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Bills quarterback Josh Allen is approaching a milestone that only four quarterbacks before him have reached.

Allen has 4,960 career rushing yards, so if he runs for 40 yards on Sunday against the Raiders, he’ll have 5,000 rushing yards in his NFL career.

Only four quarterbacks have done that before him: Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is the NFL’s all-time quarterback leader with 6,666 career rushing yards, heading into Week 6. Behind Jackson are Michael Vick with 6,109, Cam Newton with 5,628 and Russell Wilson with 5,568.

Allen is the NFL’s all-time leader in rushing touchdowns for a quarterback, with 87 in his career. He likely won’t catch Jackson on the career rushing yardage list, but he could easily retire with both the most career rushing touchdowns and second-most career rushing yards of any quarterback in NFL history. Quite an accomplishment for a quarterback who’s a great passer, too.

Rams offensive tackle Alaric Jackson had his suspension reduced to one game on appeal Wednesday. He will be on unpaid leave Sunday when the Rams play the Cardinals.

Bills pass rusher Bradley Chubb, who took a punch from Jackson after the game Monday night, said he learned a valuable lesson from the incident.

“Me personally, I learned I’m either going to have my hands up or wear a helmet,” Chubb said, via Nick Suss of ESPN.

Chubb admitted he initiated the conversation between the two men after the Bills’ 37-34 overtime victory.

“I’ll tell you exactly what I said,” Chubb said at the practice facility on UC Irvine’s campus, where the Bills are practicing this week. “I’ve heard I was talking about his mom. That’s not true at all. I said, ‘We’re gonna see y’all’s ass again, and when we see you again, all that chipping ain’t gonna save you. That tight end and guard is not going to save you.’ He said, ‘What’d you say?’ I said, ‘That chip’s not gonna save you. The guard’s not gonna save you.’ And then boom.”

Chubb, who hasn’t heard from Jackson since the punch, said he was proud he didn’t retaliate and draw a suspension of his own.

If the teams play again this season, it will be in the Super Bowl back at SoFi Stadium in February.

Rams left tackle Alaric Jackson will be suspended for sucker punching Bills linebacker Bradley Chubb. But Jackson won’t miss two games.

Hearing officer Derrick Brooks has reduced Jackson’s suspension to one game on appeal.

It’s possible that Jackson’s case included evidence regarding the provocation from Chubb that preceded the approach. Chubb may have said something that made the punch less unreasonable. Or not so unreasonable to support a two-game suspension.

Jackson will still serve a one-game suspension, missing Sunday’s game against the Cardinals. At a base salary of $16.822 million, he’ll lose $934,555.

That may have been a factor in the final decision. Apart from the time missed, Jackson was looking at losing nearly $2 million on a two-game suspension.

Regardless, Jackson is fortunate to be missing only one game. He punched Chubb minutes after the game ended. Hot blood should have cooled by then. And Jackson likely would have been arrested if he’d done it in the parking lot instead of in the middle of the field.

Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty will play in Sunday’s game against the Bills, coach Klint Kubiak said Wednesday.

A report earlier in the day indicated the Raiders are considering sitting Jeanty to let his ankle and foot injuries fully heal. Kubiak disputed that.

“He’s playing,” Kubiak said, via Sam Warren of TheAthletic.com.

Jeanty injured his ankle in training camp, and he had the foot injury added to the Week 5 report. He was limited last Thursday and did not practice last Friday.

A game-time decision, Jeanty played 32 of 60 snaps and had 10 carries for 27 yards and three catches for 50 yards.

“He’s starting to feel a lot better physically,” Kubiak said. “I’m excited about giving him even more reps in practice and more full-speed reps.”

Jeanty has 88 carries for 291 yards and 22 catches for 215 yards and two touchdowns.

Greg Rousseau blocked a game-winning field goal attempt from the Rams on Monday night.

Now he’s been named AFC special teams player of the week.

Rousseau got his hand on Harrison Mevis’ 48-yard attempt, making it the first blocked field goal in overtime that led to a win since the 2015 season. The NFL notes it’s also the fourth-latest blocked field goal in overtime since 1974.

While this is Rousseau’s first special teams player of the week, but it’s his third career player of the week award. He also won it in 2021 (Week 5) and in 2024 (Week 1) for his defense.

The Bills will be on the road to face the Raiders on Sunday.

James Cook ran for 111 yards and two touchdowns against the Rams on Monday night, but a negative play almost became his lasting memory of the game.

Cook fumbled just outside the Rams’ 20-yard-line a couple of minutes into overtime and the Rams recovered to give themselves a chance to win the game. Greg Rousseau blocked a field goal attempt, however, and the Bills were able to drive for a kick of their own.

Tyler Bass made that kick and the Bills won 37-34, but head coach Joe Brady said on Tuesday that the outcome does not overshadow all that happened to get to that point. Cook’s fumble was his second of the night, fourth of the season and his 11th dating back to the start of the 2025 season. He’s also run for a league-high 2,153 yards over that span, but Brady made it clear that the ball has to stop squirting out of his hands.

“He’s doing so many good things running the football,” Brady said. “I don’t want to lose sight of how great he is running the ball right now. But putting the ball on the ground, it’s negating all the positive. I have all the confidence in him. That’s why I put him right back out there. But obviously, at some point there has to be consequences to when we’re putting negative stuff out there .The conversations that we’re having ongoing, James knows it’s important. It’s going to cost us football games. It almost cost us one. We can’t confuse because we won the game that that’s OK. It’s got to improve or the carries are going to decrease.”

