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Our best fantasy football plans often do not survive contact with opening week. Many of us are now searching the waiver wire for playable options, because events did not unfold exactly as we’d imagined on Sunday (or Thursday and Friday for that matter). Each week around here, we highlight the top potential waiver adds available in at least 50% of …

Fresh off a 47-10 blowout loss to the New Orleans Saints in Week 1, the Carolina Panthers got more bad news Monday.  Star defensive tackle Derrick Brown, who signed a four-year, $96 million extension this offseason, reportedly suffered a potentially season-ending knee injury Sunday that will require surgery on his meniscus. Brown, the team’s first-round pick in 2020 out of …

What we learned in Pats-Bengals: Brissett’s toughness buys Maye more time originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston CINCINNATI — Each and every week, we’ll be highlighting a variety of the lessons gathered from the latest Patriots matchup. Of course, there was no shortage of teaching moments in Sunday’s stunner against the Bengals. Here’s what we learned… Brissett’s toughness buys Drake …

Getty Images Haason Reddick has stayed away from the New York Jets for months, refusing to report over failed contract negotiations with the team that just traded for him in April. The star pass rusher’s holdout will continue through Monday, according to ESPN, which means Reddick will forfeit nearly $800,000 by skipping the Jets’ prime-time season opener against the San …

Patrick Everson FOX Sports Betting Analyst With the NFL season kicking off, there was a slew of major wagers dropping at sportsbooks across the country. And as no surprise, results were mixed for the high-roller bettors who ponied up big cash. One of the largest reported bets in the NFL Week 1 odds market was a monster $300,000 play on …

Injuries are part of every sport, especially football, where it seems like no team can escape at least one notable injury on a weekly basis. That was the case for several teams during the NFL’s opening weekend.  Most notably, the Packers suffered a scare when starting quarterback Jordan Love went down with an injury near the end of Green Bay’s …

USATSI Sunday marked a rude awakening for the Carolina Panthers, whose first action following a 2-15 finish in 2023 was a 47-10 blowout loss to the rival New Orleans Saints. The start of the Panthers’ 2024 season may have gotten worse, too, with Pro Bowl defensive lineman Derrick Brown suffering what could be a season-ending knee injury, as CBS Sports …

The hardest thing to handle is reality when it comes to the NFL. Admitting reality with players and teams is tough, especially since judgment is appearing in front of those very eyes. Teams can reveal aplenty in one game, trends that occur over the course of a season.  First impressions are usually the right ones, and Week 1 provided a …

Jason McIntyre Co-Host of THE HERD and FOX Sports Betting Analyst Now that the NFL season has kicked off, it’s time to have a little fun. What’s my idea of fun? Laying out some absolute shockers that I believe will take place in 2024. From a New York team advancing to the Super Bowl for the first time in my …

Two ways CMC can make NFL history in 49ers-Jets Week 1 game originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area In his first full season with the 49ers, Christian McCaffrey shattered records and made franchise and league history throughout the 2023 NFL campaign. Heading into San Francisco’s 2024 season-opening clash against the New York Jets on Monday night, the reigning NFL …

The New York Jets are hoping a healthy Aaron Rodgers is a difference-maker when they kick off their 2024 NFL schedule against the NFC champion San Francisco 49ers on Monday Night Football. Rodgers lasted all of four plays last season before rupturing his left Achilles tendon and missing the remainder of the year. Despite a quarterback carousel the rest of …

Victoria Matiash, Fantasy HockeySep 9, 2024, 09:00 AM ET CloseESPN.com Fantasy Contributor since 2010Part-time anchor at NEWSTALK1010 Here we go again! For fantasy hockey enthusiasts, we’re on the cusp of the most wonderful time of the year. Whether you’re looking to repeat as league champion, or hoping for a much better result after a less-successful run in 2023-24, the clean …

How Kellen Moore found a unique role for Will Shipley in rookie’s NFL debut originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Will Shipley didn’t touch the ball on offense in his NFL debut and he played just four snaps outside of his 17 on special teams. But it was still an encouraging start for the fourth-round pick out of Clemson. And …

Eric Williams NFL Reporter With much of the contract angst this summer — starring, among others,  Brandon Aiyuk, CeeDee Lamb, Trent Williams and Dak Prescott — in the rearview mirror, we can finally focus our attention on the football field. Week 1 featured some strong performances by players who changed teams during the offseason, including Joe Mixon for the Houston …

There are a lot of questionable coaching decisions in the NFL every week, and one of the most notable ones from Sunday came from Las Vegas Raiders coach Antonio Pierce.  With just over seven minutes left to play during the the fourth quarter of the Raiders game against the Chargers, Pierce called for a punt on fourth-and-1 even though his …