The ratings for super wild-card weekend were stellar, even if the games weren’t. Browns-Texans on NBC, which resulted in a 45-14 Houston win, averaged 29 million viewers. Saturday night’s Dolphins-Chiefs game, a 26-7 margin, averaged 23 million viewers on Peacock. On Sunday, the Packers-Cowboys game on Fox — which was over before halftime — averaged 40 million. Rams-Lions on NBC …

Jan. 17—Former New Mexico State quarterback Diego Pavia announced his commitment to SEC school Vanderbilt on Wednesday night via a post on social media. After entering the transfer portal hours after Jerry Kill’s resignation, the Albuquerque native and Volcano Vista High School graduate is set to reunite with former NMSU offensive coordinator Tim Beck, teammate Blaze Berlowitz, also a quarterback, …

Jerry Jones apparently doesn’t want him some gloryhole, after all. The Cowboys owner won’t be making a coaching change. Instead, the team has announced that Mike McCarthy will return for a fifth year on the job. McCarthy has won 12 regular-season games in 2021, 2022, and 2023. However, he hasn’t made it past the divisional round once. This year, the …

Getty Images The ACC formally amended its complaint against Florida State Wednesday, multiple outlets report. The 55-page filing alleges the university breached its original contract with the league when it chose to challenge the conference’s exclusive grant of rights for television broadcasts.  Perhaps most importantly, the ACC requested that the court issue a permanent injunction that would bar FSU from …

The speculation was fair. The Dallas Cowboys hired head coach Mike McCarthy in 2020 to do what predecessor Jason Garrett had not: Get over the playoff hump. Four years later, McCarthy has not. He has not guided a talented roster to an NFC championship game, much less a Super Bowl, both measures of success that have eluded the franchise for …

If you were thinking about grabbing tickets to the Buccaneers-Lions game on Sunday, you might want to think again — or be prepared to dip into that rainy day fund. Tickets to the NFC divisional-round matchup have skyrocketed on the secondary market, with average admission to Ford Field reaching a record high of $1,186 apiece, according to TickPick.com. The unexpected …

New Mexico State quarterback Diego Pavia has committed to Vanderbilt football, he announced on social media Wednesday. Pavia, the Conference USA Offensive Player of the Year, joins the Commodores on the heels of Vanderbilt hiring several New Mexico State staffers, including offensive coordinator Tim Beck to the same role and coach Jerry Kill as a special advisor. In 2023, Pavia …

Packers DT makes easily disproven ‘guarantee’ about Purdy’s turnovers originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The Green Bay Packers’ locker room might need a fact checker. But at the very least, they’re giving the 49ers some bulletin board material. Ahead of Green Bay’s divisional-round playoff game against San Francisco on Saturday at Levi’s Stadium, there was an odd claim …

St. Ignatius’s Cody Haddad makes a third-quarter touchdown reception over McKinley’s Geno Kelly, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. MADISON – Wisconsin’s 2025 football class grew by one Wednesday. Cody Haddad, a 6-foot-1, 175-pound safety/wide receiver from St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, announced on social media he has committed to UW. Haddad also held offers from Kansas, Nebraska, Purdue, Cincinnati, Duke …

49ers left tackle Trent Williams plans to play a 14th NFL season. “Oh, yeah, 100 percent,” Williams said Wednesday, via David Bonilla of 49erswebzone.com. Williams, 35, this season became the eighth offensive lineman in history with at least 11 Pro Bowl selections. He may not catch Bruce Matthews, who had 14 career selections, but he needs only one more Pro …

USATSI South Alabama is expected to promote offensive coordinator Major Applewhite to fill its vacant coaching position, 247Sports reports. Applewhite served under former coach Kane Wommack for the past three seasons until Wommack left to become Alabama’s defensive coordinator. Applewhite, 45, helped assemble one of the top offenses in the Sun Belt this season. The Jaguars averaged over 33 points and 440 yards …

Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby found a way to play through a knee injury, throughout most of the 2023 regular season. It was definitely nothing minor. And definitely not something that could heal without surgery. Crosby has posted on social media a photo from a hospital bed with his left leg heavily wrapped and in a brace. The specific nature …

Jets defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich has been a name circling around as a potential future head coach candidate in the NFL. He’ll get a taste of running a team in Mobile, Alabama as he will be the head coach of the National Team at the 2024 Senior Bowl. The Senior Bowl announced the full coaching staffs for both the National …

The Dallas Cowboys are retaining head coach Mike McCarthy for the 2024 season, the team announced Wednesday night. McCarthy will return for the fifth and final season of his current deal. “I believe this team is very close and capable of achieving our ultimate goals and the best step forward for us will be with Mike McCarthy as our head …

Ravens tight end Mark Andrews was a full participant in Wednesday’s practice for the first time since a serious ankle injury Nov. 16. He was injured when Bengals linebacker Logan Wilson used a hip-drop tackle to bring down Andrews. The NFL wants to eliminate the hip-drop tackle in the offseason. The league cites statistics that show the hip-drop tackle increases …