Falcons
- Falcons QB Kirk Cousins on his health as he prepares to start Week 12 for the Falcons: “I do feel good, and I would never tell you if I wasn’t probably until the season is over.” (Josh Kendall)
Panthers
Panthers RB Chuba Hubbard has dealt with a calf injury this season, resulting in him losing the starting job to RB Rico Dowdle. Hubbard admits that he rushed back “a little sooner than I should have.”
“I think, in all honesty, I’m a competitor and when I came back from my calf, I wasn’t maybe quite where I wanted to be,” Hubbard said, via PanthersWire. “Obviously, in the league, you’re never gonna be 100 percent. I just wanna be there for my team. So maybe rushed it back a little sooner than I should have—which is my own doing.”
Hubbard mentioned that he had a “few different” complications with his calf, but feels like things have improved.
“I kinda had, not to get into the details of what exactly was going on with my calf, but I had a few different things going on with it,” Hubbard said. “And it was just kinda hard to explain some of the stuff that I was dealing with. But over the last few weeks, it’s definitely gotten better and just kinda continue to build my confidence off that.”
Saints
Former Saints QB Drew Brees was impressed with how WR Chris Olave stepped up after the team traded WR Rashid Shaheed to the Seahawks.
“Yeah, look, absolutely, psychologically, look, I think anytime you trade a player who, I think, going into the year, especially with those two speedsters in Olave and Shaheed, you’re sitting there going okay, these guys blow the top off, we’ve got other guys that can kind of dominate the intermediate game, and then all of a sudden, you just make a business decision to trade a guy like that,” Brees said, via Saints Wire. “It does one of two things. Either the guys take that as hey, we’re not as good as we were because we lost this guy, or, hey, it’s time for everybody else to step up, and it just means more opportunities for the rest of us, and let’s go show ’em what we’re made of, and I think that’s what we saw. You saw some young guys really stepping up, obviously new quarterback, so you’re kind of reestablishing the identity on offense, but then a guy like Olave, who, I think we all have high expectations for, we drafted him in the first round a few years ago to kind of be the guy, and so anytime you come off a game like that where you make some big plays, that was really encouraging.“
- Saints HC Kellen Moore said WR Mason Tipton will get more snaps after New Orleans parted ways with veteran WR Brandin Cooks. (Nick Underhill)
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