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Eric Williams NFL Reporter After bouncing around four teams in seven NFL seasons, Sam Darnold is playing his best football for the Minnesota Vikings this season. The USC product has guided the Vikings to a surprising 3-0 record. He leads the league in passing touchdowns (8) and is second in passer rating (117.3). Selected No. 3 overall by the New …

Three positions 49ers could make changes at after underwhelming start originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The 49ers figure to be without a Pro Bowl-caliber every-down linebacker for half the season. And for at least another week or so, they will not have two of their top-four wide receivers. The 49ers have struggled to find reliable replacements at those …

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. Anthony Richardson, Indianapolis Colts Richardson has been the league’s most inaccurate quarterback …

New York Jets rookie Braelon Allen has made the case for a chunk of the work in the backfield alongside star running back Breece Hall. (Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images) Running backs remain king in fantasy football. While it feels like there are more elite quarterbacks and wide receivers than ever before, the amount of consistent, dependable running backs is …

Capitalize on the fantasy football trade market in your leagues with these trade targets and players to trade away ahead of Week 4. Buy low on Tee Higgins Tee Higgins returned from a hamstring injury in Week 3. There were some worries around if he’d been limited in his first game back from injury, but he wasn’t. Higgins immediately played …

What if A.J. Brown, DeVonta Smith and Britain Covey all miss the Eagles-Bucs game? originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia John Ross has never played for the Eagles. Johnny Wilson has one catch in his brief career. Parris Campbell has two catches in an Eagles uniform, and Jahan Dotson has three. That, potentially, is your Eagles receiving crew this weekend. …

The Giants elevated linebacker Ty Summers from the practice squad for each of their first three games, but they can’t do so again without risking losing him to another team. Jordan Raanan of ESPN.com reports that the Giants plan to get around that by signing Summers to their 53-man roster. The Giants will not need to make a corresponding move …

Vic Fangio explains the next step after Jalen Carter’s dominant Week 3 originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni revealed on Monday that Jalen Carter was the team’s player of the game against the Saints. For his performance, Carter got a game ball. No surprise there. The Eagles’ second-year defensive tackle put together an absolutely dominant …

Coming out of the 49ers’ 32-19 season-opening victory over the New York Jets, the player of the game wasn’t any of San Francisco’s well-known stars. Instead, that honor went to Jordan Mason, unknown to the casual NFL fan prior to that Monday night.  With superstar running back Christian McCaffrey inactive due to injury, Mason made his first NFL start in …

Josh Harris was approved as the new owner of the Commanders in July 2023 and the decisions that the team has made since then have been focused on charting a new path after the on- and off-field failures of the Daniel Snyder era. One key move came in April when the team drafted quarterback Jayden Daniels with the second overall …

The buzz surrounding Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels seems to grow each week, and Monday night’s performance in a thrilling 38-33 win over the Bengals was one of the best ever by a rookie. Daniels went 21-for-23 for 254 yards and two touchdowns, also leading Washington with 39 rushing yards and another score. How rare is a passing game that accurate? …

Justin Tucker, the K2 off of most draft boards this fantasy football season, hasn’t been as “automatic” as he’s been in previous seasons. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images) Since his first All-Pro season back in 2013, fantasy football managers have continuously relied on Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker as a top option in drafts. Though “reaching” on kickers is a …

Chuba Hubbard scored 27.9 fantasy points on 26 touches in a much-improved Carolina Panthers offense in Week 3. (Photo by Louis Grasse/Getty Images) Saquon Barkley, Kyren Williams and Derrick Henry — three names that would have absolutely no one blinking twice at the fact that they each managed a top-five finish at the running back position in Week 3. [Week …

San Francisco 49ers wideout Jauan Jennings led all WRs with 46.5 points in fantasy football leagues. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) Fantasy football managers and NFL fans alike spent most of the month of August talking about whether or not the San Francisco 49ers would pay their top wide receiver ahead of the season. Little did we know, they already had! [Week …

Now that we’re heading into Week 4 of the fantasy football season, it’s officially time to let go of some of the pre-conceived ideas we had about our rosters and what their weekly construction will look like. Players like Chicago Bears running back D’Andre Swift are slipping out of your flex spots and being replaced by … Carolina Panthers Diontae …