By The Associated Press
The Latest on Week 11 in the NFL (all times EST):
3:50 p.m.
The Washington Redskins’ run of futility is over, but not before reaching a historic benchmark.
Derrius Guice’s 45-yard touchdown run against the New York Jets ended a streak of 16 consecutive quarters without a touchdown of any kind, the longest by any NFL team since the 2000 Baltimore Ravens. The mark is a franchise record, passing the 1936 Boston Redskins who went 13 in a row without a TD.
The touchdown cut the Jets lead to 34-11.
Washington went more than a month without a TD, dating to Case Keenum’s 33-yard pass to rookie Terry McLaurin in the third quarter of a 17-16 win over Miami on Oct. 13.
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3:30 p.m.
The Philadelphia Eagles are missing three starters, including running back Jordan Howard, for their game against the New England Patriots.
Also ruled out are wide receiver Alshon Jeffery and linebacker Nigel Bradham. Howard has a shoulder injury, Jeffery and Bradham have ankle injuries
The AFC-leading Patriots are without starting safety Patrick Chung due to a chest injury.
In San Francisco, the 49ers will be without star tight end George Kittle for a second straight week because of injuries to his ankle and knee. San Francisco will have receiver Emmanuel Sanders active against the Arizona Cardinals after he left last week’s game with injured ribs.
The 49ers also are without starting left tackle Joe Staley (finger) and running back Matt Breida (ankle).
The Cardinals are expected to have their original offensive line back with right tackle Justin Murray returning from a knee injury. Murray’s return will allow Justin Pugh to go back to his original spot at left guard.
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3:15 p.m.
Colts running back Marlon Mack left the game against Jacksonville in the third quarter with a hand injury and has been ruled out.
Mack had run 14 times for 109 yards and one touchdown.
A few plays later, rookie cornerback Rock Ya-Sin also limped from the field straight to Indy’s locker room with an ankle injury. His return is questionable. Ya-Sin got his first career interception in the first half.
Nyheim Hines and Jonathan Williams will replace Mack in the lineup.
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3:10 p.m.
Dak Prescott has topped 300 yards passing for the ninth time of his career and third time this season.
The Cowboys starter has completed 19 of 31 for 319 yards and two touchdowns with Dallas up 27-21 over Detroit 10 minutes into the third quarter.
Michael Gallup has seven catches for 120 yards, while Randall Cobb has four catches for 115 yards and a touchdown for the Cowboys.
Prescott is coming off a game in which he went 28 of 46 for 397 yards and three touchdowns with an interception in a 28-24 loss to Minnesota.
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2:50 p.m.
The double-digit-point-underdog Denver Broncos are blowing out the Vikings in Minnesota. They’re up 20-0 at halftime.
Shelby Harris has two sacks for 18 yards, including one that forced a fumble by Kirk Cousins to set up a field goal. That was the first turnover by Cousins in five games.
The Broncos have held the Vikings to 47 total yards, after the Vikings topped 400 total yards in five of their first 10 games. The Vikings are 4-0 at home this season.
— Dave Campbell reporting from Minneapolis
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2:40 p.m.
Kyle Allen is struggling, again.
The Panthers second-year quarterback has thrown three interceptions in the first half against the Falcons, including one in the end zone and another at Atlanta’s 3.
That continues a disturbing turnover trend for Allen, who took over when Cam Newton re-injured his foot in Week 2. In his first four games Allen threw seven touchdowns and had no interceptions. However, in his last 3 ½ games Allen has three touchdowns and seven interceptions.
Trailing 20-0, Carolina has just seven first downs and converted one of eight third-down attempts offense against a swarming Falcons defense, which seems to have carried momentum over from last week’s 26-9 win over the Saints.
— Steve Reed reporting from Charlotte, North Carolina.
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2:35 p.m.
The Ravens have sacked Deshaun Watson five times in the first half and lead the Texans 14-0 at the break.
In what was expected to be a duel between Watson and Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson, the Ravens defense has played a huge role.
Watson has thrown for 102 yards, but the Texans went scoreless in the first half for the first time this year.
Jackson has thrown for a pair of touchdown passes to put Baltimore in position for its sixth straight victory.
— David Ginsburg reporting from Baltimore.
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2:25 p.m.
Michael Thomas’ catch count keeps rising at a prolific pace.
With his fourth reception against Tampa Bay, the New Orleans Saints receiver reached 90 for the season. That’s the most by any player through the first 10 games of a season.
Colts Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison, in 2002, and Atlanta’s Julio Jones, in 2015, both had 89 catches through 10 games.
