6:00 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Quick-hit thoughts/notes around the New England Patriots and NFL: 1. QB contrast: Sixteen years ago, coach Bill Belichick said something that highlights one of the more fascinating topics surrounding his current Patriots team. How can two quarterbacks with such contrasting styles of play — Cam Newton and Mac Jones
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7:50 PM ET Former NFL defensive end Brandon Bair saved a man from a flaming semi-truck minutes after it had been struck by a train, according to East Idaho News. Bair said he was driving on a highway in St. Anthony, Idaho, on Thursday when he saw a train plow into a semi-truck, triggering an
2:37 PM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – New York Jets rookie quarterback Zach Wilson appears to have a clear path to the starting job, but he doesn’t expect to be handed a freebie. “In this position, the coaches want to play the best player. That position has to be earned,” the second overall pick said
8:00 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The fascination started last October. New York Jets general manager Joe Douglas received word from one of his scouts that there was a college junior out west he needed to watch. The 2021 NFL draft was six months away, but this was his typical starting point for in-depth
8:00 AM ET The NFC East is up for grabs for the 2021 NFL season. That’s nothing unusual. After all, this is a division that hasn’t had a repeat winner since the Philadelphia Eagles in 2004. As if that’s not enough, none of the division’s storied franchises managed to finish with a winning record last
4:23 PM ET The Philadelphia Eagles have claimed former Detroit Lions running back Kerryon Johnson off waivers, the team announced Friday. The Lions waived Johnson on Thursday, officially cutting ties with their second-round pick out of Auburn in 2018. He became expendable after the team drafted D’Andre Swift No. 35 overall in 2020, signed free-agent
4:09 PM ET NFL teams will be permitted to resume hosting off-site training camps in 2021 after a one-year pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the league informed clubs in a memo Friday. The majority of training camps are expected to remain at team facilities and/or stadiums, as they were before the pandemic. But the
2:00 PM ET Brandon Beane got a call from the NFL league office this week, a league source said, about the Buffalo Bills general manager’s comments during a radio interview about whether he would hypothetically release an unvaccinated player if it meant the team reaching a league-imposed minimum percentage of vaccinated individuals. The message the
2:23 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Sam Darnold might or might not become a great quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, but he made it clear during an impromptu drawing session on Thursday that he shouldn’t quit his day job to become an artist. At least not a serious one. Darnold’s drawing of the team logo
6:00 AM ET LAKE FOREST, Ill. — It’s not an overstatement to call quarterback Justin Fields’ arrival in Chicago the city’s most celebrated sports moment since the Cubs won the World Series in 2016. The Bears — almost universally panned for their spotty Day 1 draft record over the past decade — administered a shot