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Getty Images Lamar Jackson is coming off an MVP season, but he definitely still has some critics out there. One of those critics is Julian Edelman.  The former Super Bowl MVP, who now works for Fox, was on the network’s pregame show Sunday. During one of the segments, Edelman was asked who may be able to challenge the Chiefs for …

Anthony Gharib, ESPNAug 19, 2024, 12:03 PM ET Jayson Tatum and Matthew Tkachuk are fresh off winning a championship last season for their respective franchises. Months later, the two high school classmates reunited in St. Louis for an important task — recreating a photo they took together growing up. Editor’s Picks The Boston Celtics and Florida Panthers stars were classmates …

Patriots exec admits team could be aggressive on waiver wire originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The New England Patriots are in a prime position to add a useful player to their roster before Week 1 of the 2024 NFL season because of their position on the league’s waiver wire claim order. The Patriots finished with the third-worst record in …

Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s whirlwind romance has taken the sports and entertainment worlds by storm, and a lot has happened over the past year. The Kansas City Chiefs’ superstar tight end got a chance to shoot his shot last summer — and the rest is history. [Related: Why has Chiefs superstar Travis Kelce been so quiet lately?] Since Swift …

Quarterback Colt McCoy announced on Monday that he’s retiring from the NFL after 14 years and 56 games played. The 37-year-old apparently already has his next gig lined up, as NBC Sports announced that McCoy will serve as an analyst for their Big Ten Football coverage.  McCoy had a legendary career at the University of Texas, where he threw 112 touchdowns compared …

As soon as the Week 1 NFL schedule was released, the Week 1 NFL odds were posted as well. There is just one game with a spread of more than a touchdown, Joe Burrow’s Bengals favored by nine over the Patriots as they begin the post-Bill Belichick era. The smallest Week 1 NFL spread has the Vikings favored by a …

Brian Flores never appeared to be a Tua Tagovailoa fan, and the quarterback has confirmed the feeling is mutual. Flores was Tagovailoa’s head coach for the first two years of the QB’s NFL career with the Miami Dolphins, and the former Bill Belichick assistant embraced a tough-love coaching style.  That’s a markedly different style than the laid-back, encouraging tone that …

One of the decisions the 49ers have to make before playing the Jets in the first week of the regular season is who will serve as the backup quarterback to Brock Purdy. Brandon Allen and Josh Dobbs are competing for the role and head coach Kyle Shanahan didn’t offer much hint about which way he’s leaning when he spoke to …

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 …

What is the longest field goal in NFL history? Looking back at record-setting kicks originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Justin Tucker kicked his way into NFL history three years ago. The five-time All-Pro etched his name in the record books with a game-winning 66-yard field goal to lift the Baltimore Ravens over the Detroit Lions in Week 3 …

PHILADELPHIA — In a perfect world, Quinyon Mitchell would be playing at one of the outside cornerback spots on the Philadelphia Eagles and Cooper DeJean would be playing inside. That perfect world may come into fruition at some point this season, but Mitchell and DeJean are making the best of their current situation.  Mitchell has been playing the slot in …

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are one of only two division winners from last year who are not the favorites to win this season, along with the Dallas Cowboys. The Buccaneers will have a new offensive coordinator, a tougher first-place schedule, and the current NFC South favorite Falcons having a significant upgrade at quarterback this offseason after signing Kirk Cousins. After …

The NFL’s preseason slate isn’t centered around the end result. It’s about the journey, aka player development, and the discovery of which players will survive each of the league’s 32 teams’ roster cutdown from 90 to 53.  Here’s is how the second run of exhibition games went this past week plus the important plays as we spotlight the good, bad …

Getty Images Former first-round offensive tackle Gosder Cherilus was arrested this weekend after allegedly urinating on a passenger during a Delta Air Lines fight, according to CBS News. Police were called to Logan Airport at 2 a.m. Sunday due to an unruly passenger, who they identified as the 40-year-old Cherilus.  “Troopers verbally commanded Cherilus to leave the plane, but he …

Fantasy football’s founders managed to nail pretty much every detail when our national pastime was invented way back in the pre-Super Bowl era, but the one aspect that’s never quite worked is QB scoring. It’s been broken from the start. Quarterback is obviously the most important position in the NFL by orders of magnitude, yet, historically, it’s been an afterthought …