Chiefs starting guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif exited Monday night’s game in the first quarter with an apparent knee injury. Tests on Tuesday morning will determine the extent of the injury and the team is hopeful that it is an MCL injury and not an ACL tear, Terez Paylor of the Kansas City Star tweets.
The Chiefs and Duvernay-Tardif agreed to a five-year, $41.25MM extension in the offseason, making him one of the league’s highest-paid interior linemen. Losing him for a lengthy period of time would be a setback for KC.
Here’s more from the West divisions:
- 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan says he not given any consideration to a quarterback change, as Matt Barrows of The Sacramento Bee writes. For now, the Niners are sticking with Brian Hoyer, but it sounds like Shanahan will not hesitate to yank him if he feels it would benefit the team. “I think he needs to play better,” Shanahan said of Hoyer. “And I think we can play better around him. … When you have the time and you have guys open, you need to hit them. I thought he struggled with that at times (Sunday). I know he can do better. But I also know when he did make throws, guys weren’t great at catching them for him, either.” If Hoyer gets the hook, rookie C.J. Beathard will get a chance to show what he can do.
- The Rams will add Mike Thomas to the roster and go to seven wide receivers when he returns from suspension this week, coach Sean McVay said (Twitter link via Alden Gonzalez of ESPN.com). Thomas was hit with the ban in July for PED use.
- Cardinals tackle D.J. Humphries is still out with an MCL injury and coach Bruce Arians doesn’t expect to see him back until two weeks from now, Josh Weinfuss of ESPN.com tweets.
Wrong Mike Thomas
I think if Hoyer keeps this up one more game they need to sit him. With that being said I do agree with Shanahan, sometimes he made the throw and the guys would drop it or have bounce off their hands, that’s just unacceptable, if the ball hits your hands you need to catch it and I also think our protection has been pretty bad this season besides maybe one game so we need to fix that line this off season or it doesn’t matter who get at QB they will struggle too. Give Hoyer another week or two and if he still struggles let’s see what Bethard can do the rest of the season. Worse case scenario we stay the same as far as how well we’ve played because we can’t get much worse seeing as how we haven’t won a game and the last 3 games we easily could’ve won. Maybe we will get that number one pick and draft our QB of the future and all the Cousins rumors will stop. Spend all that money on the O Line and in the secondary if we do get a top QB in the draft and don’t sign Cousins.
The whole plan for them this year is to be bad. I’d say they’re right on track and wouldn’t make any changes in season.