Conference championships are in the rearview. The College Football Playoff and a myriad of mostly meaningless bowls are upon us.

Over the next month, we’ll be hyper focused on which underclassmen declare their intentions of entering the NFL draft or decide to stay in school.

A talented draft class is starting to solidify, but we won’t know...Read more

MIAMI — Any challenge that arises can be seen as soil which can be used to birth something new, or foster growth.

That’s the best way to describe how the Miami Dolphins offensive line transformed itself from the weakest link on the 2025 team in the first half of the season into one of its strengths, which has produced four wins in a row and...Read more

CHICAGO — Case Keenum is well aware of the jersey — the infamous, fan-altered jersey of former Cleveland Browns quarterback Tim Couch with a long list of his successors under his nameplate.

Keenum should know it. He’s on it.

“I’ve seen that shirt,” said Keenum, who played for the Browns from 2020-21 and joined the Bears as a free ...Read more

DENVER — The Broncos reside somewhere between a fluke and a joke.

Seriously, that is the prevailing national opinion.

No team boasting a 10-game winning streak and 11 straight victories at home has ever been given less respect.

The Broncos are underdogs to the Packers this Sunday. Not the 1997 Packers with Brett Favre, Reggie White and ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Brandon Aiyuk has officially left the 49ers’ building — and roster, likely forever.

Aiyuk’s stalled comeback from last season’s knee injury turned into such a vanishing act that the 49ers reclassified his status Saturday as “reserve/left squad.”

Aiyuk did not previously count against the 53-man roster with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Jared Goff doesn't think about it much anymore.

"It feels like a long time ago," he told Detroit reporters this week.

Matthew Stafford hinted at the same during his weekly availability with Los Angeles reporters.

It's been nearly five years since the Rams sent Goff, two first-round draft picks and a third-round pick to the ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla.— A week ago, Dave Canales wasn’t pacing a sideline or dialing up plays. Instead he sat on his couch, remote in hand. But the Carolina Panthers head coach was very much invested in the outcome of the game in front of him.

The New Orleans Saints, who happened to be Carolina’s next opponent following their bye week, were on their...Read more

The return of Philip Rivers is becoming a dadgum reality.

The Indianapolis Colts have added the 44-year-old quarterback to their active roster and plan to start him in Sunday's game against the Seattle Seahawks, according to multiple reports.

Rivers, an eight-time Pro Bowl selection and Hall of Fame semifinalist, has not played since calling ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — This was coach Pete Carroll as the Raiders were about to open training camp:

“We are going to win a bunch of games,” he said. “I can’t even imagine anything else. I’ve been winning 10 games a year for 20 years or something. I mean, what are my expectations? We are going to win a bunch, and I don’t care who hears that. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Nick Sirianni is only half right.

It is ridiculous to think that the Eagles might consider benching their Super Bowl MVP quarterback with four games left in the season and a division title all but assured.

Yet, Sirianni and his coaching staff have a long list of equally ridiculous things they must consider.

— It is ...Read more

The National Football League is many things — a multibillion-dollar entertainment juggernaut, a litigious bully, and a weekly soap opera where grown men in tights fight over an oblong ball.

But mostly, the NFL is a league of desperation.

And because of that, despite it being mid-December, the speculation has already started about this ...Read more

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Butch Barry, the Dolphins’ third-year offensive line coach who might be just as responsible for their recent run game success as running back De’Von Achane and coach Mike McDaniel, is a background figure to most fans.

In a sense, Barry, whose offensive line has cleared the way for the Dolphins to average a league-...Read more

DETROIT — The University of Michigan board has authorized the law firm Jenner & Block to expand its investigation into the "situation" around former football coach Sherrone Moore's firing, according to two sources familiar with the board's plan but not authorized to speak publicly.

The Chicago-based law firm was previously hired to ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — By morning, his rage had diminished. Much like his team’s playoff hopes.

Todd Bowles was back in disapproving dad mode, his default setting after most Bucs losses.

The previous night’s collapse was behind him, as was the now-viral clip of his postgame tirade. For a franchise that has housed a horror movie munchkin (Jon ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Steelers star T.J. Watt had a "partially collapsed lung" following a dry needling treatment and underwent surgery to treat it, his brother J.J. posted on social media Friday.

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin ruled Watt out for Monday night's game against the Dolphins, but J.J. Watt indicated that the Steelers' pass rusher was at least ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Philip Rivers is an NFL quarterback once again.

This news will spawn all sorts of clumsy jokes and quips.

Will Indianapolis Colts players call him gramps? If the Seahawks sack him Sunday, will the refs flag them 15 yards for elder abuse?

Rivers, 44, is indeed a grandfather. And it’s been almost five years since he played in an...Read more

PITTSBURGH — We could begin this story 21 years ago at the Westin Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where Hurricane Jeanne caused a power outage the night before Ben Roethlisberger's first start, or we could begin at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City 42 years ago, where the Steelers famously passed on hometown quarterback Dan Marino in the ...Read more

The College Football Playoffs and bowl season are upon us now that the regular season is over.

Underclassmen have already started declaring their intention to enter the NFL draft.

This class is officially beginning to take shape, but the draft order remains in flux.

With the Tennessee Titans’ upset of the Cleveland Browns, a new team ...Read more