Wide receiver George Pickens has touchdown catches in two of his last three games and he’ll have a chance to make it three of four against the Cardinals on Sunday.
Pickens was listed as questionable on the Cowboys’ final injury report due to shoulder and hamstring issues, but he avoided the inactive list ahead of kickoff in Dallas. Pickens has 37 catches for 485 yards overall this season.
Defensive tackle Kenny Clark was also listed as questionable for the Cowboys due to a back injury. He joins Pickens in the lineup for Week 8.
Cardinals at Cowboys
Cardinals: QB Carson Beck, CB Starling Thomas, RB Evan Hull, LB Eku Leota, OL Jon Gaines, OL Albert Reese, DL Walter Nolen
Cowboys: WR KaVontae Turpin, CB Shavon Revel, LB Dee Winters, LB Tyrus Wheat, OL Drew Shelton, TE Luke Schoonmaker
Raiders at Jets
Raiders: WR Dont’e Thornton, QB Aidan O’Connell, WR Malik Benson, S Tristin McCollum, S Dalton Johnson, OL Bryce Cabeldue, DT JJ Pegues
Jets: RB Breece Hall, WR Tim Patrick, OL Max Mitchell, OL Kohl Levao, LB David Bailey, LB Joseph Ossai, CB Nahshon Wright
Falcons at Buccaneers
Falcons: QB Andy Dalton, QB Jack Strand, LB Divine Deablo, RB Brian Robinson, DB Billy Bowman, CB Robert Longerbeam, DE Drake Jackson
Buccaneers: WR Emeka Egbuka, CB Ayden Garnes, G Luke Haggard, G Billy Schrauth, DL DeMonte Capehart
Ravens at Bills
Ravens: WR Elijah Sarratt, S Jaylinn Hawkins, CB Chandler Rivers, OL Emery Jones, G Vega Ioane, DL Aeneas Peebles, QB Joe Fagnano
Bills: OT Spencer Brown, OL Ar’maj Reed-Adams, DL Greg Gaines, WR Skyler Bell, LB Mike Danna, CB Dee Alford, S Jalon Kilgore
Browns at Steelers
Browns: QB Dillon Gabriel, QB Taylen Green, LB Justin Jefferson, CB Noah Igbinoghene, RB Audric Estime, C Parker Brailsford
Steelers: WR Ben Skowronek, QB Drew Allar, QB Will Howard, CB Brandin Echols, RB Eli Heidenreich, CB Doneiko Slaughter
Colts at Jaguars
Colts: LB Bryce Boetticher, TE Pharaoh Brown, DT Kevin Givens, WR Anthony Gould, OL Charlie Heck, QB Riley Leonard, CB Justin Walley
Jaguars: S Antonio Johnson, WR CJ Williams, CB Alijah Huzzie, LB Jamal Hill, DE Wesley Williams, DT Albert Regis
Vikings at Lions
Vikings: S Jakobe Thomas, CB Charles Demmings, RB Demond Claiborne, OL Caleb Tiernan, DL Elijah Williams, QB Max Brosmer
Lions: TE Jackson Meeks, C Seth McLaughlin, DL Mekhi Wingo, DE Ahmed Hassanein, S Bishop Fitzgerald
Titans at Bengals
Titans: RB Tyjae Spears, WR Carnell Tate, P Tommy Townsend, OL Brandon Crenshaw-Dickson, TE Kylen Granson, DL Jackie Marshall, DB Jaylon Jones
Bengals: S Kyle Dugger, C Connor Lew, OL Myles Hinton, WR Mitchell Tinsley, DT Landon Robinson
Jaguars Clips
The Colts have called up a pair of players from the practice squad for Sunday’s game against the Jaguars.
Defensive end Carl Lawson and cornerback Johnathan Edwards will be joining the roster in Jacksonville. Both players will revert back after the game.
Lawson signed to the Colts’ practice squad early this month and has not appeared in any games for the team. The veteran played in one game for the Ravens last season and previously appeared in 89 games for the Cowboys, Jets and Bengals.
Edwards played in 14 games and made five starts for the Colts last season. He had 26 tackles in those appearances.
