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The 2024 season has featured more than a few examples of bad late-game clock management. The latest might have cost the Falcons a playoff berth. After Atlanta tied Sunday night’s game on a fourth-and-goal touchdown pass from quarterback Michael Penix, Jr. to tight end Kyle Pitts with 1:19 to play,

Michael Penix’s mistake turned into a Commanders lead. Penix, making his second career start, and wide receiver Chris Blair were not on the same page on third-and-9 from the Atlanta 47. Instead of hitting Blair for a first down, Penix threw the pass straight to defensive back Quan Martin, who

Travis KelceMark Alberti/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images 1. Kansas City Chiefs (15-1, clinched AFC West)2. Buffalo Bills (13-3, clinched AFC East)3. Baltimore Ravens (11-5, AFC North)4. Houston Texans (9-7, clinched AFC South) Next weekend, Baltimore only needs a win over a reeling Cleveland team to wrap up the AFC North.

The Commanders took the second half kickoff and went 69 yards in 15 plays to draw within 17-14 of the Falcons. Washington scored on Jayden Daniels’ 10-yard touchdown pass to tight end Zach Ertz on third-and-8. Ertz also had a 37-yard catch on the drive after receiver K.J. Osborn was

Playing twice per year for every year since 1961 — with the exception of the 1982 strike-shortened season, when they faced each other just once — the Vikings and Lions have met 126 times. Their 127th meeting will be the biggest one yet. The NFL has announced that, next Sunday

Fortunately for the NFL (and for the networks that broadcast NFL games), Week 18 will have a few consequential contests for the remaining playoffs berths and seeds. The biggest will happen in Detroit, where the 14-2 Vikings will face the 14-2, or 13-3, Lions for the division title and the

Week 17 stats: 13 att, 70 rush yds, 2 rec, 11 rec yds, 10.1 pts In addition to losing 13-9 with an end-zone interception sealing their fate, top Cardinals rusher James Conner departed the game with a knee injury—a week after he suffered one against the Carolina Panthers. While we

Jayden Daniels did it again, leading another comeback to get the Commanders into the postseason for the first time since 2020. The rookie quarterback directed a 12-play, 75-yard touchdown drive in overtime, delivering a 30-24 win. The Commanders moved to 11-5 and wrapped up a wild-card berth, while the Falcons

Rams head coach Sean McVay said after Saturday’s victory over the Cardinals that he didn’t want to get too invested in Sunday’s games — even though Los Angeles had a chance to clinch if certain teams won. But if you heard some cheers around Southern California after Jayden Daniels hit

Saturday will be for the AFC North in Week 18. The NFL has placed the two divisional matchups between the Browns and Ravens along with the Bengals and Steelers on Saturday for the last weekend of the season. The Browns and Ravens will lead things off on ESPN and ABC

The Commanders have their first lead since the first quarter. Washington, which trailed 17-7 at halftime, has dominated the second half and now has a 21-17 lead. The Falcons had three plays for minus-1 yard in the third quarter and the Commanders 25 plays for 145 yards. Chris Rodriguez’s 2-yard

Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels has the most rushing yards by a rookie quarterback in NFL history. Daniels broke the old mark of 815 set by former Commanders quarterback Robert Griffin III in 2012. Griffin played 15 games his rookie season. Daniels is playing his 16th. Daniels’ 7-yard run with 9:21

The Falcons dominated the first half, taking a 17-7 lead into the locker room at halftime. Atlanta outgained Washington 199 to 116 in the first half. Michael Penix, making only his second start, completed 10 of 19 passes for 98 yards and an interception. Bijan Robinson has 13 carries for

The Commanders were driving for the lead with a first down at the Atlanta 12 when center Tyler Biadasz was called for holding. On the next play, Jayden Daniels never saw linebacker Kaden Elliss, who had dropped in coverage. Elliss intercepted a pass intended for Jamison Crowder and returned it

The Commanders should lead 7-3. Instead, the game is tied 7-7. Washington had Atlanta stopped on third down twice on the Falcons’ second drive. Either stop would have resulted in a field goal. The first came on fourth-and-4 from the Washington 28 when Riley Patterson kicked a 46-yard field goal.

Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was not able to play in the Week 17 win over the Browns due to a hip injury and head coach Mike McDaniel does not know if Tagovailoa will be able to play in the regular-season finale. McDaniel told reporters after Sunday’s game in Cleveland that

The New York Giants fell out of the projected top spot with an unexpected win over the Indianapolis Colts that also knocked the AFC South side out of the postseason. New England, New York, the Tennessee Titans and Cleveland Browns all enter Week 18 at 3-13 and with chances to

Raiders cornerback Nate Hobbs missed last week’s game with an illness. He wasn’t on the practice report this week until Friday when he had a limited practice with an illness. It turned out Hobbs was diagnosed with pneumonia, and, according to Tashan Reed of TheAthletic.com, Hobbs was hospitalized Thursday. Hobbs

The 2024 season hasn’t been a terribly pleasant one for the Raiders, but they can take some solace in the fact that they nailed their first-round pick in April. Tight end Brock Bowers broke Rams wideout Puka Nacua’s year-old record for rookie receptions on Sunday and he also broke a

The Dolphins have increased their lead over the Browns early in the third quarter. Tyler Huntley rushed for a 13-yard touchdown to give Miami a 13-3 lead. The score capped a six-play, 72-yard drive that took 3:05 off the clock. Huntley is now 17-of-20 for 189 yards on the day

There hasn’t been much offense to speak of on the shores of Lake Erie on Sunday afternoon. But the Dolphins got a 39-yard field goal as time expired in the first half to go up 6-3 on the Browns. Quarterback Tyler Huntley — playing for an injured Tua Tagovialoa —

Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson’s Christmas performance led to days of discussion about whether he should supplant Bills quarterback Josh Allen as the MVP favorite and Allen got his chance to answer on Sunday. Allen ran for one touchdown and threw for two more as the Bills blasted the Jets 40-14

Tank who? The Giants were in a position for the No. 1 overall pick and hadn’t won a game at home all year. Drew Lock was starting at quarterback for a club that was averaging just 14.3 points per game. But none of that mattered on Sunday afternoon, as New

In a game that mattered only to the 2025 NFL draft order, the Titans won by losing. The Jaguars beat the Titans 20-13, which improves the Jaguars’ record to 4-12 and drops the Titans to 3-13. The Titans remain in contention for the first overall pick heading into Week 18.

It will take a collapse of epic proportions for the Bucs to go into Week 18 without a chance of winning the NFC South. Joe Tryon-Shoyinka blocked a punt by Panthers punter Johnny Hekker with just over five minutes to play in the third quarter and J.J. Russell scooped the

The Cowboys and Eagles both are playing backup quarterbacks today. The Eagles’ backup quarterback is outplaying the Cowboys’ backup quarterback. Kenny Pickett has thrown a touchdown, and his 1-yard touchdown run on the final play of the half has the Eagles leading the Cowboys 24-7 at halftime. Three Cowboys turnovers

Raiders rookie tight end Brock Bowers has just broken one of the NFL’s oldest records. On his third catch today in New Orleans, Bowers broke the record for most receiving yards for a rookie tight end in NFL history, which was set by Bears tight end Mike Ditka in 1961.

The Cowboys have tied things up in Philadelphia. Six minutes after Cooper Rush threw a pick-six to C.J. Gardner-Johnson, he threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Jalen Tolbert. The teams are tied 7-7. The Cowboys have 100 yards on two drives. The Eagles have yet to have an offensive possession.

Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins is set for free agency after the 2024 season and that was on his mind during Saturday’s game against the Broncos. The Bengals are on the road against the Steelers in Week 18, so this season’s home finale might have been Higgins’ last game playing

Every week we bring you all the inactives from the 1 p.m. ET games in one post, constantly updated with the latest information. The Bills’ bid to clinch the No. 2 seed in the AFC playoffs will unfold without safety Damar Hamlin. Hamlin is inactive for Sunday’s home game against

The Dolphins got some bad news about quarterback Tua Tagovailoa on Saturday and Sunday got underway with mixed news about their top two receivers. Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddle were both listed as questionable to play against the Browns in Cleveland on Sunday. Hill is dealing with a wrist injury

Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey’s game-clinching pick-six against the Steelers was capped by an uncalled taunting foul. And despite his best effort to explain that it wasn’t a taunt, the NFL didn’t buy it. Humphrey was fined $11,255 for taunting. “I want to make this, like, pretty clear,” Humphrey said after

There might or might not be a connection between giving Tom Brady a below-market deal for 10 percent of the franchise and the latest tale of dysfunction coming from the gang that couldn’t raid straight. Via Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review Journal, mechanical problems delayed the Raiders’ flight

