The Latest on Week 14 in the NFL (all times EST):
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4:25 p.m.
The winless New York Jets are doing one thing right: they continue to score on their opening drive. The Jets went 48 yards after taking the opening kickoff and got a 45-yard field goal from Sergio Castillo to take a 3-0 lead on Seattle.
It’s the seventh straight game the Jets have scored on their opening possession, the longest active streak in the NFL and longest streak in franchise history. The Jets have five field goals and two touchdowns on those drives.
The lead was short-lived. Seattle took its opening possession and got 19-yard touchdown pass from Russell Wilson to Freddie Swain.
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4:15 p.m.
Anyone looking for an exciting finish will have to wait until the late afternoon games.
Derrick Henry ran for 215 yards and two touchdowns as the Tennessee Titans routed the Jacksonville Jaguars 31-10. Arizona beat the New York Giants on a balmy day for December 26-7.
The Dallas Cowboys thumped Cincinnati 30-7, while the Chicago Bears snapped their skid beating Houston 36-7.
Denver held off Carolina on the road 32-27 in the closest of the early afternoon games.
The Kansas City Chiefs did have to rally from a 10-point deficit to clinch their fifth consecutive AFC West title. They wound up beating beating Miami 33-27 to wrap up the early games.
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3:55 p.m.
Broncos quarterback Drew Lock has thrown his career-high fourth touchdown of the game, giving Denver a 32-20 over the Carolina Panthers in the fourth quarter.
KJ Hamler got behind Rasul Douglas for a 49-yard touchdown reception, his second of the game. Lock, who has thrown for 279 yards, has also thrown TD passes to Nick Vannett and Tim Patrick.
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3:40 p.m
Derrick Henry has grabbed a piece of NFL history all to himself.
The NFL rushing leader posted his fourth career game running for at least 200 yards and two touchdowns Sunday for the Tennessee Titans. That’s the most such games in NFL history, breaking a tie with Jim Brown, Barry Sanders and LaDainian Tomlinson.
Henry ran 26 times for 215 yards and two TDs in Jacksonville, also posting his ninth straight road game with at least 100 yards.
The Titans led Jacksonville 31-10 late in the fourth quarter.
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3:35 p.m.
Xavien Howard has come up with an interception for the fifth game in a row – this time against Patrick Mahomes.
The Dolphins cornerback made a spectacular one-handed grab of a pass intended for Chiefs receiver Tyreek Hill in the end zone.
It was Mahomes’ third interception, increasing his season total to five. But Chiefs led 30-10 in the fourth quarter.
Howard leads the NFL with nine interceptions.
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3 p.m.
The Jacksonville Jaguars have benched Mike Glennon and turned to Gardner Minshew for the first time since Week 7.
Glennon completed 13 of 23 passes for 85 yards against Tennessee, with his final pass getting picked off by Malcolm Butler in the third quarter.
Minshew injured his right thumb against Houston in mid-October and was replaced by rookie Jake Luton following the team’s bye week. Luton was benched after three starts and replaced by Glennon, who each of the team’s last three games.
Minshew was healthy enough to practice the last two weeks, but coach Doug Marrone stuck with Glennon.
The quarterback change came with the Titans up 31-3.
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3 p.m.
San Francisco 49ers offensive line coach John Benton has tested positive for COVID-19 and won’t coach the game against Washington.
The Niners say Benton’s duties will be absorbed by the offensive coaching staff. Benton immediately went into self-quarantine and the team says it conducted the appropriate contact tracing as part of the NFL’s intensive COVID-19 protocol.
”We will continue to communicate with the league and medical professionals and take the necessary precautions in the best interest of health and safety,” the team said in a statement.
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2:55 p.m.
Broncos backup cornerback Duke Dawson was carted off the field in the first half of Sunday’s game against Carolina with a knee injury.
Dawson was rushing the quarterback when his knee buckled awkwardly as he attempted to plant his leg.
The Broncos said he will not return.
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2:30 p.m.
NFL rushing leader Derrick Henry finally has his first 100-yard rushing game in Jacksonville with 122 yards rushing on just 15 carries by halftime.
Henry topped 100 yards breaking loose on a 36-yard touchdown run late in the first half. The native of Yulee, Florida, near Jacksonville now has a mark he had missed in his home state.
The Titans back also moved out of a tie with Chris Johnson for sole possession of second most 100-yard rushing games on the road with his ninth straight such performance. That’s second to only Barry Sanders in NFL history. Sanders did it between 1996 and 1997 with Detroit.
Marcus Allen was the only other player with a streak of at least seven such games on the road between 1985 and 1986 with the then-Los Angeles Raiders.
The Titans led Jacksonville 17-3 at halftime.
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2:15 p.m.
The Dolphins’ Tua Tagovailoa has thrown his first NFL interception — and it came on a pass bobbled by intended receiver Jakeem Grant.
The Chiefs’ Tyrann Mathieu came up with the pick on a long throw in the second quarter after Grant failed to make the catch.
The interception came in Tagovailoa’s sixth start and 154th pass. He was the third quarterback in the Super Bowl era to not throw an interception in his first five career starts.
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2:14 p.m.
Khalil Mack is well on his way to a terrific game for the Chicago Bears.
The outside linebacker tackled Houston Texans star Deshaun Watson in the end zone with 6:04 left in the first half. Mack’s first sack since Nov. 1 resulted in a safety, and Chicago scored on the ensuing drive to open a 23-7 lead with 3:22 to go.
Mack also recovered a Duke Johnson fumble in the first quarter and deflected a Watson pass in the second quarter.
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1:35 p.m.
Patrick Mahomes is off to a rough start against Miami and the Dolphins’ defense.
Dolphins linebacker Jerome Baker sacked the Chiefs quarterback for a 30-yard loss for one of the longest sacks of Mahomes’ career.
On a third-and-12 play in the first quarter, defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah forced Mahomes into full retreat. The Chiefs’ quarterback tried to turn the corner around Baker but was tripped up at the 3-yard line.
The Chiefs (11-1) came in already having clinched a playoff spot. Miami (8-4) has the sixth seed in the AFC.
Mahomes also has been intercepted not once but twice by the Dolphins off deflected passes in just the first quarter.
The defending Super Bowl champ quarterback came into the game with only two interceptions all season. Byron Jones picked him off first, then Eric Rowe intercepted a second Mahomes’ pass late in the first quarter.
Miami leads the Chiefs 7-0 at the end of the first quarter.
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1:30 p.m.
Fumbles by two Cincinnati Bengals running backs have led to a 10-0 lead by the Dallas Cowboys at the end of the first quarter.
First, Giovani Bernard fumbled for the first time in 830 carries, leading to a 34-yard Cowboys field goal. The Bengals were driving on the next series when Trayveon Williams’ fumble was recovered by Dallas linebacker Aldon Smith and returned 78 yards for a touchdown.
The game features the return of Andy Dalton to Cincinnati. Dalton was the Bengals starting quarterback for nine seasons before signing with Dallas. He became the Cowboys starter when Dak Prescott suffered a season-ending ankle injury in Week 5.
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12:20 p.m.
Cleveland Browns starting right guard Wyatt Teller has been activated from the COVID-19 list and is expected to play Monday night against the Baltimore Ravens.
Although he never tested positive for the virus, Teller was isolated from his teammates this week after he was in close contact with an infected person outside the Browns. He did not practice but participated in the team’s walk-through Sunday.
Teller’s return will mean Cleveland’s offensive line will be intact as the Browns (9-3) try to close in a playoff berth.
The Browns also waived running back Dontrell Hilliard to make room for Teller on the 53-man roster.
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