It’s a simple premise and yet a near-impossible challenge. The story of the past decade of college football is littered with superstars — from Lamar Jackson‘s mystifying talent to Baker Mayfield planting the Oklahoma flag at Ohio State to Tua Tagovailoa rescuing Alabama from the brink of defeat to a former walk-on in Stetson Bennett […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Tom Telesco details the appeal about taking the Raiders’ general manager position. (0:49) HENDERSON, Nev. — While Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis told ESPN he was “uncomfortable with the concept” of pairing a rookie coach with a rookie general manager, as he had done in 2012, that was not the […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Dan Orlovsky and Mina Kimes break down the Raiders’ decision to make Antonio Pierce head coach after his interim stint. (1:47) HENDERSON, Nev. — The Las Vegas Raiders are working to hire former Los Angeles Chargers general manager Tom Telesco as their new GM, league sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on […]
Continue readingBosa will miss at least the next four games if placed on IR, and Staley said it is “to be determined” if Bosa will play again this season. “We’re just going to make kind of final determinations, but that’s the direction that it’s headed,” Staley said. Bosa left Sunday’s loss to the Green Bay Packers […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Keenan Allen explains what it means to become the second Chargers player to reach 10,000 receiving yards. (1:17) LOS ANGELES — Receiver Keenan Allen stopped a group of reporters gathering around his locker after the Los Angeles Chargers’ 27-6 trouncing of the New York Jets on Monday night. “Hold on, y’all […]
Continue readingMore Teams. More Games. Field Yates explains how Dak Prescott could make his way to a top-12 fantasy QB. (0:53) FRISCO, Texas — Knowing how important the Week 6 game against the Los Angeles Chargers was for the Dallas Cowboys, Dak Prescott was going to do whatever he could to make sure his team won. […]
Continue readingWelcome to Week 8 of the 2023 NFL season. A couple of unexpected losses this past weekend — the Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers all registering losses — shook up the top 10 in our weekly Power Rankings. And the separation between the top half and bottom half of the league is […]
Continue readingBosa, who suffered the injury in Week 3 against the Minnesota Vikings, had already been dealing with a hamstring injury from Week 1 and missed the Chargers’ Week 4 game against the Raiders. After the Week 5 bye, Bosa returned against the Dallas Cowboys on Monday night and played 28 snaps, posting two tackles and […]
Continue readingMack, facing the team that drafted him in 2014, registered six sacks, a franchise single-game-record, two of which resulted in fumbles. Mack’s six sacks were the most by a player against their former team since player sacks became an official stat in 1982. While few could have predicted six sacks, dominant performances against the Raiders […]
Continue readingTo create our list, we asked a panel of dozens of ESPN NFL experts to rate players based on performance expectations for the 2023 season as compared with their peers. Emphasis was placed solely on the upcoming season and predicting potential greatness, rather than past performance, career résumé or positional value. That means long-term injuries […]
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