The Patriots defense suffered a serious blow in last Sunday’s overtime loss to the Seahawks when linebacker Ja’Whaun Bentley tore his pectoral muscle. Bentley will miss the rest of the season as a result of the injury and that will force the team to shuffle players around as they head into Thursday night’s game against the Jets. Linebacker Joshua Uche …

When Ryan Wingo arrived on the Texas campus in January, he understood his situation as a freshman receiver on a loaded Longhorns offense. Wingo knew that Alabama’s Isaiah Bond and Houston’s Matthew Golden had already arrived as veteran transfers. He knew returning receivers Johntay Cook II and DeAndre Moore Jr. eagerly awaited their opportunities for expanded roles, and he knew …

The NFL’s two-decade long bull market of passing is experiencing a mini crash at the start of the 2024 season. You’ve seen the stats and have watched the games. Interceptions are up, passing yards per game are down, and we enter Week 3 with the fewest touchdown passes through two weeks in ages. What gives? What’s happening with NFL passing …

The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets opened their season with an upset of Florida State in Ireland and after adding wins over Georgia State and VMI but losing on the road to Syracuse, the Yellow Jackets will get another crack at a ranked ACC opponent on Saturday. No. 19 Louisville will host Georgia Tech on Saturday and the latest Week 4 …

A popular NFL betting strategy is to make predictions on divisional games since there are often NFL betting trends you can analyze. On Sunday, there is only one divisional contest, 49ers vs. Rams. They have played 150 times previously, and San Francisco has owned the recent history, winning nine of the last 10 regular-season matchups. The 49ers are favored by …

The Miami Dolphins placed quarterback Tua Tagovailoa on injured reserve Tuesday with the concussion he suffered Thursday against the Buffalo Bills. It’s not clear from Miami’s announcement how long Tagovailoa will be sidelined. A stint on injured reserve means that Tagovailoa will miss at least four games. Tagovailoa, who has a history of head trauma, was concussed by a hit …

Arch Manning’s Heisman odds are preposterously out of line with his actual chances to win the award. Manning is the No. 7 favorite at BetMGM after he skyrocketed up the board in his relief appearance in Week 3. After Quinn Ewers left the blowout win vs. UTSA with a strained abdomen, Manning threw four TD passes and ran for another. …

In Roob’s Eagles stats: Historically bad run defense originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia The unfortunate thing about doing a weekly Eagles stats column is when you have a game like this one. But the show must go on, and I promise we’ll squeeze some positive numbers and trends in there at the end. At least, we’ll try. 1. The …

Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Jackson Arnold (11) warms up before a college football game between the University of Oklahoma Sooners (OU) and the Houston Cougars at Gaylord Family Ð Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. Bryan Terry/USA TODAY Network Sophomore quarterback Jackson Arnold is in his second season at Oklahoma. The 6-foot-1, 210-pound signal-caller has completed 54-of-86 …

It’s only two games, but Bo Nix has gotten off to a rough start in Denver. Nix, the sixth quarterback drafted in April and taken with the 12th overall pick, had 45 touchdowns against three interceptions last year at Oregon. After two NFL games, he already has four interceptions, with no touchdown passes. He’s far from the only problem in …

Eagles snap counts: How Eagles played it without A.J. Brown originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia The Eagles lost a heartbreaker 22-21 to the Falcons on Monday Night Football. They definitely missed A.J. Brown. The Eagles’ Pro Bowl receiver didn’t play in this game because of a hamstring injury suffered during the week and his status for Week 3 in …

Fresh off a record-setting performance last week, the South Alabama Jaguars clash with the Appalachian State Mountaineers in the Sun Belt opener for both teams on Thursday night. South Alabama set school and Sun Belt records for most points in a game with an 87-10 win over Northwestern State last Thursday, while App. State downed East Carolina 21-19. The Jaguars …

After Chargers running back J.K. Dobbins ran 10 times for 135 yards in the team’s season-opening win, he said he thinks he can be “way better” in future games. Dobbins’s second game for the AFC West team may not have been way better, but it definitely showed that the opener wasn’t a fluke. Dobbins posted 17 carries for 131 yards …

Wisconsin’s Week 3 contest vs. the Alabama Crimson Tide was the second-most watched game in the country last weekend, per The Athletic’s Stewart Mandel. Saturday afternoon’s contest attracted five million viewers nationwide on Fox, trailing only ABC’s primetime showing of Georgia vs. Kentucky. The Bulldogs and Wildcats reeled in 6.6 million viewers for what became a 1-point Georgia victory. ABC’s …

The Jets offense finished strong against the Titans in Week Two as Aaron Rodgers led a 74-yard touchdown drive in the fourth quarter to break a 17-17 tie and lift the Jets to their first victory of the season. It was the third touchdown drive of the day for the Jets, which meant it was back-to-back weeks with three offensive …