Michael Vick injured his left hamstring Philadelphia's next-to-last possession of the first half against the New York Giants Sunday and will have an MRI on Monday. Nick Foles replaced him at quarterback for the last possession of the half, and started the second half.
Late in the first half, Vick scrambled to his left and ran out of bounds after a 13-yard gain -- but as he crossed the sideline, he grabbed the back of his left thigh, and limped back to the huddle. He stayed in for the last three plays of the drive, which ended with an Alex Henery field goal. When he came off the field, medical staff worked on his left hamstring for the rest of the first half.
Foles came in the next time Philadelphia had the ball, with 1:33 left at its own seven-yard line; he led the Eagles to a field goal that gave them a 19-7 halftime lead.
Vick was 6-for-14 for 105 yards before leaving the game, but ran for 79 yards, including a 34-yard gain.
JOECKEL DONE FOR SEASON
Jaguars left tackle Luke Joeckel has a fractured ankle and will miss the remainder of the season, the Jaguars announced on Sunday.
He was hurt late in the first quarter of their game against the Rams.
Joeckel, the second overall pick in April's draft, was blocking on a run by Maurice Jones-Drew when a Rams player rolled up the back of his leg. Trainers worked on him for several minutes before the cart took him off the field.
Joeckel was making his first career start at left tackle; he had started at right tackle until veteran Eugene Monroe was traded by Jacksonville to Baltimore last week.
MEAGTRON SITS
Calvin Johnson will not play for the Detroit Lions Sunday in Green Bay because of lingering knee problems -- the first game he has missed since the 2010 regular-season finale.
The Lions made Johnson inactive before Sunday?s game after he did not practice last Wednesday and Thursday and was limited on Friday. He was listed as questionable all week.
Johnson was on the injury list as probable the previous week of practice, but he played in the Lions? 40-32 win over the Chicago Bears in Detroit. He caught four passes for 44 yards and a touchdown.
The Lions go into Lambeau Field Sunday on a 22-game road losing streak against the Packers.
GABBERT LEAVES GAME
Blaine Gabbert left Sunday's game with an injured left hamstring, with the Jacksonville Jaguars trailing the Rams 24-10 in St. Louis.
Chad Henne, who started two games while Gabbert recovered from a lacerated right hand, replaced him with 5:14 left in the third quarter.
Back in the second quarter, Gabbert had his left shoulder attended to on the sidelines after being sacked. He returned to the game, however. In the third quarter, he threw an interception in the end zone on fourth-and-goal at the two-yard line, after the Jaguars took a field goal off the board when the Rams jumped offsides. It was Gabbert's second interception of the day; his first was returned 82 yards for a touchdown.
The Jaguars went three-and-out on their next possession. Henne came in for Gabbert the next time they had the ball, and he led them to a field goal that cut their deficit to 24-13, and the Jaguars announced that Gabbert would not returned because of the hamstring.
MATTHEWS HURT AGAIN
Star linebacker Clay Matthews left the Packers' 22-9 win over Detroit after the third quarter with a thumb injury. Pro Football Talk reports that Matthews has a fractured thumb.
Matthews sacked Matthew Stafford on the last play of the quarter on a third-and-9 at the 34 to push the Lions out of field-goal range. He jogged to the locker room with a trainer and did not return.
Matthews was coming back from a hamstring injury that knocked him out of a loss to the Bengals two weeks ago. His recovery was aided by a bye last week.
The pass-rushing specialist has three sacks this season.
The Packers also lost starting linebacker Brad Jones to a hamstring injury. His replacement, Robert Francois, later left the game with a torn Achilles.
ALSO OF NOTE: RIVERA ON HOT SEAT
The Carolina Panthers were hammered by the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday. Maybe that's as much as ownership can take.
According to an Ian Rapoport on NFL.com before the conclusion of the game, the Panthers have begun the work of forming a "possible coaching search" to replace coach Ron Rivera.
Rivera held onto his job after going 7-9 last season. It was the second consecutive season they'd finished under .500 and now the Panthers, after losing 22-6 to the Cardinals, have dropped to 1-3.
The next three games -- at Minnesota, vs. St. Louis and at Tampa Bay -- should all be winnable for the Panthers. But you might have assumed the same of the Cardinals' game.
The lone win is against one of the league's worst this season -- the 0-5 New York Giants. What looked like something special at the time, isn't after all.
Contributors: David Steele, Tadd Haislop, Rana L. Cash