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Former Rams running back Lawrence McCutcheon died Friday, the team announced. He was 76.
McCutcheon played eight seasons with the Rams (1972-79) and was a five-time Pro Bowl selection and second-team All-Pro honoree.
“It is with great sadness that we share the passing of our husband, brother, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, Lawrence McCutcheon,” the McCutcheon family said in a statement. “Clutch passed away on Oct. 23 with family at his bedside following a long, courageous battle with Parkinson’s disease.
“Through a decade-long playing career and another 32 years in the Rams’ front office, Clutch earned the respect and admiration of teammates, opposing players, colleagues and fans alike. Clutch will be missed and remembered forever.
“We are thankful to those in our community who have reached out with love and support. In lieu of flowers, we ask that those wishing to honor Clutch please donate to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s research.”
McCutcheon also played for Denver, Seattle and Buffalo, retiring after the 1981 season.
He finished his career with 1,521 carries for 6,578 yards and 26 touchdowns, adding 198 catches for 1,799 yards and 13 touchdowns. McCutcheon played 109 games with 82 starts.
“The Los Angeles Rams are deeply saddened by the passing of Lawrence McCutcheon,” the team said in a statement. “His impact on this organization spanned generations, and he embodied what it means to be a Ram. A five-time Pro Bowl running back and once the franchise’s all-time leading rusher, he later served in our front office as a scout and director of player personnel. His legacy is woven into the fabric of our team.
“We extend our heartfelt condolences to the McCutcheon family as we celebrate a life that gave so much to the Rams and to our game.”
Veteran cornerback Trevon Diggs won’t be on the Seahawks’ active roster for Sunday’s game against the Chiefs.
Diggs was released on Friday. The move opens a roster spot that the Seahawks could use to activate guard Anthony Bradford from injured reserve. Bradford has been designated for return and has no injury designation for this week.
The Seahawks signed Diggs to their practice after releasing him at the end of August. He was signed to the active roster a couple of weeks ago and he has one tackle in three appearances for the team.
Diggs’s most memorable moment with the Seahawks came in Week 5 when 49ers wide receiver Mike Evans turned Diggs’s shoulder to look at the back of his jersey to see who was jawing with him after a play.
Kenneth Walker will be back on the field in Seattle on Sunday for the first time since leaving the Seahawks for the Chiefs as a free agent, but Zach Charbonnet won’t be joining his former teammate as an active participant.
Charbonnet was activated from the physically unable to perform list this week, but head coach Mike Macdonald said that Charbonnet is not ready to play in a game yet and has been ruled out for Sunday. Charbonnet is returning from a torn ACL. Emanuel Wilson, George Holani, Velus Jones, and Robert Henry will be the available backs for Seattle.
While Charbonnet is out, safety Nick Emmanwori’s status for Sunday is up in the air. He was added to the injury report on Friday with a knee issue and is listed as questionable to face the Chiefs.
Linebackers Drake Thomas (ankle) and Chazz Surratt (calf) have also been ruled out. Linebacker Connor O’Toole (hamstring) and quarterback Drew Lock (right elbow) are listed as questionable.
The Chiefs will not have three players for Sunday’s matchup against the Seahawks.
Head coach Andy Reid said in his press conference that receiver Rashee Rice (hamstring/knee), offensive lineman Jaylon Moore (concussion protocol), and running back Brashard Smith (hamstring) have all been ruled out for Week 7.
Rice and Moore were not able to practice all week.
Rice has been sidelined since suffering his injury against the Raiders on Oct. 4. He has 13 receptions for 190 yards with a touchdown so far this season.
As for Smith, Reid noted the running back injured his hamstring on Thursday. Practice squad running back Jaydn Ott is likely to be elevated to the active roster this weekend.
With the Chiefs facing the Seahawks on Sunday night, Kansas City defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo has the unenviable task of scheming to slow down Jaxon Smith-Njigba.
No one has really been able to do that over the last two seasons, as the reigning AP offensive player of the year currently leads the league in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns.
“He’s elite, really elite,” Spagnuolo said in his Thursday press conference, via transcript from the team. “There’s a lot of big-name wide receivers out there in the NFL, and just in talking with people and you ask questions — and Mike Macdonald’s a good friend and [Seahawks assistant head coach] Leslie Frazier in Seattle — but everything that comes back about him as a person [is] high character. And you have that kind of talent and that kind of high character, that’s a pretty good thing to have. And then you’re on the other side of it, it’s a pretty tough thing to defend against.
“So, we’ve got a lot of respect for him.”
In six games, Smith-Njigba has tallied 49 receptions for 717 yards with seven touchdowns. His lowest output of the season has been five catches for 76 yards, which came in the victory over the Chargers on Oct. 4.
We’ll see if the Chiefs can keep him under that on Sunday night.
Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald knows how good a running back he’ll be facing when he coaches against the Chiefs on Sunday night.
Madonald coached Kenneth Walker in Seattle, Walker won the Super Bowl MVP at the end of last season, and then Walker left for Kansas City, where he’s gaining yardage a record-breaking pace.
“Ken’s playing really great football,” Macdonald said on SiriusXM NFL Radio. “I think it’s a combination of, you see the stats and you’re like, man, that’s a lot of stats. And then you turn the tape on and see how they’re playing and how he’s playing and you’re like, ‘That makes sense. No one has tackled this guy yet.’ It’s the things we knew about Ken, that he does really well. He’s so strong, he’s decisive, he’s got great vision. He’s also come alive in the pass game. They’re doing a great job with him. He’s playing probably at the highest level in the league right now.”
