As teams around the league prepare for Week 16, here’s an update on some notable names from injury reports updated Thursday.

Chargers center Nick Hardwick fully practiced all week and is listed as questionable to play in Friday’s game at Tennessee, which will be broadcast live on NFL Network.

The NFL fined Redskins DT Albert Haynesworth $10,000 and Giants RB Brandon Jacobs $7,500 for their actions during a second-half scuffle in Monday night’s game at Washington, a league source told NFL Network’s Jason La Canfora.

On Tuesday, December 29, the best of the best in the NFL will be revealed on the NFL Total Access Pro Bowl Selection Show primetime special at 7:00 PM ET, exclusively on NFL Network and on NFL.com.

Cardinals QB Kurt Warner has lost fantasy points due to a statistical change in Week 15.

Former Packers safety LeRoy Butler drew attention when he referred to his former teammate, Brett Favre, as a “diva” during his appearance on NFL Network’s Total Access on Wednesday.

As teams around the league prepare for Week 16, here’s an update on some notable names from injury reports released Wednesday.

Anyone waiting for Colts coach Jim Caldwell to tip his hand about how much QB Peyton Manning and the other starters will play in Week 16, please don’t hold your breath.

The “nice” list continued to get smaller and smaller this holiday season as the Director of Fandemonium finalists were narrowed down from 32 to the elite eight.

Lions coach Jim Schwartz announced Wednesday that Drew Stanton will make his first NFL career start this weekend against the 49ers, keeping veteran backup Daunte Culpepper on the bench.

NFL Network’s Playbook analysts seem to have finally learned how to agree. It only took until the season was in its penultimate week. They concur on 13 of 16 picks, but there is one notable game in which they are not unanimous: The big Christmas night matchup between the Chargers and Titans on NFL Network. Joe Theismann likes Tennessee to stop San Diego’s nine-game winning streak, while Brian Baldinger and Sterling Sharpe are confident the Chargers will extend their streak to 10.

Steelers safety Troy Polamalu told reporters in Pittsburgh that he will not try to practice Wednesday and isn’t sure if he can play this weekend against the Ravens.

The FOX doubleheader game was the most-watched show on TV last week with 25.8 million viewers and marked the seventh NFL telecast to top 25 million viewers this season – up from three such broadcasts in the entire 2008 season and the most since nine in 1996.

NFL Network earned the highest average primetime cable rating among all ad-supported cable networks last week, led by a pair of exciting “Unbeaten Week” Thursday Night Football games — Indianapolis-Jacksonville and Dallas-New Orleans.

Nothing goes better with the holidays than football, eh? We may not have the greatest matchups of the season this week, but more than enough to whet our palate for the playoffs. Our Christmas night game on NFL Network should be as good as any this week — Chargers at Titans — and we still have one team continuing its path to perfection. The playoff picture should crystallize more this week and, with any luck, we’ll have at least a few spots still on the line come Week 17.