The Colts ended a tumultuous week with a bit of good news about the health of two of their top remaining players.
Cornerback Sauce Gardner (calf) and tight end Tyler Warren (groin) are both set to play against the Jaguars on Sunday. Gardner and Warren both missed last weekend’s loss to the Vikings and Warren was also sidelined in Week 6.
Gardner and Warren were full participants in practice on Friday.
Wide receiver Anthony Gould (concussion) and cornerback Justin Walley (knee) have both been ruled out. Linebacker Bryce Boettcher (groin) and tight end Andrew Ogletree (knee) are listed as questionable.
Wide receiver Josh Downs is not on the injury report, but head coach Shane Steichen confirmed earlier in the day that he will play despite requesting a trade this week.
Wide receiver Josh Downs would prefer to be playing for someone other than the Colts, but that’s the uniform he will be in this Sunday.
Downs didn’t confirm a report this week that he requested a trade and said only that he’s open to anything that comes, but head coach Shane Steichen confirmed that Downs has asked to be moved at a Friday press conference. He said he has spoken with Downs and that the wide receiver will play against the Jaguars despite that request.
“You’re a professional. Obviously you requested a trade, but you’re on this football team. You’ve got to show up and we gotta go play a game on Sunday,” Steichen said, via Colts radio announcer Matt Taylor.
Downs, who is in the final year of his contract, has 26 catches for 307 yards on the season.
Jaguars wide receiver Brian Thomas is coming off two straight games without a catch and he didn’t play at all in the second half of the team’s Week 6 loss to the Texans.
Thomas had a drop in the first half of that game and his ongoing role on a team with several other receiving options has been the subject of conversation with the trade deadline less than two weeks away. Head coach Liam Coen said this week that he expects Thomas to make plays for the team in this week’s game against the Colts and Thomas said on Wednesday that his approach coming out of the bye week has been to let go of what happened in the past.
“I really just wanted to flush it, come back ready with a different mindset and come back ready to go,” Thomas said, via the team’s website. “That was the biggest thing for me. . . . I feel I still know what I can do. I just have to go out and do it and go out there and show everybody what I can do.”
Thomas had 87 catches for 1,282 yards as a rookie, but had 57 catches for 812 yards since Coen became the coach ahead of the 2025 season. That hasn’t stopped the Jags from winning games — the Jags are 17-5 in the regular season with Coen — and those differing fortunes are a big reason why Thomas’s name frequently comes up in trade rumors. Such talk has been rebuffed thus far, but Thomas will likely have to show more in the next couple of weeks to put them to bed for good.
The Jaguars are coming off a bye week and their return to practice featured a few limited participants.
The group included wide receiver Jakobi Meyers, who is dealing with a hamstring injury but has not missed any game action this season. Meyers has 20 catches for 285 yards and two touchdowns.
Safety Antonio Johnson has not missed any games either, but he appears to be likelier to miss this week than Meyers. Johnson did not practice on Wednesday due to an ankle injury.
Long snapper Ross Matiscik (shoulder), defensive lineman Ruhe Orhorhoro (ankle), and linebacker Jahlani Tavai (hamstring) joined Meyers as limited participants. Cornerback Montaric Brown (hamstring) was a full participant after missing the team’s two London games and tight end Brenton Strange (eye) also landed in that category.
While players have been on the way out for the Colts this week, one key defender was back on the field on Wednesday.
Cornerback Sauce Gardner was officially limited in the day’s session, according to Indianapolis’ injury report.
The Colts held a walk-through instead of a full practice to start the week.
Gardner has been sidelined since the Oct. 18 loss to the Titans.
Gardner has recorded four passes defensed with 17 total tackles so far in 2026.
Cornerback Justin Walley (knee) and linebacker Bryce Boettcher (groin) did not participate on Wednesday.
Guard Matt Goncalves (ankle), receiver Anthony Gould (concussion), tight end Drew Ogletree (knee), defensive tackle Tim Smith (ankle), and tight end Tyler Warren (groin) were also listed as limited.
Warren has missed the last two games.
Linebacker CJ Allen (ankle) and linebacker Akeem Davis-Gaither (hand) were both full.