Macdonald said his defense had a big challenge on Sunday night.
“It’s got to be a team effort on defense,” Macdonald said. “It’s gonna take waves of Seattle defense to eliminate those explosive plays he’s been able to create.”
Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice remains out of practice, putting his potential availability for Sunday’s game against the Seahawks in jeopardy.
Rice is dealing with hamstring and knee injuries. He has not played since the Oct. 4 win over the Raiders. He has 13 receptions for 190 yards in four games so far this year.
Tight end Travis Kelce (ankle) remained limited on Thursday.
Right tackle Jaylon Moore (concussion) did not practice.
Cornerback L’Jarius Sneed (knee) and linebacker Cooper McDonald (knee) were also limited.
Defensive back Chamarri Conner (knee), guard Trey Smith (hip), receiver Cyrus Allen, and quarterback Patrick Mahomes (knee) were all full.
The 2026 schedule has featured an interesting trend. And it either happened by accident, or by design.
Multiple teams will play three straight prime-time games in 2026.
It started with the Rams, who opened the season with a Thursday night game. In Week 2, they played on Monday. In Week 3, they played on Sunday night.
Next were the Falcons, who went from Week 3 Thursday night to Week 4 Monday night to Week 5 Sunday night.
The Cowboys played on Thursday night in Week 5 and Sunday night in Week 6. They’ll play on Monday night in Week 7.
The Seahawks also are in the midst of three prime-time games in a row: Week 6 Thursday night, Week 7 Sunday night, and Week 8 Monday night.
A new trio starts tonight, with the Bears on Thursday night in Week 7, Monday night in Week 8, and Sunday night in Week 9.
Earlier this year, an NFL spokesperson described it as random in a comment issued to Forbes.
“[T]his happens a few times a year and was not intentional, but rather a function of how the overall 272-game schedule works out,” the spokesperson said. “It’s a combination of opponents, stadium availability, viewership predictions, network requests, etc.”
Still, it will have happened five times this year. Given the importance of standalone games — and given the ability of the league to press a button and have AI reshuffle the 272-card deck — it seems to be less than ideal to have five different instances of the same team showing up in a prime-time standalone game three weeks in a row.
Unless it really isn’t an accident. One possibility, as we see it, is that the league is experimenting with three straight prime-time games for a given team (or, possibly, getting the audience accustomed to it) in the event that the league fully embraces Tuesday and Wednesday night games.
In order to give teams an adequate break between games, the league would need to use the same team for consecutive weeknight games. From Thursday to Wednesday, for example. Or from Tuesday to Monday.
During the weeks in which Friday and Saturday games can be played, Friday to Thursday and Saturday to Friday become possibilities, too.
Shifting a given team around in prime time over multiple weeks would make it easier to drop games into the Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday windows (and Friday-Saturday, where applicable.) But it would put one team in prime time for multiple straight weeks.
It still won’t be easy to balance it all out. It becomes less difficult if a team plays on Tuesday and then the next Monday or Thursday and then the next Wednesday.
One key question would be determining whether the week begins or ends on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Currently, Wednesday games (when played) have been the first day of a given week. Tuesday would presumably be the last.
However it goes, this “accident” may not be one. The league clearly wants more standalone games. If/when Tuesday and Wednesday night games become commonplace, a given team playing at night in consecutive weeks will be a key component of that plan.
Seahawks running back Zach Charbonnet is back on the active roster, nine months after he suffered a torn ACL.
The Seahawks officially activated Charbonnet from the physically unable to perform list today, making him eligible to play on Sunday night against the Chiefs.
Charbonnet has been practicing since October 1, so today was the 21-day deadline for Seattle either to activate him today or declare him out for the season. Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald hasn’t committed to playing Charbonnet on Sunday night, but he sounded optimistic about it this week.
“Zach is going to have a full week’s worth of reps, so that’s exciting, and there’s a possibility that you could see him on Sunday in some capacity, so that’s exciting,” Macdonald said.
Last year Charbonnet had 184 carries for 730 yards and 12 touchdowns. Kenneth Walker was the Seahawks’ leading rusher last season, but Charbonnet was often the player they turned to in short-yardage and goal-line situations. His return should be big for Seattle’s offense, which has struggled without both Walker and Charbonnet.
With Walker now leading the league in rushing for the Chiefs, the return of Charbonnet for Seattle while the team travels to face Kansas City and Walker would add another element to a very big game coming on Sunday night.
Seahawks tight end Elijah Arroyo, who is dealing with a shoulder injury, was placed on injured reserve to make room on the 53-player roster for Charbonnet. Arroyo is expected to have surgery and miss the rest of the season.
The Chiefs will remain without wide receiver Rashee Rice as they kick off the practice week.
Head coach Andy Reid told reporters that Rice will not practice on Wednesday because of the hamstring injury he suffered in Week 4. The Chiefs had a bye in Week 5 and Rice did not play in last Sunday’s win over the Chargers.
Reid said that Rice is improving, but didn’t offer any prediction about whether that process will progress fast enough for Rice to make his return against the Seahawks this week.
Right tackle Jaylon Moore will also miss practice after suffering a concussion against the Chargers. Jose Ezeudu replaced him in that game and the Chiefs could get Josh Simmons back into the mix as he continues to work his way back from a back injury.
