Player Notes

ATLANTA — The Falcons have scored six and seven points in their last two games. The Braves have scored more than seven runs in 41 games this season. I’m not sure if this suggests Desmond Ridder’s relative football “WAR” merely is something to be desired or that the Falcons should consider luring Ronald Acuña Jr. to play quarterback, but one thing seems certain: Something has to change with Atlanta’s ...

RB James ConnerHeight: 6-1. Weight: 232.Hometown: Erie, PennsylvaniaPro/college experience: Seventh NFL season (third-round pick of the Steelers in 2017). Four-year college career at Pittsburgh, where he finished with 3,733 career rushing yards and 52 rushing touchdowns.2023 and career: Had his second 100-yard rushing game with the Cardinals in Week 2 during a 31-28 loss to the visiting Giants. Entering ...

Shedeur Sanders led a 98-yard touchdown drive to send ESPN’s fifth-most watched college football game of all-time into overtime on Saturday night.Then, he threw the game-winning touchdown pass in double overtime, leading Colorado past rival Colorado State for a 43-35 win.Sanders called the performance “Brady mode.” As in, Tom Brady mode.Brady has mentored Sanders for years. He also signed Sanders to ...

The XFL and USFL are in advanced talks to merge operations, according to Axios.According to the report, the leagues look to combine before the 2024 season.NFL alternative leagues have a history of failure, and a merger could be the best bet for both leagues to find success in spring football ratings.The XFL was purchased in 2020 by an ownership group that includes Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. USFL is ...

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said on Sunday that he would walk across Texas to help Blacks and minority become owners to benefit the NFL.Media mogul Byron Allen made a plea to take Jones up on his offer on Monday with a letter to several journalists media outlets, including The Star-Telegram.Allen wrote:“Jerry, I am very happy to hear about your commitment to achieving a majority Black owner of ...

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 20-17 home loss to New Orleans that rookie quarterback Bryce Young and the Panthers’ offense are very close to succeeding.“I’ve seen this before,” Reich insisted. “It’s not that far away. It looks bad. But I don’t think it’s that far away. We make a couple of plays here and there ...

The Tennessee Titans will head to Cleveland this week to face a team reeling from an injury to its best and most dangerous offensive player.Browns running back Nick Chubb suffered a devastating knee injury that's expected to end his season during Monday night's loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. A four-time Pro Bowler who rushed for 1,525 yards and 12 touchdowns last season, Chubb has rushed for more ...

Do you like scary movies? According to Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe, the Jets’ quarterback situation is the best horror flick on TV.After Aaron Rodgers tore his Achilles four plays into the Jets’ 22-16 win over the Buffalo Bills in Week 1, the team has rallied around Zach Wilson. Everyone else, it seems, is begging the team to look elsewhere for a quarterback, including Sharpe, who joined ...

A little more than a year into her role as president of the Raiders, Sandra Douglass Morgan said her success is solely dependent on the team assembled around her.Since assuming her role, Morgan, the first Black woman team president in NFL history, has helped to reshape the Raiders front office. In the last year the Raiders have hired a new chief operating officer, chief marketing officer and promoted ...

Working out of the slot on a first-down play Sunday in Buffalo, Raiders wide receiver Hunter Renfrow raced 15 yards upfield, then rounded out his pass pattern into wide-open space within the Bills’ zone defense.An astutely drawn-up play by coach Josh McDaniels, coupled with Renfrow’s precise execution, should have resulted in a big chunk play by the Raiders.As it turns out, quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo ...