Week 3 of the 2021 NFL season brought us some wild endings. Through a frenetic final two minutes, the Chargers edged past Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs after Kansas City struggled with ball security. The Ravens avoided an upset loss to the Lions with a record-setting 66-yard field goal from Justin Tucker that rang off […]
Continue readingThe NFL’s league leader in touchdown passes is 44 years old. The league leader in touchdown catches is 32. No, we’re not talking about a local recreational league. This is the NFL, where the Tom Brady-to-Rob Gronkowski combination seemingly has altered the time-space continuum. But if anyone were able to generate 1.21 gigawatts and make […]
Continue readingIt’s still early, so the 2021 NFL Power Rankings contain a bit of volatility. But ranking teams isn’t the only volatile early-season NFL exercise; categorizing the fantasy value of players is difficult right now too. But being the positive people we are, we decided to take a sunny side up approach and have our NFL […]
Continue readingOne week after the Minnesota Vikings’ offense struggled in an overtime loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, plagued by penalties and an inability to run the ball and set up play-action, the team went to the well on its first drive at State Farm Stadium on Sunday to earn an early lead over the Arizona Cardinals. […]
Continue readingJameis Winston and Kyler Murray came out firing. Aaron Rodgers and Josh Allen did not. It was a topsy-turvy Week 1 in the NFL and for fantasy football managers. Some top picks delivered as expected. Some sleepers came through, too. But plenty of players expected to perform well underwhelmed. And the rookie class mostly left […]
Continue readingCook was injured on the first play of Minnesota’s opening drive in the second half of last Sunday’s loss to the Seattle Seahawks. He did not practice Wednesday through Friday and will have two weeks to rest with the Vikings’ upcoming bye in Week 7. “Initially I thought I was cramping for a minute because […]
Continue readingThe 2020 NFL season slides into Week 5, and with it includes a rash of injury news and notes about several of the league’s top quarterbacks, including the Baltimore Ravens’ Lamar Jackson, Denver Broncos’ Drew Lock, New York Jets’ Sam Darnold and San Francisco 49ers’ Jimmy Garoppolo. Elsewhere, in his Thursday night debut with the […]
Continue readingTeams in the NFL were required to cut their rosters to 53 players by 4 p.m. ET on Saturday. Given the irregular offseason, with OTAs and minicamps occurring virtually for the first time, teams have had only training camp, which included 14 padded practices, to see their players in person. The biggest names let go […]
Continue readingThe NFL draft is typically about who’s next for each team. But while veteran players might receive more competition from the annual influx of rookies, the newbies can actually provide some help and positive clarity for the vets, too. That’s where we went with this edition of the NFL Power Rankings, as several established NFL […]
Continue readingFree 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 […]
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