NFL Network insider Jason La Canfora has the latest on the CBA negotiations, injury updates on Saints RBs Reggie Bush and Pierre Thomas, Browns WR Joshua Cribbs and Titans WR Kenny Britt, as well as the possibility of former Dallas coach Wade Phillips landing with Mike Shanahan in Washington.

Saints RB Pierre Thomas doesn’t appear to be any closer to a return. Chris Ivory and Ladell Betts will continue to share the workload, but neither should be a fantasy option against the Steelers.

Vikings QB Brett Favre is in a walking boot and has two fractures in his surgically repaired left ankle, though the ankle injury is not as severe as the fractured ankles of those currently jumping off the Vikings’ bandwagon.

Saints RB Chris Ivory has major sleeper value once again in Week 7.

Reggie Bush is “making huge leaps” in his rehab from a broken fibula, but doesn’t have a timetable on his return and doesn’t want to risk a setback by coming back too early.

Saints coach Sean Payton told reporters today that Pierre Thomas still has soreness and swelling with his ankle injury. When the Saints signed Julius Jones, I figured this was a bad sign that Thomas was not as close to returning as we would all hope. And that might be the case.

Drew Brees is the worst quarterback in the league. Kyle Orton would have been a better first-round pick than Brees in my fantasy draft. Come on people, do not overreact.

The Atlanta Falcons will head into a key NFC South game against the New Orleans Saints without two key starters who had been listed as questionable — wide receiver Michael Jenkins and safety Erik Coleman.

Offensively, the Saints are still great without Reggie Bush. Just not as feared.

Maybe Titans QB Vince Young should re-think that decision about taking Reggie Bush‘s Heisman Trophy. Because he would at least have that to console him while he is on the bench.

Find out what I’ll be watching on Thursday night when the NFL’s preseason schedule continues with three games.

The budding ‘bromance’ between Chad Ochocinco and Terrell Owens — forever to be known as T.O.cho Cinco — has had its feathers ruffled because all of the attention heaped on Brett Favre‘s latest indecision.

Free-agent RB LenDale White has shown flashes of brilliance during his four-year NFL career, but questions about his work ethic and consumption of alcohol and marijuana have left him without a team and suspended for the first four games of the 2010 season.

Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said Friday on “NFL Total Access” that if he could go back in time, he would handle things at USC a little differently after alleged NCAA violations cost the school past victories and future scholarships.

Rivals of the University of Southern California football program already are having fun with the Trojans, who will receive NCAA sanctions.