As COVID-19 infection rates rise throughout the United States, the NFL has ordered all 32 teams to operate for the rest of the season under the league's intensive protocol starting on Sunday. 

Great post here by Michael Lopez, who does advanced stats for the NFL, looking at the NGS expected rush yards metric. Can we show that there actually is a difference between different running backs? The answer seems to be yes. First of all, a high performance in expected rush yards over average does a good job of predicting future workload: coaches do seem to want to give the ball to backs who perform better even after accounting for scheme and blocking. Second, random selections of carries still show correlation in expected rush yards over average.

Drew Brees' rib injury headlines Week 10, which proved a bruising weekend for quarterbacks.

The "Golden Boy" of the Green Bay Packers has died at the age of 84. Paul Hornung starred originally at Notre Dame in the 1950s and won the Heisman Trophy, the only player to ever win for a losing team. Hornung then went No.

The NFC East loses yet another quarterback to a major ankle injury.

A mild Week 8 on the injury report is marred by one gargantuan exception and some late-breaking news out of California.

Our friends at Sports Info Solutions have an article that takes Bill James' "Starting Pitcher Rankings" and translates them to quarterbacks.

Well, Carlos Dunlap can sell his house now. He may not even need Twitter. Cincinnati has traded him to Seattle for center B.J. Finney and a late-round pick. Dunlap is the all-time Bengals sack leader and fills a major need for the Seahawks.

At least six players are out for the season as a result of a brutal Week 7, including one of the league's star receivers.

Well, this is disappointing. Tampa Bay is working to add Antonio Brown to their roster. His suspension is finally over after Week 8 and he would be able to play after that. Tom Brady befriended Brown during Brown's short time with the Patriots and is working to get him down to Tampa.