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10:00 AM ET We want our fantasy football and we want our fantasy, period. We need the fun-and-games escape from all of America’s problems. And our blessed medicine, our respite from months of sea-to-shining-sea sickness, arrives this weekend in an avalanche of wonderful football, God bless America. But as our country’s history records the victims

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The Week 1 NFL schedule is stacked with great matchups. Our NFL Nation reporters bring us the keys to every game, a bold prediction for each matchup and final score picks. Additionally, ESPN Stats & Information provides a stat to know for each game, and the Football Power Index (FPI)

6:40 AM ET Zac Taylor, the second-year coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, was kind enough to return a call last week. His team drafted quarterback Joe Burrow with the No. 1 pick in April’s NFL draft, and I told him we were doing a story about expectations for rookie quarterbacks. His first response was basically

6:35 AM ET NFL NationESPN The 2020 NFL season is here, and our NFL Nation reporters have bold predictions for all 32 teams to set up the slate ahead of Super Bowl LV. Here’s a sampling: Miles Sanders will lead the NFL in all-purpose yards. Le’Veon Bell will be traded by the midseason deadline. The

11:20 PM ET Let’s not undersell this: The Kansas City Chiefs‘ 34-20 victory Thursday night over the Houston Texans is one of the greatest accomplishments in NFL history. Just as its own executives (improbably) predicted in March, the league opened its 2020 season on time — even with some fans at Arrowhead Stadium — amid

7:41 PM ET The Miami Dolphins have decided to stay inside during both the national anthem and “Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing” during the 2020 NFL season, issuing a message Thursday demanding action rather than symbolic gestures in the fight against social and racial injustice and police brutality. “Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing,” traditionally known

6:45 AM ET Fantasy football drafts signal the annual rite of fall. The NFL season is nearly upon us, and it’s time to shake the pandemic blues, bust out your tablets, do your research and plunge head-on into fantasy football on ESPN.com. Matthew Berry’s Week 1 Love/Hate column is here, with players he loves and

9:04 PM ET The Kansas City Chiefs have added an insurance policy to the record-setting, 10-year extension signed by quarterback Patrick Mahomes in July, a source told ESPN’s Field Yates. The move protects the Chiefs, who begin their Super Bowl title defense Thursday night against the Houston Texans, in the event that an injury prevents

6:45 AM ET The 2020 NFL season is about to start, which, for those of us who feel we’ve spent the past eight months writing about nothing but collective bargaining agreement talks and COVID-19 protocols, is a startling realization. Don’t get me wrong — I’m as excited about the start of actual football games as

6:40 AM ET In advance of a 2020 NFL season in which anything and everything appears to be on the table, it only seems right to put together our annual preview of how each of the league’s 32 teams could win the Super Bowl. It might seem wild when last year’s winner wasn’t exactly an

7:57 PM ET Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller suffered an ankle injury on Tuesday, a source told ESPN. There is fear that it’s a season-ending injury, according to sources. Miller was hurt near the end of practice, with what one person called “a freak” injury. The team is evaluating Miller’s MRI. Miller, 31, the former

12:54 PM ET DeAndre Hopkins has his deal, and the Arizona Cardinals have their star wide receiver for the foreseeable future. The Cardinals and Hopkins agreed to a two-year extension worth $54.5 million with $42.5 million guaranteed, a source confirmed to ESPN. The deal keeps Hopkins in Arizona for five years — through the 2024

6:30 AM ET NFL NationESPN The 2020 NFL schedule kicks off this week with the Texans at Chiefs on Thursday night football, and NFL Nation has you covered. Big questions. Bold predictions. Breakout fantasy football candidates. Over/under picks. Record and playoff projections. Depth charts. And in-depth schedule analysis for all 32 teams. This is what

3:27 PM ET METAIRIE, La. — Alvin Kamara mostly sidestepped questions about his contract talks with the New Orleans Saints on Monday, insisting that his focus is on Sunday’s season opener against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But Kamara did counter the narrative that he was holding out from Saints practices during a recent four-day stretch,

7:15 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — How in the world did Carson Wentz, the newly anointed franchise quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles in 2016, wind up trapped inside a gas station bathroom, anyway? Wentz began cracking up when that memory was raised before practice last week — far enough back in time now that it’s just

7:00 AM ET The NFL’s last “normal” moment was the annual scouting combine, held from Feb. 23 to March 2 in Indianapolis. Amid the routine of that week, league executives focused on finalizing a new collective bargaining agreement with players. Teams locked in on scouting college players and setting plans for the start of free

10:26 PM ET PITTSBURGH — On the eve of the first regular-season game week, the Pittsburgh Steelers secured their defensive anchor for at least five more years with a historic contract. The Steelers and All-Pro defensive lineman Cam Heyward have finalized a four-year, $75.1 million extension, a league source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler late Sunday

2:02 PM ET The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed free-agent quarterback Josh Rosen to their practice squad, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Rosen joins his third team in as many seasons. The 23-year-old was drafted No. 10 overall by the Arizona Cardinals in 2018. He was then traded prior to last season to the