It’s alive!

Left for dead just a week ago, the 2026 NFL season is born again in Tampa Bay.

The Bucs pulled off their biggest upset in years behind rookie quarterback Jalon Daniels and a late interception by Alex Anzalone to beat the Cowboys, 24-16, in Dallas on Thursday night.

With the NFC South in a typical mediocre morass, the Bucs are on...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Both NFL most valuable players. Both bound for Canton. Both surgically precise with their passes.

Matthew Stafford and Josh Allen are two of the best liars in football.

Peyton Manning sat in the studio and cued the video. Stafford looked off a Philadelphia safety last Sunday to hold him in place. He froze a cornerback with a ...Read more

MIAMI — The Miami Dolphins better be prepared to face at least member of the NFL’s best receiving duos in Sunday’s home game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Ja’Marr Chase, who suffered a concussion in last Sunday’s loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars, participated in Thursday’s practice. While his involvement was limited, returning to ...Read more

CHICAGO — When it comes to the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers, you can never take any statistical advantage as a given. But there’s one phase of the game — at least on paper — the Bears seem to have the Packers over a barrel: the running game.

The Bears enter Sunday’s Week 5 matchup at Lambeau Field boasting the No. 1 rushing ...Read more

Here's a look back at Week 4's action and fantasy advice for the week ahead:

WEEK 4 RECAP

Browns 27, Steelers 24: Deshaun Watson threw for 268 yards and Harold Fannin Jr. caught another touchdown as Cleveland survived Aaron Rodgers’ 299-yard, three-TD performance, but the Browns’ five sacks and two interceptions reinforced why their ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Third time’s the charm.

On Thursday, ESPN host and former Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Stephen A. Smith fully apologized to both Lane Johnson and the Eagles for making light of the All-Pro’s mental health issues following his surprise retirement from the team.

“My intent was joking about the Eagles. My bottom line is ...Read more

DENVER — The Davis Webb play-calling experience, at least in its original form, lasted all of four games.

Head coach Sean Payton is set to be more heavily involved in offensive play-calling going forward, sources told The Denver Post on Thursday. It remains unclear whether Payton is assuming full play-calling duties or something short of that...Read more

Los Angeles Times NFL writer Sam Farmer examines the matchups and makes his predictions for Week 5 of the NFL season.

All lines and over/under numbers are according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

Last week, Farmer posted an 11-5 (.688) record. Through the first four weeks of the season, he is 37-27 (.578).

Using point spreads with the scores Farmer ...Read more

MIAMI — Zach Sieler played one of the best games of his nine-year NFL career on Sunday, delivering his seventh multi-sack game.

Chop Robinson finally flashed the talent and edge rushing that made him the Miami Dolphins’ 2024 first-round pick, producing 10 pressures and one sack in Miami’s 15-10 loss to the Minnesota Vikings.

“I was ...Read more

NEW YORK — Malik Nabers shouted at the Giants sideline during Sunday’s second half because he wanted the ball more. Now it’s not clear if he’s going to be able to play at all.

Nabers sat out Wednesday’s practice with soreness in his surgically repaired right knee and said it might sideline him for this week’s game at Washington.

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CHICAGO — As a backup with 14 NFL games under his belt, Chicago Bears quarterback Tyson Bagent has faced the Minnesota Vikings four times and the Detroit Lions once.

But he never had been called to duty against the Bears’ chief rival in the NFC North, the Green Bay Packers — until now.

And Sunday’s game is at Lambeau Field, which has ...Read more

Drake Maye is having a great week.

After a slow start to the season, the New England quarterback seemed to return to his almost-MVP form from a year ago (he finished second in voting to the Rams' Matthew Stafford) on Sunday during a 29-26 win over the previously unbeaten Buffalo Bills.

On Wednesday, Maye was announced as the AFC offensive ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Kyle Juszczyk’s customary “juice drinking” celebration, upon the NFL’s further review, is just fine, as in OK, as if it’s OJ.

Juszczyk, the 49ers’ perennial Pro Bowl fullback, won last week’s appeal of a $14,926 fine levied by the NFL for “illegal celebrations and vulgar acts,” ESPN’s Adam Schefter ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Desperate times call for desperate measures.

After seeing their offensive line — particularly at center — decimated by injuries, the Ravens acquired veteran Pro Bowl center Cam Jurgens from the Philadelphia Eagles on Wednesday afternoon, the team announced. Baltimore also received a 2027 seventh-round draft pick, while ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Before they head to New Orleans this weekend, the Vikings added another famous LSU wide receiver who could play with Justin Jefferson on Sunday.

The team is signing Odell Beckham Jr. to its practice squad in an attempt to add veteran depth to its wide receiver group.

Beckham reunites with Kevin O’Connell, who coached him on ...Read more

The Super Bowl is coming to Disney+.

The Walt Disney Co. announced Wednesday that ESPN's telecast of the NFL's marquee event on Feb. 14 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, will be available to Disney+ subscribers. The company also said Disney+ will carry two ESPN "Monday Night Football" games in the current season.

ESPN is producing the ...Read more

The San Francisco 49ers walked off the field Sunday with a 24-14 victory over Denver and a 4-0 record.

But behind that perfect start lurks a brutal, recurring, nearly tragic nightmare: The 49ers thought they solved their Seattle problem in the offseason. Now they’re beginning Week 5 staring directly into the exact same tactical ditch.

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HOUSTON — He put on his boots, and smiled so wide it could sprain his face to talk to two reporters, because Von Miller is just so happy to be here in this moment.

This is what it looks like to appreciate what you have before it’s gone.

“We came to H-Town and did what we needed to do,” the Cowboys linebacker said after Dallas rallied ...Read more

SEATTLE — “The Seahawks should have paid Kenneth Walker III.”

Given everything, that’s an easy take to make.

Given Walker’s sizzling start in Kansas City — where the 25-year-old leads the NFL in rushing yards (537), rushing yards per game (134.3) and yards per carry (6.2) for the 4-0 Chiefs. Given the chest injury and fumbled first...Read more

CHICAGO — An investigation is underway after former Chicago Bears linebacker Otis Wilson got into an altercation with security at Soldier Field following Sunday’s game against the New York Jets, according to authorities and media reports.

In a statement to the Chicago Tribune, Monterrey Security — which provides security at all stadium ...Read more