NFL Network’s Jason La Canfora reports that TE Jeremy Shockey and RB Pierre Thomas are both active for the Saints against the Eagles today.

The Thursday injury reports have been filed around the league, so we’ll pass along some of the names that caught our attention, including T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Kevin Walter and Pierre Thomas.

Here are a few of the things that caught my eye in the first half of Sunday’s games.

The fantasy football season is here! Rejoice! Have fun, talk trash, but don’t overthink your starting lineup! Consider this your fantasy football intervention.

The New Orleans Saints may not have finished the preseason undefeated (3-1), but they accomplished just about every goal on their list.

In calling my first preseason game of the summer I noticed that it takes a little time reacclimating to the booth, the crew and all the elements required to help the broadcast go smoothly. It reminded me of how the coaches and players were using the preseason to iron out wrinkles in their game.

The early reports out of Tampa on TE Kellen Winslow are good. Glowing, actually. But we’ve heard this before, right?

With a bye week to rest a sports hernia, Saints TE Jeremy Shockey is listed as probable on the team’s injury report. Shockey, who missed three games because of the injury, had just one catch for six yards against the Chargers in Week 8.

Any football fan knows how talented tight ends Kellen Winslow and Jeremy Shockey are.

The Saints got TE Jeremy Shockey back at practice on a limited basis on Thursday after the three-time Pro Bowler sat out the previous day due to his hernia injury.

Anyone looking for a sign that Saints tight end Jeremy Shockey could play in Sunday’s key divisional matchup versus the Carolina Panthers got one Thursday when New Orleans cut tight end Sean Ryan.

Good news for fantasy football fans — Marques Colston was catching passes from Drew Brees on Wednesday. The bad news is that it did not help your fantasy football team.

At least not yet.

It was a short stay for QB Joey Harrington in New Orleans. The Saints released Harrington on Wednesday, just five days after he was signed to serve as the third-string quarterback.

Jeremy Shockey will undergo sports hernia surgery and is expected to miss the next three-to-six weeks.

He has reportedly dealt with the ailment for weeks and aggravated it during Sunday’s loss to the Denver Broncos. Shockey’s absence hurts countless fantasy teams and further dilutes what has become an inconsistent position.