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Five offseason moves to improve all 16 AFC teams
More Teams. More Games. Victor Cruz says the Bengals should draft LeSean McCoy and is a replacement-level back at this point of his career. Bodine’s spot at center already has been filled by Spencer Long, who signed a three-year, $12.6 million deal earlier this month. The team can free up about $4.5 million in cap […]
Continue readingCleveland Browns DE Myles Garrett won’t be denied
More Teams. More Games. Marcus Spears details why Myles Garrett is the second best defensive player in the NFL right now. (0:52) MYLES GARRETT COULDN’T lift his left arm high enough to put on a shirt. After wincing through several attempts, the Cleveland Browns’ All-Pro defensive end went searching the Denver Broncos visitors’ locker room […]
Continue reading2024 NFL Pro Bowl AFC, NFC rosters: The league’s top players
More Teams. More Games. Domonique Foxworth and Jeff Saturday discuss the Bills’ season turnaround and whether they can keep up their momentum into the playoffs. (1:22) The rosters are set for the 2024 NFL Pro Bowl, and the San Francisco 49ers lead the way with nine selections. Second-year quarterback Josh Allen to his lowest career […]
Continue readingNFL win totals drawing early action and the ones to bet now
And perception does matter. The draft, free-agent acquisitions and prior form are the only building blocks available, so there’s no game action to help formulate an opinion. Avoiding the hype train becomes key. During the 2017 preseason, for instance, public cash came pouring in on the Oakland Raiders hitting the over on 9.5 wins and […]
Continue readingTom Coughlin, Mike Shanahan among Hall of Fame semifinalists
The Hall’s 12-person seniors committee trimmed a list of eligible player nominees to 31. Each semifinalist played his last game in professional football no later than 1998. Separately, the Hall’s 12-person coach/contributor committee reduced the list of nominated candidates to 29 semifinalists. Unlike in February when cornerback Darrelle Revis and offensive lineman Joe Thomas were […]
Continue readingTravis Kelce is one of the best NFL players ever: Why he’s unique
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce added a pair of round numbers to his Hall of Fame résumé Sunday. During Kansas City’s unexpectedly close 34-28 win in Denver, he crossed both the 1,000-yard barrier for the seventh straight season and became the fifth tight end in NFL history to rack up 10,000 career receiving yards. It […]
Continue readingChicago Bears claim NFL-high six players off waivers, including OL Alex Leatherwood
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — The Chicago Bears claimed offensive lineman Alex Leatherwood off waivers from the Las Vegas Raiders on Wednesday. Leatherwood was one of an NFL-high six players claimed off waivers by the Bears. He was waived by Las Vegas on Tuesday. Chicago coach Matt Eberflus said the Bears were “surprised” that Leatherwood, the […]
Continue readingNFL Rank 2022: Predicting the top 100 players, with stats, notes and quotes for the league’s best
The 2022 NFL season kicks off Thursday, Sept. 8, and that means it’s time for our annual ranking of the league’s top 100 players. What can we expect from the game’s best this season, and how do they stack up against each other? To create our list, we asked an ESPN panel of more than […]
Continue readingNFL’s best players ever at every offensive position: Is Tom Brady the GOAT quarterback? Jerry Rice or Randy Moss at WR?
Quarterback Tom Brady was retired during the 2022 NFL offseason for just 40 days before opting to return for a 23rd season that could (maybe?) be his last, tight end Rob Gronkowski recently decided to hang them up, and defensive tackle Aaron Donald inked a massive contract extension this summer to make him the game’s […]
Continue readingCleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam fires back: Hue Jackson ‘never accepted blame’ for losing
Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam fired back at former coach Hue Jackson on Thursday, saying that Jackson “has never accepted blame for one thing” and that the claim he paid Jackson to lose games is “an absolute falsehood.” “Hue Jackson has never ever accepted any responsibility for our record during that time period,” Haslam told […]
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