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Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Pick Six newsletter! We’re getting our first Thursday night game of December tonight, and things are starting off with a bang as the Lions will be hosting the Packers in an NFC North showdown. This is the old “Thanksgiving leftovers” game where the NFL takes two teams that played on Thanksgiving and has …

PHILADELPHIA — For the majority of his tenure with the Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni has called Lane Johnson “the best tackle in the world.” He hasn’t shied away from that title, even as Johnson is hitting his mid 30s.  This season, Johnson may not even be the best tackle on his own team. Johnson’s fellow tackle …

Green Bay Packers vs. Detroit Lions will kick off the Week 14 NFL schedule on Thursday Night Football. It has the highest over/under of any game of the week at 51.5 points, according to the latest NFL odds from the SportsLine Consensus. Targeting a game with a high over/under is a popular NFL DFS strategy when playing multi-game contests, but …

Startling TD stat shows how 49ers stars declined from 2023 to 2024 originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area There really is a lot that seems inexplicable about the 49ers’ fall this season. San Francisco was the top team in the NFC last year. It clinched the top seed in the conference with a 12-4 record before resting many of …

Two of the top teams in the NFC will clash in Week 14 when the Green Bay Packers battle the Detroit Lions in a key NFC North divisional matchup on Thursday Night Football. Both teams posted wins on Thanksgiving Day, with Detroit outlasting Chicago, 23-20, and Green Bay downing Miami, 30-17. The Packers (9-3), who are third in the division, …

The Pittsburgh Steelers are getting some reinforcements for Sunday’s Week 14 home matchup with the Cleveland Browns. Pittsburgh (9-3) will have two defenders back in the lineup who did not play when the Browns upset the Steelers two weeks ago.  Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday that he “fully expects” to have starting outside linebacker Alex Highsmith for Sunday …

Three teams enter Week 14 of the 2024 NFL season with 2-10 records, and two of them are in need of a franchise quarterback. Unfortunately for the New York Giants and Las Vegas Raiders, the pool is extremely shallow after last year’s NFL Draft saw signal-callers taken with six of the first 12 selections – including each of the first …

Victoria Matiash, Fantasy HockeyDec 5, 2024, 03:00 PM ET CloseESPN.com Fantasy Contributor since 2010Part-time anchor at NEWSTALK1010 By hacking the schedule — figuring out which teams are more active when most others are not — fantasy managers can seize greater flexibility in maximizing their lineup potential every date of the schedule. The greater number of players in action each date, …

Eagles injury report: Britain Covey returns to practice originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Eagles punt returner Britain Covey made his return to practice on Thursday after missing the start of the week with a neck injury. WR/PR Covey injured his neck against the Ravens on Sunday night. On Thursday, Covey was late to get over with the punt returners …

The 2023 quarterback draft class has now had nearly two full NFL seasons.  The group still brings more intrigue than certainty as to who they’ll become in the league.  There’s the Texans’ C.J. Stroud, last year’s Offensive Rookie of the Year, who put together arguably the best rookie quarterback season ever. This season, however, all the talk has been about …

As the Browns were preparing to face the Steelers a couple of weeks ago, he said that it was the “same, normal game” for him despite facing the same team the Browns were playing when Chubb suffered his season-ending knee injury in Week Two last year. The Browns and Steelers are facing off again this week, but Chubb’s mindset is …

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It’s been an historic season for Derrick Henry, whose first season with the Baltimore Ravens has been a slam-dunk success so far.  In the same game earlier this year, Henry eclipsed 10,000 career rushing yards while also scoring his 100th career touchdown. Henry, who ran for his 100th career touchdown last month, is on the precipice of making even more …

The Detroit Lions (-3.5) will look for the season sweep of the division-rival Green Bay Packers when the two teams meet on Thursday Night Football. Detroit won at Green Bay in Week 9, when backing the Under in NFL prop bets for quarterbacks turned out to be the right decision. Jared Goff had just 145 passing yards, while Jordan Love failed …

Ralph Vacchiano NFL Reporter There aren’t many teams that definitely will be looking for a new starting quarterback this offseason, and those that do will likely be first looking towards the draft. But the quarterback class in the 2025 NFL draft isn’t very deep, nor is it generally well-regarded. And there could be some very intriguing veteran options available in …