The Giants are expected to rest the majority of their starters during Saturday night’s preseason finale against the Jets, according to ESPN’s Jordan Raanan. Head coach Brian Daboll told reporters on Friday morning that the coaching staff would be making the final decision on whether or not they’d be playing following that afternoon’s practice. Now it appears that they are …

Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports College football is finally here, and the anticipation has reached a fever pitch! While Clemson won’t be hitting the field just yet, ACC teams have kicked off their seasons, setting the tone for what’s sure to be a thrilling year ahead. Florida State and Georgia Tech have already started to battle it out, giving us a …

Arizona Cardinals receiver Zay Jones has been suspended without pay for the first five games of the season for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy, the league announced Friday. The league did not disclose a reason for the suspension. In 2023, Jones was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge in Florida. According to police, he got into a custody argument …

Getty Images The Chicago Bears are continuing to wheel and deal as they look to construct their 53-man roster before the start of the regular season. The latest move has the club trading for defensive tackle Chris Williams in a deal with the Browns. Both teams announced the move on Saturday. Chicago is sending over a 2025 sixth-round pick in exchange …

For the better part of the past two decades, “The Patriot Way” was a slogan linked to the prestige of buttoned-up championship play by the Tom Brady and Bill Belichick-led Patriots. However, it has recently been coined in a more negative sense, which is a testament to how far the franchise has fallen over the last few years.  One of the …

Florida State showed Georgia Tech it can do the same thing it does in Ireland that it does in the States. The Seminoles kicked off the college football season against the Yellow Jackets in Dublin and scored on their first drive. Lawrance Toafili completed the march with a 28-yard TD run. The seven-play, 75-yard drive took 4:02. The Seminoles pulled …

Several Los Angeles Chargers players and other members of the traveling party crawled through a ceiling panel to escape a stuck hotel elevator Friday night. The NFL said on social media that around 7:30 p.m. Dallas Fire-Rescue assisted the people on the elevator through the ceiling panel to an adjacent elevator. “The Los Angeles Chargers thank Dallas Fire-Rescue for their …

Shanahan shares hopeful updates on Floyd, Gross-Matos’ injuries originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area LAS VEGAS — Two of the 49ers’ top defensive ends sustained knee injuries during Friday night’s NFL preseason finale. But after the players went through preliminary evaluations, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said he believed Leonard Floyd and Yetur Gross-Matos both avoided severe injury. “Most likely …

The 2024 college football season kicks off in a big way on Saturday with a top-10 team in action as No. 10 Florida State takes on Georgia Tech in the Aer Lingus Classic in Dublin, Ireland. The conference showdown also kicks off an unprecedented year of ACC football after the league expanded to 17 full-time members with the additions of Cal, …

Shanahan explains what Aiyuk’s presence means for contract situation originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area LAS VEGAS — Brandon Aiyuk made the trip with his teammates for the 49ers’ final preseason game. That must mean the wide receiver’s status on the team is more clearly defined, right? “Nope,” 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan answered Friday night after a 24-24 tie with …

Penn State may not be in action in Week 0, but ESPN’s College GameDay is already looking forward to next week’s game in Morgantown, West Virginia. Penn State will open up the 2024 season on the road against former traditional and regional rival West Virginia in Week 1 in the second game in a home-and-home series. The Nittany Lions figure …

In a rematch of January’s AFC Championship Game, the Baltimore Ravens will take on the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2024 NFL Kickoff Game on Thursday, Sept. 5. The Chiefs (11-6), the champions of the AFC West for the eighth year in a row, won the AFC title game, 17-10, to advance to the Super Bowl. Kansas City defeated San …

. On Friday night, the Texas Longhorns got a big win on the recruiting trail. Four-star offensive lineman Nick Brooks committed to Texas over Georgia and USC. He was ranked as the No. 208 player in the nation, the No. 17 offensive tackle, and the No. 30 player in Georgia, according to On3. With Brooks’s commitment, the Longhorns have five …

Week 1 of the NFL season features the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers squaring off in São Paulo, Brazil, on Friday, September 6. Both teams made the playoffs last season and will try to start the 2024 season with an early victory. The Eagles won 10 of their first 11 games last season before stumbling down the stretch, losing …

Bears trade for defensive lineman from Cleveland Browns originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago LAKE FOREST, Ill. – The Bears traded for a defensive lineman for the second day in a row, on Saturday. The team sent a sixth-round draft pick to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for defensive tackle Chris Williams and a seventh-round pick. Williams gives the team …