In stark contrast to his comments of just a week ago, Micah Parsons has requested a trade away from the Dallas Cowboys following a breakdown in contract talks. The elite pass rusher arrived at training camp last week insisting that he wanted to remain in Dallas and intoning that he was looking forward to getting a chance to recommence talks …
Dallas Cowboys talisman Micah Parsons has reiterated that he has no desire to the leave the only NFL team he has known — but admits that the situation might be out of his hands. The pass rusher is, along with Cincinnati’s Trey Hendrickson, the next amongst his peers in line for a contract extension, but the Cowboys front office appears …
HBO and NFL Films have confirmed that there will again be two editions of their groundbreaking Hard Knocks series during the 2025 NFL season, with both the now-familiar training camp and in-season versions airing. Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Buffalo Bills marks the first time the iconic franchise has been selected to take part in the 19-time Sports Emmy-winning …
The NFL has announced its full 18-week, 272-game, regular season schedule for the coming season via the now-familiar television marathon, despite several ‘highlight’ games and the six-sevenths of the International Series having already been revealed. The new season kicks off on Thursday 4th September in Philadelphia and concludes with a full slate of 16 divisional games in Week 18, with …
The mention of the Dallas Cowboys playing in primetime often results in eye-rolling amongst fans of the other 31 NFL team, but the spotlight isn’t getting any kinder for Big D as their tough opening night fixture against divisional rival Philadelphia has been joined by an equally difficult showdown on Thanksgiving Day as the Kansas City Chiefs come to town. …
The NFL has served up a doozy of a first game for the 2025 season, with NFC East rivals Dallas and Philadelphia squaring off in the City of Brotherly Love. As Super Bowl winners last season, the Eagles were already known to be the hosts of the Opening Night encounter but, as the first domino to fall in this week’s …
George Pickens is a Dallas Cowboy and already insists that great things could be on the horizon for the moribund franchise as he teams up with fellow wide receiver CeeDee Lamb. The pair have history having worked out together in offseasons past, and Pickens — who arrived from Pittsburgh post-Draft after the Cowboys failed to land a receiver with any …
Day one of the 2025 NFL Draft is in the books, and we now know the destination of the first 32 rookies coming into the league. Here’s a breakdown of the picks, sorted by moves we expected, the outcomes of trades, and the few selections that, even at this early stage, have us scratching our heads. PAR FOR THE COURSE …
Having actually shown some life in the early part of the annual free agent frenzy, the Dallas Cowboys head into the 2025 NFL Draft weekend with numerous options to consider as they look to rebuild a competitive roster. Having seen Rico Dowdle leave for Carolina, Brandin Cooks for New Orleans and Jourdan Lewis for Jacksonville, there are obvious holes for …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Ah, Thanksgiving. The time to stuff your face with turkey, spend time with family, and then spend frivolously on useless merchandise for the next couple of days. The most American of holidays means little to us on this side of the pond. For NFL fans, it’s a chance to enjoy some midweek football. I’m thankful for that. For that reason, …
The annual Thanksgiving weekend is a big event for the National Football League, but even the schedule planners would be surprised at a Week 13 lineup featuring only three games between teams with winning records. The standout matchup amid such a dearth of highlights is clearly that between the 8-4 Baltimore Ravens and 9-2 Philadelphia Eagles at M&T Bank Stadium. …
Contrary to popular belief, playing football on Thanksgiving Day is not an NFL invention. The league may be credited with bringing a lot of innovations to the sport, but the origin of games being played as part of festivities celebrating a successful harvest predate the formation of the National Football League by nearly 50 years, when the college teams from …
Week 12 of the NFL season should have come with a health warning. Blocked punts, missed extra points, botched holds, onside kicks returned for touchdowns, muffed kickoffs recovered and housed, overtime and game-winning field goals. Not suitable for the faint of heart. The beady-eyed among you will note most of those pulse-raising plays happened in one game. In fact, in …
The National Football League will continue to honour the late John Madden at next Thursday’s Thanksgiving games with commemorations of the former player, coach and commentator liberally sprinkled throughout. Madden once said that, ‘There’s no place that I would rather be on Thanksgiving than right here, right now, at a football game,’ and the now-annual John Madden Thanksgiving Celebration aims …
Week 10 was one of the worst weeks of the 2024 season in terms of offensive output. Teams averaged 1.86 points per drive and threw interceptions at a 2.9% rate, both “good” for the second-worst weeks of the season. But while Week 11 can’t guarantee more explosive play on offense, it promises to be a fascinating week with several key …
In a league season characterised by close games, it’s only inevitable that kickers would take centre stage more and more frequently. There have been 82 games decided by seven-or-fewer points and 72 games decided by six-or-fewer points this season, both the most such games through Week 10 in NFL history. That said, rarely would you see so many games decided …
With nine of 18 weeks — and 138 of 272 games completed — the 2024 NFL regular season has edged past its halfway point with the Kansas City Chiefs still clinging the league’s last unbeaten record, having moved to 8-0 with a hard-fought overtime victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night Football. With the win, the Chiefs became …
The NFL season has been characterised by tight games, nip-and-tuck affairs that are decided in the dying embers. While there were a number of such games again in Week 9, the league’s best are starting to pull away from the competition. All but one of this Sunday’s games were won by the bookies’ favourites. While the Ravens and Lions solidified …
Week 8 of the 2024 NFL season was a riot of scoring, with 777 points scored across the 16 games. But the theme of the season, namely close games, continued, with 13 of the games within eight points heading into the fourth quarter. Through the first eight weeks of the season, 67 games have been decided by seven points or …
