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10:35 PM ET NFL NationESPN The second full week of preseason kicks off Thursday, one of five straight days with NFL action. With only two more games before the regular-season opener, expect more starters and names you know to be playing this week. Things started off Thursday with the New England Patriots traveling to play

7:23 AM ET NFL NationESPN Minnesota Vikings cornerback Patrick Peterson, Los Angeles Rams corner Jalen Ramsey and Dallas Cowboys linebacker Jaylon Smith are among the many NFL stars who have switched this season to numbers that are nontraditional for their positions. The league relaxed its restrictions on positional numbering earlier this year, opening the door

12:36 PM ET HOUSTON — The allegations of sexual assault and inappropriate behavior against Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson are being investigated by the FBI, Watson’s lawyer, Rusty Hardin, said Wednesday. Hardin also said that Watson spoke to the FBI about allegations of extortion regarding one of the 23 lawsuits filed against the quarterback, of which

4:35 PM ET ESPN staff While there has been no shortage of talk during 2021 NFL training camp season about whether veteran Andy Dalton or rookie Justin Fields should start for the Chicago Bears in Week 1 (click “More” below to see what Dalton had to say about that today), both quarterbacks felt a big

2:14 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN SEATTLE — The Seattle Seahawks and Jamal Adams have agreed to a four-year extension that makes him the NFL’s highest-paid safety, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Tuesday. Adams’ deal carries a max value of $72 million, a $20 million signing bonus and $38 million guaranteed, the source told

6:55 AM ET Jeff Jarrett is a WWE Hall of Famer and third-generation wrestling promoter whom ESPN approached in the run-up to WWE SummerSlam on Saturday for his thoughts on pro football players who had success crossing over into pro wrestling. That’s right, it’s me. Good ol’ Double J. That’s J-E-double F, J-A-double R-E-double T,

3:45 PM ET ESPN staff With Week 2 of the NFL preseason continuing with four games on Friday night, Tuesday was the day in which teams had to cut down their 90-man rosters to 85 players. That meant the end of Tim Tebow’s time in Jacksonville, and there were also a couple back-of-the-roster trades that

8:00 AM ET Matthew Berry’s Love/Hate for the 2021 fantasy football season is a collection of the players he thinks will be the best draft-day values and those you should probably allow someone else to roster. As has been tradition for the past 15 years, Matthew begins by sharing a story that, we swear, has

4:31 PM ET HOUSTON — After returning to the field for a week, Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson did not practice on Monday afternoon. Watson, who reported to camp on July 25 after requesting a trade in January, practiced for the first five days of training camp, was not on the field for the next

6:00 PM ET ESPN staff As NFL teams prep for more 2021 preseason games, quarterbacks again took the spotlight at training camp practices — on and off the field — on Monday. The Eagles’ Jalen Hurts put on an impressive performance against Cam Newton and the Patriots, the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes is readying for more

1:59 PM ET Retired quarterback Alex Smith, who returned to play last season after suffering a devastating leg injury two years earlier, has been hired by ESPN as an NFL analyst. Smith, who retired in April to end his 16-season career, will appear on various ESPN shows, including SportsCenter, Monday Night Countdown and Sunday NFL

1:17 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Saturday’s preseason opener was supposed to be just the beginning of three weeks filled with an abundance of game snaps for Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love, while Aaron Rodgers watched from the sideline. There might not be as many of those preseason snaps for Love now. While

4:03 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers waived three players Sunday following their preseason-opening loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, including former Navy cornerback Cameron Kinley, who was given a special exemption by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to delay his service to the Navy so he could attend Buccaneers training camp. The exemption

2:24 PM ET PITTSBURGH — When Jacksonville Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke told Joe Schobert he needed to talk with him after the team’s final team meeting Thursday, the veteran inside linebacker knew something was off. But Schobert hardly expected what Baalke told him next. The Jaguars were trading Schobert, a splashy free-agent signing just

10:35 PM ET Associated Press Joe Walton, the former New York Jets coach who built Robert Morris University‘s football program from the ground up, has died. He was 85. Robert Morris announced in an obituary posted on its website that Walton died Sunday. No cause of death was provided. Walton, a native of Beaver Falls,

Aug 15, 2021 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Trevor Lawrence‘s first NFL snap ended with a sack that nearly turned into a fumble, but the Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback didn’t let that rattle him. The 2021 No. 1 draft pick bounced back from that inauspicious start and turned in a solid but unspectacular performance in the Jaguars’ 23-13

7:00 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — There certainly were a lot of things for NFL teams to love about Trevor Lawrence, but there’s one thing that arguably stands above the rest: The guy hardly ever loses. Lawrence enters his first NFL preseason game on Saturday 86-4 as a starter — 52-2 at Cartersville (Georgia) High

6:17 PM ET ASHBURN, Va. — Former Washington Football Team running back Derrius Guice was suspended for six games for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy, according to a league spokesman. Guice was arrested last August in Loudoun County, Virginia, and charged with one count of strangulation and three counts of assault and battery, stemming