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Mizzell posted 9-16-0 rushing and 8-78-1 receiving lines in 12 regular season games with the Bears over the past two seasons. His ability as a receiver could help him land a spot elsewhere, but his 4.6-second forty and 20th-percentile Speed Score (Player Profiler) don’t exactly paint the picture of a back that teams will be itching to give the ball to.

A knee injury ended Moreau’s 2024 season and kept him sidelined this year in Weeks 1-4. He appeared in 11 games this season, catching 7-of-10 targets for 70 yards. He turns 29 this summer and is an impending free agent. Even if he signs with a team this summer, he does not need to be considered in re-draft formats next year.

Jonathan Gannon, notably, is described as being “on shakier ground” in Breer’s answer to a mailbag question about the future of the Cardinals. Ossenfort remaining the GM could mean there’s little chance of Kyler Murray returning to the team in 2026, as he drafted Jacoby Brissett with the Patriots and brought him on board in Arizona this past offseason. Gannon’s Cardinals have lost 12 of their last 13 games to fall from 2-0 to 3-12 ahead of Week 17’s clash with the similarly disappointing Bengals.

It seems like the Texans just didn’t have any snaps for Watson with Braxton Berrios already a weekly healthy scratch. He finishes the year with three catches for 30 yards in two games for the Texans and is on the hook for a $2.75 million cap figure in 2026, the final year of his contract.

This leaves RB Audric Estime as the nominal starter, though TE Taysom Hill logged 16 touches to Estime’s eight last week. The Saints apparently wanted to feature Hill in Week 16, in what could be his final home game as a Saint. Projecting each player’s Week 17 role is difficult. Neither one should be considered a confident play, though the Titans’ defense is unimposing.

It’s a sneaky-big loss as Thomas is the Giants best offensive lineman by far. The Giants also have John Michael Schmitz (finger) listed as doubtful for the contest. It lowers the floor for Jaxson Dart in what should, in theory, be a smash start against the Raiders.

He was limited in practice today, despite not being seen by reporters in the media access portion of the session. Olave has been listed with this back issue before and has said this week that he had “similar back issues dating back to high school.” We’d consider him on the optimistic side of questionable, but it’s never great to have a Friday downgrade on the injury report.

Burden was limited on Wednesday and Thursday, and encouragingly upgraded to full participation on Friday. The rookie wide receiver earned 6-7 targets in each of his last three games. He is a decent bet to stay in that range against the 49ers this week, putting him squarely on the FLEX radar.

Bears head coach Ben Johnson told reporters earlier this week that Odunze is “going to be able to help us this year.” Unfortunately, that will not be the case this week. The 23-year-old wide receiver will now miss his fourth straight game, having aggravated the stress fracture in his foot during pre-game warmups in Week 15.

Stingley will be available for the Texans’ game against the Chargers on Saturday. The Texans (10-5) are in the playoff hunt, while the Chargers (11-4) have already secured a spot, though like the Texans, they sit in second place in their division. The Texans’ perimeter cornerback ties for eighth at the position in pass breakups (nine) and ties for third in interceptions (four).

Knox got two DNPs early in the week and came back with a limited session on Friday. It’s his first week with the injury so it’s hard to set expectations entirely, but this is typically the practice pattern of a player who would be on the pessimistic side of questionable in Week 17. It could be Jackson Hawes szn for Buffalo against the Eagles.