NFL Notes: Draft, Colts, Raiders, Texans

Draft

  • According to Tony Pauline, San Jose State LB Frank Ginda has not made a final decision about entering the 2018 NFL Draft and has yet to sign with an agent. Pauline says that Ginda is still โ€œexploring his optionsโ€œ, despite recent reports that claimed he was declaring to enter.
  • Peter Ariz of CanesInSight.com reports that Miami CB Michael Jackson is โ€œleaning towardsโ€ declaring for the 2018 NFL Draft.
  • An NFL executive told Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald that he does not think Jackson would get drafted.

Colts

  • Colts HC Chuck Pagano told reporters that WR Donte Moncrief is โ€œday-to-dayโ€ and his availability for Sunday is definitely up in the air. Zak Keefer mentions that Moncrief had a boot on his right ankle in the locker room today.
  • Colts DL Henry Anderson said that while he didnโ€™t think a throat injury would cost him the rest of the season, doctors told him if his larynx got hit again, it could collapse his airway. (Zak Keefer)

Raiders

  • According to Michael Gehlken, Raiders WR Amari Cooper has cleared the leagueโ€™s concussion protocol but missed Wednesdayโ€™s practice due to an ankle injury.

Texans

Texans ILB Brian Cushing told reporters on Wednesday that he takes full responsibility for the 10-game suspension he served this year.

โ€œI should have communicated with the league better about it,โ€ Cushing said, via Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle. โ€œI take full responsibility for it. The encouraging thing is there are other guys in the league that are allowed to take this. โ€ฆ I hope they understand I had an issue I was trying to better myself with. As Iโ€™ve gotten older, thereโ€™s been a lot of things Iโ€™ve been worrisome about. Especially with a lot of the older players that have played and retired and the situations theyโ€™ve been in.โ€

  • Texans HC Bill Oโ€™Brien told reporters on Wednesday that heโ€™s hopeful that WR Will Fuller can play in Week 14. (Aaron Wilson)
  • Regarding Texans TE C.J. Fiedorowiczโ€˜s (concussion) future with the team, Oโ€™Brien said that he expects to have the tight end back next season: โ€œSo, weโ€™ll wait to see really when he starts feeling better, weโ€™ll sit down and talk about him and talk about what heโ€™s thinking about things. But, C.J.โ€™s been a really, really top-notch football player for us. Great guy to have around and we expect to have him in the future, no doubt about it.โ€ (Aaron Wilson)

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