The Carolina Panthers not only finished with the worst record in the NFL at 2-15 last season, but they also posted the worst against-the-spread record at 4-11-2. They open the 2024 NFL season with a trip to New Orleans during the Week 1 NFL schedule. The Saints are 4-point favorites in the Week 1 NFL odds, but they were not …

Davis scored 20 touchdowns over 12 games at Kentucky last season, and he projects to take over the big-back role in Buffalo. The Bills gave 33-year-old Latavius Murray the 12th-most RB carries inside the five last season despite Josh Allen stealing 14 of them. Starter James Cook, meanwhile, was given just two carries inside the five after Week 4. Murray, …

Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson are the two faces and two biggest names in the NFL DFS player pool for Kansas City Chiefs vs. Baltimore Ravens on Thursday, September 5 in the 2024 NFL Kickoff Game, but could the running backs shine in NFL DFS lineups? The Chiefs’ Isiah Pacheco and Ravens’ Derrick Henry could be in for a huge …

Michigan has a quandary at quarterback heading into its season opener as the nation’s defending national champion, and an unlikely option is on deck for a potential breakthrough after spending most of his career as a walkon. Michigan has not yet named a starter, but the two-man battle between Alex Orji and Davis Warren was too close to call earlier …

The 2024 NFL season is right around the corner. And all 32 teams have the same ultimate goal: Win the Super Bowl. Yet not everyone is realistically expecting a title run. Different clubs have different internal standards, depending on where they’re at in terms of roster construction, staffing changes, and so forth. So what would actually constitute success for each …

The quarterback-coach duo rankings have undergone a lot of change over the past five seasons, yet one aspect remains constant: Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid are the standard.  Mahomes and Reid led the Kansas City Chiefs to their third Super Bowl title in five years, retaining their spot at the top of the annual quarterback-coach duo list. Behind Mahomes and Reid, the rankings underwent some shuffling.  …

The most obvious sign that college football has entered a bold, uncertain new era isn’t the fact that we now have a 12-team playoff, or West Coast teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference, or players moving like air hockey pucks from school to school. No, the most obvious symbol of 2024’s break with the 150-year history of college football is …

Henry McKenna NFL Reporter This is the moment when NFL teams have to get real about who and what they don’t have. Every team cut its roster down to 53 players on Tuesday. With Week 1 approaching, teams have started building their game plans with their personnel. And that means cutting away the concepts and ideas that their personnel can’t …

What’s new this NFL season? Glad you asked. Frank Schwab takes you through the info you need to know. In 2023, the NFL accounted for 93 of the 100 most-watched shows on television. Simply, we can’t get enough of NFL games on our screens. The NFL makes annual tweaks to the schedule with its broadcasting partners in mind. Here are …

Notre Dame Offensive Coordinator Mike Denbrock talks to players at Notre Dame spring football practice Thursday, March 7, 2024, at the Irish Athletics Center in South Bend. Many believe that Texas A&M’s strength is on the defensive line, but that won’t shy Notre Dame football away from testing them. The Irish offense has been expected to take another step forward …

One thing that makes the NFL so entertaining every year is the fact that it’s one of the most unpredictable sports on the planet, and nothing proves that more than the league’s ability to produce at least one team every season that goes from worst to first.  Last year, that team was the Houston Texans. After finishing with an ugly …

With the regular season around the corner, every team across the NFL decided to go into the barber shop and get a haircut. They trimmed the sides, took a little off the top, and cut their rosters from the 90-man units they had during the offseason down to the opening 53 players.  While most of the usual suspects on various …

A year ago at this time, there were four NFL teams with +10000 odds or worse to win the Super Bowl. There are currently seven. A smaller pool of teams viewed as legitimate Super Bowl contenders this year may exist, but not all hope is lost for those teams.    Here is the best possible outcome for several teams least likely to hoist …

While many schools loaded up on talent from the transfer portal during the offseason, No. 14 Clemson heads into the season with primarily its same roster as last year. The Tigers return junior quarterback Cade Klubnik and senior running back Phil Mafah, who they will rely heavily on when they face top-ranked Georgia during the Week 1 college football schedule. …

Not every NFL player can be C.J. Stroud or Puka Nacua. Those two were fantastic right away as rookies and became instant stars. It takes other players more time. Sometimes injuries set them back. Others just need the chance to play before they shine. We see veteran breakouts every season in the NFL, and here are 10 players in a …