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Rodgers out for Season: Jets, NFL Must Address Critical Concerns

In the aftermath of New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers season-ending Achilles injury — after only four plays Monday night against the Buffalo Bills — there are numerous ramifications and unanswered questions that must be addressed by the team and the league. ...

MNF Drama: With Rodgers out, Jets Beat Bills with OT Punt Return, 22-16

Talk about Monday Night Football drama. If somebody scripted this, it would have been rejected as, well, just too implausible.   High-profile offseason acquisition and four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers was knocked out of the game — and the season — on the team’s first ...

NFL Week 1: Niners, Cowboys roll; Lions, Browns, Bucs win upsets

  NFL Week 1: Recaps of every game Jets-Bills MNF Drama here  Detroit Lions 21, Kansas City Chiefs 20 In a Thursday night shoccker, The Detroit Lions refused to let Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes pull the rabbit out of the hat and came away ...

San Francisco 49ers at Pittsburgh Steelers

SAN FRANCISCO (15-5) at PITTSBURGH (9-8) Sunday, 1 p.m. EDT, FOX LAST MEETING: 49ers beat Steelers 24-20 on Sept. 22, 2019, in Santa Clara, Calif. LAST SEASON: 49ers 14-5; Steelers 9-8. 49ERS OFFENSE: OVERALL (5) ,RUSH (8), PASS (13), SCORING (6) 49ERS DEFENSE: ...

Russell Wilson: Preview, Review of the Player, the Man, the Trade

After a horrid first year in Denver following his shocking trade from the Seattle Seahawks, quarterback Russell Wilson must regain some composure, some equilibrium — hell, some pride— if he expects to be considered a future candidate for the Pro Football Hall of ...

Gasp! Oxygen? Burrow's Contract Raises QB Pay into Rarified Air

Going Up!  Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow became the newest highest-paid player in the NFL on Thursday, agreeing to a five-year, $275 million contract extension. The deal was announced just before the Thursday night NFL opener, in which the Detroit ...

Lions Shock Chiefs in NFL Opener, 21-20; Mahomes "Embarrassed"

The Detroit Lions refused to let Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes pull the rabbit out of the hat in the NFL's Thursday Night season opener and came away with a 21-20 upset victory. This was more a game of muscle than magic as the Lions defused Mahomes ...

Bosa Breaks 49ers Bank: Five Years, $170 million; $122.5 Guaranteed

The 49ers and Nick Bosa agreed Wednesday on a five-year, $170 million contract extension with $122.5 million guaranteed, a source with knowledge of the transaction confirmed to The Sports Xchange. Either Adam Schefter or The Athletic first broke the story — probably ...

Raiders Sent Vegas Crisis Team to Home of AWOL DE Jones

Troubled veteran defensive end Chandler Jones was not with the Las Vegas Raiders Wednesday when they began preparations for the season opener at Denver. This was one day after he posted a series of disparaging remarks about the Raiders on social media. As of Thursday ...

Nate Davis' NFL Power Ratings: Steelers, Saints Ascend to Top 10

(This is part of a series in which Hall of Football presents media forecasts on the 2023 NFL Season. This post is from USA Today veteran football writer Nate Davis. Nate The Great offers up-to-date observations, specific insights and opinions for each selection. ...

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‘Sky is the limit’: Tom Brady explains why he mentors Deion Sanders’s son Shedeur

Shedeur Sanders led a 98-yard touchdown drive to send ESPN’s fifth-most watched college football game of all-time into overtime ...

Two football leagues near merger to battle NFL supremacy

The XFL and USFL are in advanced talks to merge operations, according to Axios.According to the report, the leagues look ...

Byron Allen wants to take Jerry Jones up on his offer to help potential Black NFL owner

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said on Sunday that he would walk across Texas to help Blacks and minority become owners ...

Reich says Bryce Young and Panthers are on verge of something big. Do you believe it?

Frank Reich feels it coming.You may not feel it, and I sure don’t feel it, but Reich said late Monday night after Carolina’s ...

How Derrick Henry reacted to Browns running back Nick Chubb's devastating injury

The Tennessee Titans will head to Cleveland this week to face a team reeling from an injury to its best and most dangerous ...

Jets’ Zach Wilson can’t even ‘play dead,’ Hall of Fame TE says in epic takedown

Do you like scary movies? According to Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe, the Jets’ quarterback situation is the best ...

Raiders president reflects on year of change for franchise

A little more than a year into her role as president of the Raiders, Sandra Douglass Morgan said her success is solely dependent ...

Hunter Renfrow becomes afterthought in Raiders offense

Working out of the slot on a first-down play Sunday in Buffalo, Raiders wide receiver Hunter Renfrow raced 15 yards upfield, ...

Patrick Mahomes has been quietly lobbying the Chiefs coaches to let him punt in a game

There isn’t much missing on Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ résumé.Mahomes has won two NFL MVP awards, had seasons in ...

Ex-Colts quarterback Art Schlichter sentenced for cocaine possession

Indianapolis StarNearly a year after former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Art Schlichter was found unresponsive in a Hampton ...

Deshaun Watson remains confident despite bad breaks for Browns in Pittsburgh

Akron Beacon JournalPITTSBURGH — The game was there for the taking. All Deshaun Watson needed to do was lead the Browns down ...

Ja’Marr Chase lobbies for more ‘shots downfield’

Ja’Marr Chase said he just needs to be patient while Tee Higgins has the “hot hands,” but at the same time, the Cincinnati ...
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