GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Kirk Cousins won’t get the opportunity to throw to Jordan Addison when the veteran quarterback begins his second stint with the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.
Addison was ruled out for the Vikings’ game with the Green Bay Packers because of a thumb injury. The Vikings had listed him as questionable on their Friday injury report.
Addison has 18 catches for 277 yards and one touchdown this season.
This game marks Cousins’ return to the Minnesota Vikings, who acquired him from the Las Vegas Raiders on Tuesday. Cousins played for Minnesota from 2018-23, and his last game in a Vikings uniform came when he tore his Achilles tendon during a 2023 game at Lambeau Field.
Minnesota’s other inactive players are quarterbacks Kyler Murray and Max Brosmer, wide receiver Jauan Jennings, linebacker Blake Cashman, tight end T.J. Hockenson and defensive lineman Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins. Brosmer would be the Vikings' third quarterback.
The Vikings already had ruled out Cashman (concussion), Hockenson (wrist/chest), Ingram-Dawkins (ankle), Jennings (calf) and Murray (hamstring) on Friday.
Vikings safety Joshua Metellus (shoulder) and outside linebacker Kyle Van Noy (calf) are both available. They had been listed as questionable on Friday.
Green Bay’s inactive players are running backs Josh Jacobs and Pierre Strong Jr., linebacker Zaire Franklin, offensive lineman Donovan Jennings, guard Kevin Zeitler and center Sean Rhyan.
The Packers had ruled out Jacobs (finger), Rhyan (ankle) and tight end Josh Whyle (concussion) on Friday. Whyle was placed on injured reserve Saturday.
This will be the fourth straight game Franklin has missed and the third straight game that Ryan has sat out. Zeitler (ankle/triceps) had been listed as questionable on Friday.
Packers running back Chris Brooks (ankle), defensive back Javon Bullard (ankle/knee), guard Travis Glover (knee), safety Xavier McKinney (foot), wide receiver/kick returner Skyy Moore (ankle) and edge rusher Lukas Van Ness (back) are all available after being listed as questionable on Friday.
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Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison (3) makes a catch for a two-point conversion against the Detroit Lions during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Officials said they expect airline schedules to fully recover by the end of the day Sunday after a nationwide ground stop that was initiated out of caution caused massive travel disruptions.
The longest flight stoppage in 25 years lasted more than four hours and ended around 8:15 p.m. ET Friday, allowing some domestic flights to take off from U.S. airports.
Of the 41,000 flights scheduled Saturday, more than 6,600 were canceled, according to FlightAware. Just over 1,300 of the more than 26,000 flights scheduled for Sunday were canceled, according to Cirium, an aviation analytics firm. That amounts to about 5.2% of scheduled flights. Prior to Friday, the average cancellation rate for U.S. departures was 3.4%.
But officials said the U.S. airspace was safe and operational and would recover well ahead of the Thanksgiving travel rush.
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin said there was no indication the failure was related to a cyberattack and no lives were at risk.
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In New Jersey, Ashley Lynn Qua said she arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport three hours early for her Sunday flight with all her essentials in her carry-on and armed with “an extra ounce of kindness.”
“I’m not blaming anybody like the pilots, the flight attendants, the guy who’s serving me my third coffee of the morning. Those are not the people I’m upset with,” she said. “As I interact with everybody at the airport today, I know it’s not their fault.”
Qua, 32, a clean energy researcher, was on her way to a conference in Las Vegas. While her flight was expected to be on time, some of her colleagues were dealing with delays and cancellations.
Pete Alfieris, 60, was hoping to return home to Florida after attending a wedding in New York.
“Our flight has been delayed an hour or so so far, so fingers crossed that we can get out of here and go back to sun in Florida,” he said. “It’s just too cold up here.”
Alfieris, a facilities manager, said the entire travel system should be revamped.
“Honestly, it’s very perplexing,” he said. “We are in 2026, 2027. You know, we should have better infrastructure.”
The Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday described a radar site in Amarillo, Texas, and a radio communications site in El Dorado, Arkansas, as potential sources for the problem, which involved excess data flooding the air traffic control system and causing intermittent disruptions to communications and radar feeds.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said after a contractor replaced old copper wire with new fiber wire at the Arkansas site and the router was turned on, a problem then cropped up in Texas, cascading into the ground stop.
“We didn’t think that should or would happen,” he told ABC’s “This Week.”
In multiple appearances on Sunday news shows, Duffy continued to press Congress for billions of dollars for upgrades to the air traffic control infrastructure.
“I can’t apologize for what was passed on to us. And I can’t blame Republicans or Democrats, because it’s all of them. It goes back, 20, 25, 30 years of a lack of investment,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The air traffic control modernization began last year after Congress approved $12.5 billion of funding. Duffy and the White House are pushing for $30 billion more to complete the work. About 70% of copper wire has been switched to fiber already, officials said Saturday.
Airlines are obligated to offer free rebooking on another flight or a full refund if a flight is canceled.
Bedford said the administration was working closely with airlines and said they were waiving all terms and conditions.
Some airlines were allowing passengers to rebook if they had travel scheduled Friday or Saturday. Others extended the offer to people with reservations for Sunday or even Monday.
Microsoft said Saturday that services were fully restored after its own massive outage. There was no indication the FAA ground stop was related to the service disruption that took Microsoft services offline Thursday, according to federal officials and a company spokesperson.
Over 430 million people use Microsoft 365 apps, Microsoft said on its website. Users reported Microsoft 365 services including Outlook, Teams and AI assistant Copilot were interrupted.
Two travelers sleep in the baggage claim area at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded flights nationwide. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Baggage waits for travelers to claim in at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded flights nationwide. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
A traveler sleeps at Washington Dulles International Airport, in Chantilly, Va., Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded flights nationwide. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
A display board shows canceled flights to the U.S., in Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026. (Florian Wiegand/dpa via AP)
Passengers wait for their flights at George Bush Intercontinental Airport Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, in Houston after the Federal Aviation Administration lifted nationwide ground stops. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
