PHILADELPHIA — Sean Mannion, the Eagles’ new offensive coordinator, is 33 years old, has been a coach — not just an NFL coach, but a coach of any kind — for only two years, and reportedly will call plays next season even though he has never called plays before. If it sounds like the Eagles have entered uncharted territory here, if it ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Drake Maye has become a Super Bowl quarterback at age 23, and there’s no way anybody in his immediate family is going to miss the moment.

At least that’s the plan.

Mark Maye, father to Drake and his three older brothers, said Wednesday in a telephone interview that the family is all planning on being there Feb. 8 when ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Rams came close to advancing to the Super Bowl for the third time under coach Sean McVay. But a team that was arguably the best in the NFL 12 weeks into the season ultimately lost to the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC championship game.

After the defeat, McVay was emotional about his team.

"It's as special of a group that, top...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Eric Bieniemy is back in the Chiefs’ facility, and the habitual turns of phrases are back along with him. The “grind,” as he says. The “chopping wood.” The “good, the bad, the ugly and the indifferent.”

E.B., as even he put it in his introduction to Kansas City on Wednesday afternoon, is still E.B.

Or his re-...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The fashionable thing to do in the wake of Bill Belichick’s apparent snub for the Pro Football Hall of Fame is to blame the process, blame the by-laws set forth by the people in Canton, Ohio, for the way candidates are elected.

Right after that is the groundswell of opinion that the 50 members of the selection committee should ...Read more

SEATTLE — Everybody has a Jaxon Smith-Njigba story.

They all just sound the same.

Because this man is a traveling magician, wowing audiences from Texas to Ohio to Seattle with the same repeatable routine. His repertoire does not include superhuman size or speed, which makes the reveal even more mystifying. Though his measurables seem ...Read more

SEATTLE — Just about anybody, anywhere could have told you what some of the prominent Super Bowl storylines would be.

A rematch between the Seahawks and the Patriots 11 years after one of the most heartbreaking moments in Seattle sports history. A quarterback showdown between journeyman-turned-star Sam Darnold and second-year sensation Drake ...Read more

SEATTLE — The Seahawks will eventually be sold by Jody Allen, the current team chair who took over in that role when her brother, Paul Allen, died in 2018.

That has been known for a while and is not in dispute.

What is in question is whether the team will immediately be up for sale after the Super Bowl, as indicated in a report Friday ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It’s been nearly four years since the Chiefs traded wide receiver Tyreek Hill to the Dolphins, and every so often we’ve seen a familiar pattern.

Hill would hint at wanting to leave Miami and/or return to the Chiefs, and some fans in Kansas City would call for general manager Brett Veach to make a trade to bring him back...Read more

NEW YORK — New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch was featured among millions of documents in the latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files Friday, trading emails with the disgraced financier about connecting with women.

In one thread of correspondence in April 2013, Tisch emailed Epstein, then a convicted sex offender, to say he’d just had ...Read more

BALTIMORE — New Ravens coach Jesse Minter is hiring Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Declan Doyle to be Baltimore’s offensive coordinator, a source with direct knowledge of the situation confirmed to The Baltimore Sun.

Doyle replaces Todd Monken, whom previous coach John Harbaugh had hired in 2023 and is now the coach of the Cleveland ...Read more

FOXBORO, Mass. — Patriots quarterback Drake Maye, who’s dealing with an injury to his right throwing shoulder, was not present for the start of Friday’s practice.

Head coach Mike Vrabel said Friday afternoon that Maye did not practice due to an illness/right shoulder injury.

Vrabel said Maye was at the facility Friday and that he would ...Read more

SEATTLE — The Seahawks’ appearance in the Super Bowl on Feb. 8 could be the last game for the Allen family as owners of the team.

ESPN reported Friday afternoon that the Seahawks will go up for sale after the Super Bowl. A source confirmed the report to The Seattle Times.

The report cited “league and ownership sources familiar with the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Less than nine months after giving general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah a contract extension, the Vikings fired him on Friday, triggering another major shift in their front office four years after they brought in Adofo-Mensah and coach Kevin O’Connell.

Though Adofo-Mensah had continued to work through the first weeks of the ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Mike McCarthy has visions of the Super Bowl parade beginning at 1137 Greenfield Ave., the three-story, four-bedroom house where he grew up, right across the Monongahela River from Steelers headquarters.

Maybe that sounds outlandish for a franchise that hasn't won a playoff game since 2016, let alone reached the pinnacle of the ...Read more

I reacted with puzzlement and amazement when the news broke that former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick will not be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on the first ballot.

In the days since, I’ve done an about-face. If Belichick has to get snubbed for Roger Craig to be enshrined, I’m OK with it.

Same with Ken Anderson and L...Read more

SEATTLE — Max Browne can tell you when he knew Sam Darnold was dangerous.

It was the summer of 2015, and Browne — a former five-star recruit and Gatorade National High School Player of the Year at Skyline High School in Sammamish — was a redshirt sophomore quarterback at USC. Cody Kessler was the Trojans’ cemented starter, but Browne ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Bears assistant general manager Ian Cunningham is leaving to become the general manager of the Atlanta Falcons, according to an ESPN report Thursday evening.

After four years with the Bears, Cunningham heads to Atlanta to work with the franchise’s new president of football, Matt Ryan.

One of the first moves Bears GM Ryan ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — He hasn’t had any conversations with the Bucs’ No. 1 receiver since the season ended. The last thing he told him was not to rush into a decision.

But quarterback Baker Mayfield said this week he believes Mike Evans not only will play again in 2026, but that it will be for the Bucs.

During an appearance on “The Ronde ...Read more