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Jacksonville has placed running back Carlos Hyde and safety Rayshawn Jenkins on injured reserve. With just three weeks left in the season Hyde and Jenkins are done for the year.

Related players: James Robinson, Dare Ogunbowale, Nathan Cottrell

Hyde suffered a concussion in the Week 14 loss to Tennessee and missed Sunday’s loss to Houston. He finished 2021 with 253 yards on 72 carries along with 12 catches for 65 yards, the story said. Ogunbowale and Cottrell are next up on the depth chart behind Robinson, who should get a bulk of the work going forward.

Jaguars interim head coach Darrell Bevell is turning over the playcalling duties to passing game coordinator Brian Schottenheimer for the final three games of the season.

Related players: James Robinson

Bevell wanted to focus more on being the head coach and making those kind of decisions. It's potentially good news for Robinson as Schottenheimer was Seattle's offensive coordinator the previous three seasons, and the Seahawks finished in the top 10 in scoring each season and led the NFL in rushing in 2018. Schottenheimer's rush offense ranked in the top 10 in three of his six seasons with the Jets, but he has never had a pass offense rank higher than 14th in his 12 seasons as a coordinator.

Jaguars interim HC Darrell Bevell told reporters Friday that RB Carlos Hyde is still in concussion protocol and will miss Week 15's game against the Houston Texans.

Related Player: James Robinson

As if you didn't need another reason to lock Robinson into your fantasy lineup...

Cardinals WR DeAndre Hopkins (knee) is expected to miss the rest of the regular season. He sprained his knee Week 14 and was expected to get a second opinion Wednesday.

Related Players: Christian Kirk, Zach Ertz, Rondale Moore, A.J. Green

Tough loss for the Cardinals and even tougher for Hopkins now that he is in a stable offense. All pass catchers get a boost without Hopkins.

Jaguars HC Urban Meyer told reporters Friday that RB James Robinson (heel/knee) and WR Marvin Jones will play Week 14 against the Tennessee Titans.

Jones was given the veteran's rest treatment, but the green light being given for Robinson is big since Jacksonville faces one of the better run defenses in the NFL.

Via Demetrius Harvey of BigCatCountry.com, Urban Meyer then did follow up and said he intended to take a more active role in those calls.

“I’m aware of it,” Meyer said of the personnel decisions. “I’m not in charge of it but I’ll watch and I’ll say, ‘what’s our thoughts here and what’s our thoughts there?’ Obviously, I didn’t do it there with James Robinson.”

“I am (going to be more involved) because I just gotta make sure to do it the way I want it done.”

Related players: Carlos Hyde

Robinson is battling injuries and saw limited snaps in Week 13. He also fumbled and seemed to get benched for a while as a result. However, on the final drive of the game Robinson got some work, which seems to be an odd time to get your injured RB1 back into a game that's been decided already. It's not uncommon for the running back coach to determine the rotation of the backs, but still, this isn't a good look for a head coach that's already in enough hot water.

Jacksonville RB James Robinson (knee/heel) is questionable for Week 13 against the Los Angeles Rams.

Related Player: Carlos Hyde

Nothing but uphill battles for Robinson whether it be injuries or his opponents. Regardless, he finds a way to be in the the RB2 conversation almost weekly.

Raiders RB Josh Jacobs (ankle) and WR DeSean Jackson (calf) are questionable for Week 13 against the Washington Football Team.

Related Players: Zay Jones, Kenyan Drake, Peyton Barber

Jacobs is truly questionable as he popped up on the injury report Thursday, while Jackson practiced for the first time this week on Friday.

Cardinals HC Kliff Kingsbury told reporters Friday that QB Kyler Murray (ankle) and WR DeAndre Hopkins (hamstring) are game-time decisions Week 13 at Chicago.

Related Players: Colt McCoy, Christian Kirk, Rondale Moore, A.J. Green

With the best record in the NFC, Arizona has wiggle room to be extra cautious with these two. Thankfully, Cardinals-Bears is an early Sunday game so adjustments can be made prior to kick-off.

After the firing of offensive coordinator Jason Garrett, interim Giants OC Freddie Kitchens wanted to make a point of emphasis going forward - get the ball to the best players on designed plays. "You need to get a sense, a feel for what they are comfortable with," Kitchens said. "Why would you call something -- and this is what our staff believes -- why would you call something if the player is not comfortable running it? It's your job to get them comfortable running it. ... If you can’t get them to that point, it's kind of diminishing returns."

"I think I realized it pretty early in the week as far as the game plan and what we were trying to do, getting the ball to certain guys, and plays were designed to get the ball to them," Daniel Jones said. "You're thinking about that throughout the game as plays are called and coming in. Obviously, there's a read and you've got to understand what the defense is doing. But I'd say I was pretty cognizant of what we were trying to do."

Related Players: Saquon Barkley, Kenny Golladay, Evan Engram, Kadarius Toney, Sterling Shepard

It sounds silly but saying that the best players need to get the ball can get lost on a coaching staff when an entire offense is struggling. Raanan's article listed Barkley, Golladay, Engram, Toney, and Shepard multiple times, a sign that the core is the focus going forward, especially when they are all healthy. The Giants offense is sketchy at best, but refocusing the offense with the entire coaching staff having input is a sign of life that needs to show on the field.