The Jacksonville Jaguars and Washington Commanders have been announced as two of the participating teams for the 2026 NFL London games at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with the Jags again doubling up with their Wembley residency. It will be the third time that Jacksonville have played back-to-back games in the UK as they look to extend their current record of having …
The playoffs are here! The commonly held wisdom among the football cognoscenti is that the Divisional Round is the best weekend in football, but the remaining teams vying for a Super Bowl berth will have to go a long way to pip a slate of Wild Card fixtures that delivered four nail-biters. From the moment that underdog Carolina Panthers looked …
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 …
Week 16 of the 2025 NFL season continued the thread of expecting the unexpected, as results around the league again churned the playoff picture. The penultimate penultimate weekend gave us a modern classic between the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks, big wins for the surging San Francisco 49ers and under-the-radar Jacksonville Jaguars, as well as another disappointing showing for …
Things couldn’t be closer in the NFL as we hit Week 14, with 2025 marking just the fifth time since realignment in 2002 that at least five divisions are separated by one-or-fewer games. It’s also the fifth time since 2002 that four divisions — AFC South, AFC West, NFC North and NFC West — had three teams with a .500-or-better …
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 …
What’s the greatest comeback in the history of the National Football League? Well, the Eagles fan in me would point towards both iterations of the ‘Miracle of the Meadowlands’, but it’s hard to argue against a Super Bowl victory so famous that any fan of the gridiron knows what I’m talking about when I say ‘28-3’. In terms of sheer …
The ‘hometown’ Jacksonville Jaguars continued their uneven run of results in London after capitulating to a driven Los Angeles Rams side in a soggy encounter at Wembley Stadium. After the less-than-satisfactory fare at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium between the Denver Broncos and New York Jets last weekend, it had been hoped that a matchup between two sides with winning records coming …
It’s all change through six weeks of the 2025 NFL season, with six of the eight divisions having a team in first place or tied for first place that did not win its division last season. The New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers and Indianapolis Colts lead their respective AFC divisions, with the Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Chargers tied for …
When the Minnesota Vikings take the field at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to face the Cleveland Browns this weekend, the NFL International Series will chalk off another milestone as London hosts its 40th regular season game. The phrase ‘from small acorns’ seems a particularly apt British idiom to describe the growth of the International Series initiative which, this year, extends its …
Louis Rees-Zammit has announced that he is returning to rugby union with immediate effect, bringing the curtain down on his dream of making it in the NFL. Driven to pursue his ambition having watched his father play for local teams in Cardiff, ‘LRZ’ walked away from a promising international rugby career after being selected to join the NFL’s International Player …
Now heading into his fifth season as an NFL quarterback, Trevor Lawrence is still trying to live up to the hype he generated coming out of college, but feels like the fresh start awaiting Jacksonville this season could be the opportunity he has been waiting for. After suffering through Urban Meyer’s brief tenure as head coach, and only touching brief …
Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter arrives in the NFL amid a lot of hype around his ability to play both offense and defense to a high level, but his quarterback in Jacksonville has no doubt the rookie will be a star. Speaking on the Pardon My Take podcast, Trevor Lawrence revealed that he had been impressed by what he had …
The Jacksonville Jaguars head into the 2025 NFL season with another new face in the head coach’s office following a disappointing (to say the least) 2024 campaign under Doug Pederson, but will the change be enough to remake the team as contenders? Liam Coen is coming off an impressive season as offensive coordinator for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he …
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 schedule for the 2025 NFL International Games is headlined by the Minnesota Vikings playing back-to-back games in different countries after being confirmed as the opponent for both the Pittsburgh Steelers in Dublin and Cleveland Browns at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The Steelers-Vikings clash kicks off the overseas portion of the NFL schedule on Sunday 28th September at Croke Park as …
While former Colorado team-mate Shedeur Sanders stole a lot of the draft weekend spotlight with his slide into the fifth round, Travis Hunter remained the biggest prize of opening night. The winners of that prize were the Jacksonville Jaguars, who paid a hefty price for their ticket as they traded up three spots to select the two-way phenom second overall, …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
