With the NFL’s annual ‘free agent frenzy’ well underway, it is easy to have missed crucial deals involving your favourite team and/or players. The following tables, the first based on PFF‘s Top 50 free agents as featured in Issue #85 of Gridiron magazine, should hopefully fill in the gaps in what happened over the opening days of the ‘legal tampering’ …
A total of 35 compensatory draft selections in the 2025 NFL Draft, to be held over April 24-26th in Green Bay, have been awarded to 15 teams, the NFL has announced. Under the rules for compensatory draft selections, a team losing more or better compensatory free agents (CFA) than it acquires in the previous year is eligible to receive compensatory …
The 2025 NFL salary cap has been set (at a cool $279.2m) giving teams a little extra headroom to ply with when it comes to re-signing key components of their roster and adding new faces that they hope will be the key to winning a Super Bowl. With the big game now in the rear view, and the NFL Scouting …
The season-long debate over who had done enough to earn recognition as the NFL’s Most Valuable Player was finally answered on a glitzy night in New Orleans, as Buffalo’s Josh Allen landed his first title by edging the man many expected to win, Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson, into second place by just four first place votes, 27-23, and by 383 total …
We have our Super Bowl matchup. In two weeks time, the Philadelphia Eagles will take on the Kansas City Chiefs in a rematch of Super Bowl LVII. Hardly a matchup for the neutral, it seems many analysts, pundits and prognosticators lost their perspective when predicting (wishing) for a Commanders-Bills Super Bowl. The Eagles proved their dominant run game was too …
The NFL and The Associated Press have announced the finalists for their annual awards, with winners to be revealed at the NFL Honours ceremony in New Orleans ahead of Super Bowl LIX. This year’s awards, are to be hosted by Snoop Dogg, will also feature the presenttion of the prestigious Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year accolade along with …
And so, here we are. The penultimate weekend of NFL action hasn’t so much as crept up on us as arrived like a full-on Myles Garrett pass rush. Two games to decide this year’s Super Bowl combatants. Repeat or reprise? Too close to call? *** NFC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP Washington Commanders (12-5) @ Philadelphia Eagles (14-3) The NFC Championship game will …
The best weekend of the NFL season promised a quarterback matchup for the ages, a pitched battle in inclement weather, a potential shootout in the Motor City and the chance for a young quarterback to upstage the league’s reigning champ. While some of those expectations were met, others fell a little flat. In Detroit, Jayden Daniels took the football intelligentsia’s …
While there was just one Wild Card game that went the distance with its result in the balance — thank you Commanders and Buccaneers — the outcomes of the opening round of the NFL playoffs have combined to produce some intriguing matchups amongst the final eight teams. Detroit and Kansas City enter the postseason fray this weekend, but neither will …
The opening week of the 2024-25 NFL playoffs did not provide the close battles many were anticipating, with just one outcome in the balance as the final seconds played out. In the end, four of the expected winners — based on home advantage — came out victorious, while another played up to their superior regular season numbers to down a …
Welcome to Gridiron’s final power ranking of the 2024 NFL regular season, featuring — for the first time — all 32 teams. Who comes out on top after 18 weeks of competition? Is the worst team in the league the one that will be picking first in April’s Draft? And how are the 14 playoff teams stacking up? GRIDIRON POWER …
For all the action that takes place over the first 18 weeks of a new NFL campaign, nothing hits quite as hard as playoff football, where everything is on the line every weekend. There can be no quit from here on in, with elimination from the Super Bowl race potentially around the corner for each and every team. Six games …
Welcome to Gridiron’s Week 18 power ranking as the 2024 NFL regular season heads into its final throes. Who earns the accolade of being top dog through the long slog since September, and who is positioning themselves nicely to mount an assault through the playoffs? GRIDIRON POWER RANKINGS: WEEK 18 1. Buffalo Bills (13-3) = With the likely MVP …
Welcome to Gridiron’s Week 16 power ranking where the (pre-Turkey) pecking order continues to contain more surprises than Santa’s sack. GRIDIRON POWER RANKINGS: WEEK 16 1. Buffalo Bills (11-3) +1 With victories over the Chiefs and Lions on their resumé, the Bills look every inch the best team in the NFL with Josh Allen continuing to amaze on a …
Week 15 of the NFL season promised season-defining matchups and potential Super Bowl previews. In Pennsylvania, the 10-3 Pittsburgh Steelers would take on their inter-state rivals, the 11-2 Philadelphia Eagles. In Detroit, the unstoppable Lions would put their league best 12-1 record to the test against the league’s presumptive MVP, Josh Allen, and his spirited Buffalo Bills (10-3) squad. With …
Welcome to Gridiron’s Week 15 power ranking where the major players continue to jostle for top spot in the countdown to Christmas. GRIDIRON POWER RANKINGS: WEEK 15 1. Detroit Lions (12-1) +1 A couple of 50-50 calls may have gone in the Lions’ direction in their thrilling win over the Packers last Thursday, but with a relentless offense and …
Bye weeks are a thing of the past as all 32 NFL teams knuckle down for the final four games of their 2024 campaign. For many, the season is lost and all that matters now is pride (or possibly draft position, depending on the mindset) but, for the rest, the playoffs remain on the horizon, with all important seedings and, …
The NFL world widely expected the game of the week to be over long before Sunday’s slate got under way, with nothing on the weekend to match up. The NFL world was wrong. For all the thrills and tension that Thursday night’s Lions-Packers encounter engendered, there was at least one better spectacle at the weekend, and several others that at …
The NFL has announced the 32 nominees for this year’s Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award presented by Nationwide, reflecting the off-the-field endeavours of those better known for their performances between the lines. The Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award has become the league’s most revered honour, recognising players who excel on the field and demonstrate …
Welcome to Gridiron’s Week 14 power ranking where the run-in to the end of the regular season starts with changes throughout a volatile top ten. GRIDIRON POWER RANKINGS: WEEK 14 1. Buffalo Bills (10-2) +1 Returning from their bye week and putting up another 30-point effort to squash San Fran in the snow looked good, both on TV and in …
Bill Parcells used to say the NFL season doesn’t start until Thanksgiving. With snow on the ground, MVP cases being made and playoff seeding starting to take shape, it does feel like we’ve entered the regular season’s end game. Week 13 of the NFL season saw heroics from a superstar quarterback, the battle of the two best running backs in …
Welcome to Gridiron’s Week 13 power ranking as the season moves into the Thanksgiving weekend with one of its holiday stalwarts in top spot. GRIDIRON POWER RANKINGS: WEEK 13 1 Detroit Lions (10-1) = Another comfortable win over mediocre opposition suggests that the Lions have another gear to hit if needed, even if this week’s Thanksgiving match up with Chicago …
Thirty-two players have been nominated for the eleventh annual Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award, the winner of which will be determined in the build-up to this year’s NFL Pro Bowl. Created in 2014, the award honours the late Art Rooney Sr., founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers and now resident in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Each NFL team nominates a …
Welcome to Gridiron’s Week 12 power ranking, where we have one big mover and a re-entry as the race to make the playoffs heats up. GRIDIRON POWER RANKINGS: WEEK 12 1 Detroit Lions (9-1) = Beating the worst team in the league is hardly eye-opening, but beating up on them, to the tune of 48 points and 475 yards, …
