Anarumo was a finalist for the Arizona Cardinals vacancy last year that went to Jonathan Gannon. This year, it’s harder to gauge where the fifth-year defensive coordinator stands after the Bengals missed the playoffs for the first time in three seasons. With a young secondary earning on the job experience, Cincinnati had a league-worst 6.1 […]
Continue readingNFL training camps continued Wednesday, with more teams donning pads and ramping up the intensity as we get closer to preseason games. Quarterbacks are starting to look more dialed in — check out some of the perfectly placed highlight throws below — and all eyes continue to be on offense vs. defense battles at practices. […]
Continue readingRead ESPN’s fantasy football Daily Notes every weekday to stay caught up on the news you need to know and get a head start on the fantasy football content coming today and tomorrow to ESPN.com and the ESPN Fantasy App. The news: The Patriots lost RB Damien Harris to a hamstring injury. What it means […]
Continue readingThe 2022 NFL season will kick off a week from Thursday as the Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams host the Buffalo Bills (8:20 p.m. ET, NBC) — which means teams are cutting their rosters in preparation. Teams were required to cut to 53 players by 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Cuts came earlier as […]
Continue readingMETAIRIE, La. — Michael Thomas was back on the practice field Wednesday for the first time in 18 months as the New Orleans Saints opened training camp, a huge development in the star receiver’s recovery from multiple ankle surgeries. “Man, I’m kind of lost for words,” said Thomas, who also spoke to the media for […]
Continue readingMETAIRIE, La. — Chris Olave’s first day of New Orleans Saints rookie camp technically was Friday. The 11th overall pick in the NFL draft, however, has already spent most of the past two weeks getting familiar with his new running mate, Michael Thomas, in their shared home base of Southern California. Thomas welcomed the fellow […]
Continue readingLOS ANGELES — By the time Les Snead took over as general manager in 2012, the Rams had gone more than half a decade without a difference-making wide receiver. It didn’t get much better in Snead’s first five seasons on the job, either. Between 2007 and 2016, no Rams wideout even reached 800 yards. For […]
Continue readingCan dreams materialize by talking about them? Can players for the San Francisco 49ers, Los Angeles Rams, Kansas City Chiefs or Cincinnati Bengals reach the Super Bowl by avowing to these goals? In the Bible, Mark 11:24 says, “whatever you have asked for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be […]
Continue readingWeek 2 of the NFL preseason continues with four games on Friday night, but Tuesday was the day when teams had to cut down their 90-man rosters to 85 players. That meant the end of Tim Tebow’s time in Jacksonville, and there were also a couple of back-of-the-roster trades that allowed organizations to get a […]
Continue readingMeyer expected a big, strong, physical receiver. That’s not what he saw, which just wouldn’t be good enough in 2021. And that is exactly what Meyer told him. “I just didn’t like his size. His strength, I just thought, was way below average, way below what we expect from our receivers, and he was told […]
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