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4:09 PM ET The Atlanta Falcons released Dante Fowler Jr. on Wednesday, moving on from the outside linebacker with one year left on his contract. Fowler had taken a pay cut entering the 2021 season as part of a reconfigured contract and then failed to hit any of the incentives that were placed in the

11:25 PM ET ESPN staff The order for the top 24 picks in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft is set — after a bit of Week 18 chaos — with the Jacksonville Jaguars picking No. 1 and the Detroit Lions picking No. 2. Could both teams be thinking pass-rusher with their selections?

7:25 AM ET It’s almost wrong to refer to the time period between the Super Bowl and training camp as the NFL offseason. Packed with tentpole events designed to keep fans interested for the next five months, it’s more accurate to call it the NFL’s second season. The spring of 2022 will be just as

6:00 AM ET INGLEWOOD, Calif. — In a city where success is measured only in titles, the Los Angeles Rams arrived at their own palatial stadium for Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI with plenty of catching up to do. When the Rams picked up and left St. Louis in 2016 to return to Los Angeles, they

6:33 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN LOS ANGELES — At around 9 a.m. PT Monday, some 14 hours after the Los Angeles Rams won Super Bowl LVI, Sean McVay posed for pictures with the Vince Lombardi Trophy and called it an “incredible honor” to be standing at the podium reserved for the game’s winning coach and

6:02 PM ET Kyler Murray posted to Instagram Monday that “nonsense is not what I’m about” and vowed to “grow and get better,” a day after sources had described the Arizona Cardinals quarterback as self-centered, immature and someone who points fingers to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen. “I play this game for the love of it, my

12:35 PM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN MIAMI — The Dolphins‘ offensive staff under head coach Mike McDaniel continues to come together, as the team will hire Frank Smith as its offensive coordinator, a league source confirmed Monday. Smith will work in conjunction with McDaniel, who will call plays, and wide receivers coach Wes Welker, who will

1:50 PM ET INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The story we’ve been told about the Los Angeles Rams is that they “went all-in” to win this particular Super Bowl. That they were willing to mortgage their future for it. That what defines their team-building approach is the fact that they continually trade away first-round picks for win-now

10:00 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Super Bowl LVI was shaping up to be a supersized disappointment for the Los Angeles Rams. They had lost their lead during a disastrous start to the second half. They had lost one of their best players in wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. to a knee injury.

1:55 PM ET The Arizona Cardinals and franchise quarterback Kyler Murray are at odds after a season that began with promise ended with a thud in the first round of the playoffs. Murray, who scrubbed any reference of the Cardinals from his Instagram account recently, is frustrated with the franchise and was embarrassed by the

6:50 AM ET Cincinnati Bengals tight end C.J. Uzomah will play in Super Bowl LVI despite being listed as questionable with a knee injury, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Uzomah is dealing with a sprained MCL in his left knee, an injury he suffered in the first half of the AFC Championship Game against

7:14 PM ET ESPN News Services The Las Vegas Raiders have hired New England Patriots wide receivers coach Mick Lombardi as their offensive coordinator, league sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The Raiders also hired former Patriots offensive line coach Carmen Bricillo for the same job in Las Vegas, a source said. Lombardi, 33, replaces Greg

8:57 PM ET THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — As he enters the biggest game of his professional life followed by the biggest summer of his personal life, Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay spent time Friday pondering what all of that means for his future. McVay doesn’t yet have the answer to the ideal work/life balance

5:47 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Joe Burrow knows what the top tier of NFL quarterbacks looks like. The Cincinnati Bengals quarterback has Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers firmly in that category after Rodgers won his fourth Associated Press Most Valuable Player award. Two days before playing in Super Bowl LVI, Burrow cited Rodgers as the

4:31 PM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN MIAMI — Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, clarifying comments this week in which he said he identified “as a human being,” affirmed that his racial background is not something he simply identifies as — it’s what he is. “First and foremost, I’m biracial. My mom’s white, my dad’s Black. I’ve been

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff Super Bowl LVI kicks off on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET, with the Cincinnati Bengals facing the Los Angeles Rams. The two teams each emerged from their conference’s No. 4 seeds after winning their respective divisions. The matchup represents the first time since 2003 that participant teams enter with a

10:14 PM ET The Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2022 is unique and a bit uncharacteristic. For the first time since 2012, a first-time eligible finalist was not selected for enshrinement, four of the five modern-era enshrinees are on the defensive side of the ball and four of the five were eligible for

9:21 PM ET Tying the NFL’s single-season sack record earned Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt the league’s Defensive Player of the Year award. His brother, J.J. Watt — a three-time defensive player of the year himself — presented him with the award, which was the first one announced at Thursday’s NFL Honors awards show