Yahoo Sports NFL writer Charles McDonald is joined by Sports Info Solutions’ Bryce Rossler to discuss what it would take for the Chiefs to lose this postseason, including how Kansas City’s defense has improved immensely under Steve Spagnuolo. Hear the full conversation on “The Exempt List with Charles McDonald” – part of the “Zero Blitz” podcast – and subscribe on …

No one can accuse University of Tennessee Chancellor Donde Plowman of being a one-trick pony. The NCAA can speak to her versatility. In Plowman’s first go-round with the NCAA, she was the quintessential southern hostess. She couldn’t have been more hospitable in the NCAA’s investigation of former UT football coach Jeremy Pruitt. She welcomed the governing body of college sports. …

If Cowboys owner Jerry Jones believes people work better when they’re under pressure, he has applied a little more of it to his lame-duck head coach. Less than two weeks after Jones issued a statement indicating that Mike McCarthy will return for a fifth season after an embarrassing first-round exit from the playoffs, Jones spoke openly about the prospect of …

The Senior Bowl is but one step in the evaluation process that eventually takes the best available college players to the NFL, but it is an important step in that there’s several days of practices in which personnel people can see like as like beyond the game tape. In the evaluative sense, the practices are almost more important than the …

Gardner Minshew is really going to the Pro Bowl. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) For the second straight year, the NFL had to dig deep into the AFC stable of quarterbacks to help replace Patrick Mahomes in the Pro Bowl. The NFL named Indianapolis Colts quarterback Gardner Minshew II to the Pro Bowl on Tuesday, as well as Houston Texans …

Senior Bowl practices are underway in Mobile as plenty of stars from the college game this past season try to improve their draft stock in front of scores of NFL front office members. The game is played this coming weekend, but significantly more is usually made of the practice sessions.  In one of those on Tuesday it was Notre Dame …

New England Patriots wide receiver Kayshon Boutte turned himself in to authorities last week after being charged with crimes related to alleged sports betting. (AP Photo/Greg M. Cooper, File) With the first Super Bowl in the history of Las Vegas taking center stage over the next two weeks, the NFL revealed Tuesday that it will be investigating New England Patriots …

The Texas football team officially filled out its coaching staff on Tuesday with the announced hiring of Kenny Baker. Baker will replace Bo Davis as UT’s defensive line coach. He spent the past season as an assistant defensive line coach with the Miami Dolphins, but has coached at the collegiate level with Western Kentucky, UT-Chattanooga, Mercer and Berry College. Reports …

Former Panthers offensive coordinator Thomas Brown has found a new job. The Bears hired Brown as their pass game coordinator, Brad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune reports. Brown, 37, was voted the NFL’s No. 2 offensive coordinator in a recent NFLPA player poll. He reunites with Shane Waldron, the new offensive coordinator in Chicago, after the two were on Sean …

Former Eagles offensive coordinator Brian Johnson interviewed with the Buccaneers on Tuesday, the team announced. The Bucs also have interviewed Lions receivers coach Antwaan Randle El, former Browns offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt and Texans quarterbacks coach Jerrod Johnson for the position. Johnson, though, withdrew his name after getting a contract extension and a raise from the Texans on Tuesday. …

MOBILE, Ala. — Jerry Jones deflected the first couple of questions. Has he talked to Bill Belichick this month? “I don’t want to get into, for reasons of talking about anybody that I may have talked to that’s been bantered around about coaching,” the Dallas Cowboys team owner and general manager said Tuesday. “But I didn’t talk to anybody. I …

Wisconsin offered Kole Briehler, a three-star class of 2025 defensive lineman from Princeton, New Jersey, on Tuesday. The 6-foot-3, 250-pound athlete still has one more year of high school before he’d potentially make the leap to collegiate level. Briehler has now received 22 Division 1 offers, including nine teams from within the 2024 version of the Big Ten conference. Most …

For 30 minutes Sunday, it looked as if the Detroit Lions might reach their first-ever Super Bowl. But then the San Francisco 49ers stormed back to steal the NFC Championship, ensuring a title-game rematch with the vaunted Kansas City Chiefs. It wasn’t necessarily a pretty postseason journey for the NFC’s No. 1 seed, as the 49ers barely survived the upstart …

Perry: Why Belichick to Commanders ‘doesn’t make sense’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston With Bill Belichick’s head coaching opportunities dwindling as each day passes since the Atlanta Falcons hired Raheem Morris, could an underwhelming team such as the Washington Commanders find their way into contention to land one of the winningest coaches of all time? The Commanders originally liked …

Several prospects made the most of the first day of the 2024 Senior Bowl from Mobile, Alabama. One of those players was Tulane’s Michael Pratt, who is hoping to move up the food chain of quarterback prospects.  While Pratt is currently projected as a third-round pick (according to CBS Sports’ prospect rankings), former NFL defensive lineman and current CBS Sports …