Gaints WR will miss Week 16

Odell Beckham Jr. has been suspended for 1 game. Official statement to follow. (NFL.com)

Nerdy Football Analysis: Beckham repeatedly got into it with Panthers DB Josh Norman yesterday including an obvious helmet to helmet initiated by Beckham. Beckham’s loss is a huge blow to fantasy owners playing for a championship next week. Rueben Randle and Dwayne Harris should see increased roles with Beckham out.

Likely out Week 16

Bills RB LeSean McCoy tore his MCL and is considered week to week for final two weeks, per league source. More testing scheduled for today. (Adam Schefter on Twitter)

Nerdy Football Analysis: The Bills will likely turn to a committee running back approach against Dallas in Week 16 with Karlos Williams and Mike Gillislee doing the heavy lifting. The Cowboys are giving up the sixth-most fantasy points to running backs.

The Falcons have reached an injury settlement with veteran guard Jon Asamoah, the team announced today in a press release. The transaction will remove Asamoah from Atlanta’s injured reserve list, making him a free agent.

Asamoah, 27, spent the first four years of his NFL career with the Chiefs, after being selected by Kansas City in the third round of the 2010 draft. He parlayed 41 starts at right guard for the Chiefs into a five-year, $22.5MM deal with the Falcons in 2014. However, after starting 15 games for Atlanta last season, Asamoah landed on injured reserve this year prior to the start of the 2015 campaign due to a hip issue. He also wasn’t viewed as a fit under the new coaching staff’s zone-blocking scheme.

Asamoah’s contract still featured $3.9MM in dead money after the 2015 season, so the Falcons figure to carry a chunk of money on their 2016 cap for the offensive lineman. But, depending on what the injury settlement looks like, the club should be off the hook for the rest of his contract, including his $3.5MM salary and $500K in roster bonuses for 2016.

The fact that the Falcons had to complete an injury settlement with Asamoah rather than simply release him from IR suggests that he’s not healthy yet, so I wouldn’t expect him to sign with a new club until the offseason.

Following the Cowboys’ Saturday loss to the Jets, the club was officially eliminated from the postseason, prompting owner Jerry Jones to indicate that he expected quarterback Tony Romo to head to injured reserve. Citing a source, David Moore of the Dallas Morning News confirms that will indeed be the case, with Romo set to land on IR within the next few days.

Romo, who re-injured his collarbone in a Thanksgiving loss to the Panthers, had remained on the Cowboys’ 53-man roster over the last few weeks, as the team held out hope that its starting quarterback could return to action in the playoffs. Dallas hung around a little longer than expected in the weak NFC East, but with three teams ahead of them in the standings, the Cowboys never seemed like a real threat to win the division once Romo went down for a second time.

Romo, 35, will officially finish the 2015 season with 884 yards, five touchdowns, and seven interceptions in four games. Despite Romo’s somewhat pedestrian numbers, the club won three of his four starts, and has gone 1-9 in games started by Brandon Weeden and Matt Cassel. Kellen Moore will become the fourth quarterback to get a start for the Cowboys this season, with head coach Jason Garrett announcing this morning that Moore will get the nod in Week 16 against the Bills.

After featuring a three-headed rushing attack on Sunday that included Brandon Bolden, James White, and Joey Iosefa, the Patriots will add a veteran to the mix, according to Josina Anderson of ESPN.com, who reports (via Twitter) that the club will sign free agent running back Steven Jackson.

While Jackson had an excellent run in St. Louis, rushing for more than 1,000 yards in eight straight seasons and earning three Pro Bowl nods, he appeared to have lost a step during his two years with the Falcons. In 27 games with Atlanta, Jackson ran for 1,250 yards on 347 carries, an average of 3.6 yards per attempt. He was cut by the team in February and there had been no reports of him working out for NFL teams since then, until he met with the Patriots last week.

With LeGarrette Blount and Dion Lewis lost for the year, the Patriots have been playing shorthanded in the backfield — White has played well, but is generally a pass-catching back, leaving Bolden and Iosefa to handle most of the carries. Iosefa hadn’t appeared in an NFL game prior to yesterday’s contest against the Titans, and Bolden is more of a special-teamer than a feature back, so Jackson will add some veteran depth to the roster.

According to Anderson (via Twitter), Jackson will be signing a one-year deal with the Pats, so he’s simply being viewed as a short-term option. The move may not bode well for Montee Ball‘s chances of reaching the active roster in the coming weeks — Ball remains on New England’s practice squad for now.