7:15 AM ET NFL NationESPN It is exactly two years to the day since the infamous defensive pass interference no-call in the Rams-Saints NFC Championship Game of the 2018 NFL season. It is one of the most recent massive officiating controversies, but it’s far from the only one. Rightly or wrongly, every NFL team’s fan
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6:00 AM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — How many times does a team trade away the player who is the face of its league and get away with it? Or at least, the draft pick that became the face of its league? In the Buffalo Bills‘ case, they might have pulled off the
10:59 PM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Titans wide receiver A.J. Brown had surgery on both of his knees on Tuesday, a league source confirmed to ESPN. Brown posted a video on social media after
8:49 PM ET Mike DiRocco JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars are expected to hire Trent Baalke as the team’s new general manager, a league source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The two sides have not yet finalized a deal, but that’s expected to happen by week’s end, the source said. The news was first reported
7:37 PM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — When it comes to the immediate future of Denver Broncos quarterback Drew Lock, newly hired general manager George Paton will be both judge and jury. Paton, who was formally introduced Tuesday in his new job, faces some big-ticket items on his immediate to-do list, with a decision on whether
6:44 PM ET New Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes said he believes quarterback Matthew Stafford is a “great player” who has a lot of the intangible traits he likes to see out of all of his players. Holmes, though, made no definitive declaration on the future of Stafford, who has two years left on
6:12 PM ET Arthur Smith said he will call his own plays as the new coach of the Atlanta Falcons. But Smith and new general manager Terry Fontenot both insisted that they will collaborate on deciding the makeup of the Falcons’ roster while both reporting to team president Rich McKay. Both Smith and Fontenot also
3:35 PM ET Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes remains in the NFL’s concussion protocol, and it’s too early to say that he definitely will play in Sunday’s AFC Championship Game against the Buffalo Bills, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Mahomes cleared certain steps Monday, “some big steps,” sources told Schefter, but the reigning Super
2:46 PM ET Sarah Thomas will next month become the first woman to officiate a Super Bowl, the NFL announced Tuesday. Thomas will serve as a down judge on referee Carl Cheffers’ crew at Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Florida. Thomas joined the NFL in 2015 as its first female on-field official. The league assembles
4:47 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — An MRI revealed no serious structural damage to the knee of Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown, a source told ESPN on Tuesday. He is considered “day to day” as the Bucs prepare to face the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game this week, Tom Brady’s