Category: NFL

Titans Look to Beat Another 2020 Playoff Team, New Orleans

Your best player gets sidelined for a lengthy period, perhaps the rest of the season, and yet you prosper. That’s been the strange scenario recently in Music City, where the Tennessee Titans still have their groove despite losing running back Derrick Henry—also the top player in the AFC South—to a broken foot. “Derrick’s a guy,…


Receiver Odell Beckham Jr. Agrees to Deal With Rams

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.—Receiver Odell Beckham Jr. agreed to a one-year deal with the Rams on Thursday, choosing Los Angeles and its burgeoning super team over several potential free-agent destinations. The Browns released Beckham on Monday midway through his third season in Cleveland. He cleared waivers Tuesday with no team willing to pick up the $7.25…


Superman II: Panthers Bring QB Cam Newton Back Home

CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Superman has returned. Whether or not Cam Newton can rescue the Carolina Panthers’ sinking season remains to be seen. The Panthers (4–5) announced they’ve signed Newton to a one-year contract, bringing him back to the franchise that drafted him No. 1 overall in 2011—and later cut him prior to the 2020 season after he…


Georgia Linebacker Adam Anderson Formally Charged With Rape

Georgia linebacker Adam Anderson was charged with rape on Wednesday evening after voluntarily turning himself in to the Athens-Clarke County Police in Georgia, his attorney announced. Anderson was being held without bond. Lawyer Steve Sadow said in a statement: “Adam is innocent of the charge brought against him and intends to vigorously defend himself in…


Fully Vaccinated Vikings Player Hospitalized With COVID-19: Coach

A fully vaccinated player on the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings was taken to a hospital’s emergency room due to trouble breathing after contracting COVID-19, said head coach Mike Zimmer on Wednesday. “One of our players that was vaccinated, he had to go to the ER last night because of COVID. It’s serious stuff,” Zimmer told reporters, without…


Henry Ruggs’ Lawyers Argue to Block Medical Records Release

LAS VEGAS—Attorneys for former Raiders receiver Henry Ruggs III launched a bid Wednesday to keep his medical records out of the hands of prosecutors charging him with driving under the influence in a fiery crash that killed a Las Vegas woman and cost Ruggs his spot on the team. Ruggs didn’t appear in person in…


Aaron Rodgers Accepts ‘Full Responsibility’ for Controversy Over Vaccination Comments

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers admitted on Tuesday that he misled some people about his vaccination status following criticisms he received after being diagnosed with COVID-19. Rodgers shared the new information during an interview on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Tuesday. “I made some comments that people might have felt were misleading, and to anybody…


In-N-Out Could ‘Expand to Florida’ Over California Vaccine Policies: DeSantis’ Office

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office said that the governor had a conversation with the president of In-N-Out Burger after the fast-food chain was forced to shutter several of its locations in California over local COVID-19 vaccine mandates. “As you may have heard, In-N-Out has closed a couple of locations in California due to vaccine passport…


NFL Fines Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers for Breaching COVID-19 Protocols

The NFL has fined star quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers for COVID-19 protocol violations. After wrapping up its investigation on Tuesday evening, the NFL notified the Green Bay Packers and Rodgers of their financial penalties—$300,000 and $14,650 respectively—according to NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo, who noted in a statement on Twitter that Packers wide…


Packers’ Campbell Chief Among 2021 Breakout Defensive Stars

Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers and wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling stood together on the sideline last month at Cincinnati admiring the work of De’Vondre Campbell. The Packers’ new inside linebacker had nine tackles, broke up a pass, and snared another that day, helping Green Bay edge the Bengals. “We just said, ‘How in the hell…