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.
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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.
The Bills are making a change to their 53-man roster.
Buffalo is waiving defensive back Anthony Kendall, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reports.
The team intends to bring him back on the practice squad should he clear waivers.
Kendall, 26, had not played in a game since 2023 before he appeared in last night’s victory over the Rams. He was on the field for 31 defensive snaps and 15 special teams snaps in the contest.
Kendall has also spent time with the Titans, Ravens, and Browns in his career.
The Rams may not have left tackle Alaric Jackson for Sunday’s game against the Cardinals. And not because of an injury.
Jackson’s decision to punch Bills defensive end Bradley Chubb in the face well after the game ended invites a suspension.
Last year, the NFL imposed a one-game suspension on Lions safety Brian Branch for striking Chiefs receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster with an open hand to the facemask in the immediate aftermath of a Sunday night game.
“Your aggressive, non-football act was entirely unwarranted, posed a serious risk of injury, and clearly violated the standards of conduct and sportsmanship expected of NFL players,” NFL V.P. of football operations Jon Runyan wrote in a letter to Branch, exactly one year ago to the day. “Your conduct reflected poorly on the NFL and has no place in our game.”
On Monday night, Jackson sucker punched Chubb well after the game ended; Chubb’s helmet was off, and Jackson had returned to the field after removing his shoulder pads and jersey.
If it had happened outside the stadium, Jackson would have been arrested and charged with assault. (He still could be, technically.) The fact that it happened well after the Monday night game ended could prompt scrutiny under the Personal Conduct Policy, which prohibits (among other things) "[v]iolent or threatening behavior toward another employee or a third party in any workplace setting.”
If the NFL proceeds under the Personal Conduct Policy, Jackson’s prior violation could prompt something more than a one-game suspension.
Either way, discipline is surely coming for Jackson. Given the precedent set by the Brian Branch case, the punishment should be a suspension of at least one game.
UPDATE 11: 47 a.m. ET: Per the NFL, it’s not a Personal Conduct Policy issue. Jackson will be subject to discipline under the normal pregame/in-game/postgame rules.
The Bills are not traveling home after beating the Rams on Monday night, and that means they need to be totally focused on the job at hand, according to quarterback Josh Allen.
After playing in Los Angeles on Monday night, the Bills play in Las Vegas on Sunday afternoon, and Allen said on ESPN late Monday night that Buffalo will have an unusual week of practice away from their facility.
“Coming across the country, playing on a Monday night, we’re on a short week, we’ve got to go to Vegas next week,” Allen said. “We’re staying here. Trusting our guys to be pros and do the right thing. We’re here to win this week and next week, and we’ve got to get past this one on a short week and find a way to win.”
After some tough travel logistics ahead of Week 6, the Bills will get to relax with their Week 7 bye before playing at home against the Ravens in Week 8.
