Drew Allar supplied the most emphatic performance of the NFL’s first full night of preseason action, accounting for three touchdowns as the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Green Bay Packers 28–9. The rookie completed nine of 14 passes for 154 yards and two scores, while adding another touchdown on the ground, admittedly against the Packers fringe players. Allar’s first major contribution …
Jadeveon Clowney is returning to the Houston Texans seven years after the franchise traded the former first overall draft choice to Seattle. The 33-year-old edge defender has agreed a one-year contract reportedly carrying a base value of $5.5m and a maximum value of $8m. Clowney said he received interest from other teams, including Cleveland and Seattle, but prioritised returning to …
The NFL will turn the opening weekend of August into a nationwide preview of the 2026 season as all 32 clubs take part in the sixth annual Training Camp: Back Together Weekend. Taking place across Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd August, the league-wide initiative has grown beyond its original premise of reconnecting teams with their supporters at the beginning of …
The Houston Texans are mourning the death of co-founder and senior chair Janice S. McNair, who passed away peacefully on Tuesday afternoon surrounded by her family. She was 89. Although she was often less visible than her late husband Bob during the franchise’s formative years, Janice McNair played an integral role in bringing NFL football back to Houston after the …
The NFL did not feel the need to hide its headline acts when revealing its full 2026 schedule. The new campaign opens, in line with recent rumours, with the defending champion Seattle Seahawks hosting the New England Patriots in a Super Bowl LX rematch, features nine international games and closes, as usual, with a full Week 18 divisional slate designed …
The National Football League has revealed the teams that will help push its international ambitions into unprecedented territory after unveiling a record nine-game overseas slate for the 2026 season. The overseas schedule was already known to stretch across four continents, seven countries and eight stadiums as commissioner Roger Goodell’s long-term vision of a truly global league accelerates, but now the …
The Houston Texans are approaching a familiar crossroads that could define not just where they call home, but how they fit into the NFL’s ongoing stadium arms race. The franchise has committed to remaining in Harris County beyond the expiration of its current lease in 2032, but the central question as to whether the best mkove is renovating NRG Stadium …
In a first round that began with a quarterback taken first overall and a running back with pick #32, it was not surprising that the offensive side of the ball saw most of their ilk taken on the opening night of the 2026 NFL Draft. All told, there were 18 picks on offense and 14 on defense and, in keeping …
Atlanta, Houston and Carolina are all at slightly different stages of the same offseason process, with the Falcons and Texans already moving to secure cornerstone talent from the 2023 draft while the Panthers prepare to do the same with Bryce Young. The clearest endorsement came in Atlanta, where the Falcons picked up the fifth-year option on running back Bijan Robinson, …
John Harbaugh has moved quickly to steady the waters in New York after a turbulent opening to the Giants’ voluntary offseason programme, insisting the focus remains on football despite trade speculation surrounding two of the franchise’s defensive cornerstones. The bigger of the two storylines centres on Dexter Lawrence, whose trade request has cast an early shadow over Harbaugh’s first spring …
The opening days of the NFL offseason have not only been defined by heavy spending in free agency, but also by a series of notable trades that have seen key playmakers swap franchises. Several teams moved aggressively to acquire established starters, while others happily accepted the chance to stockpile draft capital ahead of April’s draft. One of the most eye-catching …
Analysing football is a tricky thing. To differentiate yourself from the ‘hot take artists’, you feel you have to crunch the tape and study the numbers. But sometimes, it just feels that overarching narratives are inescapable. The Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears’ recent histories have been littered with back-breaking loss after back-breaking loss. As the youngest franchise in the NFL, …
Seen by many as the best weekend of the NFL season, the Divisional Round of the Playoffs is upon us. We are down to the final eight teams, with just seven games remaining of the 2025 campaign. Wild Card weekend was, for the most part, ‘wild’, and saw the reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles crash out, the Buffalo Bills …
The regular season is in the books, and Wild Card Weekend is upon us. Twelve of the remaining 14 teams with aspirations of lifting the Vince Lombardi Trophy in February are in action over the weekend, with the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks enjoying their hard-earned byes. Let’s look at the six matchups in question, in order of kick-off time. …
The 2025 NFL regular season concluded Sunday, setting the stage for the playoffs with a full 14-team field ready for Wild Card Weekend. Top seeded Denver Broncos (AFC) and Seattle Seahawks (NFC) earned the first-round byes and will advance directly to the Divisional Round, and will retain home-field advantage for as long as they remain in the competition prior to …
Like the proverbial curate’s egg, Week 17 of the 2025 NFL season was ‘good in parts’. Elsewhere, the smell was quite apparent. Of the edible fare, two offensive masterminds went to battle in northern California on Sunday night, as the Chicago Bears and San Francisco 49ers duelled over the right to play for the NFC’s #1 seed. A barnburner ensued …
The NFL has finalised its late-season broadcast plans, unveiling a holiday-heavy Week 17 schedule while also announcing a key flex for Week 16 that reshapes the prime-time slate. Week 17 will open with a Christmas Day triple-header spread across three streaming platforms. The day begins with an NFC East rivalry as the Dallas Cowboys visit the Washington Commanders (1pm ET, …
The NFL never ceases to surprise, but there are always times when the dust appears to settle and a degree of clarity emerges, causing onlookers to believe they know what happens next. Then the chaos resumes. Week 13 of the 2025 NFL season was no exception. Amidst all the Thanksgiving celebrations, the Carolina Panthers shocked the Los Angeles Rams; Ben …
Tyrann Mathieu has surprised the New Orleans Saints by declaring his intention to retire from the NFL on the eve of training camp. The four-time All-Pro is three years into his stint in NOLA but, after 12 years in the league, has decided that the time is right to say… well, not goodbye. “As I hang up my cleats, I’m …
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 …
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 …
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’ …
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 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 …
