Month: May 2025

The Steelers answered one of the two big questions looming over the team on Wednesday when they learned their schedule for the 2025 season. It begins with an immediate reference to the other big question as the Steelers will be in New Jersey to face the Jets in Week One.

The 17th weekend of the 2025 season starts with a trio of Christmas games. It continues with a Saturday tripleheader, capped by an exclusive prime-time game on Peacock. The three games for the Saturday slate will come from a group of five games. The five games earmarked for the Saturday

When the Lions and Rams swapped quarterbacks Matthew Stafford and Jared Goff in 2021, few could have imagined how well it would work out for both teams: Stafford has won a Super Bowl with the Rams, while the Lions have become one of the best teams in the NFL with

NFL fans won’t have to wait long to see the Super Bowl LIX rematch. The Eagles-Chiefs game has been put on the Week Two schedule, for a 4:25 p.m. ET kickoff on Sunday, September 14, on Fox. The game will be played in Kansas City, where the home fans will

The last two NFL MVPs will square off on the first Sunday night of the 2025 season. 2023 MVP Lamar Jackson and the Ravens will pay a visit to Buffalo to take on 2024 MVP Josh Allen and the Bills. That game and the other 17 Sunday night matchups will

Last year, Aaron Rodgers and the Jets had a slew of early-season standalone games, including a pair of Sunday-Thursday short weeks. This year, Aaron Rodgers (maybe) and the Steelers enter the schedule with only four prime-time games. The Steelers will visit the Bengals on Thursday night in Week 7, before

Thursday Night Football will begin its fourth season on Prime Video with a matchup between the Commanders and Packers in Week 2. Both teams reached the postseason in 2024 and feature exciting young quarterbacks in Washington’s Jayden Daniels and Green Bay’s Jordan Love. The Dolphins, Bills, Seahawks, Rams, and Broncos

The NFL revealed one of the three Thanksgiving games during their pre-schedule release leaks this week and the other two became official on Wednesday evening. The Lions will host the Packers in the first game of the annual tripleheader and the Bengals will be in Baltimore to face the Ravens

At a time when the football-following world is digesting the 2025 schedule, the Vikings pulled the spotlight away from their slate of games. The Vikings have signed rookie first-rounder Donovan Jackson to his rookie deal, via NFL Media. Jackson, the 24th overall pick, will likely step right in as a

Get ready to watch plenty of the Commanders in 2025. After quarterback Jayden Daniels’ sensational rookie season that culminated in a deep postseason run, Washington is scheduled for a whopping eight standalone games in the coming season. While the Commanders will start the season with a 1 p.m. Sunday home

The Chiefs and Cowboys are ratings draws. That’s why they play on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day this season. It also is why they both have so many standalone games. The Chiefs will play eight standalone games, including seven primetime games. Five of their primetime games come in the first

The 2025 season will mark the Bills’ final year at the current Highmark Stadium before they move across the street to their new home field next year. Buffalo will begin and end the commemorative season at home, beginning with the 2024 postseason rematch against the Ravens. While there is almost

After the Dolphins lost at Green Bay on a cold Thanksgiving night, Miami linebacker Jordyn Brooks said the elements made them “soft.” Brooks’s comments served only to harden the narrative that the Dolphins don’t do well when weather is a factor. This year, the Dolphins will likely have three opportunities

With the NFL’s full 2025 schedule release on Wednesday, we now know where this year’s No. 1 overall pick will begin his pro career. Quarterback Cam Ward and the Titans will play the Broncos on the road in Week 1 with a 4:05 p.m. ET start time on FOX. Ward’s

It was inevitable. As the various social-media teams of the various NFL franchises try to one-up each other with funny and entertaining schedule release videos, one of them was bound to post something that gave someone within the organization cold feet and/or a nervous stomach. That apparently happened with the

A flurry of reports from last week resulted in two clear tidbits: (1) a presidential college sports commission is coming; and (2) former Alabama (and Michigan State and LSU and Miami Dolphins) coach Nick Saban will likely serve as a co-chair. Saban addressed the subject for the first time on

The Cowboys have played back-to-back Thursday games several times in team history, following their Thanksgiving Day game with Thursday Night Football the following week. They do that again this season and also have two other Thursday games, becoming the first team in NFL history with four Thursday games in a

ESPN has five doubleheaders on its 2025 slate. The NFL released the schedule on Wednesday night, and the Monday Night Football schedule features several teams who each have two appearances. Here is the entire Monday Night Football schedule: Sept. 8 Vikings at Bears, 8:15 p.m. ET Sept. 15 Bucs at

What was reported about the Chargers’ Week 1 opponent is now official. Just before the full schedule was slated to be released on Wednesday night, the league announced Kansas City will be in São Paulo, Brazil on Sept. 5 to take on Los Angeles in the season opener for both

For years, the NFL had a handful of broadcast partners that exclusively televised all games. A new trend has begun, and it likely will continue. And expand. It’s the exclusive “one-off” arrangement, with a game being taken away from a traditional partner (usually, CBS or Fox) and dropped into a

The full NFL schedule for Christmas Day has been released. The NFL and Netflix announced that the Cowboys will visit the Commanders at 1 p.m. ET and that the Lions will be in Minnesota at 4:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, December 25. The league announced that that the Broncos will

Before the Packers took Matthew Golden and Savion Williams in the NFL draft last month, running back Josh Jacobs was outspoken about the team’s need for a No. 1 receiver. None of that sat well with Jayden Reed, who led the team in receptions and receiving yards in each of

Last year, the Lions and the rest of the NFC North had an easy schedule, thanks to a rotation that had them playing the four teams of the NFC West and the four teams of the AFC South. This year, the rotation takes them to the AFC North and NFC

The Jaguars are signing free agent tight end Quintin Morris to a one-year deal, Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports reports. Morris, 26, spent the past four seasons with the Bills. In 2024, he played 16 games with three starts, used mostly as a blocker on his 214 offensive snaps. Morris

The Titans have a new linebacker on their 90-man roster. They announced that they executed a waiver claim on linebacker Anfernee Orji on Wednesday. Orji was waived by the Saints on Tuesday. It’s a return to Nashville for Orji, who played at Vanderbilt in college. He signed with the Saints

The Patriots announced the signing of running back Trayveon Williams on Wednesday afternoon. Williams spent the last six seasons with the Bengals after being drafted by Cincinnati in the sixth round in 2019. He played in 68 regular season games and ran 62 times for 307 yards in those appearances.

The Packers are set to make another addition to their wide receiving group. Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports that they will sign Jadon Janke. There’s no word of any corresponding moves. Janke caught 170 passes for 2,800 yards and 30 touchdowns in 67 games at South Dakota State before going