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Week 5 is over and the Jets put an exclamation point on it Tuesday morning, reportedly firing head coach Robert Saleh in a shocker of a move. Defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich will reportedly take over as interim head coach, with the Jets set to take on the Bills on Monday Night Football next week. After this week’s Monday night game, …

While the NFL’s only remaining undefeated teams take their bye week, the debate continues regarding which is the league’s best right now: the back-to-back champion Chiefs or the upstart Vikings?  Heading into Week 6, FOX Sports’ NFL experts tackle that topic and several others, including whether the banged-up 49ers are still a Super Bowl contender, if Derrick Henry’s success with …

In this week’s Football 301, I took a look at two quarterbacks: one an NFL signal-caller playing as well as anybody at the position right now, the other a college passer rising on my prospect ranks with a tasty ranked matchup ahead this weekend. I’m not about to use 2,000-plus words to say that C.J. Stroud, the former No. 2 …

The Jaguars won’t have wide receiver Devin Duvernay in the lineup for Sunday’s game against the Bears and he won’t be back for the three games after that either. Duvernay was placed on injured reserve on Wednesday. Duvernay injured his hamstring in last Sunday’s win over the Colts. Duvernay signed with the Jaguars this offseason and has seen most of …

The Ravens won their third straight game against the Bengals last weekend, but safety Kyle Hamilton wasn’t pleased with his unit’s performance. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow threw for 392 yards and five touchdowns before the Ravens finished off a 41-38 overtime win, which led Hamilton to say “I don’t really know how much the defense did for us to win.” …

Abdul Salaam, a member of the Jets defensive line known as the New York Sack Exchange, has died at the age of 71. Salaam was a defensive tackle for the Jets from 1976 to 1983. Alongside Joe Klecko, Mark Gastineau and Marty Lyons, they became one of the NFL’s best defensive lines, and received their nickname initially from a fan’s …

Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers insists that he didn’t get former Jets coach Robert Saleh fired. But this isn’t about what he did. It’s what he didn’t do. Rodgers didn’t keep Saleh from getting fired. Rodgers, by all appearances, didn’t even try. He didn’t seem to be particularly upset by the situation when discussing the situation with Pat McAfee and A.J. …

Rookie Cooper DeJean ready for bigger role after bye week originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Cooper DeJean looks back at his only preseason action and laughs. “It was ugly,” DeJean said on Wednesday. “I didn’t play well at all. I just feel like since that I’ve learned so much more about the defense and really all the positions and …

Defensive end Nick Bosa and the San Francisco 49ers play the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday Night Football tonight. (Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images) Week 6 of the 2024 NFL season kicks off tonight with a Thursday Night Football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks. Headed into tonight’s match, the San Francisco 49ers are 2-3, and the Seattle Seahawks …

(Tim Hubbard / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles Times NFL writer Sam Farmer examines the matchups this week. Lines according to FanDuel Sportsbook (O/U = over/under). Record last week 10-4 (.714); season 45-33 (.577). Using point spreads with the scores Farmer predicted, the record against the spread last week would have been 8-6 (.571); season 40-37-1 (.520). Times Pacific. Off: …

Greg Wyshynski, ESPNOct 10, 2024, 07:00 AM ET CloseGreg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Coaching the Toronto Maple Leafs can change a person. Decades of playoff futility keep expectations excruciatingly unmet. The constant scrutiny from media and fans is enough to unnerve the confident and harden the affable. “I don’t know if ‘harden’ is the right word, but it’s …

Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will remain the starter this week, and coach Kevin Stefanski said he gave no consideration to benching him. “I know you can take out plays and look at that and there’s obviously plays that Deshaun wants back,” Stefanski said, via Daryl Ruiter of 92.3 The Fan. “There’s calls that I want back. That happens in the …

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens may be hit with a fine in the coming days. The NFL is investigating the explicit message that Pickens wrote on his eye black during their 20-17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday night, according to ESPN’s Brooke Pryor. Pickens had the phrase “Open F***ing Always” written in silver across his eye black …

The Bengals have designated cornerback DJ Ivey to return from the reserve/physically unable to perform list, the team announced Wednesday. It opens Ivey’s 21-day window, though the Bengals can activate Ivey at any time in that period. Ivey, a seventh-round pick in 2023, went on the reserve list Aug. 27 with a knee injury. He tore the anterior cruciate ligament …

Giants head coach Brian Daboll said at his Wednesday press conference that wide receiver Malik Nabers is making progress in the concussion protocol, but there’s still a bit more he has to do before he’s cleared to play again. Nabers was a non-participant in practice on Wednesday. He can still be cleared in time to play the Bengals on Sunday …