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Watch: NFL Films features Lions Legend Billy Sims

NFL Films made a feature documentary on Detroit Lions’ legendary running back Billy Sims and you can watch it in its entirety right here.

NFL Films made a feature documentary on Detroit Lions’ legendary running back Billy Sims and you can watch it in its entirety right here.

The video opens with Detroit-native Keegan-Michael Key discussing how when he was a kid, he fell in love with the Lions because of Sims. He would go on to discuss — with a video clip — of an exciting play from Sims, and that got him hooked on football.

The play Key discussed checked in as the 98th greatest play in NFL history and when Sims was told about this he laughed joyously and replied, “Really?” — it was one of many great plays highlighted in this feature documentary.

The video focuses on Sims’ football career, with commentary from players and coaches who have crossed roads with him at some point in their lives, including Hall-of-Famer Barry Sanders, former Lions quarterback Eric Hipple, and former Dallas Cowboys coach Barry Switzer — who coached Sims at the University of Oklahoma, where he won the Heisman trophy.

When Sims’ career was over — due to injury after just four and a half seasons — he was never far away from the Lions. He recommended to then-coach Wayne Fontes to draft Barry Sanders and was on hand to congratulate Sanders when he broke Sims’ Lions’ All-time rushing record.

The feature concludes by showing Sims’ life off the field and how his outgoing personality has help him launch a second career in the BBQ restaurant business.

You can watch the entire 22-minutes video below:

Phillip Lindsay hasn’t actually moved out of his parents’ home yet

Broncos running back Phillip Lindsay plans to move out of his parents’ home but he hasn’t found a new place to live yet.

Last week, Broncos running back Phillip Lindsay told NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport that he is moving out of his parents’ home.

Lindsay signed with Denver as an undrafted free agent out of the University of Colorado last year and he didn’t get his own apartment in part to save money.

“I was able to save some money for me to be able to get a place and also help myself out after getting a place,” Lindsay told Rapoport. “I just think it was the right choice to do right now.”

Lindsay said Wednesday that he hasn’t actually moved out yet.

“Right now, I’m looking around and shopping around stuff, so we’ll see how that goes,” the running back said.

So he’s going to move out, but he’s not actively moving out at the moment. Perhaps the move will take place at the end of the season.

Lindsay is on pace to gain 1,322 yards from scrimmage in 2019.

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Broncos RB Phillip Lindsay: ‘I don’t fear anybody’

Broncos running back Phillip Lindsay aims to help his team get an upset win over the Vikings in Week 11.

On paper, the 3-6 Broncos look overmatched on the road against the 7-3 Vikings this week (oddsmakers consider them 10.5-point underdogs). Anything can happen in the NFL, though.

Denver running back Phillip Lindsay pointed out Wednesday that the Falcons defeated the Saints last week despite Atlanta having just one win going into the game and New Orleans having just one loss.

“We just play ball,” Lindsay said when asked about being an underdog. “This is the NFL, any given Sunday you can be beaten. That’s been proven all around the NFL, you guys saw the game with the Saint and Atlanta. It doesn’t matter. We’re all grown men and we’re all talented. It’s about executing.”

In terms of points allowed, Minnesota has the fifth-best defense in the league this year, allowing an average of just 18.2 points per contest. Those numbers aren’t intimidating to Lindsay, though.

“They’re a tough defense, they’re tough and they’re solid,” Lindsay said. “I wouldn’t sit here and say they’re greatest on earth, they’re beatable like anybody else, but we’ve got to play solid football. For me personally, I don’t fear anybody and that’s how it should be. It’s football. At the end of the day, we go out there and you handle your business, you make people miss, you score touchdowns and you win games. That’s how it goes.”

Sunday’s game will air on CBS at 11:00 a.m. MT (view the TV map here).

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ESPN names Steve Slaton the Texans’ top one-hit wonder

ESPN released their list of top one-hit wonders for all 32 teams, and RB Steve Slaton was the Houston Texans’ selection.

There are players who enter the NFL that give their respective clubs hope that they have locked down the position for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, those players turn out to be one-season solutions that still leave the organization in a bind.

ESPN compiled their list of all 32 teams’ “one-hit wonders,” and Sarah Barshop, who covers the Texans for the four-letter network, pegged former 2008 third-round pick Steve Slaton as the franchise’s top one-hit wonder.

