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Ranking offensive weapons for all 32 NFL teams in 2020: Barnwell picks the best and worst
The most important thing for an NFL team is to find a franchise quarterback. The second-most important thing might be surrounding that quarterback with weapons. The Ravens went shopping for the likes of Mark Ingram and Marquise Brown last offseason and helped Lamar Jackson emerge as MVP. The Chiefs have been at or near the […]
Continue reading2020 NFL mock expansion draft: Picking players for a 33rd team
On the other hand, by adding two teams, the NFL would be able to add an additional game for television each week without having to concede any more money to its players. With the Texans paying $700 million as a franchise fee in 2002, Forbes estimated in 2012 that new franchises would pay between $1 […]
Continue readingNFL ultimate all-conference teams: ACC and SEC
Just because sports is on hiatus doesn’t mean the competition needs to end. While we wait for the live action to return, ESPN has assembled a collection of “ultimate all-conference teams” that should intrigue college football and NFL fans alike. Our panel of NFL analysts, college and NFL Nation reporters — Andrea Adelson, Matt Bowen, […]
Continue readingRanking NFL teams with the worst offseasons: Barnwell on the Texans, Patriots, Packers, more
With the NFL universe on pause, now seems like a good time to continue our big-picture look into how each organization did during the player-acquisition period of the offseason. Over the next four days, I’m going to run through all 32 teams and rank the work they did from worst to first. To measure how […]
Continue reading2020 NFL offseason winners and losers: QBs, free agents, teams and trends
Let’s break down some of the winners and losers from this NFL offseason. Some of the stories in the short term were obvious — you don’t need me to tell you again who won the DeAndre Hopkins trade — but I’m going to try to take a look at the bigger picture to see how […]
Continue readingThe best ATS season ever for every NFL team
Our NFL Nation reporters give their perspective on the best individual seasons against the spread for each team, using research from ESPN Stats & Information. New England Patriots 2003: 13-2-1 (.867) This was when Tom Brady the sixth-round pick was starting to become Tom Brady the star. The 2003 season was his fourth in the […]
Continue readingWhich players benefit most from 2020 NFL schedule in fantasy?
Some housekeeping before I dive into this. First, I’ll be excluding Week 17 from the fantasy categories, though including it has only a minor impact on the findings. Next, note that my strength of schedule evaluation is not based on final 2019 records, which is often what you’ll see in this type of column. There […]
Continue reading2020 NFL draft surprises: Why did the Packers, Eagles draft quarterbacks Jordan Love, Jalen Hurts?
After the hype suggesting that this would be a wild 2020 NFL draft because of the coronavirus-enforced information gap between organizations, the weekend actually went mostly by the book. Teams generally stayed put and chose the prospects or attacked the positions we would have expected. Most of the trades were mild. Last year, we had […]
Continue reading32 NFL players most likely to be cut or traded after the 2020 NFL draft
Free agency and the 2020 NFL draft have been completed, and now the league enters into an uncertain hiatus. The NFL deliberately kept both of those activities on their original timelines, but with no way to safely practice social distancing, the league canceled organized team activities, and it could do the same for June’s usually […]
Continue readingBears select Notre Dame’s Cole Kmet in NFL draft, giving team 10 tight ends
The Chicago Bears must believe in the strength-in-numbers theory at tight end. On Friday, the Bears made yet another attempt to improve their fortunes at tight end by using the 43rd overall pick of the 2020 NFL draft on Notre Dame’s Cole Kmet, who became the 10th tight end on Chicago’s offseason roster. The Bears […]
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