5:28 PM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — In 2017, Sam Darnold was the college player who intrigued the New York Jets‘ quarterback-starved fan base. Now Darnold is experiencing that phenomenon from the other side. As the only winless team, the Jets could be in position to select Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence with the No. 1
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3:39 PM ET The NFL announced Thursday that Sunday’s Buccaneers–Raiders game, originally scheduled for 8:20 p.m. on NBC, now will start at 4:05 p.m. on Fox. The league said it made the move “out of an abundance of caution to ensure that a game would be available for fans on Sunday Night Football.” The Seahawks–Cardinals
3:51 PM ET EAGAN, Minn. — The Vikings will forge through the remainder of the season without their top two pass rushers, one of whom has not and will not see the field in 2020. Hours after Minnesota traded Yannick Ngakoue to the Baltimore Ravens, recouping much of the draft capital they sent to Jacksonville
3:29 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Trading for pass-rusher Yannick Ngakoue transforms a stout Baltimore Ravens defense into one of the NFL’s scariest. No one would’ve criticized Baltimore for standing pat on defense before the trade deadline this year. The Ravens rank among the stingiest and most pressure-inducing defenses in the league, allowing the
12:28 PM ET The Baltimore Ravens are planning to bring in wide receiver Dez Bryant for evaluation, and if they think he’s a fit they would sign him to their practice squad, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Ed Werder on Thursday. The move to the practice squad would give Bryant a chance to get in game
1:30 PM ET New York Giants wide receiver Sterling Shepard has been activated from injured reserve and is expected to play Thursday night against the Eagles. Shepard has been sidelined since suffering a toe injury in Week 2. Shepard, 27, has battled injuries each of the past two seasons, missing 10 of the Giants’ 22
10:58 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The Baltimore Ravens have traded for Minnesota Vikings pass-rusher Yannick Ngakoue, aggressively adding a critical component to the NFL’s stingiest defense. The Ravens will send a 2021 third-round pick and a 2022 conditional fifth-round pick to the Vikings for Ngakoue, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Ngakoue will fly
10:48 AM ET The Philadelphia Eagles have put star tight end Zach Ertz on injured reserve because of an ankle injury. ESPN’s Chris Mortensen reported earlier this week that Ertz, who suffered the injury in Sunday’s loss to the Baltimore Ravens, was expected to miss three to four weeks. Ertz will miss at least three
6:00 AM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants are looking to do something Thursday they haven’t done often in recent years — beat the division-rival Philadelphia Eagles (8:20 p.m. ET, Fox). The Eagles (1-4-1) have won seven straight in the series. Injured Eagles tight end Zach Ertz and several teammates’ houses might
6:45 AM ET If an NFL team is out of the playoff picture in Week 7, it’s probably not going to make its way back in by January. Last year, 10 of the 12 teams that were in playoff positions as we entered Week 7 made it into the postseason. The only exceptions were the