 beatdown on the road.

Read the full story here.

This is a “TEAM” sport I’m not out here satisfied when I threw for 300yds but took a L. If I throw for 50 yds and we WIN, that’s wtf matters. Yall stop commenting on our socials about the yds yall fan duel or parlays ain’t hit 👎🏾

— Lamar Jackson (@Lj_era8) September 30, 2024

Jerod Mayo says “Jacoby is 100% our starter, and that’s how we’re going to look at this going forward.”

— Alex Barth (@RealAlexBarth) September 30, 2024

Might want to keep an eye on this Jayden Daniels kid. Through his first four games he’s got a better completion percent than some guy named Tom Brady in his 2007 season. The Commanders may have gotten a real one in the 2024 NFL Draft, folks.

Good news for Colts fans: the injury that took QB Anthony Richardson out of Sunday’s win against the Steelers doesn’t appear to be that bad. Cameron Wolfe of NFL Network reported that the Colts were acting with an abundance of caution when they ruled him out, but he appears to have avoided major injury.