More Teams. More Games. Pat McAfee and crew react to the Ravens promoting Zach Orr to be their new defensive coordinator. (0:47) OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens promoted inside linebackers coach Zachary Orr to defensive coordinator Thursday, elevating one of their former star defenders and making history as a result. Orr is the […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Mike Clay and Field Yates explain why you can’t trust Brandin Cooks in fantasy. (1:13) Another week of the NFL season is in the books, and there is no shortage of fantasy football news to digest. Each Tuesday during the season, ESPN fantasy analyst Eric Moody will ask NFL Nation reporters […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Kevin Seifert tells Pat McAfee that he expects the Vikings will be cautious and not rush Justin Jefferson back. (1:07) EAGAN, Minn. — The Minnesota Vikings are off to a 1-4 start this season despite an NFL-leading stretch from Justin Jefferson. How much worse could it get now that the wide […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell says Justin Jefferson did suffer an injury but that the team doesn’t yet know the severity. (0:27) MINNEAPOLIS — As he walked through the locker room Sunday evening, Minnesota Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell stopped to chat with receiver Justin Jefferson. He threw his arm around Jefferson’s […]
Continue reading“I’m trying to move past it,” Mattison said. “But it is something that I feel like the platform should make it, some type of way, where these people making these profiles have to provide some kind of information. You shouldn’t be walking around doing stuff like this and be able to hide behind that. Maybe […]
Continue readingWhat, you thought my Monday column was going to be about the Saints-Steelers game? After Sunday’s 33-30 victory by the Vikings in Buffalo, it was impossible to consider talking about anything else. With close competition from the first Falcons-Panthers game in late October, Vikings-Bills has to be considered the best game of the 2022 NFL […]
Continue readingORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Count out the Minnesota Vikings all you want. Patrick Peterson, Justin Jefferson & Co. keep finding ways to rally for victories in the most remarkable and improbable of ways. Sunday’s 33-30 overtime win over the previously AFC-leading Buffalo Bills might have been the most stunning so far. Peterson intercepted Josh Allen […]
Continue readingWhile the long-term story of the 2022 NFL draft will be how the draftees pan out years from now, this version of the NFL Power Rankings is taking more of an immediate approach. Instead of breaking down the rookies (there will be plenty of time for that), we picked veterans from each team whose status […]
Continue readingThe initial fantasy football rankings are out, which has all of us at ESPN Fantasy excited for the 2022 season. You know what else gets us excited? Having our incredible NFL Nation team contribute to our fantasy coverage year-round. We asked our reporters to provide one fantasy sleeper from each team, whether it’s an off-the-radar […]
Continue readingEAGAN, Minn. — The Minnesota Vikings placed running back Dalvin Cook on the COVID-19/reserve list Thursday. Cook, who has been following protocols for unvaccinated players, is expected to be out for 10 days and miss Minnesota’s Week 16 game against the Los Angeles Rams. Cook, who was named to his third straight Pro Bowl this […]
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