The Detroit Lions are coming off their best season in decades, winning the NFC North before making an appearance in the NFC Championship game. Their fan base is eager for the 2024 NFL season to begin, especially since Detroit opens with a home game against the Rams. The Lions are 3.5-point favorites in the Week 1 NFL odds, while the …

Every season, a different set of players face a crossroads or have something to prove for a variety of reasons. The most common reasons are related to age, contract or salary cap concerns, injury, poor performance or off-the-field issues.  Wide receiver Calvin Ridley is a prime example of capitalizing when there’s something to prove. He returned from a one-year suspension …

After a rash of commitments before the start of their senior seasons, only four five-star prospects in the 2025 class remain uncommitted.In today’s Tuesdays With Gorney, Rivals national recruiting director Adam Gorney offers the latest on all four of them and makes a prediction on where they will end up. MORE GORNEY: Recruiting Rumor Mill | All-America Freshman Offense | …

Getty Images The Pittsburgh Steelers had some good and bad news following Wednesday’s practice. The bad news was that starting guard Isaac Seumalo sustained a pectoral injury during practice. The good news was that Seumalo’s injury is not season-ending, according to ESPN.  Seumalo underwent tests to determine the severity of the injury after leaving practice early. While the team is …

Special to Yahoo Sports Back in the old days, we received our fantasy football news once a day from a TV or radio broadcast and gathered our tips and tricks from a magazine that came out in July and never saw a useful update. Those days are gone. Now we get news the second it happens and our advice from …

Patrick Everson FOX Sports Betting Analyst If you want to know whether NFL coaching decisions really have an impact, then perhaps first take a look at how oddsmakers respond. For example, when it comes to regular-season win totals, a starting quarterback is, of course, an important factor … one would think.  But not always, as we learned Wednesday when Pittsburgh …

Florida State football took an extra day in Dublin, Ireland, to revisit its upset loss to Georgia Tech last weekend. The Seminoles reflected on their way home before returning to practice the next day as they start the year 0-1. On Wednesday’s press conference, Mike Norvell rehashed the disappointing loss to Georgia Tech and expressed how sickening it was to …

Getty Images NFL roster cutdown day has come and gone, but the action did not end there. Any players not vested (less than four years of experience) had to go through the waiver wire, where any of the other 31 NFL teams had the chance to claim them. If these players were passed on, they are free to sign with …

Getty Images A day after Bengals head coach Zac Taylor said the plan is for Ja’Marr Chase to practice moving forward, the Bengals star receiver arrived in street clothes while his teammates continued to prepare for the start of the regular season.  Chase, a three-time Pro Bowler, had recently begun practicing after being a “hold-in” during training camp as he seeks …

Jeremiah Smith hasn’t yet played in a college football game — that comes Saturday afternoon against Akron at 3:30 p.m. ET on CBS — but the Ohio State receiver is already being touted as a superstar heading into the season. The freshman is making waves in ways no other player has in Ohio State’s storied history, both in weight room and on the practice fields. Crudely-filmed practice …

Getty Images NFL teams trimmed their respective rosters down to the 53-man active limit on Tuesday. In the wake of those moves, several players involved in those roster cuts will return or sigh with practice squads elsewhere. Each team is allowed to construct a 17-player practice squad, including one spot allocated for the International Pathway Program. Those units are fluid …

Eagles practice squad tracker 2024: Filling out the 17-man squad originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia The Eagles made a bunch of moves to get down to 53 players by Tuesday’s 4 p.m. deadline. Now it’s time to figure out the practice squad. Practice squads can now hold 16 players but the Eagles will get 17 players with Australian offensive …

Chris Kapilovic, make no mistake, is looking for perfection up front as Alabama football’s offensive line coach. Never quite finding, perhaps, but always chasing. And knowing how impossible it is to find perfection in the chaos that is the line of scrimmage in a college football game, he at least wants perfect pre-snap communication. Even if it means communicating the …

With a Packers logo emblazoned on his gray sweatshirt and a million-dollar smile on his face, Jordan Love strode to the podium at the team’s complex on July 27. Less than 24 hours earlier, He had agreed to a $220 million contract extension with Green Bay, tying him for the highest-paid player in NFL history. For the next 20 minutes, …

Several NFL teams have active quarterback competitions unfolding ahead of the 2024 regular season. And perhaps nothing influences the outcome of said battles quite like the preseason, with signal-callers splitting live reps to make their case for top jobs. Now that two weeks of exhibition games are in the books, where do the legitimate competitions stand? Which quarterbacks are the …