Brady noted that Josh Allen also threw an interception on Monday and said the team is generally “putting the ball in harm’s way” too often. They got a painful lesson about how that can hurt a team’s chances of winning in Denver during the playoffs last season and Brady would like to see his team avoid any similar outcomes in big moments this season.

On Monday, Rams left tackle Alaric Jackson sucker punched Bills linebacker Bradley Chubb. On Tuesday, the NFL suspended Jackson for two games.

After the suspension was imposed, Rams coach Sean McVay addressed the expectations for Jackson.

“It is very important to represent the things that we want to be about,” McVay told reporters. “He has to consistently do a better job. I think each situation is its own separate entity. I think you want to be careful pigeonholing yourself into a one-size-fits-all. The league made their decision. I want to understand the totality of the situation.

“I’m not condoning by any stretch of the imagination, but I want to gather all the information before I make comments. It certainly doesn’t help us when we’re missing a player of his caliber. He has to make more consistent decisions that are in alignment with being available and representing the things that we want to be about without a doubt.”

McVay also explained that David Quesenberry will replace Jackson during the suspension.

McVay, who said he believes Jackson will appeal the decision, doesn’t know what Chubb said to prompt the punch from Chubb.

While Chubb’s words won’t excuse the reaction, California does have a “fighting words” law that prohibits certain comments that are “inherently likely to provoke an immediate reaction.” That would be relevant if the local authorities get involved in the situation.

Frankly, they should. The game was over, for several minutes. Jackson’s pads were off. He returned to the field for the conversation that led to the altercation. If the situation had unfolded elsewhere and in the presence of a police officer, Jackson would have been (or at least should have been) immediately arrested.

In this case, the evidence is on video. Why shouldn’t Jackson be charged with battery? Anyone else who sucker punched someone in a public place would be, or at least should be.

Week 5 included plenty of examples of how not to best manage the clock in late-game situations. Most of the coaches who learned lessons did so the hard way, by losing their games.

Bills coach Joe Brady learned a lesson while still winning.

In a Tuesday session with reporters, Brady expressed regret for attempting the game-winning 45-yard field goal on second down, with two minutes left in overtime.

“I didn’t want to run two QB sneaks with the fall process of, again, getting — putting the ball in harm’s way, taking some shots on Josh, just to get — we knew we were already in line,” Brady said. “So it’s like, hey, do I just, hey, center the ball and just take two knees? You know, you go back two yards, but you don’t give them, you know, they end up worse if you miss. They get 45 seconds to, you know, to go 20 yards for the field goal. Big difference in two-minute, and, you know, the 45-yard field goal and a 47-yard field goal percentages, you should still be good to go, right?

“And, you know, so if I had that opportunity again — look, I was convicted about it. You know, [Tyler Bass] was good to go. The conversation we had in the huddle and upstairs was like, ‘Let’s just go win the game right now.’ But, you know, to not give them that shot again, if we do miss, the best thing would be is to take two knees and say, ‘Hey, the 45 and the 47 is not of big difference.’ Be a completely different story if the ball was a little further back. I’d be no indecision on taking knees if we were a little closer. We were just in that. It is a long field goal. We had just missed an extra point, but had the confidence in [Bass], but that’s when I do wish I probably took two knees, and then we kicked the game winner. And if anything, they’d have 45 seconds and not two minutes.”

Plenty of Bills fans would surely prefer a 45-yard field goal try to a 47-yard field goal attempt. For obvious reasons. Regardless, the thought process is another example of the decisions coaches need to make in real time, with the clock ticking.

If the kick had missed from 47, the Rams would have had less than 40 seconds to gain enough ground to try another potential game-winner. A miss from 45 would have given the Rams triple that amount of time.

The NFL has made the two-game suspension of Rams left tackle Alaric Jackson official.

Jackson is set to miss games against the Cardinals and Raiders.

He can appeal, with either Derrick Brooks, Jordy Nelson, Ron Rivera or James Thrash hearing Jackson’s appeal and rendering a decision.

Jackson threw a right hook to Bills linebacker Bradley Chubb after the Rams’ 37-34 overtime loss on Monday night.

ESPN’s cameras caught Jackson exchanging jerseys with Bills defensive lineman Deone Walker at midfield when Chubb appeared to say something to Jackson. Jackson punched Chubb in the face with his right hand before Rams tight end Colby Parkinson pulled Jackson away.

Chubb called it “just emotions” after the game.

Jackson has started all five games this season and missed only one game last season.

The NFL is expected to suspend Rams left tackle Alaric Jackson for two games for a postgame punch Monday night. But Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the league has yet to notify the team and the NFLPA.

Jackson threw a right hook to Bills linebacker Bradley Chubb after the Rams’ 37-34 overtime loss.

Jackson will miss games against the Cardinals and Raiders unless he appeals and wins.

ESPN’s cameras caught Jackson exchanging jerseys with Bills defensive lineman Deone Walker at midfield when Chubb appeared to say something to Jackson. Jackson punched Chubb in the face with his right hand before Rams tight end Colby Parkinson pulled Jackson away.

Chubb called it “just emotions” after the game.

Jackson has started all five games this season and missed only one game last season.