{"id":202128,"date":"2025-12-24T20:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/202128\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T20:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:37:07","slug":"cougs-in-the-nfl-week-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/202128\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougs in the NFL | Week 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 PULLMAN, Wash. (December 23, 2025)\u00a0\u2013 Fourteen Washington State Cougars continue their playing career in the NFL. Here is how the NFL Cougs did last week.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRiver Cracraft | WR | Washington Commanders<br \/>\nCracraft is on the Commanders practice squad.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDaniel Ekuale | DL | Pittsburgh Steelers<br \/>\nDid not play, is on injured reserve.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDaiyan Henley | LB | Los Angeles Chargers<br \/>\nHenley started and made six tackles in the 34-17 win over the Cowboys.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJaden Hicks | S | Kansas City Chiefs<br \/>\nHicks made two tackles while playing in 17 defensive snaps and 23 special teams snaps in the 26-9 loss to the Titans.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBrennan Jackson | DE | Las Vegas Raiders<br \/>\nDid not play, is on injured reserve.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCam Lampkin | CB | Los Angeles Rams<br \/>\nLampkin is on the practice squad.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAbraham Lucas | OT | Seattle Seahawks<br \/>\nLucas started at right tackle and played all 68 offensive snaps in the Seahawks 38-37 overtime win over the Rams.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFrankie Luvu | LB | Washington Commanders<br \/>\nLuvu started and made eight tackles in the 29-18 loss to the Eagles.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGardner Minshew II | QB | Kansas City Chiefs<br \/>\nMinshew II started and went 3-of-8 for 15 yards before leaving the game with an injury.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wsucougars.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/esa-pole\/13453\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13453\" target=\"_blank\">Esa Pole<\/a> | OL | Kansas City Chiefs<br \/>\nPole started at left tackle and played in all 45 snaps of the 26-9 loss to the Titans.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nChau Smith-Wade | CB | Carolina Panthers<br \/>\nSmith-Wade started and made five tackles in the 23-20 win over the Buccaneers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJalen Thompson | S | Arizona Cardinals<br \/>\nThompson did not play last week, was inactive.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJaylen Watson | CB | Kansas City Chiefs<br \/>\nWatson started and made seven tackles in the 26-9 loss to the Titans.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wsucougars.com\/sports\/football\/roster\/kyle-williams\/13660\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13660\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Williams<\/a> | WR | New England Patriots<br \/>\nWilliams had two catches for 46 yards with a 37-yard touchdown, also had a 36-yard kickoff return in the 28-24 win over the Ravens.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; PULLMAN, Wash. (December 23, 2025)\u00a0\u2013 Fourteen Washington State Cougars continue their playing career in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-202128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}