PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Eagles have owned the NFC East in recent memory, winning two straight division titles and five in the last 10 years.

There’s no reason to think 2026 will be any different, right? The Eagles are the favorite at +135 via FanDuel to win the division, after all.

But things feel a little different this time. The ...Read more

DENVER — If a league-ranking think-piece falls in the quiet forest of the NFL offseason, it does, in fact, make a sound. A loud one. Particularly in Denver, this town that demands greatness from its Broncos but bristles at any outsider who dismisses the Broncos as less-than-great.

This week, Broncos quarterback Bo Nix placed 18th in ESPN’s ...Read more

MIAMI — Here are three examples of who Jordyn Brooks is as a man, leader, football player and teammate.

The first occurred on Thanksgiving Day of the 2024 season. The Miami Dolphins embarrassed the franchise the way they played in a 30-17 loss in Green Bay to the Packers, and after the game Brooks, a newcomer to the team, called out his ...Read more

SEATTLE — The last time the Seattle Seahawks gathered on the field for a game, they were celebrating the second Super Bowl win in the franchise’s 50-year history.

The last time they gathered as a team they were collecting one of their biggest rewards for that accomplishment — their Super Bowl rings in a private ceremony June 11.

In ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Most team athletic contests are decided by moving an object across a line or into a space container. There are individuals who wind up in control of the object with frequency, and their ability to play off and set up teammates weighs heavily on an event’s outcome.

For the purposes here, the controls must be due primarily to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Throughout his NFL career as a running back for the Baltimore Ravens and the controversy surrounding footage of him beating his then-fiancée unconscious in a hotel elevator, Ray Rice has spoken about how the loss of his father to a drive-by shooting when he was just over 1 year old played a part in shaping his life.

Rice’s ...Read more

After sitting out part of the offseason program due to injury, Makai Lemon said Friday that he’s “feeling great” ahead of training camp.

Lemon, speaking at his FlexWork Sports youth camp in Aston, added that he will be “100%” ready to go when the Eagles hold their first practice of the summer on July 29.

This spring, Lemon ...Read more

DENVER — Sean Payton drinks 10 Cokes a day. He does not chase them with Dramamine.

No one gets motion sickness from watching the Broncos offense. Or from playing in it.

The Broncos ranked 32nd in pre-snap motion last season. Oh, they had movement. They collected 26 pre-snap penalties. But Payton has long created mismatches with personnel ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Lamar Jackson’s place on the NFL’s annual list of its top 100 players should not be treated as the final word on his standing around the league.

It can still get his attention, though, and likely already has.

Jackson, 29, maintains an ever-present social media profile and recently made a surprise appearance during Kai Cenat�...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Luke Kuechly had an NFL career built on movement — anticipating, reacting, running and hitting.

But for two days in late May, he tried to develop a different talent:

Learning to be still.

During those two days, Kuechly posed for sculptor Ben Hammond. As one of the three sculptors employed regularly by the Pro Football ...Read more

SEATTLE — During the roughly five months the Seattle Seahawks were on the market, there was never once a report that a sale could result in the team moving.

Never a report about a city just sitting and waiting for someone to buy an NFL team and move it there.

No suggestion from anyone associated with the team in any way that relocation is in...Read more

DENVER — While his peers were drawing with crayons, Davis Webb was drawing shallow crosses.

Legend has it that, as young as 6, the Broncos’ new offensive coordinator and play-caller watched college football games with a pile of little index cards beside him. On them, young Davis would sketch out the plays he happened to like.

Only that’s...Read more

SEATTLE — As the investor in some of the most successful startups in history, Silicon Valley’s Vinod Khosla has proved remarkably prescient in picking winners, including AI wunderkind OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT.

Now, as likely new owners of the Seattle Seahawks, Khosla, his wife Neeru and son Neal, may bring some of that entrepreneurial, ...Read more

SEATTLE — Natalie Welch, the director of Seattle U’s Albers School of Business and Economics' Sport and Entertainment Management MBA Program, has been closely following the saga of the sale of the Seattle Seahawks since the team was first put on the market Feb. 18.

Her reaction to Saturday’s news that the Khosla family has reached an ...Read more

SEATTLE — For months, the question was who would be the next owner of the Seattle Seahawks.

After Saturday's news that the Paul G. Allen Estate entered an agreement to sell to a group, there's a new question.

Who are the new owners of the Seahawks?

The group is headed by the Khosla family, specifically billionaire Vinod Khosla, his wife ...Read more

SEATTLE — We now know the answer to the biggest question hovering over the Seattle Seahawks this summer — who will be the next owner.

The team announced Saturday that the Paul G. Allen Estate has reached an agreement to sell the team to an ownership group led by the Khosla family — specifically husband and wife, Vinod and Neeru, and son, ...Read more

FORT MORGAN, Colo. — He’s built like He-Man with the heart of Winnie The Pooh. Trey McBride, the best tight end in the NFL, the cat who’s going to win you a fantasy football championship this fall, is one of those serial huggers, charming and disarming to the last.

“Trey!”

“Come here!”

HUG!

“Trey!”

“Thank you for coming!...Read more

MIAMI — There’s something charming, if not majestic, about watching one of the team’s biggest, strongest players sprint across the field to be the first in line for every drill.

And not just once in awhile. Or once in a day. Every time, every drill.

That has been Jordan Phillips’ norm every time the whistle blow during practices, and ...Read more

SEATTLE — If I were a ride-or-die, face-paint-wearing Seattle Seahawks fan whose mood was entirely dependent on how they performed each week, here are the 10 words I would tell the new owners: Congratulations on the purchase, now stay out of the way.

This, after all, was essentially what Jody Allen and her late brother Paul did when they ...Read more