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 …
The National Football League has revealed the New York Jets, Cleveland Browns and Jacksonville Jaguars as the designated ‘home’ teams set to play in London as part of the 2025 NFL International Games. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will host games featuring both the Jets and the Browns, while the Jaguars will return to Wembley Stadium as part of their multi-year commitment …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Jacksonville head coach Doug Pederson admitted that it was nice to return to winning ways in the second of his team’s back-to-back games in London, but insisted that no-one could rest on the laurels of victory over New England at Wembley. Just seven days after suffering a comprehensive defeat by the Chicago Bears at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the Jaguars bounced …
He may be buried on the Jaguars wide receiver depth chart, but Parker Washington left London with a mark in the NFL record books after returning a New England Patriots punt 96 yards for a touchdown in the third and final game of the 2024 International Series visit to U.K. shores. The Penn State product — who admitted channelling prime …
This past Sunday gave us a heady mix of matchups. Division rivalries were renewed, star quarterbacks clashed, and recent Super Bowl adversaries locked horns once again. The action lived up the billing. Four games were won by teams that had been trailing by more than ten points, while two games were decided in the final minute of regulation. Detroit and Kansas …
Apocryphal tales of mascot Jaxson De Ville asking the late Queen Elizabeth II to fly the Jacksonville Jaguars colours above royal premises instead of the Union Jack in 2016 remain rife, especially heading into the NFL’s annual London Games, but less is known about the furry funster’s trip to the Palace. Okay, so it was Crystal Palace, but why waste …
Jacksonville quarterback Trevor Lawrence has had his fair share of ‘crunch time’ games, where the outcome was decided in the final minute, or even on the final throw, but he needs something more akin to the second half turnaround against the Los Angeles Chargers in January 2023 if the Jaguars’ 2024 season is going to be worth anything. Lawrence leads …
In a season that had been characterised by tight, low-scoring affairs, Week 6 of the new NFL campaign brought a barrage of points as a number of teams signposted their status as contenders with statement wins. The 622 points scored in the 12 completed matches so far, for an average of 51.8 points per game, would be the highest average …
Trevor Lawrence admits that mistakes in all facets of the game cost his Jacksonville Jaguars team the chance to compete with Chicago in the second of the year’s London Games, but maintains that something can still be salvaged from what is now a 1-5 season. Speaking in the wake of a lopsided 35-16 drubbing by the Bears at Tottenham Hotspur …
Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Doug Pederson remains confident of holding on to his job despite slumping to a fifth defeat in six games so far in 2024. After a lengthy run of defeats to end the 2023 campaign derailed a potential playoff appearance, Pederson and the Jaguars have failed to live up to expectations — especially those of team owner …
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 …
