With no timetable for a decision on Adrian Peterson’s playing status, the NFL rejected an attempt at immediate reinstatement by the Minnesota Vikings’ running back.

There are several steps ahead in the NFL’s review of facts and court documents before Peterson’s fate is determined.

FOX Sports first reported the league denied Peterson’s bid to be made eligible to play for the Vikings at Chicago in Week 11. The Vikings are on bye this week.

Peterson pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor assault charge, was placed on probation and ordered to pay a $4,000 fine. The charge was reduced from felony child abuse for an incident in which Peterson admittedly used a tree branch to whip his 4-year-old son.

Attorney Rusty Hardin said Peterson, 29, looks forward to resuming his career.

—Baltimore Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith will miss the rest of the season after undergoing foot surgery, the team announced.

Initially it was believed Smith’s injury would sideline him for only a few weeks, but additional tests revealed that Smith needed surgery.

—Quarterback Tony Romo practiced Thursday in London with the Dallas Cowboys, his first workout since injuring his back Oct. 27.

The Cowboys lost Romo against the Washington Redskins and enter Sunday’s game against Jacksonville at Wembley Stadium with a two-game losing streak.

“I’m anticipating him playing, there’s no reason to think that he won’t,” owner Jerry Jones said Thursday. “My expectations are for him to play.”

—Cincinnati Bengals running back Giiovani Bernard was ruled out for Thursday’s game by head coach Marvin Lewis with hip and clavicle injuries.

Bernard’s absence against the Cleveland Browns pushes rookie Jeremy Hill into the featured back role.

—Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice and his wife Janay testified on the second and final day of an appeals hearing before an arbitrator.

Rice and his wife left the New York office of the former federal judge who heard the case about three hours apart. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell testified for more than two hours on Wednesday.

There was no immediate word on when the arbitrator would make a ruling in the case.

Rice is challenging the NFL’s authority to change his original two-game suspension to indefinite after video was released by TMZ showing him knocking out his wife in a hotel elevator earlier this year.

— Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly denied a report that the Eagles are beginning to lose faith in quarterback Nick Foles, who will be sidelined six to eight weeks with a clavicle injury.

NJ.com reported, based on sources, that the team “isn’t sold that he’s the guy going forward.”

“I don’t know where that stuff comes from,” Kelly said Thursday, according to PhillyMag.com. “I know this, I know I control the roster. And I think you guys can say first-hand, I don’t talk to anybody. So whoever says they have a source in terms of what’s gonna go on with roster maneuvers or people going up and people going down, they never talked to the right person because that comes from me, and that never was the case.

“I’ve got great faith in Nick, and I think he’s a hell of a quarterback, and I think sometimes he gets banged too much, but I wish there was more people like Nick Foles in our lives.”

—Houston Texans outside linebacker Jadeveon Clowney disclosed that he missed Sunday’s loss to Philadelphia because of soreness in his knee as well as illness.

Clowney continues to have soreness in his knee that was surgically repaired after the first game of the season. He feels pain when he moves laterally. It could keep him out of the next game at Cleveland on Nov. 16 and be a hindrance all season.

—Three teams are scheduled to make repeat appearances in London in 2015, including the Jacksonville Jaguars and Miami Dolphins.

The Buffalo Bills and the Jaguars will meet in London on Oct. 25 in Week 7; the Detroit Lions and Kansas City Chiefs will play there Nov. 1 in Week 8; and the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets will play in London on Oct. 4, in Week 4..

Miami might be motivated to play abroad as a precursor to hosting a future Super Bowl.

–The Washington Redskins signed cornerback Chase Minnifield to their practice squad, the team announced. Minnifield spent Weeks 4-9 on the team’s active roster before being waived on Tuesday.