Category: NFL Buzz

Week 6 NFL odds have been released and professional and amateur bettors are locking in their top picks. The Patriots opened as 3.5-point home favorites against the undefeated Chiefs on “Sunday Night Football” and the over-under for that game has already seen significant movement, rising from

It’s finally happened. New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has become the NFL’s all-time leading passing yards leader. Entering Monday night’s game against the Washington Redskins, Brees needed just 201 passing yards to stamp his forever place in league history, and he already surpassed

Drew Brees and the Saints steamroll the Redskins in the last game of Week 5 of the 2018 NFL Season.

Drew Brees reflects right after defeating the Redskins and breaking the NFL’s all-time passing yards record.

Bill Barnwell ESPN Staff Writer Bill Barnwell is a staff writer for ESPN.com. Follow on Twitter The NFL season is short. Sixteen games amounts to less than 20 percent of the NBA season, while a busy baseball team can knock out 16 games in two and a half weeks. With a compressed campaign, even five weeks

Kendricks and the NFLPA are reportedly battling the league, but if the past is any indication, they won’t win.

NFL Network’s Kurt Warner explains how the Jaguars offense can keep up with the Chiefs.

Did you know Tom Brady is the fifth on the Patriots all-time list of rushing TDs? Well, he is now.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Eric Reid isn’t planning on giving up his fight against racial injustice in America or his battle with the NFL. He just doesn’t know if his protests against injustice will include kneeling for the national anthem . Reid, who signed a one-year contract last week with Carolina

Week 5 fantasy football rankings are starting to take shape, but before we have a concrete idea of what will happen this week, we need to know about the latest injury news and updates. Across the NFL, some of the best fantasy pass-catchers suffered injuries on Sunday. T.Y. Hilton and Will Fuller are

Indianapolis Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri gives his postgame comments about breaking the NFL record for most field goals made

How questionable was Randall Cobb? The Packers’ wide receiver has actually been ruled out for today’s game at Lambeau Field. He’ll be joined on the sideline by Indy RB Marlon Mack, making Nyheim Hines a decent starter again this week. Miami WR DeVante Parker is also out, so sudden stars Albert

Just like last week, quarterbacks were the story in Week 3 and the names are familiar ones: Patrick Mahomes, he of four career starts, continues to play at a pace that could land him in the Hall of Fame by December. And Drew Brees, who at 39 is 16 years older than Mahomes, is a sure-fire first-ballot

Jalen Ramsey backs up his big talk with big plays. Now the Jacksonville cornerback can crow about something else. Ramsey was the overwhelming choice as the NFL’s top cornerback by a panel of 10 football writers for The Associated Press. The All-Pro received eight first-place votes in balloting released

A look at what’s hurting the Bears, Patriots, Cowboys, Eagles and Giants. And how things can improve.

No one is happy with the NFL’s new roughing the passer rule. The latest to express frustration with the rule is Raiders DC Paul Guenther, who went on a 365-word rant on Thursday.

The NFL is getting roughed up over its amplified enforcement of roughing-the-passer penalties that has generated head-scratching calls – and a season-ending injury to a defender trying to comply with the league’s mandate not to land fully on the quarterback. In the offseason, NFL owners asked the

The experts at TeamRankings are back to break down Week 4’s five most popular survivor picks: Chargers, Packers, Jaguars, Patriots, and Rams. We’ll also look back at the impact of last week’s absolutely crushing results on NFL survivor pools (Lookin’ at you, Vikings). Although the Chargers

Even the quarterbacks are questioning the long list of roughing the passer calls three weeks into the season.

Week three of the NFL is in the books, and there were some absolutely shocking results in the world of football. The New England Patriots lost to the Detroit Lions, the Minnesota Vikings lost to the Buffalo Bills, and the Jacksonville Jaguars lost to the Tennessee Titans in pretty shocking upsets. Through

Roughing the passer penalties were once again a major storyline Monday night, prompting a bizarre take from ESPN analyst Jason Witten.

Was Justin Houston’s blunt take on Jimmy Garoppolo’s injury a product of player animus against the coddling of NFL quarterbacks?

LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Sure does seem as if “When is a sack just a sack?” is quickly becoming the NFL’s new “Did that player lower his helmet too much?” or “What, exactly, is a catch?” It’s a fundamental element of football — how a pass-rusher is allowed to bring a QB down to the ground — and no

Dan Graziano ESPN Staff Writer Close Joined ESPN in 2011 New Jersey native and author of two published novels Follow on Twitter See? This is why you don’t overreact. If you had the Minnesota Vikings and the Jacksonville Jaguars in the Super Bowl, Sunday threw a soaking wet blanket over that. If you

The NFL’s newest weekly tradition is trolling Clay Matthews apparently, because the Packers pass rusher has now been hit with a roughing the passer penalty for three straight weeks. The first one, against the Bears, was entirely Matthews’ fault. The second one, against the Vikings, was a highly

Another week, and another outstanding performance from quarterbacks at the opposite ends of their NFL journeys: Patrick Mahomes and Ryan Fitzpatrick are atop the MVP leaderboard and both will lead their teams to wins in Week 3 In other games, the Browns continue their search for a win, the Bills are

The hype around Patrick Mahomes is so out of hand that next will come talk that the Chiefs quarterback can fling a football the length of the field. Oh, wait, hold on. It appears that’s already happening. This week, after studying Mahomes before Sunday’s meeting in Kansas City, the 49ers didn

If you’re a big NFL fan, there’s no better way to watch every game, every Sunday than to subscribe to DirecTV and the NFL Sunday Ticket package. At least, on the days when the Sunday Ticket package is actually working as advertised. Unfortunately, for many subscribers, it doesn’t work as advertised.

It’s not clear what the NFL has done to investigate the claim that Bills running back LeSean McCoy instigated an attack on his former girlfriend. It is clear what the NFL hasn’t done; it hasn’t even tried to speak to the alleged victim. Via Jenny Vrentas of SI.com, Delicia Cordon said at a press conference

My favorite story of the NFL season thus far? Easy: the player who retired from the Buffalo Bills…at halftime. The player is Vontae Davis, a 30-year-old cornerback who played 10 seasons…well, nine seasons and one half of one game before abruptly pressing the eject button on his career.