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Think the Eagles can’t repeat as Super Bowl champions? Here are 10 reasons why they will. By Reuben Frank

TAMPA — Jameis Winston would like to move forward with his career now that he has accepted the NFL’s decision to suspend him three games and apologized — for something — to the Uber driver that the league says he touched in an “inappropriate and sexual manner.” When the Bucs’ full

A brief look at the Packers tight end position heading into 2018. Fourth in a series of nine position previews leading up to the Green Bay Packers’ 2018 training camp. When it comes to the tight end position, the Green Bay Packers have to be hoping the third time is the charm. General manager Brian

Saints quarterback Drew Brees predicts either Andrew Luck or Darren Sproles will win comeback player of the year. Luck’s shoulder injury has kept him out of game action since January 1, 2017, and Sproles tore an ACL and broke an arm in Week 3 last season. “I’m calling it right now: It’s either [Luck]

Chicago Bears QB Mitch Trubisky is confident he can stand toe-to-toe with any passer in the NFC North this season.

Here are some of the players Indianapolis Colts coach Frank Reich will have to pay special attention to in his first season. IndyStar will breakdown each of the Indianapolis Colts’ 13 opponents for the 2018 season ahead of the team reporting to camp at Grand Park on July 25. Buffalo Bills Game: 

A former rival coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Jeff Fisher, will be making his return to the game of football this year. This time, however, it will be in a different role than Jags fans have seen in the past. The former Tennessee Titans coach recently got a small gig as a color commentator for Fox

Tenth in a series As the Texans’ training camp approaches, here’s a quick-hit look at their opponent in Week 10: Washington Key additions: QB Alex Smith, WR Paul Richardson, CB Orlando Scandrick, K Dustin Hopkins, OLB Pernell McPhee, DT Da’Ron Payne, RB Derrius Guice, OT Geron Christian,

Darren Rovell ESPN Senior Writer Close ESPN.com’s sports business reporter since 2012; previously at ESPN from 2000-06 Appears on SportsCenter, ESPN Radio, ESPN.com and with ABC News Formerly worked as analyst at CNBC Less than eight months before the scheduled start of its new pro league, the Alliance

Every year the NFL is slammed full of parity — a couple of surprising teams jump up and make the playoffs, while several teams we never thought in our wildest dreams could regress manage to fall back and miss the postseason.  Oddly enough, four out of the last 10 Super Bowl winners have managed to miss

New York bolstered its secondary with a hefty third-round price while Washington is counting that maturity will help its new rookie realize his upside.

Barkley has been given an overall rating of 82 to begin the season — the highest among rookie running backs and second-highest among all rookies. Colts guard Quenton Nelson has an overall rating of 83 and is the only rookie better than Barkley.

As players take their final breaks before training camp, we will take a look back at the new faces from this offseason and what we’ve learned about them, football and otherwise, so far. Today we’ll focus on linebacker Pernell McPhee. 1. ​He is one of two players on the Redskins’ roster with

The 2018 NFL Supplemental Draft takes this place this week. Here, we provide a guide to the event and the prospects in this year’s class.

Editor’s note: This is the third of 13 scouting reports on the Falcons’ 2018 opponents. Over the next three weeks I’m going to take a closer look at each one of the Falcons’ 13 opponents this season, with the final three scouting reports focusing on their NFC South rivals. Atlanta’

3. Dont’a Hightower, Patriots One of the great surprises of the Patriots’ Super Bowl appearance last year, is they arrived there without Hightower, who missed all but the first five games of the season with a torn pectoral muscle. All you need to know about his value to the club, though, is with

Pro Football Weekly’s player rankings are compiled with the help of NFL evaluators and coaches, with input from the entire PFW staff. Players are ranked on their performances to date at positions they’ve played and are not projected at new positions which they might move. Rookies are not included

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish have a roster full of players, and we want to talk about all of them. One Foot Down’s player profile series will take a look at every single one of them, and hopefully we all learn a little bit more about these guys, and Notre Dame’s chances for the upcoming 2018

Editor’s note: This is the first of a nine-part series detailing each position group ahead of Falcons training camp. FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. – The Falcons lost a pair of key starters along the defensive line in free agency when Dontari Poe and Adrian Clayborn signed elsewhere, but there’s still plenty

Brandin Cooks has played with some of the best players in the NFL in his brief four years in the league so far. He’s gotten a first-row seat to the Drew Brees and Tom Brady shows, has seen Rob Gronkowski dominate the middle of the field and played alongside Michael Thomas, who’s one of the best

The AFC South very rapidly went from one of the NFL’s worst divisions to one of its best. It’s difficult to find a more complete set of teams in the AFC than in the Titans’ division. Tennessee ended their long playoff drought a season ago, but now the focus turns toward ending their nine-season

Pro Football Weekly’s player rankings are compiled with the help of NFL evaluators and coaches, with input from the entire PFW staff. Players are ranked on their performances to date at positions they’ve played and are not projected at new positions which they might move. Rookies are not included

With a new coaching staff in place, there is a lot of speculation surrounding the Detroit Lions schematic intentions and how players roles will be altered. On offense, the retention of offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter helps mitigate change, but after finishing last in rushing in 2017, it appears

Even coming off a serious knee injury, Eagles QB Carson Wentz still has pretty high odds to take home 2018 NFL MVP. By Reuben Frank

Alvin Kamara, Leonard Fournette, Kareem Hunt, Evan Engram and Deshaun Watson. All five rookies made huge fantasy impacts in 2017. Well, at least until Watson went down with a torn ACL and left those owners who had jumped on the bandwagon early moping around for the second half of the season. When going

Despite stars at all three levels, it seems the league is sleeping on the Falcons defense. Earlier today, we learned the names of the players who will make up the top-10 members of this year’s version of the NFL Top 100 list. We don’t know the order yet, but we do know Julio Jones will be one

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Over the past three months, thousands of fans voted in our “Team For the Ages” contest to construct the best imaginable 50-man roster from the NFL’s modern era, which began in 1967. The votes have been counted, and we’re unveiling one player each weekday between now and the kickoff

The Lions have added an experienced hand to fill out their personnel department. Former Chargers, Colts and Texans executive Jimmy Raye III has been named a senior personnel executive in Detroit. He will work under General Manager Bob Quinn and vice president of player personnel Kyle O’Brien in the Lions

Terrell Owens has announced he won’t attend his Hall of Fame induction, and Rod Woodson said he thinks that’s a shame.