What happened: Slaton, a third-round pick in 2008, was quickly named the starting running back for Houston as a rookie. He started 15 games and finished the season with 10 total touchdowns and 1,282 rushing yards, which ranked sixth in the league. Slaton’s best performance came against the Colts, when he ran for 156 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries.

For Slaton, the turnover bug bit him hard as he coughed up the ball four times through the first five games of his sophomore campaign. Ultimately, coach Gary Kubiak benched Slaton in favor of Ryan Moats. In 2011, the Texans cut Slaton after three games to start the season, and he ended the year played another three for the Miami Dolphins.

Slaton landed at No. 45 on the Texans Wire’s list of 100 greatest Texans.

Report: Texans work out veteran RBs Jeremy Hill, Elijah McGuire

On Tuesday, the Houston Texans worked out free agent veteran running backs Jeremy Hill and Elijah McGuire.

The Houston Texans worked out veteran free agent running backs Jeremy Hill and Elijah McGuire on Tuesday, according to Aaron Reiss of The Athletic.

Per Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle, Hill’s work out went “very well.” However, the Texans did not sign him immediately.

Hill, 27, last played with the New England Patriots. He tore his ACL in Week 1 of the 2018 season — against the Texans — and was subsequently placed on the injured reserve. The LSU product rushed for 25 yards on four attempts before sustaining the season-ending injury.

Before New England, Hill called Cincinnati home. In four seasons with the Bengals, the 6-1, 230-pound tailback recorded 2,873 yards and 29 touchdowns on 704 attempts in 54 games( 43 starts). He finished his 2017 season on the injured reserve with an ankle injury.

McGuire, 25, was a New York Jets sixth-round pick in 2017 out of Louisiana-Lafayette. In 24 games as a rotational cog in the New York backfield, the 5-10, 214-pound back rushed for 591 yards and four touchdowns on 180 attempts.

McGuire spent half of his 2018 campaign on the injured reserve (foot). The Jets released him on Aug. 31, before the Cleveland Browns added him to the practice squad. The Browns waived him on Oct. 22.

Houston, in 2019, has employed a two-headed rushing attack in Carlos Hyde and Duke Johnson. On the year, the two have combined for 231 touches for 1,241 scrimmage yards and six touchdowns.

4 Studs and 2 Duds in Seahawks’ wild overtime defeat of 49ers

Studs and duds from the Seattle Seahawks nail-biting win over the San Francisco 49ers in Week 10.

The overtime magic seems to keep flowing for the Seattle Seahawks. Only a week removed from their dramatic overtime victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Seahawks found themselves in yet another thriller when they needed an extra period to take down their rivals by the bay, the San Francisco 49ers.

Seattle vs. San Francisco on “Monday Night Football” was being billed as the game of the year, and it didn’t just live up to expectations, it exceeded them. In one of the wildest, climactic, back-and-forth wins one will ever see, the Seahawks delivered the previously unbeaten 49ers their first loss of the year in a game that came down to the final play of overtime.

The 49ers may still be in first place in the NFC West, but their margin for error was severely diminished as the Seahawks clearly demonstrated they are more than capable of taking back a division crown themselves. Here are four Studs and two Duds from Seattle’s Week 10 win.

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Broncos fans love the reason why Terrell Davis yanked his son from a youth football team

Former Broncos running back Terrell Davis wouldn’t let his son play for a youth football team named the “Raiders.”

The Denver Broncos and Oakland Raiders have been divisional rivals dating ball the way back to their AFL days in 1960. Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Terrell Davis played in 10 of those rivalry games during his career and helped Denver dominate the series 8-2.

Davis gained 1,054 yards from scrimmage and scored 8 touchdowns in those contests against Oakland and he still feels part of the rivalry to this day. Davis dislikes the Raiders so much that he removed his son from a youth football team named after them, according to NFL Network’s Lindsay Rhodes.

Broncos fans on Twitter approved of the ex-RB’s decision.

Davis ranks No. 1 in franchise history with 7,607 rushing yards and 60 rushing touchdowns. He also totaled 1,280 receiving yards and caught five touchdown passes before his career was cut short by injury.

Davis was a key member of the Broncos teams that won back-to-back Super Bowls in 1997 and 1998, rushing for 1,049 yards and 11 touchdowns in seven playoff games. He was named the NFL’s MVP in 1998 and named the MVP of Super Bowl XXXII following a 31-21 win over the Green Bay Packers.

Davis was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2017.

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