12:29 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will not have wide receiver Antonio Brown for Sunday’s NFC Championship Game at the Green Bay Packers, coach Bruce Arians announced Friday. “I just talked to him this morning, and to put him on the plane and fly up there and have it swell more
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1:11 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Patrick Mahomes was with the Kansas City Chiefs as they began Friday’s practice session, their last one before Sunday’s AFC Championship Game against the Buffalo Bills at Arrowhead Stadium. His participation on Friday would appear to put Mahomes on a path to play Sunday. Chiefs coach Andy Reid
6:00 AM ET Marv Levy’s plans are set. When the Buffalo Bills visit the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday (6:40 p.m. ET, CBS), he’ll be watching closely on television from his Chicago residence. “Oh yeah, I’m planning to do that. Definitely. I’ll pull for them and think of the fans,
9:38 AM ET The NFL will host about 22,000 fans at Super Bowl LV, according to a series of plans announced Friday morning. That total include free tickets for 7,500 vaccinated health care workers, along with 14,500 in paid attendance. Those numbers mean the league will fill Tampa’s Raymond James Stadium to roughly a third
9:36 AM ET PITTSBURGH — After four years with the Steelers, tight end Vance McDonald announced his retirement from the NFL through the team Friday morning. In his final season with the Steelers, McDonald had 15 catches for 99 yards. He missed two games after testing positive for COVID-19 and spent the time quarantined on
6:55 AM ET ESPN staff The conference championship games of the NFL playoffs have arrived, with both kicking off on Sunday. The fifth-seeded Tampa Bay Buccaneers will face the top-seed Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game, and then the No. 2-seeded Buffalo Bills will play the No. 1 Kansas City Chiefs in the
7:00 AM ET Rob Demovsky Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered Packers for Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1997-2013 Two-time Wisconsin Sportswriter of the Year as selected by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Jenna Laine Close ESPN Staff Writer Covered the Buccaneers since 2009 Joined ESPN in 2016 For years, the only hope for a Tom
7:41 PM ET The Washington Football Team is hiring Martin Mayhew as its new general manager, a source told ESPN on Thursday, adding another experienced voice to help coach Ron Rivera. Mayhew, who most recently was an executive in the Niners front office, interviewed with Rivera on Jan. 16 and had long been considered a
5:21 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings will soon begin searching for their sixth offensive coordinator since 2014. Gary Kubiak, who has been with the franchise since 2019 and spent last season as the Vikings’ offensive coordinator, announced his retirement from the NFL on Thursday after 36 seasons as a coach and player. “I’ve
5:05 PM ET Dean Pees is coming out of retirement to join Arthur Smith’s coaching staff with the Atlanta Falcons as the team’s defensive coordinator, the team announced Thursday. The Falcons also named Dave Ragone as offensive coordinator and Marquice Williams as special teams coordinator. Pees’ second retirement lasted just more than a year after