The Ravens will start their playoff run without Melvin Gordon on their 53-man roster. Baltimore has waived the veteran running back, according to Tom Pelissero of NFL Media. Gordon, 30, spent most of the season on the practice squad. He appeared in four games, recording 81 yards on 26 carries with a touchdown. He also caught three passes for 46 …
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Why Louis Rees-Zammit’s NFL dream is so shocking to the rugby community
Martin Rogers FOX Sports Insider By now, so many overseas athletes have come to the United States to take their shot at the National Football League that it no longer feels particularly newsworthy. Louis Rees-Zammit is an exception. This week, Rees-Zammit, a 22-year-old winger for Wales’ national rugby team and a genuine star of last year’s Rugby World Cup, created …
Read More »Patriots welcome new head coach: Jerod Mayo embraces historic hiring; Robert Kraft says in-house GM on table
History was made Wednesday in Foxborough, as the New England Patriots introduced Jerod Mayo as the franchise’s 15th head coach. Mayo, who is replacing six-time Super Bowl champion head coach Bill Belichick, becomes New England’s first Black head coach. That fact was not lost on Mayo, a former All-Pro linebacker and assistant coach for the Patriots. “You better believe being the …
Read More »Packers ‘fire starter’: Aaron Jones helping power NFL’s youngest team to postseason run as 49ers await
ARLINGTON, Texas — The seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers entered this postseason as the NFL’s youngest playoff team since the 1974 Buffalo Bills, and on Sunday on the road against the second-seeded Dallas Cowboys, they pummeled the home team 48-32. Green Bay led by as many as 32 in the fourth quarter before head coach Matt LaFleur took his foot off …
Read More »Jared Goff, Baker Mayfield and the Battle of the Misfits
Carmen Vitali NFC North Reporter No matter what happens in Sunday’s divisional round showdown in Detroit, the NFC Championship Game will be started by a quarterback who was once given up on. Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff was the afterthought in a trade that sent then-Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford to the Los Angeles Rams. The former Rams first-round pick was …
Read More »Bills needed a punter, but passed on Matt Araiza
In 2022, the Bills liked punter Matt Araiza enough to use a sixth-round pick to draft him. Now, when they need a punter in advance of the most important game of the year, they had no interest in bringing him back. By signing Matt Haack to the practice squad as the potential replacement for Sam Martin, who suffered a hamstring …
Read More »A closer look at the 7 candidates to be the next Commanders head coach
Ralph Vacchiano NFC East Reporter When Adam Peters, the newly hired general manager of the Washington Commanders, took stock of the franchise he’s now running, he didn’t see a complete mess. He saw “a few cornerstone pieces” on the roster. He believed the foundation for success was already there. “This is not a total rebuild,” Peters insisted in his introductory …
Read More »2024 NFL playoffs: Buccaneers’ Baker Mayfield has epic response to Lions’ C.J. Gardner-Johnson’s trash talk
Football isn’t the only thing Baker Mayfield has gotten better at during his time in Tampa. The Buccaneers’ starting quarterback had the perfect response to Lions safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson trash-talking him ahead of Sunday’s divisional-round playoff matchup. In case you missed it, here’s what Gardner-Johnson said about Mayfield when he was recently asked about the Buccaneers’ receiving corps. “This group probably …
Read More »Agent’s Take: Can Cowboys afford not to give Dak Prescott a record-breaking extension?
The Dallas Cowboys’ season came to a shocking end in the wild-card playoff round with a 48-32 home loss to the Green Bay Packers. A No. 7 seed hadn’t won a postseason game since the NFL expanded the playoffs to 14 teams in the 2020 season. Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott took his share of the blame for the historic upset …
Read More »Jaylon Johnson aiming to become ‘highest-paid corner in the league’
Jaylon Johnson aiming to become ‘highest-paid corner in the league’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago Outside of figuring out the quarterback position, or hiring an offensive coordinator, one of the more significant points of the Bears offseason is sorting out Jaylon Johnson’s future with the club. The now Pro Bowl and second-team All-Pro cornerback foreshadowed how he plans to …
Read More »Blackhawks-Sabres postponed due to snow-related travel ban
Jan 17, 2024, 01:12 PM ET BUFFALO, N.Y. — The NHL has postponed the game between the Chicago Blackhawks and Buffalo Sabres because of travel restrictions in western New York for extreme winter weather. The league announced the game scheduled for Wednesday night would instead be played Thursday night. There’s a travel ban in place for the city of Buffalo, …
Read More »Texans’ C.J. Stroud has cemented status as superstar QB — and that opens up a world of possibilities
Ben Arthur AFC South Reporter You can hear it in Zaire Franklin’s voice. That one conversion still drives him crazy. His Colts were hosting the Texans in Week 18, a de facto playoff game with a postseason berth on the line. It was the fourth quarter, a second-and-14 with 9:43 left. Houston ball. That’s when rookie sensation C.J. Stroud dropped …
Read More »2024 NFL Draft: Ideal first-round picks for Cowboys, Eagles and other losers during Super Wild Card Weekend
The NFL season has come to an unsatisfying end for six more franchises. Leadership of these teams will have already set its sights on identifying weaknesses on the roster and how it can go about addressing them this offseason. Here is the ideal first-round selection for every team that lost during Super Wild Card weekend, excluding Cleveland, who does not …
Read More »Saints GM Mickey Loomis calls Dennis Allen ‘a good coach,’ confirms he will return for 2024 season
Getty Images New Orleans Saints coach Dennis Allen said after the season that he expects to be back in 2024, telling reporters he wants to be “part of the solution” after a second straight non-playoff finish. On Wednesday, general manager Mickey Loomis confirmed Allen would in fact be back, calling his companion “a good coach” while comparing Allen’s record to …
Read More »Browns part ways with former OC Alex Van Pelt
The Cleveland Browns are in the midst of a complete overhaul with its offensive coaching staff. One of the first members the Browns parted ways with was former offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt. Questions abounded after Cleveland’s 45-14 defeat to the Houston Texans during wild-card weekend. Although a team spokesperson told ESPN’s Jake Trotter that Van Pelt “remains under contract …
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