Pre-game updates

There are a few personnel changes to report:

• For a second straight game, Mike Blanc will start at DT in place of Nick Fairley. Though Fairley is listed as a starter on the depth chart, Blanc started last week and is the actual starter.
• LB Eltoro Freeman will start in place of Adam Herring at the weak-side spot. Again, no surprise. The spot was basically Freeman's before he got injured during preseason camp. Herring will probably play in a backup capacity.
  
• WR Tim Hawthorne will dress out tonight. It will mark the first time he has done so this season after he broke his foot over the summer.