Jaguars head coach Liam Coen acknowledged that his team’s task got a little easier when the Colts traded away two of their top players, offensive lineman Quenton Nelson and defensive lineman DeForest Buckner. The Jaguars face the Colts on Sunday, and now it’s a Colts team that has turned its attention away from winning this year and toward building for the future.
But Coen also cautioned that the Jaguars can’t allow themselves to be thinking about what’s going on with the Colts.
“Obviously really good players that I have a lot of respect for. Quenton Nelson was playing some of the best football of his career, as was Buckner in a lot of ways — extremely disruptive in both the run and the pass, tipped balls, created some issues inside,” Coen said. “It’s two good players, you can’t deny that. But knowing what that team is going to want to do, this has to all be about our improvements, us getting back on track. Got a good division opponent that we’re playing at home, and the focus level, getting in pads today, has to be about our execution, our fundamentals and technique, because you can’t control that stuff and if you think about it too much it typically doesn’t help.”
Asked if he thought the Colts might trade Jonathan Taylor, too, Coen indicated that he doesn’t think that’s going to happen.
“You try not to get into that world because it’s just rat poison either way,” Coen said. “And also a part of you wants to beat good teams, you want to beat opponents that provide strong competition, as this team does.”
Coen wants his players to remember that the Colts team that shows up on Sunday will be playing to win.
“Philly a couple weeks ago had a lot of guys out and played us to the last second,” Coen said. “In this league, any given Sunday, we all know anything can happen.”
It’s been a rough stretch for Colts quarterback Daniel Jones.
But head coach Shane Steichen reiterated to reporters in his Monday news conference that Jones will remain the team’s QB1 as Indianapolis heads to Jacksonville to play the Jaguars in Week 8.
“He knows he’s got to play better,” Steichen said, via Mike Chappell of Fox 45 Indianapolis, adding that he hasn’t lost confidence in Jones.
The Colts have lost each of their last three games, but Jones’ string of poor play goes back to the Week 4 win over Washington. In those last four games, Jones has completed just 55 percent of his passes for 787 yards with one touchdown, four interceptions, and a lost fumble. He’s also been sacked 13 times in that span.
“He’s proven that he can do it. So that’s where the confidence comes from,” Steichen said, via Stephen Holder of ESPN. “And we need to get him back playing to that level that he was last year. It’s taking a little bit longer.”
Overall this season, Jones has completed 60 percent of his passes for 1,398 yards with four touchdowns and seven interceptions. He’s lost three fumbles and been sacked 19 times — 7.3 percent of his dropbacks.
Anthony Richardson, the No. 4 overall pick of the 2023 draft, would presumably be the next man up if the Colts were to make a change. But Steichen appears to be quite reluctant to go back to Richardson, who last started a game in 2024. Richardson has not yet appeared in a game in 2026. He was in for two games last year, completing one of his two passes.
In his 17 career games with 15 starts, Richardson has completed 51 percent of his throws for 2,400 yards with 11 touchdowns and 13 interceptions.
Notably, the Colts have not defeated the Jaguars in Jacksonville since Sept. 2014. At least to start, it will be Jones trying to break that streak on Sunday.
Jaguars wide receiver Brian Thomas didn’t have any catches in the team’s final two games before their Week 7 bye and he found himself on the bench for all of the second half of their Week 6 loss to the Texans, which led head coach Liam Coen to say that “guys have to step up and make plays” if they want to be on the field.
On Monday, Coen was asked in a conference call if Thomas is going to remain out of the plans against the Colts in Jacksonville’s Week 8 home game. Coen said that Thomas will have a chance to make an impact on offense.
“He’s gonna be able to help us make plays this week,” Coen said. “I bet it, I know it. We’re gonna continue to support him, throw our arm around him and continue to do what we gotta do to make plays on Sunday. We gotta continue to put him in the best position to do so. BT works at it. He cares about this, he cares about winning and losing, he cares about his team. We all wanna see guys have success individually, but I’m excited about attacking this week with BT.”
With a couple of weeks to go before the trade deadline and the Jaguars employing a deep group of receivers, there will likely continue to be chatter about Thomas being on the move before November 10 whether he makes it back onto the stat sheet or not this week.
