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NFL Week 8 bold predictions: Bryce Young logs first pro win, while Joe Burrow shreds San Francisco

NFL Week 8 bold predictions: Bryce Young logs first pro win, while Joe Burrow shreds San Francisco

Throughout the 2023 season, NFL Network analysts will provide one bold prediction heading into each week’s slate of games (see the full Week 8 schedule). Marc Ross Sunday features the first meeting between the top two overall picks of the 2023 NFL Draft: Carolina’s Bryce Young and Houston’s C.J. Stroud. So far this season, Stroud…

2024 NFL Draft: Team fits for top five Senior Bowl prospects

CFP prospects to watch All-Senior Teams Final top 20 Player comps Team fits Midseason top 20 Top quarterbacks Early risers Preseason watch list Back in August, Reese’s Senior Bowl executive director Jim Nagy and his experienced scouting staff released their watch list for next year’s game, which included 720 prospects from more than 100 college…

Dalvin Cook frustrated with role in Jets' offense amid trade chatter: 'It's a different scenario for me'

With the NFL’s Oct. 31 trade deadline sitting four days away, plenty of players will hear their names bandied about as candidates to be shipped out of town. Different reasons abound for why a player might be considered a trade candidate, from an expiring contract to an ill fit to lack of production. New York…

Commanders HC Ron Rivera says change has to start 'at the top' after loss to Bears: 'It's not good enough'

The Washington Commanders got blown out of their building Thursday night, getting walloped 40-20 by the previously winless Chicago Bears. “It’s not good enough,” head coach Ron Rivera said after the loss. “It starts with me and we’re going to go back and look at a lot of things and we’re going to get some…

Justin Fields, Bears snap 14-game losing streak: 'I'm proud of everybody in the building'

Finally, mercifully, and thankfully for the Second City’s sons and daughters, the longest losing streak in the Chicago Bears’ 104-season history concluded Thursday night. Amid a season overflowing with strife on and off the field, the Bears finally found reason to celebrate — thanks in large part to the right arm of Justin Fields and…

Why Jets are right to stick with Zach Wilson as new QB1 after losing Aaron Rodgers

After a celebratory ovation for their new starting quarterback, New York Jets fans quickly realized that the entire landscape of the 2023 season was about to change. Four snaps into his debut, four-time MVP Aaron Rodgers sat on the ground with what would later be diagnosed as a torn Achilles tendon, forcing backup Zach Wilson…

Vikings RB Alexander Mattison calls out racial slurs directed to him on social media after loss to Eagles

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Vikings running back Alexander Mattison received more than 60 “disgustingly disrespectful messages” through social media that included racial slurs and encouraged suicide, the fifth-year player said Friday in the aftermath of the team’s most recent loss. Mattison, who is Black, revealed on an Instagram Story post that he was taunted through direct…

Buccaneers' Baker Mayfield details 'angry run' in Week 1 win: 'When you gotta do it, you gotta do it'

With the Buccaneers and Vikings tied at 17 halfway through the fourth quarter of their Week 1 matchup, it was up to Tampa Bay quarterback Baker Mayfield to lead his offense down the field for a score to put his team ahead. The most energizing play of the drive came when Mayfield stiff-armed Vikings cornerback…