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Purdy details NFL wake-up call in 49ers’ NFC title game vs. Lions originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area With the 49ers’ 2023 NFL season on the line in the NFC Championship Game against the Detroit Lions, Brock Purdy came to an important realization. San Francisco was just one win away from a trip to Super Bowl LVIII, but the …

The Falcons have signed one more of their 2024 draft picks. Atlanta announced on Friday that third-round outside linebacker Bralen Trice has signed his four-year rookie deal. Trice, 23, was the No. 74 overall pick out of Washington. He was a two-time, first-team All-Pac 12 honoree. He also was the defensive MVP of the 2022 Alamo Bowl. In 15 starts …

When Kirk Cousins first spoke to reporters after signing with the Falcons, he admitted (unwittingly) that the team committed multiple violations of the league’s tampering policy. This week, for his second time against the logos-and-sponsors background, Cousins was asked about the status of the investigation. “The league’s still kind of going through that,” Cousins said. “So, I’ll let them do …

Arizona Cardinals linebacker B.J. Ojulari put together a pretty solid rookie season. He worked mostly as a rotational pass rusher off the edge, totaling 4 sacks, 5 tackles for loss, and 6 QB hits while playing 37% of the team’s defensive snaps. His 13.4% pressure rate, per Tru Media, ranked just outside the top 50 among the 272 players who …

Getty Images It’s fitting the Baltimore Ravens, who famously coined the phrase “Festivus Maximus” at the start of the 2000 Super Bowl, issued an airing of grievances shortly after their 2024 NFL schedule was released.  If you didn’t know better, you would have thought that Frank Costanza himself wrote the Ravens’ official announcement of their upcoming schedule. But this isn’t …

Promptly (and not coincidentally) after the Rams didn’t use a first-round draft pick on a quarterback, Matthew Stafford’s camp made it known he wants a new contract. To date, he has yet to get one. His only leverage that doesn’t entail a potential fine consists of staying away from OTAs. For the Rams, they start Monday. So it’s fair to …

After retiring, unretiring and then retiring again, quarterback Tom Brady has officially hung up the cleats, but he is far from done in the football world. The seven-time Super Bowl champion’s retirement ventures have kept him heavily involved in the league. This season, Brady is moving to the Fox broadcast booth where he will serve as a color commentator. He is …

A Kansas City Chiefs star again made headlines this week — just not for anything football related — as three-time Super Bowl champion Harrison Butker created significant controversy drawing responses from the NFL and GLAAD after a recent commencement speech at Benedictine College in Kansas went viral. The 20-minute speech, addressed to graduating students, took a firm stance against “poor …

May 18, 2024, 10:50 AM ET Mike Sullivan was selected U.S. coach for the 2026 Milan Olympics on Saturday, an expected move that puts the two-time Stanley Cup champion in charge of the country’s bid for its first gold medal since the “Miracle On Ice” in 1980. USA Hockey also announced the Pittsburgh Penguins coach will be behind the bench …

Getty Images Kliff Kingsbury has been a fan of Jayden Daniels for quite some time, and after his initial first few weeks with Daniels in Washington, the Commanders offensive coordinator may be an even bigger fan now of the rookie quarterback.  Kingsbury, the former Cardinals head coach who is entering his first season calling plays for the Commanders, recently raved about …

The NFL’s justification for giving the Jets seven standalone games in 11 weeks — they “kind of owe us one” — was ill-advised. It also obscures a deeper issue with giving a third-place, non-playoff team so many non-Sunday-afternoon games. The league loves competitive balance. That’s why the worst team gets the first pick in the draft, why teams have three …

Greg Wyshynski, ESPNMay 17, 2024, 05:50 PM ET CloseGreg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. The Stanley Cup playoffs’ most fashionable tradition continues to happen off the ice: the custom-made jackets for the players’ significant others. Editor’s Picks 2 Related It’s a tradition that has spanned at least a decade, incorporating team logos and players’ names and numbers into inventive …

Getty Images There are always some crazy quirks when it comes to the NFL schedule, but this year seemed to be slightly crazier than other years: There’s a team that will be playing on six different days of the week, there’s a division rivalry that will only be played on Thursdays and there are two teams that won’t play a …

The Green Bay Packers are entering 2024 with a brand new window of contention that is wide open in their second season post-Aaron Rodgers, thanks to quarterback Jordan Love and an offense that set NFL single-season records for most catches (302), receiving yards (3,642) and receiving touchdowns (31) by first- or second-year players in 2023. The 2023 Packers became the …

The Chiefs have released running back La’Mical Perine, according to the NFL’s transactions report. Perine, 26. was third on the depth chart behind Isiah Pacheco and Clyde Edwards-Helaire. Keaontay Ingram also is on the roster at the position, as is former rugby player Louis Rees-Zammit and four other young players. Perine played three games with one start for the Chiefs …