Well as you can tell by my tardiness on writing this \u2013 not a lot to cover in Week 18. This really wasn\u2019t a fun or exciting final week. Lots of players injured. Lots of teams sitting players \u2013 I watched 3 1\/2 hours of Los Angeles Chargers back ups against Denver, their playoff seed already locked in. Then the games that mattered were all kind of crap outside of Pittsburgh-Baltimore (no Kaleb Johnson in that game. I don\u2019t mean that as he dressed and didn\u2019t play \u2013 he was a healthy scratch for a win-or-go-home game; what a mess of a season for him.) Let\u2019s go review the last weekend of the 2025 NFL regular season. Yay.<\/p>\n
Dane Belton<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s start with Dane. The Giants are a mess \u2013 they could have tanked for the top pick but instead won their final two games for\u2026reasons. Belton led the Giants with 13 tackles as they beat the Cowboys, 34-17. Real quick \u2013 former Hawkeye Tyrone Tracy finished with 18 carries for 103 yards and chipped in 8 catches for 56 yards and a touchdown. Not a bad day for the former receiver.<\/p>\n
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Tight Ends<\/p>\n
George Kittle returned from a week on the injured list to catch 5 passes for 29 yards. Bad day for the Niners as they lost Saturday night to Seattle, 13-3. Seattle had San Francisco in a headlock all night and grabbed the NFC\u2019s top seed. The loss dropped the Niners from the possible 1-seed themselves to the 6 and a day out in Philly. Yeah.<\/p>\n
Noah Fant finished his season with 1 catch for 5 yards in Cincinnati\u2019s loss to Cleveland. Fant also fumbled that one touch. Yikes (Geno Stone finished with 3 tackles for the Bengals.)<\/p>\n
No TJ Hockenson for the Vikings, and no Sam LaPorta for the Lions.<\/p>\n
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Jack Campbell and Tory Taylor<\/p>\n
Speaking of the Lions \u2013 Lions finished the season at Chicago and won 19-16. Everyone in the NFC North finished above .500. Campbell again led the Lions in tackles with 11. I will have a full season recap on final stats for everyone, but it bears mentioning here \u2013 that was good enough to push Campbell to second in the NFL in tackles with 176. Second! What a season for Campbell.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, our punting God Tory Taylor had 4 punts for 178 yards and a long of 54. We get Packers-Bears Round III in Chicago Saturday night and I CAN\u2019T WAIT.<\/p>\n
Riley Moss<\/p>\n
Your top seed in the AFC \u2013 THE DENVER BRONCOS! And wow did they look unimpressive against the Chargers second-string. I don\u2019t know what it is about this Broncos team but they feel so beatable. Everyone has to come through Denver but they\u2019re up-and-down. Whatever. Moss finished Denver\u2019s 19-3 win with 6 tackles and 2 passes defended.<\/p>\n
Potpourri across the board this week. BOR-ING.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well as you can tell by my tardiness on writing this \u2013 not a lot to cover in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,5127,10027,6115,119605,3897,213736,19977,92997,5344,3052,593,10867,116587,19979,6113,5142,85,213737,116585],"class_list":["post-402389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chicago","tag-cincinnati","tag-cleveland","tag-dane-belton","tag-denver","tag-geno-stone","tag-george-kittle","tag-jack-campbell","tag-kaleb-johnson","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-nfl","tag-noah-fant","tag-riley-moss","tag-sam-laporta","tag-san-francisco","tag-seattle","tag-sports","tag-tj-hockenson","tag-tory-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}