On a Tuesday in late October, the most common word on an NFL injury report isn’t “out,” and it isn’t “questionable.” It’s three letters, running down the status column like a waiter who hasn’t been back to the kitchen yet.

TBD.

I read these lists the way other people read horoscopes: constantly, and with no evidence that it helps. This week’s starts with a correction, because some of the internet still thinks the Eagles are preparing for the Cowboys.

They aren’t. That game is over. So here is the NFL injury report for Week 8 as it stands on Oct. 27, before the official practice reports for Sunday’s games have been filed. Every status below is as reported, not guessed.

“Questionable” is the most generous word in football, and it’s about to be everywhere.

A quick word on the vocabulary, since the whole week runs on it. The league dropped “probable” in 2016 after finding that about 95 percent of the players tagged with it played anyway. What’s left is “questionable” (uncertain to play), “doubtful” (unlikely) and “out” (won’t). Before those arrive, there’s the practice report: did not participate, limited, or full. “Limited” means less than a player’s normal reps, which covers a great deal of ground. For most Sunday games, nobody can be formally ruled out until Friday. Until then, it’s TBD.

The Eagles play Washington on Sunday night, and the Cowboys game is already in the books.

The “injury-ravaged Philadelphia” previews you may have seen were for Week 7’s Monday night game. Dallas won it 38-21. The Eagles are 2-5 and have lost five straight. Week 8 sends them to the Commanders on Sunday, Nov. 1, at 8:20 p.m. ET on NBC. Washington is 1-4-1 and coming off a bye, which in late October is the closest thing the NFL has to a spa day.

The Jalen Hurts injury news is serious, and this part comes without jokes.

Hurts was diagnosed with blood clots in his lungs before the Eagles’ Week 6 game against Carolina, and Philadelphia placed him on injured reserve. CBS Sports reports that he’s expected to miss the rest of the season. USA Today reports that he’s unlikely to play again before 2027. Tanner McKee has started in his place, and Monday was the fourth start of his career. This week ESPN reported that Hurts’ mother, Pamela, a schoolteacher, was touched by get-well cards her students made for him. Of everything on this list, that matters most, and it has nothing to do with a point spread.

Saquon Barkley is the question the Sunday night number leans on hardest.

Barkley returned from his hamstring injury against Dallas with one of the stranger box-score lines around: nine snaps, nine touches, 71 yards and a touchdown. Then he left early in the second half with what was listed as a back injury. Nick Sirianni explained the workload in the language of the sport that happens to be playing its World Series this week. “Obviously, you saw that he was on a pitch count out there today,” he said. Barkley said afterward that the hamstring “came out great,” and by TSN’s account he wasn’t sweating the back.

This is why it matters for a line or a prop: through six games, Philadelphia averaged 109.0 rushing yards per game with Barkley and 28.5 without him, per CBS Sports. There also isn’t much behind him. Will Shipley, Tank Bigsby and Carson Steele are on injured reserve. Dameon Pierce, who filled in with 47 yards and a touchdown, left in the fourth quarter with an undisclosed injury. As of Tuesday, DraftKings Network lists both Barkley and Pierce as TBD.

The rest of the Philadelphia list is long, and the betting market has already done the math.

DeVonta Smith (hamstring) and Dontayvion Wicks (ankle) both missed Week 7. Nolan Smith Jr. (concussion) and Michael Carter II (abdomen) are also on Tuesday’s list. All four are TBD. In the early look-ahead numbers, Philadelphia was a 1.5-point favorite, and CBS Sports wrote that the line “experienced a massive flip” after Hurts went to injured reserve. By Tuesday, Washington was favored by 3.5 to 4.5 points depending on the book, and ESPN’s listed total had dropped from 46.5 to 40.5.

(Don’t take a side from me on any of that. My history with totals would get a weatherman reassigned.)

Washington’s list is shorter but not empty. Jayden Daniels has played two games since returning from a dislocated left elbow. Terry McLaurin is out for the season with a torn patellar tendon. Backup Marcus Mariota (knee) is TBD.

Thursday night goes first, so the Panthers and Packers are already doing the paperwork.

Carolina at Green Bay kicks off Thursday at 8:15 p.m. ET, which squeezes the whole weekly liturgy into three days. The Panthers held walk-throughs this week, so their reports are projections: an estimate of who would have practiced if there had been a practice. Projected as not participating: linebacker Jaelan Phillips (hamstring), guards Damien Lewis and Torricelli Simpkins III, and cornerback Akayleb Evans. Green Bay’s TBD column includes receiver Matthew Golden and defensive tackle Devonte Wyatt. Game statuses for this one arrive Wednesday.

Detroit and Minnesota each have a star on the list, and both coaches sound calm about it.

Amon-Ra St. Brown hurt his ankle in Detroit’s Week 7 win over Green Bay. Dan Campbell said he “should be good” for the Vikings, though he’s likely to sit out Wednesday before the Lions ramp him up. Campbell added, “We’ll see when we get there,” which may be the most honest sentence any coach says all week.

On the other sideline, the league’s last unbeaten team has Aaron Jones Sr. listed as day-to-day with a knee injury from the win over the Colts. “With where Aaron’s at and where we feel coming out of the game, don’t necessarily see it as a depth issue at all,” Kevin O’Connell said.

“Day-to-day” is my favorite term on the board, by the way. It’s technically true of everyone.

Several props depend on players who’ve been gone a while.

The Jets’ Breece Hall has missed four games with a quad injury. Yahoo Sports says his return “appears likely to be Week 8 against the Raiders,” pending practice. The same report says Arizona’s Jeremiyah Love (ankle) “should have a shot to play in Week 8 against Dallas.” A return for Kansas City’s Rashee Rice (hamstring) is possible but unconfirmed. And yes, Baltimore’s quarterback is on the list too, but Lamar Jackson’s ankle gets its own article and its own very long week.

The concussion entries are the ones to read with the jokes switched off.

Tuesday’s list includes the Chargers’ Ladd McConkey, the Buccaneers’ Emeka Egbuka (concussion and foot), the Rams’ Nate Landman, the Chiefs’ Jaylon Moore, the Bears’ Jack Sanborn and the Eagles’ Nolan Smith Jr. Cleveland tackle Tytus Howard was evaluated for a possible concussion. Those players move on the protocol’s schedule, not the betting market’s, and nobody outside the building should pretend to know how it will go.

By Friday, most of these will have turned into actual words. Some will become “questionable,” which is football’s way of saying ask me Sunday. Until then, the honest status for this whole board, mine included, is the one in the column.

TBD.