CHICAGO — Chicago Bears wide receiver Rome Odunze will miss his fourth consecutive game after he was ruled out Friday afternoon ahead of Sunday night’s matchup with the San Francisco 49ers.

Odunze sat out the entire week of practice with a foot injury that has been nagging him for several weeks. The 2024 first-round draft pick hasn’t ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt won’t play Sunday in Cleveland, but he’ll still be very much involved in the proceedings.

Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett is chasing history — and Watt — in the form of the NFL’s single-season sack record. With 22 on the year, Garrett is a half-sack from tying Watt and ...Read more

FOXBORO, Mass. — The Patriots have already ruled out seven starters for Sunday’s game against the Jets.

Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel announced Friday afternoon that wide receivers Kayshon Boutte (concussion) and Mack Hollins (abdomen), left guard Jared Wilson (concussion), defensive tackle Khyiris Tonga (foot), linebacker Robert Spillane...Read more

RENTON, Wash. — Along with winning four letters for football at Drake University, Seahawks tight end Eric Saubert earned a degree in actuarial sciences.

What can one do with an actuarial sciences degree?

As Drake’s website defines it, the degree would allow someone a career assessing “how much should a company charge an individual for ...Read more

MIAMI — Everything about the Miami Dolphins franchise is on unstable footing.

Miami is currently run by an interim general manager (Champ Kelly), the head coach (Mike McDaniel) and his staff are on the hot seat, and the team just changed starting quarterbacks (switching from Tua Tagovailoa to rookie Quinn Ewers) last week.

So projecting what...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Ravens were still breathing Sunday night. Not quite comfortably, but alive enough to imagine a comeback that could’ve salvaged their season and dwindling playoff hopes.

After Zay Flowers hauled in a pass from backup Tyler Huntley, the team’s top wideout attempted a juke move, the ball subsequently drifting away from his ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — There are 544 games in an NFL season, but Sunday's classic between the Steelers and Detroit Lions at Ford Field stands out among the rest. The game had big plays, drama, controversy and an ending worthy of a Hollywood production.

"The result of the play is a touchdown. However ..."

The Steelers' season brightened while the Lions...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Lions were hoping to show who they really are, to recapture their identity and rekindle their playoff hopes. Instead, they showed up and confirmed what they’ve become, a battered, broken team, beaten soundly in all the areas they used to control.

The Lions couldn’t block anyone, couldn’t hold onto the ball, could ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — All eyes (and television cameras) were on Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce on Christmas night.

Kelce’s future was on everyone’s mind Thursday because his contract with the Chiefs expires at the end of the regular season. Kelce has remained mum about his future plans, but it’s no stretch to think he’ll hang up the ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs fans had mixed emotions during the Christmas Day tailgate before taking on the Denver Broncos.

The Thursday night game was the first following the news that the team would be leaving GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, their home for more than 50 years, for a new domed facility in Kansas.

The Kansas City ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Broncos unwrapped the finest of presents at 9:45 p.m. Central time on Christmas night.

It came complements of Kansas City star defensive tackle Chris Jones.

Facing fourth-and-2 coming out of the 2-minute warning on Thursday night in a game that mattered a whole lot for the Broncos and not at all for the rival Chiefs, ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It’s been a strange season.

The Chiefs giving the Broncos, technically the No. 1 seed in the AFC, a last-minute fight fits the billing.

The Broncos beat the Chiefs, 20-13, on Christmas night, slamming the door with a late touchdown rather than a field goal after Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones jumped offside.

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Initial thoughts from the Broncos’ 20-13 win over the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 16 at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.:

1. An ugly Christmas present

Playing for a penalty against the Chiefs in Kansas City during a tie game, with two minutes left in the fourth quarter, on national TV? That takes some guts, man. Chris Jones...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Snoop Dogg threw a lavish Christmas party during halftime at the Vikings game — and he was determined to invite everybody.

The iconic rapper must have known he couldn’t match the star power on display during last year’s Emmy-nominated spectacle from Houston with Beyoncé as the headliner. It would also be impossible to ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly two years to the day after the Detroit Lions snapped a 30-year drought for the division title with a win at Minnesota on Christmas Eve, Detroit's 2025 playoff hopes were officially laid to rest at U.S. Bank Stadium on Christmas.

The Lions, who had eight giveaways all season entering Thursday, turned it over six times. ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Until Max Brosmer hit Justin Jefferson for 10 yards on his final completion of Christmas Day, the Vikings had negative net passing yards in their home game with the Lions.

But their defense turned in such a masterpiece, they were able to subsist with almost no production from their offense.

The Vikings forced six turnovers in a...Read more

DENVER — Looking for good health in their holiday stocking, these Broncos have instead received a resounding heap of coal.

On Thursday, the organization placed starting center Luke Wattenberg on injured reserve, a major blow to the offensive front as Denver marches into the playoffs. Wattenberg has started all 15 games for the Broncos as the ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — When Omar Khan took over as general manager of the Steelers in the summer of 2023, he had a grand vision for how he wanted to build the roster back into a playoff contender. He wanted to build through the trenches and has followed through on his goal by drafting offensive and defensive linemen in the top rounds of the draft in ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On an early February morning in 2020, hundreds of thousands of people flocked to downtown Kansas City, single-digit wind chills be damned, to converge on a celebration they’d been waiting a lifetime to enjoy.

They arrived from all walks of life, those young and those old, those rich and those poor, those Black and those ...Read more