The NFL has named the Indianapolis Colts as the ‘designated team’ for the league’s first-ever regular season game in Berlin, which joins the International Series for 2025. The game, to be played at the Olympic Stadium as part of a multi-year commitment to playing games in the German sports metropolis, is not the first to take place in Berlin as …
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 …
Week 17 of the National Football League’s 2024 regular season served as a perfect festive host, providing some tasty fare of its own while whetting the appetite for what is to come in the New Year. While the Philadelphia Eagles ensured that the NFC East title would change hands for the 20-somethingth time by pounding the hapless Dallas Cowboys, and …
Just as our waistlines prepare to expand thanks to the excessive consumption of festive fare, the NFL is entering its trimming down stage. In Week 16, the Cardinals, Cowboys and 49ers were all eliminated from postseason consideration, while the picture at the top of the standings also became clearer. Wins for Detroit and Minnesota put even greater scrutiny on their …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
There’s an old adage in professional wrestling: ‘send them home happy’. That typically means the good guy wins, but it also speaks to the quality of your star attractions, your main events. A certain boxing card from this past weekend certainly failed to deliver on that promise. But the NFL doesn’t pit washed up legends against celebrity wannabees, it’s the …
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 …
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 …
Week 8 of the 2024 NFL season sees all 32 teams in action, and all back on American soil with the London leg of the International Series in the books. A rarity in being a full house during bye weeks, there is also no shortage of fascinating matchups, with legends chasing history, historic powerhouses looking to kickstart their season and …
After weeks of dominant defensive football, offenses finally kicked into life in Week 5 of the NFL season. High octane shootouts in Cincinnati and Jacksonville provided spectacular entertainment in the early window, with the Jaguars picking up their first win ahead of their annual trip to London next week. The defenses didn’t lay down completely however. Week 5 marked the …
While the numbers don’t fit quite as easily as with the 16-game season, the majority of the league crossed the quarter poll this past Sunday. As the dust settled on Week 4 of the NFL season, just the Kansas City Chiefs and Minnesota Vikings would extend their undefeated start to the season, with Pittsburgh turning in a sloppy display against …
The National Football League has further expanded its Global Markets Programme, with four new clubs and five new markets set to participate in 2024, following approval from the International Committee at the league’s annual meeting in Orlando. First launched in 2022, the Global Markets Programme awards NFL clubs international marketing rights to build brand awareness and fandom beyond the U.S., …
Eight NFL franchises opted to make use of the franchise tag — and one more the lesser-used transition tag — as the league hurtles towards the start of another new year. Player designations had to be confirmed by Tuesday, ahead of the 2024 NFL free agency signing period, which begins at 4pm ET next Wednesday (March 13). Each club can …
This article originally appeared in Issue XXII of Gridiron magazine – for individual editions or subscriptions, click HERE The entourage tells its own story. Only Rob Gronkowski, with Papa Gronk acting as fullback up front and agent Drew Rosenhaus in behind him alongside an array of others, boasts a greater group of hangers-on as he storms around interview tables at …
As the smoke clears on the first ever virtual NFL Player Selection Meeting, we grade each American Football Conference team on the strength of their acquisitions. AFC EAST Buffalo Bills: Given that they gave up their first pick for Stefon Diggs, Sean McDermott and Brandon Beane did an outstanding job across all three days. AJ Epenesa should contribute immediately, and …
Looking back at Super Bowls is like reviewing my adult life. I remember the first clearly, Pete Rozelle’s NFL-AFL World Championship Game – Lamar Hunt wouldn’t christen it the Super Bowl until the second year – even though I wasn’t yet a rebellious child of the Sixties; I rooted for the Green Bay Packers’ triumph over the trash-talking Chiefs and, …
Following Andrew Luck’s shock decision to retire from the NFL in order to end the ‘cycle of pain’ he says he has endured with injury, we’ve raided the Gridiron archive to reflect on how the likeable Texan rose to the heights of number one pick in the 2012 draft and the successor to Peyton Manning as quarterback of the Indianapolis …
Will returns with his favourite wagers from Saturday’s Divisional Playoff games in Kansas City and Los Angeles, with an enhanced four-fold to boot! For regular video content from Will and the rest of the Gridiron team, subscribe to our YouTube channel
Like a Cody Parkey field goal attempt, we were so close, but so far away. Three people managed to call three out of four games correctly here on the Pick Six column on Wild Card Weekend. But not one person managed to get all four. Meanwhile, two people failed to get a single game right. It’s been that kind of …
