{"id":649169,"date":"2026-01-02T22:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/649169\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T22:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T22:34:19","slug":"te-nate-adkins-and-wr-pat-bryant-not-assigned-game-statuses-expected-to-be-available-for-week-18-game-vs-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/649169\/","title":{"rendered":"TE Nate Adkins and WR Pat Bryant not assigned game statuses, expected to be available for Week 18 game vs. Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 The Broncos appear poised to regain a pair of players on offense for Sunday&#8217;s game against the Chargers.<\/p>\n<p>Tight end Nate Adkins (knee) and wide receiver Pat Bryant (concussion) remained full participants in practice on Friday and were not assigned game statuses. The absence of a game status indicates a player will be available for the upcoming matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Adkins and Bryant both suffered injuries in Week 16 and did not play in Denver&#8217;s Christmas Day win.<\/p>\n<p>Defensive lineman John Franklin-Myers (hip) remained limited in practice and is questionable for Week 18. Inside linebacker Karene Reid (hamstring) was again a full participant, but he was ruled out for the game and remains on injured reserve. Linebacker Dre Greenlaw was also ruled out, as he did not practice this week with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>Guard Ben Powers (biceps) remained a full participant and was not assigned a game status.<\/p>\n<p>The Broncos will host the Chargers with a chance to clinch the No. 1 seed on Sunday at 2:25 p.m. MT on CBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENGLEWOOD, Colo. \u2014 The Broncos appear poised to regain a pair of players on offense for Sunday&#8217;s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[1010,232,231,258,2426,7,17416,77161,3889,6,1011,1004],"class_list":{"0":"post-649169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-aric-dilalla","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-denver","11":"tag-denver-broncos","12":"tag-denverbroncos","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-injury-report","15":"tag-los-angeles-chargers-at-denver-broncos-2025-reg-18","16":"tag-nate-adkins","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-pat-bryant","19":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115827891627772553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}