GREEN BAY, Wis. — All Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers could do was hope for good news after All-Pro left tackle David Bakhtiari suffered a knee injury in practice on Thursday. One phone call dashed that. “I got a call from him yesterday, late in the afternoon,” Rodgers said Friday. “I was hoping […]
Continue readingThe Dallas Cowboys, Cleveland Browns and Miami Dolphins are among the teams hoping to win their way into the playoffs on the final weekend of the NFL’s regular season Sunday. All three enter their games with key players on offense battling injuries. Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott ran for 105 yards last weekend and is […]
Continue readingThe 2020 NFL season is here, and our NFL Nation reporters have bold predictions for all 32 teams to set up the slate ahead of Super Bowl LV. Here’s a sampling: Miles Sanders will lead the NFL in all-purpose yards. Le’Veon Bell will be traded by the midseason deadline. The Chiefs will repeat as Super […]
Continue readingPouncey has not practiced this week because of the injury. With Pouncey out, Dan Feeney will start at center and Forrest Lamp will take over at left guard. Right guard Trai Turner (knee) and right tackle Bryan Bulaga (hamstring) were listed as questionable before the team departed for Cincinnati, though coach Anthony Lynn didn’t sound […]
Continue readingGREEN BAY, Wis. — If it seems the Green Bay Packers have gone unnoticed of late — at least since the hubbub over their decision to draft their possible quarterback of the future in the first round died down — then that’s just fine with their quarterback of the present. Aaron Rodgers sounded as though […]
Continue readingTwo years ago, ESPN analytics created a revolutionary new way to measure the pass-block and pass-rush performance of individual NFL players using NFL Next Gen Stats player tracking data. This year, we present two new companion metrics for run-blocking and run-stopping: run block win rate (RBWR) and run stop win rate (RSWR). Our pass-blocking metrics […]
Continue readingThe Los Angeles Chargers are ranked No. 20 in ESPN’s Football Power Index ahead of the 2020 NFL season. With no preseason games this year amid the coronavirus pandemic, Week 1 is the first time we’ll see new acquisitions and rookies for every team. Week 1 will also give us the first NFL games since […]
Continue readingThe 2020 NFL season kicks off Thursday, Sept. 10, when the Kansas City Chiefs play host to the Houston Texans. It has been an irregular offseason to say the least with OTAs and minicamps canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. While teams have been in training camp since late July, they have had only 14 […]
Continue readingGREEN BAY, Wis. — Aaron Rodgers had every reason to come to training camp grumpy, especially considering the Green Bay Packers picked his possible replacement, Jordan Love, in the first round of the NFL draft this year. Yet Rodgers, according to those closest to him, has been anything but that way throughout training camp after […]
Continue readingThe 2020 NFL season is just over a week away, so it’s time for our annual ranking of the league’s top 100 players. What can we expect from the game’s best players? We asked a panel of 46 ESPN NFL experts to rate players based on how good they will be in the 2020 season […]
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