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7:00 AM ET NFL NationESPN As we roll through the final third of the 2021 NFL regular season, no team is completely healthy, but the impact of injuries is felt differently across the league. The New Orleans Saints lost quarterback Jameis Winston to a season-ending ACL tear in his left knee in a victory on

7:25 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — They played football at its highest level — some for years, some for moments — and when playing was no longer an option, the game reeled them back in as coaches. Some were drawn to college football, others to work for a former position coach or head coach in

11:16 PM ET ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Taking the ball out of rookie quarterback Mac Jones‘ hands in wind gusts over 40 miles per hour and relying on their running game, the New England Patriots defeated the Buffalo Bills 14-10 at Highmark Stadium on Monday night to enter their bye week as the No. 1

3:11 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Pro Bowl cornerback Marlon Humphrey was diagnosed with a season-ending, right pectoral muscle tear on Monday, perhaps the biggest loss in a season filled with injuries for the Baltimore Ravens. Humphrey, 25, became the seventh starter (and third in the secondary) to get sidelined for the season for

10:21 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh said injuries affected his decision to go for a potential game-winning 2-point conversion Sunday against the Pittsburgh Steelers, instead of settling for a tying point-after kick. With 12 seconds remaining in regulation, Lamar Jackson‘s pass on the 2-point conversion went off the outstretched left hand

11:15 PM ET Those of us in the word business are running out of ways to say that the AFC playoff picture is complete chaos. There are teams near the top that have a decent chance to fall out of the race entirely, and there are teams outside the top seven that could still wind

4:26 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN DETROIT, Mich. — Inside Ford Field on Sunday, Detroit Lions fans experienced something that hadn’t happened there in over a full calendar year: a win. First-year Lions coach Dan Campbell will no longer have to field questions about a winless season, as Detroit upset Minnesota 29-27 for its first regular-season

11:15 AM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Gardner Minshew will get the start at quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles in Sunday’s game against the New York Jets in place of the injured Jalen Hurts, according to a league source. Hurts will be inactive for the game, the source said. Hurts sprained his ankle in the

1:03 AM ET In an effort to avoid further suspensions like the ones handed down to Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown and defensive back Mike Edwards, NFL officials spent the past week calling multiple teams to inquire whether players who had gotten COVID-19 had been vaccinated on site at the team’s training facility

4:16 PM ET Ben Roethlisberger privately has told former teammates and some within the organization that he expects this to be his final season playing quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, league sources told ESPN. Roethlisberger has not made any such public proclamations, and likely won’t, since he doesn’t want the latter part of the season

6:00 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — For the majority of their 4½-year marriage, Zach and Julie Ertz didn’t know what it was like to be a “normal married couple.” Their respective careers — Zach a tight end with the Arizona Cardinals and Julie a defender for the U.S. women’s national team and most recently the

11:44 PM ET Minnesota Vikings defensive end Everson Griffen announced that he is bipolar in an Instagram post on Friday night and said he will be an advocate for mental health after an incident last week in which he called police to his home and then refused to leave. “It’s true I am bipolar. I

1:04 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians said Friday that he believes the NFL needs to take a closer look at other teams after two of his players — Antonio Brown and Mike Edwards — and one former player, John Franklin III, were found to have provided fake vaccination cards. “We’ve done

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The Week 13 NFL schedule for the 2021 season is stacked with great matchups, and we got you covered with what you need to know heading into the weekend. Our NFL Nation reporters bring us the biggest keys to every game, a bold prediction for each matchup and, of course,

1:43 AM ET NEW ORLEANS — Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy knew watching Thursday night’s game from a hotel in Frisco, Texas, would be difficult. He just didn’t know how difficult. The good news is McCarthy’s Cowboys beat the New Orleans Saints 27-17 to end a two-game losing streak and open up more room over

6:00 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — The match between Micah Parsons and the Dallas Cowboys has been just about perfect so far. The rookie linebacker (or defensive end, depending on the moment) loves the spotlight and few teams in the NFL gain more attention than the Cowboys, good or bad. On Thursday night at the

6:23 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN SEATTLE — The Seahawks are taking a look at Adrian Peterson to see what the veteran running back might have left in his Hall of Fame career. Coach Pete Carroll told reporters on Wednesday that the Seahawks signed the 36-year-old Peterson to their practice squad as a potential reinforcement for

7:00 AM ET Twelve weeks into the 2021 NFL season and we are squarely in the body-of-work zone for the league’s first-year players. Some of the rookies have flashed one week and felt every bump on the learning curve in others, while some have been derailed for a moment by injuries. But in the third