Category: NFL

Broncos Fire Rookie Head Coach Hackett After 4–11 Start

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.—The Denver Broncos fired first-year head coach Nathaniel Hackett on Monday with two games left in the season. Team owner and CEO Greg Penner said he’ll lead the search for a new coach with assistance from GM George Paton, in whom he expressed confidence while announcing Hackett’s dismissal. Firing Hackett with two games left…


Rams, Bucs, Packers Earn Wins on Same Day in Upside-Down NFC

Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers led comeback wins and the Los Angeles Rams dominated Russell Wilson and the Broncos. It was a triumphant Christmas for the Buccaneers, Packers and Rams as many figured it would be when the schedule was released in May. The NFC’s top three preseason Super Bowl favorites were expected to be…


Tom Brady, Buccaneers Rally to Beat Cardinals 19–16 in Overtime

GLENDALE, Ariz.—There were times during the slog of a football game Sunday night when Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady looked frustrated. There were other times he looked angry. There were a few times he looked downright old. But there were also six throws in overtime where Tom Brady looked like Tom Brady. And that’s all…


Mayfield, Akers Lead Rams’ 51–14 Blowout of Wilson’s Broncos

INGLEWOOD, Calif.—Baker Mayfield threw two touchdown passes to Tyler Higbee, Cam Akers rushed for 118 yards and three more scores, and the Los Angeles Rams routed the Denver Broncos 51–14 Sunday for their second victory since mid-October. Mayfield went 24 of 28 for 230 yards in another standout performance for his second win in three…


Late Interceptions Help Packers Beat Dolphins

Aaron Rodgers completed 24 of 38 passes for 238 yards, a touchdown and an interception to lead the Green Bay Packers to a 26–20 comeback win over the Miami Dolphins on Sunday afternoon in Miami Gardens, Fla. Green Bay (7–8) won its third consecutive game and kept its playoff hopes alive. The Packers need wins…


NFL Roundup: Cowboys Down Eagles in Pivotal NFC East Battle

Brett Maher kicked a go-ahead, 48-yard field goal with 2:19 remaining to lift the host Dallas Cowboys to a 40–34 win over the Philadelphia Eagles on Saturday, preventing the Eagles from clinching in the NFC East and the conference’s top overall seed in the playoffs. The Cowboys (11–4), who trailed 27–17 with nine minutes left…


Hot Jaguars Send Jets to Fourth Straight Loss

Trevor Lawrence completed 20 of 31 passes for 229 yards and the Jacksonville Jaguars continued their late-season rise with a 19–3 victory over the New York Jets in windy and rainy conditions on Thursday night, Dec. 22, in East Rutherford, N.J. Riley Patterson kicked four field goals and Evan Engram had seven receptions for 113…


Former Broncos Running Back Ronnie Hillman Dies at 31

DENVER—Running back Ronnie Hillman, who was part of the Denver Broncos team that won Super Bowl 50, has died, his family said in a statement. He was 31. Hillman’s family posted on his Instagram account Wednesday that he was diagnosed in August with a rare form of kidney cancer called renal medullary carcinoma and was…


Franco Harris, Steeler Who Caught Immaculate Reception, Dies

PITTSBURGH—The ball fluttered in the air and all but one of the 22 players on the Three Rivers Stadium turf on that cold December day 50 years ago essentially stopped. Franco Harris never did. The Pittsburgh Steelers running back kept right on going, the instincts that carried him through his life both on and off…


Steelers Player Franco Harris Dies

PITTSBURGH—The ball fluttered in the air and all but one of the 22 players on the Three Rivers Stadium turf on that cold December day 50 years ago essentially stopped. Franco Harris never did. The Pittsburgh Steelers running back kept right on going, the instincts that carried him through his life both on and off…