Buccaneers
Buccaneers WR Mike Evans said he is heading into the final game of this season without any thoughts in his head about if, when, or where he will end up playing football next year.
“I just approach it how I always approach it,” Evans said, via Jenna Laine of ESPN.com. “It’s whatever happens, happens. I’ll focus on that when the time is right. Right now, we have to win. And I’m always giving my all and I’m always gonna go out swinging.”
Cardinals
Cardinals DL Calais Campbell says he plans to take a step back from football once again and evaluate whether or not he will continue to play in 2026.
“It’s not a personal decision, it’s a decision everybody has some kind of interest in,” Campbell said, via the team website. “I try to be respectful (answering questions), but I have to go through my process. I don’t know if I’m going to retire or not because I don’t know how my body is going to feel. Right now I feel good enough to play a football game, and that matters most because I want to be available and healthy.”
“The last few years I’ve been through this process, I’ve known pretty quickly that I’ve wanted to play again,” Campbell continued. “It didn’t take me that long – within a month or so, I knew I wanted to play football again. We’ll see. I hope to know quickly if I don’t want to play football again. The biggest thing is if I do want to play football again, I give myself the opportunity to play football again. I try to always sign my work and play at a level that they want me back. Even if I decide not to play again, I want to have the ability to say no, rather than them saying, ‘See you later.’ I’ve always tried to play well enough that I have a choice. I think I did well enough this year that I will have a choice. That’s a good feeling.”
Cowboys
- Jordan Schultz reports that now Packers CB Trevon Diggs requested that HC Brian Schottenheimer allow him to stay in Washington with his family for the holiday.
- Schultz says that players usually are asked for and granted these requests, yet Diggs had his denied by Schottenheimer. Diggs noted that if he flew back to Dallas, he would only be taking the first flight back to Washington, yet the team still denied his request.
- This led to Diggs being released by the team and subsequently claimed by Green Bay. Schottenheimer said the decision to release Diggs was for several reasons, including performance: “I’m not The Grinch That Stole Christmas. Other players asked to stay and were told no.” (Archer)
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