We have a relatively light slate of games on Sunday of Week 17 thanks to the Christmas Day games and a pair of Saturday affairs. But there will still be a whole bunch of teams in action, and both playoff and draft-position implications abound throughout the day.<\/p>\n
Fortunately for us, most of the key players will be on the field. But there are also those who will be out or whose statuses remain up in the air.<\/p>\n
Players like DeForest Buckner, Alvin Kamara, T.J. Watt, David Njoku, Budda Baker, Kayshon Boutte, Robert Spillane, Mason Taylor, Charles Cross, Trevin Wallace, Calijah Kancey, Tristan Wirfs, Minkah Fitzpatrick, Andrew Thomas, Kolton Miller, Maxx Crosby, Nakobe Dean, Lane Johnson, Jordan Poyer and more will miss their team’s games, for example.<\/p>\n
And players such as Bernhard Raimann, Sauce Gardner, Chris Olave, Jalen Ramsey, Harold Fannin Jr., Josh Sweat, Marvin Harrison Jr., Noah Fant, Demario Douglas, Robert Hunt, Aaron Brewer, John Michael Schmitz, Dalton Kincaid, Dawson Knox and more have statuses that range from questionable to doubtful.<\/p>\n
You can consider this your one-stop shop for injury news, as well as updates about the playoff picture and draft positioning, throughout the day.<\/p>\n
Week 17 schedule<\/p>\n
Thursday<\/p>\n
Cowboys 30, Commanders 23 (Takeaways)<\/a> Saturday<\/p>\n Chargers X, Texans X (Takeaways) Sunday<\/p>\n Steelers at Browns (1 p.m., Live updates)<\/a> Monday<\/p>\n Rams at Falcons (8:15 p.m., Preview)<\/a><\/p>\n NFL playoff pictureAFC standingsx-Denver Broncos<\/a>\u00a0(13-3)x-New England Patriots<\/a>\u00a0(12-3)x-Jacksonville Jaguars<\/a>\u00a0(11-4)Pittsburgh Steelers<\/a>\u00a0(9-6)x-Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>\u00a0(11-4)x-Buffalo Bills<\/a>\u00a0(11-4)Houston Texans (10-5)NFC standingsx-Seattle Seahawks<\/a>\u00a0(12-3)x-Chicago Bears<\/a>\u00a0(11-4)z-Philadelphia Eagles (10-5)Carolina Panthers (8-7)x-San Francisco 49ers<\/a>\u00a0(11-4)x-Los Angeles Rams<\/a>\u00a0(11-4)x-Green Bay Packers (9-5-1)<\/p>\n x-clinched playoff berth; z-clinched division<\/p>\n 2026 NFL Draft orderNew York Giants (2-13)Las Vegas Raiders (2-13)Cleveland Browns (3-12)New York Jets (3-12)Tennessee Titans (3-12)Arizona Cardinals (3-12)Washington Commanders (4-12)New Orleans Saints (5-10)Cincinnati Bengals (5-10)Kansas City Chiefs (6-10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We have a relatively light slate of games on Sunday of Week 17 thanks to the Christmas Day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[1745,49,48,1744,1740,1724,1732,1725,1736,1720,1718,1734,1728,1723,514,130103,150515,81767,150517,150518,159490,1747,948,1739,82,159491],"class_list":["post-373484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-las-vegas-raiders","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-new-york-giants","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-gameday-inactives","tag-nfl-inactives-today","tag-nfl-injury-updates","tag-nfl-lineup-updates","tag-nfl-player-statuses","tag-nfl-week-17-inactives","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports","tag-week-17-actives-inactives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373484","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=373484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Vikings 23, Lions 10 (Takeaways)<\/a>
Broncos 20, Chiefs 13 (Takeaways)<\/a><\/p>\n
Packers X, Ravens X (Takeaways)<\/p>\n
Seahawks at Panthers (1 p.m., Live updates)<\/a>
Saints at Titans (1 p.m., Live updates)<\/a>
Patriots at Jets (1 p.m., Live updates)<\/a>
Jaguars at Colts (1 p.m., Live updates)<\/a>
Cardinals at Bengals (1 p.m., Live updates)<\/a>
Buccaneers at Dolphins (1 p.m., Live updates)<\/a>
Giants at Raiders (4:05 p.m., Live updates)<\/a>
Eagles at Bills (4:25 p.m., Live updates)<\/a>
Bears at 49ers (8:20 p.m., Live updates)<\/a><\/p>\n