New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers suffered a season-ending Achilles injury just four plays into the 2023 NFL season, and while he teased a return throughout the year, he remained sidelined for the remainder of the games. Whether he will look like the same future Hall of Famer when he gets back on the football field after the injury is …

Elite class of 2025 cornerback Tae Harris has decommitted from the Georgia Bulldogs. Harris is ranked as a four-star recruit. Harris originally committed to Georgia football in June 2023. However, a lot has changed for the Georgia coaching staff since then. Former Georgia defensive backs coach Fran Brown accepted the head coaching job at Syracuse. The Bulldogs subsequently hired USC …

Jan 21, 2024, 02:18 PM ET Calgary Flames forward Dillon Dube is taking an indefinite leave of absence from the team to address his mental health, the team said Sunday. “Dillon is under the care of health professionals, and we request that Dillon’s privacy is respected during the period,” a team statement read. Dube, 25, is in his sixth season …

Tim Washington, a Dallas Cowboys fan, posted to Facebook a couple weeks ago about the tragic and sudden passing of his father, Tim, who collapsed as the two were walking into FedEx Field to see the Cowboys play the Washington Commanders in Week 18 of the 2023 NFL regular season. Washington posted again recently, expressing appreciation to all those who …

49ers amazingly extend bizarre 21-year streak with win vs. Packers originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The 49ers are nothing if not consistent. For the most part. As one of the most historic NFL franchises, San Francisco has plenty of impressive streaks to its name, but after the 24-21 NFC divisional playoff round win over the Green Bay Packers …

Stanford defensive tackle Jaxson Moi committed to transfer to Tennessee football on Sunday. Moi chose the Vols over Washington, which recently lost coach Kalen DeBoer to Alabama. And he also took an official visit to Arizona after entering the transfer portal on Dec. 31. Moi, a 6-foot-2, 302-pounder, played all 12 games at Stanford this season, including seven starts. He …

USATSI San Francisco 49ers star wide receiver Deebo Samuel’s status for the NFC Championship is up in the air, as he deals with a shoulder injury. Samuel suffered the injury during the team’s 24-21 Divisional Round win over the Green Bay Packers on Saturday. He was originally ruled questionable to return and was eventually downgraded to out.  He will have …

Getty Images Shoveling Highmark Stadium is becoming a weekly job for some fans. Just as they did last week, the Buffalo Bills asked fans to come to their stadium and help shovel snow to get the place ready for Sunday’s divisional-round game against the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, which kicks off at 6:30 p.m. ET.  The good news …

Alabama football coach Kalen DeBoer has added a key transfer for his first Crimson Tide team on Saturday in Parker Brailsford, who started at center last year for DeBoer’s Washington team. Brailsford earned second-team All-Pac 12 honors, as well as being named a Freshman All-American, in his first year as a starter. Though light at 275 pounds, Brailsford displays excellent …

The San Francisco 49ers squeaked out a 24-21 win over the Green Bay Packers in Saturday night’s NFC Divisional Round, but the health of Deebo Samuel remains in question. The star wide receiver is having tests done on his left shoulder Sunday that could determine his availability for next week’s NFC title game, NFL Network reported Sunday. For Samuel, who …

Purdy redeems himself with clutch game-winning drive vs. Packers originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area SANTA CLARA — Brock Purdy did not look like the MVP-caliber quarterback who set 49ers franchise records during the 2023 NFL regular season. His second pass attempt hit Green Bay Packers safety Darnell Savage in the chest. Purdy got lucky with the dropped interception …

South Carolina associate head coach and special teams coordinator Pete Lembo has been hired to lead Buffalo, the program announced Sunday. Lembo had been the Gamecocks’ special teams coordinator since December 2020 and helped lead a special teams unit that was among the nation’s best in 2022, when the Gamecocks were ranked fourth in the nation in kick returns, fifth …

The final matchup of divisional-round weekend is a very familiar one: For the third time in four seasons, the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs will meet in the playoffs.  This is the first time that game will take place in Buffalo, though, as the Chiefs are headed on the road for a postseason contest for the first time in …

Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen will meet for the seventh time on Sunday, and the first time in the playoffs since the 42-36 overtime thriller won by Kansas City two years ago. The numbers don’t lie. This is easily the best QB rivalry since Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, who last met in the 2015 AFC title game. Here’s the …

Is this real? CBS Sports is saying it is: Chip Kelly really is being considered by some NFL teams, according to the latest whispers from the coaching carousel. Here’s the link and a piece of intel from the CBS report: “Multiple sources tell CBS Sports that UCLA head coach Chip Kelly has been mentioned as a possible offensive coordinator by …