ASHBURN, Va. — The Washington Commanders, once more, will be minus two of their top three receivers — and possibly all of them — for Monday’s game against the Chicago Bears.<\/p>\n
Commanders coach Dan Quinn ruled out receivers Terry McLaurin (quad) and Noah Brown (groin\/knee). Meanwhile, receiver Deebo Samuel did not practice Thursday or Saturday because of a bruised heel, but Quinn said they “would take it into Monday” to determine whether or not he would play.<\/p>\n
McLaurin will miss his third consecutive game, and Brown will miss his fourth. Samuel has played in all five games this season. He worked on a side field away from teammates with strength and conditioning coaches.<\/p>\n
Quinn ruled McLaurin out for Monday’s game after was he unable to practice this week. McLaurin injured his quad while diving for the end zone at the end of a 56-yard catch and getting hit around his quad.<\/p>\n
During the portion of practice open to the media, he was seen at practice running sprints on a side field, away from teammates.<\/p>\n
Brown was listed as a limited participant in practice Wednesday and Thursday. He was able to run routes at full speed, but Quinn said, “He did have a good week in the individual work, but he’s just not there yet.”<\/p>\n
McLaurin, who signed a three-year extension in late August after missing all of Washington’s camp practices, caught 10 passes for 149 yards and no touchdowns in the first three games.<\/p>\n
Samuel has emerged as the Commanders’ top target and would be a crucial loss if he can’t play. He leads Washington with 30 catches, 300 yards and three touchdown receptions. Washington traded a fifth-round pick to San Francisco for Samuel in the offseason.<\/p>\n
In the last two weeks without McLaurin and Brown, Samuel has caught a combined 14 passes for 168 yards.<\/p>\n
Brown caught three passes for 36 yards in the first two games. In 11 games with Washington last season he caught 35 passes for 453 yards and a touchdown. He also was second in the NFL, drawing six defensive pass interference penalties.<\/p>\n
Brown caught quarterback Jayden Daniels’ 52-yard Hail Mary pass to beat Chicago 18-15 in Week 8 last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHBURN, Va. — The Washington Commanders, once more, will be minus two of their top three receivers —…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82,100662,74826],"class_list":["post-205642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-terry-mclaurin-sports-football-player-player-statscom-836116","tag-washington-commanders-sports-football-team-team-statscom-363"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}