This was expected after NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported as much about a half an hour prior to inactives being released. Both Dontayvion Wicks and Savion Williams are active and will play after coming into Monday listed as questionable. Also inactive for the Packers are CB Nate Hobbs, K Lucas Havrisik, OL Jacob Monk, OL Donovan Jennings, and DL Lukas Van Ness.

The Packers reportedly held out hope as long as they could considering the season-ending injury to Tucker Kraft, but the talented rookie wide receiver will be unable to play against the Eagles on Monday Night Football. Romeo Doubs, Christian Watson, and Luke Musgrave stand to benefit in his absence, while Malik Heath could see an increase in snaps as well. Savion Williams, also listed as questionable, could see his highest snap rate of the season, if active.

“We feel like Joe has assembled a good young nucleus of talent, and we look forward to it’s development,” was the direct quote from owner John Mara. Do not link him to the 2022 or 2023 Giants draft classes. That would be mean. It does appear that hitting on Malik Nabers, Abdul Carter, Jaxson Dart, and Cam Skattebo has bought Schoen more time than we would have expected from the outside.

Burrow will practice in a limited capacity this week and can be activated off injured reserve at any time. The Bengals have 21 days to officially activate Burrow from injured reserve or rule him out for the season, so there’s a good chance we could still be a few weeks away from playing on Sundays. Burrow suffered a turf toe injury in Week 2 that required surgery and was expected to sideline him until December. If the Bengals push Burrow up to his 21-day limit, he would be on track to play in Week 14 against the Bills.

Sunday’s loss to the Bears marked the third-straight season in which the Giants opened with a 2-8 record. It’s been a quick fall from grace for Daboll, who led the Giants to a 9-7-1 record in his first season, as well as their first playoff win since 2011. In that first season, Daboll was able to squeeze decent quarterback play out of Daniel Jones while leading an offense that ranked 15th in scoring and 18th in yards per game. That said, a four-year extension to Jones in the offseason was followed by disastrous quarterback play in 2023 and 2024, although he seemed to have finally found his guy in Jaxson Dart this season. Daboll’s Giants blew four leads this season on their way to their disastrous start and lost a brutal Week 5 game to the Saints. The Giants have already named OC Mike Kafka as the interim head coach, and could hand him the keys to the team in 2026 if he impresses over the final seven games of the season.

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers narrowly missed Metcalf for what would have been an easy touchdown on the team’s second possession, which was one of many overthrows by Rodgers on the evening. Another such overthrow resulted in a Los Angeles interception in the second quarter. Metcalf continues to be hamstrung by a low-volume pass offense, leaving his fantasy value lacking in any game he’s held out of the end zone. He gets a matchup boost in Week 11 when the Steelers take on the Bengals.

Warren accounted for 91 of the 221 yards of total offense from the Steelers as they struggled to move the football throughout against the Chargers. Even so, the team trailed only 5-3 until the last minute of the first half when Ladd McConkey broke the game open with a touchdown from 15 yards out. Warren also handily led the backfield, ceding only two carries to rookie Kaleb Johnson on back-to-back plays in the third quarter and three targets to Kenneth Gainwell, keeping him entrenched as an RB2 ahead of a plus matchup with the Bengals in Week 11.

Rodgers was far from sharp in this one, sailing his first interception over the head of alpha wide receiver DK Metcalf in addition to committing a fumble that would lead to a first half safety for the Los Angeles defense. His second interception was a deflection off the hands of Calvin Austin, so we’ll give him a pass on that one, but the theme of the game was inaccuracy and indecision for the veteran signal caller. The Chargers held the Steelers to only 221 yards of total offense as Rodgers failed to get anything going on offense, playing over 57 minutes of football before the team’s only touchdown of the game. Kicker Chris Boswell connected on a 59-yard field goal on the team’s second possession but missed another from 45 yards in the second quarter. Rodgers nearly doubled up on his interception total for the season, now sitting at five through nine games. The Steelers fall to 5-4, now just one game ahead of the surging Ravens, ahead of a divisional matchup with the Bengals in Week 11.

Johnston has now been held to 53 yards or fewer in each of the previous five games after a torrid start to the season in which he caught four touchdowns and went over 70 yards in each of his first four starts. Whether the added target competition from rookie tight end Oronde Gadsden is causal factor for the reduced production remains to be seen, although Gadsden did depart Week 10 with a knee injury. Johnston and the Chargers get the pass-funnel Jaguars in Week 10, where he could return to WR2 status, pending the status of Gadsden.

The two teams played to a 5-3, defensive struggle in the first half until quarterback Justin Herbert found McConkey streaking open up the middle of the field with 13 seconds to play in the first half to break the game open. The standout second-year receiver would add a 58-yard reception after the break to send him over the 100-yard threshold for only the second time this season. The fantasy returns have been a far cry from his breakout rookie campaign, but McConkey continues to operate as the team’s top pass-catcher for one of the most pass-heavy units in the league. That trend appears likely to continue as the Chargers turn their focus to the pass-funnel Jaguars in Week 11.