Category: NFL Buzz

Jeremy Fowler ESPN Staff Writer Close ESPN staff writer Previously a college football reporter for CBSSports.com University of Florida graduate Follow on Twitter PITTSBURGH — The Steelers are simplifying the defense after giving up 42 points to the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 2. Pittsburgh needs a boost

The Patriots were No. 2 in the NFL after losing Super Bowl 52 to the Philadelphia Eagles and they’re again No. 2 in Forbes’ annual valuation rankings of NFL teams.  

The NFL’s 1 percent TV ratings increase for its opening weekend this season proved to be fleeting good news. Week 2 numbers plunged 4.4 percent from the same week last year. This season’s Week 2 rating, 8.7, was down 4.4 percent from the 9.1 for the second week of the 2017 season, according to

Does the NFL owe Hall of Fame players alimony? Should the league be required to keep players and their families in the style they were accustomed to when the playing checks were rolling in?

The NFL is currently embroiled in yet another rule fiasco. This is perhaps the most annoying one we’ve seen in some time thanks to the sudden shift in enforcement and the impact it has on the game each week. With greater emphasis on protecting the quarterback, officials have been throwing penalty

The NFL reiterated that not only was the league’s call on Clay Matthews for roughing the passer in Sunday’s game correct, but it will be used as a teaching moment with other teams. Matthews was penalized late in the fourth quarter after “he lifted [Kirk Cousins] and drove him into the ground

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Every week, the Green Bay Packers are like any other NFL team, sending video of officials’ calls they didn’t agree with to the league office for review. This week’s will have one that undoubtedly the league already knows the team is unhappy with: Linebacker Clay Matthews

The “NFL GameDay Prime” crew discuss what makes Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes so dominant.

NFL Week 2 is here. To keep tabs on some of the choicest highlights and other big news throughout Sunday, keep it locked here for updates.  Cincinnati Bengals 34, Baltimore Ravens 23 Atlanta Falcons 31, Carolina Panthers 24 (Recap) Indianapolis Colts 21, Washington Redskins 9 (Recap) Tennessee Titans

Vikings defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson was fined $20,054 by the NFL for a hit last Sunday, he said Friday. Richardson was penalized for roughing the passer after a hit on 49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo in the fourth quarter of Minnesota’s 24-16 win in the opener. Richardson told the Pioneer

A dream matchup pitting the reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles against the previous year’s runner-up, the Atlanta Falcons, was supposed to be a celebration of the NFL’s opening day. The 26 penalties in the Eagles’ win on Sept. 6 were a historical outlier—the second-most ever for a game

Week 1 results were a bit mixed. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers crushed the New Orleans Saints on Sunday but neither the Buffalo Bills nor the Dallas Cowboys were able to muster enough points to cover the spread, let alone win outright. As the season progresses, the underlying stats that fuel our weekly projections

How does Love project at the next level? NFL scouts at the USC-Stanford game had plenty to say about his game (and it wasn’t all positive).

It was a historically bad weekend for new coaches.

After last season, the Kansas City Chiefs did something that NFL teams don’t typically do. The Washington Redskins also did something unusual also involving Alex Smith. One reason the NFL looks wildly different at the start of this season is that nearly half the league’s teams are starting a different

SportsPulse: Should the Steelers be embarrassed? Is the Cowboys offense the worst in the NFL? Trysta Krick gives her overreactions for Week 1 of the NFL season. President Donald Trump won’t find much to criticize in the opening Sunday of NFL action as the first NFL games broadcast on CBS and Fox

Colin Kaepernick has thanked Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson for protesting during the US national anthem on Sunday as the new NFL season got underway. The Miami Dolphins duo continued the kneeling protest which Kaepernick startedin 2016 to highlight racial injustice. Kaepernick’s courage recently

NFL Week 1 is here. To keep tabs on some of the choicest highlights and other big news throughout Sunday, keep it locked here for updates.  Eagles 18, Falcons 12 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 48, New Orleans Saints 40  Minnesota Vikings 24, San Francisco 49ers 16 Baltimore Ravens 47, Buffalo Bills 3 Jacksonville

President Donald Trump mocked the NFL for declining ratings on Sunday, placing the blame again on players taking a knee during the national anthem. Philadelphia Eagles players Michael Bennett and Jay Ajayi took a seat on the bench near the end of the anthem before Thursday’s game, but there were

Pittsburgh’s hometown hero gets his first pro rushing touchdown while Le’Veon Bell continues his holdout.

The first Sunday of the NFL season begins with no agreement between the league and the NFL Players Association on a new national anthem policy in place. Now the issue becomes how many players will protest during the anthem. The season began Thursday night in Philadelphia with Eagles defensive end Michael

Cowboys defensive end Randy Gregory, whose NFL career has been overshadowed by substance-abuse issues since those issues caused him to drop in the 2015 NFL draft, is once again in hot water with the league’s substance-abuse policy. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Gregory relapsed and could be disciplined

Around the same time that the Raiders cut wide receiver Martavis Bryant last weekend, there was word that he is facing another suspension for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy. Official word from the league could be coming sooner rather than later. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the league

Jim Althoff never fathomed turning his back on the NFL. He watched the Colts win the 1958 NFL championship game on a 12-inch black-and-white television and stood in line for hours on Sunday mornings to gain entry to Memorial Stadium on $2 student tickets. Even his childhood team’s departure to Indianapolis

On a day when the NFL kicked off its regular season — in an NBC telecast that included a Nike ad featuring Colin Kaepernick — a Miss America contestant was asked about the player protests that have roiled the league and drawn the ire of President Trump. The answer provided Thursday by Miss Virginia Emili

RENTON, Wash. — Twelve-year-old Logan Powell was already a die-hard Seattle Seahawks fan, even growing up in a household with a Steelers-loving dad. If possible, Powell’s fandom of the Seahawks was amplified when Seattle selected Shaquem Griffin in the fifth round of the NFL draft last spring. Powell

The finish to the last NFL season was unquestionably weird. It ended with something good happening for the sports fans of Philadelphia—a Super Bowl title. The Eagles’ Nick Foles and Minnesota’s Case Keenum were meant to be backups.

In late March, the NFL instituted a new rule stating that players cannot lower their heads to initiate and make contact with opponents, regardless of the situation. As part of the new rule, which is considered unneccessary roughness, players will receive a 15-yard penalty and could possibly be ejected

Winds of change are blowing through the NFL. The faces of the league are about to change, with the likes of Tom Brady sometime soon to be replaced by younger, up-and-coming quarterbacks. Brady is only one of a group of star quarterbacks who have dominated the better part of the past two decades and are

Bleacher Report is launching an NFL show that aims to provide a resource for gamblers, part of what media executives believe will be a wave of such content in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling legalizing sports betting. Former NFL quarterback Chris Simms and sportscaster Adam Lefkoe, two football-obsessives