12:00 AM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Two months ago, Damien Williams was an afterthought for the Kansas City Chiefs, a third-string running back who got the ball six times in the season’s first 11 games. He’s as surprised as anyone at the quick turn of fortune that will make him Kansas City’s featured back
NFL
7:30 AM ET Two rounds of the 2018 NFL playoffs are in the books, and only four teams remain. Now we’re previewing Sunday’s conference championship game slate with a rundown for both matchups from Dan Graziano, score predictions and injury updates from our NFL Nation reporters, and Football Power Index projections from ESPN Stats &
12:00 AM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — For the better part of the past decade, the backup quarterback position was an afterthought for the Baltimore Ravens. Joe Flacco won plenty of games and rarely missed any. Now, with the Ravens moving forward with Lamar Jackson, Baltimore needs to make sure it finds the right fit.
12:00 AM ET Nick Foles is hitting the open market at just the right time. He showed that his 2017 run was no fluke by saving the Philadelphia Eagles‘ season when called into action again in 2018. Foles led the league in completion percentage and yards during a three-game win streak to close the regular
7:00 AM ET Tisha Thompson IT’S SNOWY AND 14 degrees below zero the day before Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis. A man in a silver puffer jacket and a diamond-encrusted watch scurries into the NFL headquarters hotel and greets Drew Rosenhaus, one of football’s most powerful agents. “Things going smooth?” he asks. “Very good,” Rosenhaus
8:00 AM ET WHEN CORTRELLE JAVON Anderson begins to run, when he has his short and fat (his words, not mine) body headed toward the line of scrimmage, you’d be forgiven if you were momentarily alarmed by the idea that he intends to disappear. His shoulders hunch, his torso appears to retract, and his Doric
7:22 AM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On one of the good days between treatments, Alyssa Crane made the 45-minute drive from her apartment in Parkville, Missouri, to the Kansas City Chiefs‘ training camp in the summer of 2015. She had just been diagnosed with cancer a few months earlier, was 24 years old, and
9:18 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The perception when Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton came into the NFL as the top pick of the 2011 draft was that then-owner Jerry Richardson wouldn’t allow him to get a tattoo. Newton disputed that when it was revealed world-renowned tattoo artist Keith “Bang Bang” McCurdy gave the 2015
7:46 PM ET COSTA MESA, Calif. — Following one of his best seasons as a pro, which included reaching the AFC divisional round for the first time since the 2013 season, Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers said he wants to play for at least a handful of more years. Entering the final year of
6:25 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Robert Kraft reflected Thursday on the upcoming 25th anniversary of purchasing the New England Patriots and the role quarterback Tom Brady has played in the franchise’s success. “Definitely the greatest player of all time — not just quarterback in my opinion,” Kraft said in an interview with ESPN. “Because