Three quarterback stories, one theme: how much risk does a team accept at the position it cannot replace.
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The NFL's Thursday file has no trades, no injury bombshells, no benchings — just two offensive cornerstones being asked to answer for the gap between the job description and the résumé.
Ben Johnson spent the week building a game plan he hopes he never has to use. The Bears could be forced to turn to their QB3 in Week 3, and Chicago's head coach is preparing for that possibility…
Wednesday's first injury report is the least honest document the NFL produces all week. It exists to protect coaches, not to inform anyone.
The first NFL game in Rio de Janeiro is Sunday, and the loudest conversation this week hasn't been about the Cowboys or the Ravens. It's been about the grass.
Aaron Jones finished the Vikings' win over the Bears on Sunday wearing a brace on his knee. He didn't practice Monday, and the team attributed the absence to a knee injury.
Packers Rule Out Left Guard Aaron Banks for Thursday Night in Atlanta Matt LaFleur called it a game-time decision Tuesday. Green Bay's injury report settled it anyway.
Case Keenum practiced Wednesday and said he feels "very prepared" for a potential start. That's a backup's answer when nobody has told him otherwise yet.
Late September is when the practice report stops being a formality and starts being a depth chart. Denver's backfield is the only item on today's league docket that changes a Sunday plan.
McVay Says Puka Nacua's Injury Isn't a Long-Term Concern. The Rams Are Still Being Careful. Puka Nacua does not have a hernia.
The viral clip is four seconds long. The internet built a locker-room crisis out of it anyway. Sunday, as medical personnel attended to Jayden Daniels on the sideline, a handful of Commanders walked…
Jaxson Dart's Knee Surgery Ends the Giants' Regular Season. The Playoff Loophole Isn't Real. Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart will undergo knee surgery and miss the rest of the regular season, per…
Travis Kelce Is Moving Like It's 2022 Again Travis Kelce spent an offseason getting married. He showed up to the season moving faster than he has in four years.
Three roster moves on one date, and three completely different sizes of problem. Detroit is tinkering. Carolina and Arizona are patching holes that could shape their seasons.
The most consequential item on Wednesday's league wire wasn't a signing. It was an appendectomy. Bills defensive lineman T.J. Sanders is out indefinitely after having his appendix removed.
Three NFL notes, three very different shelf lives: a starter to injured reserve, a quarterback coming back, and a weekly award. Only one of them will still matter in December.
Wednesday's NFL news came from a courtroom, a training room, and a podium in Cleveland, with one waiver-wire note tacked on the end.
Six storylines from around the league, and only one of them is about a player getting better. Devin Lloyd won NFC defensive player of the week after a big Week 2 against the Falcons.
The most interesting thing on Wednesday's wire wasn't David Njoku landing on injured reserve. It was the long snappers.
The Dallas Cowboys released their Wednesday injury report to open Week 3, and Yahoo Sports summed it up in a word: hamstrung. Both teams. That's the news.
The NFL's Wednesday was a lesson in the difference between a replacement and a solution. Two teams lost the player they'd built around. Neither found a better one. They found a delay.
Four stories, one mood: somebody is going to have to be patient. The Colts have no choice about it. Two young offensive players get to decide what they do with it.
Two tight ends to injured reserve in the same week isn't a depth problem. It's an identity problem, and the Chargers just found out what the position costs.
Dre'Mont Jones, Woodson and Hutchins limited, Pettus to IR — and New England's edge room is already one name deep.
Jets WR Arian Smith Out for Season After Surgery Arian Smith's season is over. The New York Jets wide receiver underwent season-ending surgery, head coach Aaron Glenn said Wednesday at the team's…
Two weeks is enough to manufacture 32 trend lines and not nearly enough to trust most of them. That's the state of the league heading into Week 3, and today's smaller stories all circle one question:…
T.J. Houshmandzadeh did not hedge. The former Pro Bowl wide receiver told Pro Football Network that Marvin Harrison Jr.
Ben Johnson called Caleb Williams' right hamstring a "week-to-week" situation and offered a largely positive update a day after his quarterback was helped off the field and carted to the locker room…
One story on the docket today, and it isn't a highlight. It's a press-conference answer out of Baltimore, and it's more revealing than anything that happened on the field.
Every receiver tandem says this in September. CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens are saying it now: no egos, per ESPN's reporting on the Dallas pairing. The interesting part isn't the quote.
Brandin Cooks is coming to the Bay. That's the lede out of Yahoo Sports' Golden Nuggets roundup for Wednesday, September 23, and it's a reported item, not a team announcement.
Eli Manning says he's a "little nervous" that Pat McAfee is going to steal his spot at ESPN. He said it as a joke, and it's a funny one, mostly because the guy telling it has the safest job in the…
Russell Wilson Says the Steelers' Offense 'Looks Stale.' His Fix Runs Through DK Metcalf. Russell Wilson watched Pittsburgh's first two weeks and didn't soften the review.
Week 2 is in the books, and the league has already been sorted into a tidy one through thirty-two. ESPN posted its post-Week 2 power rankings, all 32 teams stacked ahead of Week 3, and paired the…
The Raiders are getting Brock Bowers back. The real question is how much of him. Bowers is expected to make his season debut Sunday, per Yahoo Sports. The Raiders tight end hasn't played since Dec.
A.J. Terrell landed on injured reserve, and that single line outweighs every other entry on Atlanta's injury report ahead of this week's trip to Green Bay. The Falcons are getting healthier.
Jerry Jones Pushes Back on NFL Europe Expansion as Goodell Keeps Saying 'No Doubt' Jerry Jones pushed back on the idea of an NFL expansion team in Europe, which puts the Cowboys owner at odds with…
Steelers' Rico Dowdle Is Day-to-Day With a Toe Injury, and Pittsburgh's Backfield Is Thinner Than It Looks Rico Dowdle's afternoon ended in the first half, then briefly un-ended, then ended again.
Adam Vinatieri Adds a Guinness Record, Not the NFL's Longest-Field-Goal Mark Adam Vinatieri holds a Guinness World Record. He does not hold the NFL's record for the longest field goal.
Six pressures is not a rookie number. That's the read out of Cincinnati's film room on Cashius Howell after Sunday's game against Houston, where the rookie edge rusher was credited with six…