During the fourth quarter of an ugly loss to the Chargers on Saturday, many of the few who remained for garbage time of a garbage game made their preferences known regarding the team’s first-year head coach. “Fire Mayo!” was the chant that emerged. “You hear those things,” coach Jerod Mayo

The Chiefs have a dilemma. They can try to knock the Broncos out of the playoffs next weekend with a win in Denver, or they can do what they typically do when the last game of the regular season means nothing to their playoff fortunes — rest the starting quarterback

AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post The Los Angeles Chargers cashed their ticket to the playoffs Saturday with a 40-7 dismantling of the New England Patriots in which completed 68.4 percent of his passes for 281 yards and three touchdowns. Their rivals, the Denver Broncos, could have earned their way into the

The MVP race may be down to Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, but Bengals coach Zac Taylor thinks Joe Burrow is the NFL’s best player. After Burrow led the Bengals to an overtime win over the Broncos on Saturday, Taylor was asked about Burrow in relation to Allen and Jackson

NFL draft prospects opting out of their bowl games to avoid injuries has become so commonplace in college football that it’s actually surprising when players like Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter don’t do it. But Miami quarterback Cam Ward did something on Saturday that takes opt-outs to another level.

Mariah May capped off a breakout year in 2024 by successfully retaining her AEW Women’s World Championship Saturday night over Thunder Rosa in a Tijuana Street Fight. To do so, The Glamour overcame a ferocious attack by her opponent, he sought revenge and her first reign with the gold since

With Saturday night’s victory over the Cardinals, the Rams are now on the verge of clinching the NFC West for the fourth time in Sean McVay’s eight years as head coach. It’s not unrealistic that it’ll happen over the next two days, as Los Angeles will clinch strength of victory

After starting the season 1-4, the Rams have won nine of their 11 games after their Week 6 bye to enter Week 18 10-6. With the club on the verge of clinching the NFC West either with some help or with a victory next weekend, quarterback Matthew Stafford said after

Down by 10 to start the second half, the Cardinals faced little resistance on their way down the field to scoring a touchdown. Trey McBride’s first receiving touchdown of the year got Arizona on the board. But a blocked extra point kept the score at 10-6 midway through the third

The Rams need a win on Saturday night to have a chance at clinching the NFC West with some help on Sunday. Though they struggled on offense for much of the first two quarters, they have a 10-0 lead over the Cardinals at halftime. Los Angeles punted on each of

Reinforcements in the Secondary The season-defining loss at Syracuse perfectly embodied—in a bad way—the struggles of Miami’s secondary. It’s no surprise, then, the ‘Canes have aggressively pursued defensive backs in the portal. They’ve brought in Michigan State corner Charles Brantley, Arizona corner Emmanuel Karnley and Jacksonville State safety Zechariah Poyser,

The Bengals’ 17-10 lead lasted all of 2:45. That’s how long Bo Nix needed to drive the Broncos to the tying score. His second touchdown throw of the day, a 51-yarder to Marvin Mims, has allowed the Broncos to tie the Bengals 17-17 with 8:48 left. Nix now is 15-of-18

The Bengals should have more points than they do after reaching the Denver 22, 2 and 2 on their three drives of the first half. They scored one touchdown, turning it over on downs on failed fourth downs on the first two possessions. Cincinnati leads Denver 7-3 at halftime. The

Last year, the Lions were 30 minutes from their first Super Bowl apperance. But their 17-point lead evaporated, and their best shot to win a championship in decades disappeared. Not surprisingly, as he prepares to take his team back to San Francisco, Lions coach Dan Campbell is still haunted by

The Titans downgraded running back Tony Pollard (ankle/illness) and safety Amani Hooker (shoulder) to out for Sunday’s game against the Jaguars, the team announced. Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that it’s the flu that will keep Pollard out. Pollard has 238 carries for a career-high 1,017 yards and six touchdowns

Patriots quarterback Drake Maye is back after briefly exiting today’s game for a concussion evaluation. Maye was hit hard in the head along the sideline and went to the locker room to get checked out. Jacoby Brissett replaced him, and the Patriots’ offense went three-and-out on Brissett’s lone drive. But

Patriots quarterback Drake Maye has exited today’s game against the Chargers with an apparent head injury. Maye scrambled, stepped out of bounds and took a helmet-to-helmet hit from Chargers defensive back Cam Hart, and exited the game after that. Hart could have been called for an illegal hit, but the