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Week 2 in the NFL was filled with news and games that will affect the landscape of the league for the present and the long-term future. The benching of Bryce Young caught major headlines this week, but this week’s Four Verts column starts with a quality team that may have already had their season ended due to pure bad luck. …

Bryce Young’s NFL story isn’t written yet. It’s hard to keep that in perspective after Young was benched just two games into his second season. An awful Carolina Panthers team decided they’d rather try out 36-year-old Andy Dalton than see if Young could develop. But it could come around for Young, in Carolina or elsewhere. Baker Mayfield is a pretty …

Sean Allen, Special to ESPN.comSep 18, 2024, 09:00 AM ET CloseSean Allen is a fantasy analyst for ESPN.com. He was the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hockey Writer of the Year. You can tweet him @seanard. Just like the forwards, there are defenders that will experience a lull in their fantasy careers, only to return once again to …

Capitalize on the fantasy football trade market in your leagues with these trade targets and players to trade away ahead of Week 3. Dobbins has over 130 rushing yards in each of his first two games. He currently leads the NFL with 266 rushing yards, and it doesn’t stop there, as Dobbins ranks No. 1 in rushing EPA and is …

It can be so easy to panic in fantasy football. After all, we have a very limited amount of time to witness and analyze a player’s performance. But never fear — Dalton Del Don is here to gauge exactly how worried we should be — if at all. Sam LaPorta, Detroit Lions LaPorta’s target share has dropped from 21.1% as …

The Patriots defense suffered a serious blow in last Sunday’s overtime loss to the Seahawks when linebacker Ja’Whaun Bentley tore his pectoral muscle. Bentley will miss the rest of the season as a result of the injury and that will force the team to shuffle players around as they head into Thursday night’s game against the Jets. Linebacker Joshua Uche …

In Roob’s Eagles stats: Historically bad run defense originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia The unfortunate thing about doing a weekly Eagles stats column is when you have a game like this one. But the show must go on, and I promise we’ll squeeze some positive numbers and trends in there at the end. At least, we’ll try. 1. The …

The Jets offense finished strong against the Titans in Week Two as Aaron Rodgers led a 74-yard touchdown drive in the fourth quarter to break a 17-17 tie and lift the Jets to their first victory of the season. It was the third touchdown drive of the day for the Jets, which meant it was back-to-back weeks with three offensive …

It’s only two games, but Bo Nix has gotten off to a rough start in Denver. Nix, the sixth quarterback drafted in April and taken with the 12th overall pick, had 45 touchdowns against three interceptions last year at Oregon. After two NFL games, he already has four interceptions, with no touchdown passes. He’s far from the only problem in …

Eagles snap counts: How Eagles played it without A.J. Brown originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia The Eagles lost a heartbreaker 22-21 to the Falcons on Monday Night Football. They definitely missed A.J. Brown. The Eagles’ Pro Bowl receiver didn’t play in this game because of a hamstring injury suffered during the week and his status for Week 3 in …

After Chargers running back J.K. Dobbins ran 10 times for 135 yards in the team’s season-opening win, he said he thinks he can be “way better” in future games. Dobbins’s second game for the AFC West team may not have been way better, but it definitely showed that the opener wasn’t a fluke. Dobbins posted 17 carries for 131 yards …

The Patrick Mahomes-Joe Burrow rivalry has been a godsend for fans and advertisers alike, as their fifth head-to-head matchup served up record ratings for CBS. According to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data, the Eye Network’s coverage of the Chiefs’ 26-25 win over the Bengals in the NFL’s Sunday afternoon national window averaged 27.87 million viewers, which marked the highest September TV turnout …

After Sunday’s loss to the Browns, Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence was blunt in his assessment of his 0-2 team, saying, “We suck right now.” Jacksonville head coach Doug Pederson was asked about that comment in his Monday news conference and said he didn’t really mind it. “That’s what you want from your leader. I don’t want anybody to sugarcoat anything,” …

Much has been said — and much can be said — about Philadelphia’s failure to close the deal on Monday night against the Falcons. The attention has focused on the inexplicable decision to throw the ball (and to risk an incompletion) on third and three from the Atlanta 10 with less than two minutes to play. But the Eagles defense …

A little over a year ago, I was sitting with someone from the New York Jets and we were discussing where it all went wrong with Zach Wilson. It was a lengthy conversation about all manner of things that impact a young quarterback’s growth — from maturity to confidence to patience and team-building ideology. In the grand analysis of everything, …