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The Bengals defense could be a fantasy football boon in Week 1. (Photo by Ian Johnson/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) The 2024 NFL season kicks off this week, and with that, fantasy football managers will be tasked with setting their lineups for the very first time! Love them or hate them, fantasy defenses are a part of the equation in …

Just as star offensive rookies can make an immediate impact in the NFL, so can standouts on the defensive side of the ball. One spot in particular that’s seeing action is the market for NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year. A defensive player wasn’t drafted until the 15th pick, the latest for a defensive player in the common draft era.  …

Fantasy football managers, rejoice! You made it through the entirety of the offseason. Week 1 kicks off with am exciting showdown between two of the deepest offenses in the league with the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens. But it will end with two teams that have Super Bowl aspirations squaring off in the 49ers and the Jets! With so …

Ward ready for test that Rodgers, Jets present 49ers in Week 1 originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area SANTA CLARA — The 49ers open up the 2024 NFL season against future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers, and Charvarius Ward is ready for the challenge. The Pro Bowl cornerback is well aware of what the New York …

The Professional Women’s Hockey League on Tuesday announced the hiring of AHL executive Melissa Caruso to take over as general manager of its Minnesota franchise and shore up a team that dealt with several crises in the weeks after winning the league’s inaugural championship. From St. Paul, Minnesota, Caruso spent 15 years with the American Hockey League, including the past …

The following is an excerpt from the latest edition of Yahoo’s fantasy football newsletter, Get to the Points! If you like what you see, you can subscribe for free here. Predictions are a blast this time of year, even if several of them are destined to land in the garbage can. Let’s dust off the crystal ball and give you …

Report: Collins, 49ers restructure contract to create cap space originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The 49ers are locking up star players to lucrative contracts days before the start of the 2024 NFL season and are making moves elsewhere to help alleviate the financial burdens. After signing wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk to a four-year contract extension last week and …

Did Patriots scout Colorado star Travis Hunter in Week 1? originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Colorado football might be a little overhyped, but there’s no denying its roster has some of the top prospects who could be in the 2025 NFL Draft class, and wide receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter is near the top of that list. The NFL world was …

Report: McCaffrey expected to return to 49ers practice on Tuesday originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The 49ers received plenty of good news on Tuesday. Shortly after the news of left tackle Trent Williams and San Francisco finalizing a reworked contract agreement broke early Tuesday morning, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported, citing a source, that star running back Christian McCaffrey …

The San Francisco 49ers have resolved their final major contract dispute less than a week before the start of the regular season. Trent Williams is finalizing a new deal with the 49ers that will end his holdout, his agency, Elite Loyalty Sports, announced Tuesday. The 36-year-old All-Pro left tackle sat out all of training camp and the preseason as he …

Greg Wyshynski, ESPNSep 3, 2024, 10:54 AM ET CloseGreg Wyshynski is ESPN’s senior NHL writer. Leon Draisaitl has signed a blockbuster eight-year extension with the Edmonton Oilers that gives the star center the highest average annual contract value in the salary cap era. Draisaitl, 28, agreed to a deal that begins in the 2025-26 season and carries an average annual …

The stretch run of the fantasy football draft season is here! To get you ready for one of the most important parts of the fantasy season, we’ve gathered all of our excellent analysis and advice, in one place, to help you build those eventual championship-winning teams. The 2024 Yahoo Fantasy Football Draft Kit is being updated daily and we’ll continue …

Coming into the 2023 season, there was more hype surrounding the New York Jets than ever before. Since winning Super Bowl 3 way back in 1969, the Jets’ history has been littered with calamities and disaster. All that was supposed to change when they lured veteran quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the NFL’s four-time Most Valuable Player, from the Green Bay Packers. …

49ers experience needed shift in positivity as Week 1 approaches originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area It has been a tumultuous few weeks for the 49ers. Actually, that does not even come close to describing what the organization has experienced since the opening of training camp. The nadir came Saturday afternoon, of course, when rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall …

Welcome to the weekly edition of QB Room. Let’s continue our season preview with the AFC’s pressing quarterback questions. AFC East Does Josh Allen have enough surrounding skill position talent to compete for a Super Bowl? For better or worse, wideouts Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis are gone. While there’s plenty of room to debate how that may cut down …