12:21 PM ET CINCINNATI — Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton said the timing of the team’s decision to bench him hours before the trade deadline was an “unfortunate thing.” In his first comments since the Bengals announced the nine-year veteran was going to be replaced as the team’s starter, Dalton said the news delivered just before
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11:17 AM ET Former New York Giants safety Kamrin Moore was cleared of domestic violence charges when a Union County, New Jersey grand jury declined to indict. Moore, 23, has moved for reinstatement to the NFL. He was placed on the suspended list after charges were filed early in the summer. The Giants released Moore
9:25 AM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The NFL trade deadline Tuesday was like a “Seinfeld” episode for the New York Jets: Nothing happened, but it was wildly entertaining. After a day that produced no trades but plenty of speculation, hurt feelings and damage control, the Jets find themselves in a mess. They couldn’t even
6:00 AM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs are one of 20 NFL franchises to win a Super Bowl, their lone victory in the NFL championship game coming 50 years ago in Super Bowl IV. But few, if any, Super Bowl-winning team had the moment captured quite the way the Chiefs did.
7:15 AM ET The Arena League has shut down all local team business operations and team services for all six of its teams, potentially signifying the end of one of the longest-running indoor football operations in the United States due to financial difficulties. In a statement released by the league Tuesday, the league office said
7:20 AM ET After eight weeks of the 2019 season, the NFL’s top rookies are a collection of those with massive expectations, some slight surprises and more than a little nod toward defense. We asked six ESPN writers and analysts to once again rank the top 10 rookies to this point. We tabulated the results,
5:56 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Defensive coordinators spend sleepless nights trying to figure out how to stop Lamar Jackson, whether it’s sending a blitz, putting a spy on him or devising some unique wrinkle to take down the slippery Baltimore Ravens quarterback. It’ll work to perfection, where defenders have Jackson in their sights
7:58 PM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The New York Jets didn’t make any deadline trades Tuesday, but they have a mess to clean up — a potential rift between star safety Jamal Adams and first-year general manager Joe Douglas. Adams attacked Douglas on Twitter late Tuesday, saying he told Douglas last week that he
6:36 PM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The New York Jets‘ disappointing season has taken another weird turn, this time involving an off-the-cuff comment by CEO Christopher Johnson that blew up into embarrassing headlines. Before Sunday’s loss in Jacksonville, Johnson spoke to a small group of Jets fans in the crowd. One of them said
6:09 PM ET ALAMEDA, Calif. — Looking for reinforcements at an extremely thin linebacker position, the Oakland Raiders looked to their recent past and signed Brandon Marshall on Tuesday. Marshall, an offseason signing coming off a season-ending knee injury with the Denver Broncos, was perhaps the Raiders’ most surprising cut at the end of training