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6:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print ESPN’s 2020 NFL depth charts will be updated live, every day, throughout the season. Keep an eye out throughout training camp as rookies like Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow and Washington defensive end Chase Young move up the depth chart. The offseason was like no

6:26 AM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — At 20 years old, DK Metcalf lay in a hospital bed, facing the end of his college career. The redshirt sophomore wide receiver suffered a neck injury in October

1:16 AM ET METAIRIE, La. — Alvin Kamara will be back at practice with the New Orleans Saints on Wednesday and the two sides will continue working toward a long-term contract extension, a source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. According to the source, the two sides are not that far apart on a deal (Kamara is

6:00 AM ET Armonty Bryant was sitting in his dining room when a number he didn’t recognize popped up on his phone. The former NFL defensive end doesn’t usually answer those calls but he was feeling good this day in late January, so he picked up. On the other end were staffers from University of

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The 2020 NFL season is just over a week away, so it’s time for our annual ranking of the league’s top 100 players. What can we expect from the game’s best players? We asked a panel of 46 ESPN NFL experts to rate players based on how good they will

8:36 PM ET The Kansas City Chiefs moved to secure their coaching and front-office futures by agreeing to terms of contract extensions through 2025 with coach Andy Reid and general manager Brett Veach, sources confirmed Monday to ESPN. News of the pending extensions was first reported by NFL Network. Reid and Veach joined the Chiefs

6:55 AM ET In the salary-cap era, no NFL team can head into a season with above-average starters at every position. Some teams have come close — and others have been able to mask their issues with dominant players at other positions — but every team’s weakness gets exposed. The New England Patriots, who have

8:25 AM ET The Jacksonville Jaguars have waived running back Leonard Fournette, the team announced Monday. The move end a tumultuous three-year run in which Fournette rushed for 2,631 yards and 17 touchdowns. But the Jaguars didn’t pick up his fifth-year option during the offseason and actively shopped him without receiving any serious trade offers.

9:59 PM ET CINCINNATI — If there was any doubt about the Cincinnati Bengals‘ quarterback situation, coach Zac Taylor made sure that was gone after Sunday’s scrimmage. Even though rookie quarterback Joe Burrow didn’t play as well as he did in the team’s first intrasquad scrimmage, Taylor said he’s seen enough from the top overall

6:00 AM ET Quick-hit thoughts and notes around the New England Patriots and NFL: 1. Possible trouble spots: Through 11 practices of training camp, here are five areas I view as most vulnerable: Tight end: Different year, same story. The Patriots have been without Rob Gronkowski since the 2019 offseason, but still don’t have a

7:29 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — One practice. That’s all it took for wide receiver CeeDee Lamb to make quite the impression with the Dallas Cowboys. As Lamb, the Cowboys’ 2020 first-round pick, sprinted toward the sideline, quarterback Dak Prescott‘s pass was high and a little to the inside. Instinctively, Lamb leaped, twisted his body

5:24 PM ET Chicago Bears coach Matt Nagy wants to keep the Detroit Lions guessing as to who his starting quarterback will be. Nagy on Saturday said he will not publicly announce Mitchell Trubisky or Nick Foles as the team’s starter prior to the Bears’ season opener at Detroit on Sept. 13. “That won’t be

7:12 AM ET Tory Z. RoyESPN One of the most enviable traits of Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Amari Cooper‘s game is his mastery of deception. “You don’t want to let the person you’re playing against know what moves that you’re going to do next,” Cooper said. “You have to think three moves ahead.” “It’s one

7:00 AM ET CINCINNATI — Even with the door closed and his voice muffled, it was clear what Joe Burrow was doing in the basement of his family home. The words were not discernible, but the sound was unmistakable. The Cincinnati Bengals rookie quarterback was staring at a screen, listening to his coaches on a

Aug 26, 2020 The 2020 fantasy football season promises to be unlike any other, as coronavirus concerns will bring a new level of uncertainty with regard to whether your players will suit up on game day … that is, as long as the games get played. With peak fantasy draft season upon us, it’s worth

7:00 AM ET BEREA, Ohio — Before knowing that the coronavirus pandemic would sweep the country, Kevin Stefanski knew he needed to go meet his quarterback. The new Cleveland Browns head coach phoned his father, a front-office executive with the Detroit Pistons, to inform him he was headed to Austin, Texas, the following morning to

8:36 AM ET The Baltimore Ravens have canceled practice Friday morning and will instead hold a “team unifying session surrounding social justice reform,” according to the team. The Ravens’ cancellation follows nine NFL teams not practicing Thursday in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin. Baltimore practiced Thursday but had planned to

4:20 PM ET If you think what happened in the NBA on Wednesday can’t happen in the NFL, you don’t know what year this is. Old rules are out the window in 2020. Long-held expectations are outdated. The Detroit Lions canceled practice Tuesday so they could stand outside of their team facility and talk about