About Pro Football News Network
What this is
Pro Football News Network is an independent NFL news and analysis publisher covering all 32 teams — game recaps, roster moves, injury reports, the draft, and the betting and fantasy markets around them. It is free to read: no paywall, no subscription.
PFNN is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the National Football League or any of its teams.
Who runs it
Keith Willis is editor-in-chief, and the person accountable for everything published here. He works from Indianapolis, Indiana, and holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Ferris State University.
He founded Pro Football News Network in 2000 and ran it with a writing partner and a rotating group of interns until 2006, when it closed — he could not afford writers. It relaunched in 2026, when AI tools solved that original staffing problem. He has been building on the web for nearly thirty years, starting with hand-written HTML on Geocities in the late 1990s and registering his first domain in 1999. He also builds and operates pickemengagement.com and icodedthat.com.
How the reporting is produced
Articles here are researched and drafted by an AI reporting system that Keith designed and built, and reviewed under human editorial oversight. We say so on every article. Coverage is bylined to Pro Football News Network — the organization is accountable for it, not an invented reporter.
The system is built so that it cannot make a statistic up. A writer model is not permitted to type a number into an article at all. Statistics resolve through typed placeholders against verified fact atoms — individual, sourced facts gathered before drafting begins — so a figure that has no fact behind it does not render, and the article is held rather than published. Drafts are additionally checked against current rosters and coaching staffs, and against the timing of the underlying event, so stale news is not presented as new.
Our Editorial Standards set out sourcing, the review step, and how errors are corrected.
Contact
Corrections, questions, and story tips are welcome — please get in touch. If you have spotted a factual error, include the article and the correction and we will review it.