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New York Jets quarterback Zach Wilson (2) warms up before an NFL football game between the New York Jets and the Atlanta Falcons at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England on Sunday 10 October 2021 (AP Photo / Alastair Grant)
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Latest on Week 5 in the NFL (All Time EDT):
12:20
Tight end Sammis Reyes is active for Washington against New Orleans and is expected to become the first Chilean player to appear in an NFL game.
A converted basketball player who moved to the United States as a teenager, Reyes didn’t start playing football until early this year. He took the NFL International Player Pathway program and got a three-year contract with Washington, his “dream team,” as his girlfriend and family live in the area.
Reyes was inactive for the first four games of the season and gets that chance after Logan Thomas lands on the injured reserve with a hamstring injury. Coach Ron Rivera has repeatedly called Reyes as a big part of the team’s future.
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12:15
Denver Broncos quarterback Teddy Bridgewater is active and one of his favorite targets is also for Sunday’s visit to Pittsburgh.
Bridgewater will start after leaving last week’s loss to Baltimore with a concussion. Wide receiver Courtland Sutton is also active although he is considered doubtful after turning an ankle in practice on Friday.
Elsewhere, the Minnesota Vikings are holding back running back Dalvin Cook for the second time in three games with a sprained ankle. Cook has been listed as questionable to play against Detroit. He had nine runs last week in a loss to Cleveland, splitting the time in the backfield with Alexander Mattison. Cook did not play two weeks ago in a win over Seattle, having suffered an injury in the team’s second game in Arizona.
Cook had a career-high 206 rushing yards last year against the Lions.
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9:15 a.m.
The NFL is back in London after a one-year hiatus. The Atlanta Falcons face the New York Jets at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in a 1-3 team matchup.
London has not been kind to the rookie quarterbacks. They are 0-4 in the English capital since the NFL started hosting regular season games there in 2007.
Jets QB Zach Wilson wants to change that by building on his success in New York’s 27-24 overtime victory over the Tennessee Titans last week.
Falcons counterpart Matt Ryan will be starved of top receiver Calvin Ridley as the team tries to bounce back from a 34-30 loss to the Washington football team.
It was 63 degrees Fahrenheit and partly cloudy before the 2:30 p.m. kickoff.
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