Gridiron Magazine: Issue XXIII

NFL football is back.

Of all the sentences you can type, that might be the sweetest. For they say good things come to those who wait and, as a football fan, you spend half of your life doing just that… waiting.

By the time the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers do battle on September 9, it will have been nearly seven months since Graham Gano kicked off Super Bowl 50 between the same opponents. In that period, we’ve endured the latest instalment of the saga of 2016 (and ’15), one of the more remarkable free-agency periods in league history, another enthralling draft and the usual array of knuckleheaded suspensions.

Thankfully, whether you’ve spent the intervening months in a dark room pining for football’s return while refreshing Twitter or actually living life, Gridiron has you covered with another stunning issue to kick off our season run. To cover all angles, we’ve chosen ‘16 for 16′, covering the stories we’ll be watching with interest over the next few months.

There’s lots of amazing exclusive content in that section, including insights from the men who’ve been instrumental in Jimmy Garoppolo’s rise to interviews with Los Angeles Rams – man, does this feel weird to write – stars Aaron Donald, Michael Brockers and Todd Gurley. We’ve also spoken to a host of other NFL stars, including several from the Oakland Raiders, to run alongside the usual comment from the UK’s leading NFL voices, Neil Reynolds, Mike Carlson and Jeff Reinebold.

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