Category: NFL Buzz

Travis Scott has signed on to perform during the halftime show for Super Bowl LIII — but only after the NFL agreed to join him in donating to a cause for social justice, Billboard has learned. The “Sicko Mode” star was confirmed as a special guest set to join Maroon 5 for the halftime show

Kliff Kingsbury finished his six-year tenure as the Texas Tech head coach with a losing 35-40 record. It led to him being fired by the program following the 2018 campaign — only to see Kingsbury latch on as the USC offensive coordinator under head coach Clay Helton. In a dramatic turnabout, Kingsbury

Roger Goodell, whose heart is as black as a hockey puck, saw the St. Louisans trying to save the Rams and essentially laughed. Silly old St. Louis. You think you’re an NFL city? The commissioner of the danged NFL didn’t even have the courtesy to even publicly applaud the efforts of the St. Louisans

The NFL launched its new “Inspire Change” initiative on Friday, part of which will help bring a new digital African-American history course to schools across the country.

The Divisional Round is here and so are a fresh batch of NFL picks.

Defensive players overwhelming voted for Colin Kaepernick to be in the league in an anonymous media survey. It was the hot topic every time a quarterback was ruled out for the season due to an injury or consistently threw multiple interceptions in a game: What about Colin Kaepernick? Kaepernick, the

As part of its partnership with players on social justice issues, the NFL on Friday kicked off its Inspire Change initiative, highlighting the league’s wide-ranging efforts to effect positive change in underprivileged communities. Within the new initiative, the league will promote its work in education

As the NFL draft deadline looms, we explore Murray’s three options on the table and make the case for each.

With :44 seconds left Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco throws a bomb to Jacoby Jones for a 70-yard touchdown to help the Ravens tie the game vs. the Denver Broncos 35-35.

The NFL’s wild-card round may have been a brutal showcase of grind-it-out defense and uninspired offensive play-calling. But at least it threw another intriguing wrench into what was already shaping up to be a chaotic postseason. Three of the four favorites (according to FiveThirtyEight’s pregame

Whether it was right or wrong, Steve Wilks wasn’t seen as the decade-long answer. And despite a 35-40 record at Texas Tech, he appeared to be the gamble the franchise couldn’t pass up.

One year into retirement, Bruce Arians is reportedly set to return to coaching and take over as head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. An official announcement was expected within 24 hours, according to multiple reports Monday. Arians spent the 2018 season in broadcasting.

Cody Parkey’s missed field goal that sunk the Chicago Bears on Sunday is no longer a straight-up miss. The NFL made a scoring change on Monday, crediting Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Treyvon Hester with a block on the play that gave the Philadelphia Eagles a 16-15 victory over the Bears in

As the 2018 NFL regular season wrapped up, Commissioner Roger Goodell and the owners had to be feeling pretty great. While it wasn’t regaining all the viewership losses it had incurred over the two seasons prior, television ratings were up in 2018. Overall, viewership across CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN and

Buffalo quarterback Tyree Jackson announced Sunday that he is bypassing his senior season to enter the NFL draft. Jackson revealed his decision on his Instagram account. “Since I was 5 years old, it has always been a lifelong dream of mine to play in the NFL,” Jackson wrote. “This is a once in a lifetime

We’re smack dab in the middle of the NFL’s Wild Card Weekend, so you’ll be forgiven if you haven’t been thinking ahead to free agency and the draft. For the 20 teams—well, make that 22 now—who are out of the playoffs, looking ahead is the only thing to do. These teams will be looking

If someone would have said on November 6, when the team was 3-5 and fresh off a 28-14 beatdown at the hands of the Tennessee Titans, that the Dallas Cowboys would not only get into the playoffs but also win (at least) a game, he or she wouldn’t have been taken seriously. But here we are on January

Kingsbury signed on as USC’s offensive coordinator 10 days after he was fired by Texas Tech.

Ryan Wood and Olivia Reiner take a look at the Packers’ interview schedule as they search for their next head coach. Adam Gase was fired as Miami Dolphins coach less than a week ago with a 23-25 record. Matt LaFleur is coming of a disappointing season with the Tennessee Titans as a first-time play

The NFL’s TV viewership increased by an average of 5 percent per game this season. But it would be inaccurate to say that more people watched the NFL in 2018 than in 2017. In fact, fewer people watched football in 2018. But ratings increased because those who did watch the NFL watched more of it.

The NFL and Caesars Entertainment Corporation have partnered up, giving the National Football League its first official casino sponsor in a deal that will roll out just in time for the 2019 Playoffs. While the press release was careful to state that the partnership only relates to their casinos, and

Mike Pereira was in his customary spot next to Troy Aikman in the Fox Sports broadcast booth for the Bears-Vikings game on the final week of the regular season, ready to chime in when needed on any close calls on the field. ”I turned away because I didn’t know if he was going to throw up

When it comes to sports, there really is no fan like a true, diehard football

Former Packers tight end Marcedes Lewis detailed more disfunction between Aaron Rodgers and former coach Mike McCarthy on Thursday.

NFL assumptions are risky, at best, but assuming Mike Zimmer is indeed safe and will not be fired before Thursday’s season-ending news conference, he will have clawed his way to the podium as a survivor who’s tied for ninth in current NFL head coaching longevity. Top 10. And he was hired in 2014

The Raiders are among the five teams that cannot decline being on “Hard Knocks.”

NEW ORLEANS – It’s not all about money, necessarily.  That was the word from Georgia’s Mecole Hardman and Isaac Nauta. The juniors are both giving serious consideration to turning pro after this season. Neither, they confirmed after the Bulldogs’ practice Friday, has made a final decision

Brad Childress picked up the phone last spring to find Jared Allen on the other line. Childress figured he was calling to make small talk, and it started that way. “He said, ‘How’s your family?’ and so we talked about that,’ ” Childress said. “Then he says, ‘That’s not why I’

A year after leading the league in both scoring defense and yards against, the Vikings aren’t going to repeat either title in 2018. They rank third in the NFL in yards allowed, with 362 more than the league-leading Ravens, and their 317 points allowed are the seventh-fewest in the NFL, with the Vikings

Zane Gonzalez was in no mood to be consoled. Then the Browns’ kicker, he was sitting on the team bench in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, head buried in his hands after missing his fourth kick (two extra points and two field goals on the day) with 3 seconds on the clock in a 21-18 loss to New Orleans