Thomas, who has five catches for 47 yards and a touchdown, into the second quarter, also became the NFL’s first player with at least 90 catches in each of his first four seasons.
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2:15 p.m.
Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri broke Morten Andersen’s league record for career field goal attempts midway through the second quarter against Jacksonville.
Vinatieri made the 34-yarder to give Indianapolis a 10-7 lead over Jacksonville with 8:26 left in the first half.
He now has 710 attempts, one more than Andersen. Vinatieri already held the record for most field goals made, now at 597, and is the NFL’s career scoring leader with 2,660 points.
Earlier in the game, he became the first player in franchise history to make 500 extra points with the Colts and he’s now the first player in Colts history to top the 1,500-point mark. He now has 1,502 since joining the Colts in 2006.
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2:05 p.m.
If almost losing to the Miami Dolphins on a 2-point conversion attempt wasn’t rock bottom for the Washington Redskins, they found it against the New York Jets.
Already trailing the Jets 13-0 on two touchdown passes by Sam Darnold, Washington quarterback Dwayne Haskins found fellow rookie Terry McLaurin for a 67-yard completion.
And then it was promptly wiped out.
Pro Bowl-caliber left guard Brandon Scherff was penalized half the distance to the goal for holding and then another half the distance for unsportsmanlike conduct, a three-quarters distance to the goal penalty pileup for the 1-8 Redskins.
Things didn’t get much better despite Jon Bostic returning a Sam Darnold interception to the Jets 16. Haskins was sacked for a 15-yard loss on third-and-5. Washington settled for Dustin Hopkins hitting a 44-yard field goal.
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1:55 p.m.
So much for Josh Allen’s inability to hit a deep pass.
The Bills starter hit receiver John Brown for a 40-yard touchdown to put Buffalo up 13-0 early in the second quarter of their game at Miami.
Allen entered the game facing criticism about his inability to go deep. The touchdown to Brown was just Allen’s fifth of 40 yards or longer this season.
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1:45 p.m.
Nick Foles and Adam Vinatieri got back on track quickly in Indianapolis.
In his first appearance since breaking his left collarbone in the season opener, Foles threw a perfect 34-yard TD pass to DJ Chark on Jacksonville’s second possession to make it 7-0.
The Colts answered with a 13-yard TD run from Marlon Mack but the louder roar came when Vinatieri made his 500th extra point with the Colts to tie the score at 7 late in the first quarter. Vinatieri has missed five field goals and six extra points this season, which prompted the Colts to bring in kickers for tryouts on Tuesday. But they decided to stay with the NFL’s career scoring leader.
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1:15 p.m.
The Cleveland Browns have upgraded their draft position courtesy of their trade of running back Duke Johnson to the Houston Texans.
The Browns have now landed a third-round pick in the next year’s draft after Johnson dressed for his 10th game of the season for Houston playing at Baltimore. The Browns were initially assured a fourth-rounder in the deal struck in August.
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12:40 p.m.
Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Don Shula is making his season debut for the Miami Dolphins.
Shula attended a Dolphins game for the first time this year Sunday and was on the sideline in a golf cart before kickoff against the Buffalo Bills, greeting team executives and some of his former players, including quarterback Dan Marino.
Shula, who turns 90 in January, recently returned to South Florida from California, where he lives for much of the year.
Shula holds the NFL record for most coaching victories with 347. He retired following the 1995 season.
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12:30 p.m.
Gentlemen, start your engines.
An AFC showdown featuring Houston’s Deshaun Watson and Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson highlights the NFL’s Week 11 schedule. It’s intriguing enough to overshadow a 2018 Super Bowl rematch between New England and Philadelphia.
Aside from a key matchup of two of the AFC’s top three teams, the Watson-Jackson matchup of former first-round draft picks is the league’s first between quarterbacks with at least 15 touchdowns passing, five rushing and a quarterback rating of 100 or higher through their first nine games.
Watson is two touchdowns passing from becoming the fifth player to have 20 and at least five TDs rushing through the first 10 games of a season. Carolina’s Cam Newton was the previous to do so in 2015.
Jackson last week joined Ben Roethlisberger, who did it in 2007, to become the only players to post two games with a perfect quarterback rating of 158.3 in the same season.
The AFC North-leading Ravens are 7-2 and have won five straight. The South-leading Texans are 6-3 and have won four of five.
The AFC East-leading Patriots are coming off their bye week to face the Eagles, less than two years after Philadelphia won its first Super Bowl title by beating New England 41-33 in Minnesota.
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