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 …
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 …
PICK #1 TENNESSEE TITANS The Titans begin a new era at QB with Cam Ward stepping in behind a retooled offensive line. Biggest Needs: QB, WR, LB, EDGE, CB DUTS’ MOCK DRAFT 1st Round Selection: CAM WARD, QB, Miami PICK #2 CLEVELAND BROWNS The Browns add another game-wrecker across from Myles Garrett and put off finding …
The National Football League has announced an expansion of its Global Markets Programme (GMP) ahead of the 2025 season, with four new clubs set to participate and two new markets added. Launched in 2022, the GMP awards franchises the right to market themselves internationally, in a bid to build brand awareness and fandom beyond the USA through fan engagement, events, …
The Philadelphia Eagles found themselves on both sides of proposed regulation changes ahead of the 2025 NFL season, calling for changes to the playoffs while facing another call for their famed ‘Tush Push’ play to be outlawed. Green Bay, a long-time opponent of the controversial take on the more traditional quarterback sneak — also known as The Brotherly Shove given …
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 …
Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts was voted as the winner of the Pete Rozelle Trophy as the Most Valuable Player in Super Bowl LIX, but was quick to pay tribute to the defensive effort that stymied the opposing Kansas City Chiefs’ ambitions of three titles in a row. Hurts completed 17 of 22 attempts for 221 yards and two touchdowns …
Well, we’ve put our necks on the line, but what do you think? Eagles at a (tush) push? Chiefs complete the ‘three-peat’? Umpiring decisions come into play? A doink to win (or lose) it? Mahomes or Saquon as MVP? Let us know on our social channels…
Four new names were added to the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s all-time roster during the NFL Honours ceremonies on Thursday night as defensive back Eric Allen, defensive end Jared Allen (no relation), tight end Antonio Gates and wide receiver Sterling Sharpe were voted into footballing immortality. The four-man class is the smallest since 2005, but inducting a quartet is …
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 …
Super Bowl LIX is go! The Mercedes Benz Superdome in New Orleans is ready to host the AFC champion Kansas City Chiefs, seeking an historic Lombardi ‘three-peat’, and the Philadelphia Eagles, champions of the NFC for the second time in three seasons and with revenge on their minds. The Chiefs came out on top after when the two teams met …
Super Bowl LIX is on the horizon and, with both the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles arriving in New Orleans for the big game, the Opening Night press availability provided more than its fair share of storylines. BARKLEY’S DESTINY There is little doubt that Saquon Barkley is more than just one of the best running back in today’s NFL, …
When he was young, Saquon Barkley and his father Alibay used to walk to practice. They used to walk to games as well. Not because they wanted to, but because they had to. You see, there was no car in the family so, if Saquon wanted to play, then he had little option. They’d leave their red brick house on …
We have our Super Bowl matchup. In two weeks time, the Philadelphia Eagles will take on the Kansas City Chiefs in a rematch of Super Bowl LVII. Hardly a matchup for the neutral, it seems many analysts, pundits and prognosticators lost their perspective when predicting (wishing) for a Commanders-Bills Super Bowl. The Eagles proved their dominant run game was too …
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 …
And so, here we are. The penultimate weekend of NFL action hasn’t so much as crept up on us as arrived like a full-on Myles Garrett pass rush. Two games to decide this year’s Super Bowl combatants. Repeat or reprise? Too close to call? *** NFC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP Washington Commanders (12-5) @ Philadelphia Eagles (14-3) The NFC Championship game will …
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 …
While there was just one Wild Card game that went the distance with its result in the balance — thank you Commanders and Buccaneers — the outcomes of the opening round of the NFL playoffs have combined to produce some intriguing matchups amongst the final eight teams. Detroit and Kansas City enter the postseason fray this weekend, but neither will …
The opening week of the 2024-25 NFL playoffs did not provide the close battles many were anticipating, with just one outcome in the balance as the final seconds played out. In the end, four of the expected winners — based on home advantage — came out victorious, while another played up to their superior regular season numbers to down a …
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 …
For all the action that takes place over the first 18 weeks of a new NFL campaign, nothing hits quite as hard as playoff football, where everything is on the line every weekend. There can be no quit from here on in, with elimination from the Super Bowl race potentially around the corner for each and every team. Six games …
Welcome to Gridiron’s Week 18 power ranking as the 2024 NFL regular season heads into its final throes. Who earns the accolade of being top dog through the long slog since September, and who is positioning themselves nicely to mount an assault through the playoffs? GRIDIRON POWER RANKINGS: WEEK 18 1. Buffalo Bills (13-3) = With the likely MVP …
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 …
