CHICAGO — Al Harris had a profound impact on the Chicago Bears long before being hired as defensive backs coach/passing game coordinator.

A two-time Pro Bowl cornerback for the Green Bay Packers, Harris is the assistant who was tasked with piecing things together while Jaylon Johnson and Kyler Gordon missed much of the season. He’s the guy ...Read more

MIAMI — Nobody inside team’s facility wants to say it out loud. Few even want to address it. They pretend it’s not happening and make excuses for it. But the numbers tell the story of a massive regression.

Tua Tagaovailoa is having the worst season of his NFL career heading into Sunday’s road game against the New York Jets.

Yes, we’...Read more

Super Bowl champion and NFL All-Pro Richard Sherman laid into Dallas Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens after the team’s 44-30 loss to the Detroit Lions on Thursday Night Football.

Sherman said the Georgia product looked uninterested and was not giving the requisite effort demanded of a star player.

“The big story here is George Pickens....Read more

BALTIMORE — A day after being absent from one practice for a fourth straight week, Lamar Jackson returned to the field Friday in Owings Mills.

The Ravens quarterback confirmed that he got his foot stepped on during Wednesday’s session, leading to his absence the following day, though he declined to name which player was the guilty party. He...Read more

The 2026 quarterback class was supposed to be deeper than this.

There was a possibility Texas’ Arch Manning would join the fray if things went well enough in his first year as a starter. That’s not happening.

Penn State’s Drew Allar, Miami’s Carson Beck, Clemson’s Cade Klubnik and LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier were all considered ...Read more

The Chicago Bears celebrated their Black Friday win over the Philadelphia Eagles as if they’d won the Super Bowl.

Players celebrated wildly and coach Ben Johnson danced shirtless in the postgame locker room, his team having ascended to the top-seeded position in the NFC.

Hard to fault the Bears, given they’re 9-3 and better than anyone ...Read more

DETROIT — It was now or never for the Detroit Lions in Thursday night's game against the Dallas Cowboys at Ford Field.

And they chose now.

Detroit entered the pivotal must-win matchup with its hair on fire, scoring 10 first-quarter points and holding off a ferocious comeback attempt from the red-hot Cowboys in a 44-30 victory.

With the win,...Read more

Here's a look back at Week 13's action and fantasy advice for the week ahead:

WEEK 13 RECAP

Packers 31, Lions 24: Amon-Ra St. Brown suffered a low ankle sprain early in the loss to Green Bay on Thanksgiving. With St. Brown’s injury and Kalif Raymond already out (ankle), Isaac TeSlaa played a season-high 92.1% of Detroit’s offensive snaps. ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Whatever Justin Jefferson’s body language might have seemed to say during Sunday’s 26-0 loss in Seattle, the Vikings wide receiver used his words Thursday to make clear his current feelings about the state of his team’s season.

“The season isn’t over,” Jefferson said. “We still have five games left. I would never ...Read more

The 2026 quarterback class was supposed to be deeper than this.

There was a possibility Texas’ Arch Manning would join the fray if things went well enough in his first year as a starter. That’s not happening.

Penn State’s Drew Allar, Miami’s Carson Beck, Clemson’s Cade Klubnik and LSU’s Garrett Nussmeier were all considered ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter will miss Monday’s game in Los Angeles and be considered week to week after undergoing a procedure on both of his shoulders, a source confirmed to The Philadelphia Inquirer Thursday.

ESPN was first to report the news on Carter, who has been dealing with a shoulder injury since the ...Read more

Los Angeles Times NFL writer Sam Farmer examines the matchups and makes his predictions for Week 14 of the NFL season.

All lines and over/under numbers are according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

Last week, Farmer posted a 11-5 (.688) record. Through the first 13 weeks of the season, he is 130-64 (.670).

Using point spreads with the scores Farmer ...Read more

A good week for us overall, the previous one, a bit of overdue luck our way on Week 13. Navigated some land-mine surprises for an OK 10-6 outright and cashed a solid 9-6-1 against the spread for some needed gains there. We scored an outright upset with Cowboys beating Chiefs on Bird Day and also had a trio of other ‘dogs-with-points covers by ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Steelers-Ravens rivalry is the best in the NFL and has been for quite some time.

The games are always highly competitive, physical and have a high dose of good, old-fashioned, slobber-knockin' football. There is trash talking, there are bragging rights on the line and there are almost always playoff and AFC North implications...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The stalest phrase in Kansas City first turned up some 5,000 miles, three time zones and one entire continent away.

Well, first turned up this year.

Chiefs head coach Andy Reid walked into a postgame news conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the aftermath of a Week 1 loss to the Chargers, and greeted a question from ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Pardon the intrusion, but where’s the party?

Where is the laughter, the excitement, the anticipation? Why the short tempers and long faces?

Sure, it feels a little snobbish to say it, but this is not the December we had in mind.

The Bucs are potentially a handful of games away from clinching their fifth consecutive NFC South...Read more

GREG COTE’S NFL WEEK 14 THURSDAY PICK

COWBOYS (6-5-1) at LIONS (7-5)

Line: DET by 3.

Cote’s pick: DET, 34-30.

TV: 8:15 p.m., Prime Video.

What is this, Thanksgiving leftovers? The two annual Bird Day hosts are back, rested for the Precarious Bowl, with Detroit and Dallas opening Week 14 sitting eighth and ninth in the jockeying for ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Ravens tight end Mark Andrews will be staying in Baltimore a little longer.

On Wednesday, he agreed to a three-year contract extension that will keep him with the Ravens through 2028, the team announced. He was slated to be a free agent after this season.

The deal is worth $39.3 million with $26 million guaranteed, according to a...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Ben Roethlisberger, among the greatest Steelers of all time, has officially registered his opinion on Mike Tomlin's future.

"Maybe it is 'clean-house' time. Maybe it is time," Roethlisberger said on his "Footbahlin'" podcast. "I like coach Tomlin. I have a lot of respect for coach Tomlin. But maybe it's best for him, too. Maybe a...Read more