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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills general manager Brandon Beane would theoretically consider cutting an unvaccinated player if it meant the team being able to lift NFL COVID-19 protocols restricting in-person t […]

CLEVELAND — And the winner is … the NFL draft.

Thursday’s broadcast of the first round from Cleveland averaged 12.6 million viewers on television and digital sources, according to the NFL and Nielsen. That […]

About the only certainty in the confounding 2021 NFL draft is Trevor Lawrence going to the Jaguars with the first overall pick.
Beyond that, it’s really anybody’s guess following the most unorthodox of run […]

By Barry Wilner
What’s ahead for the NFL in 2021? Not even the teams know.
They’ll begin finding out this week when the 32 team owners hold virtual meetings Tuesday and Wednesday.
Two items top the agenda: inc […]

By Teresa M. Walker
Coaches and general managers have flocked to one city for nearly 40 years to interview players and watch them run drills at the NFL’s annual scouting combine.
Now teams are sending scouts, c […]

The NFL is taking steps to learn more about different ways to help players manage pain.
Last month, the NFL and NFL Players Association asked researchers with experience conducting controlled, experimental […]

By Barry Wilner
There are some very rich people about to get a whole lot richer. Who else but NFL owners?
Probably within the next week, those 32 multi-millionaires/billionaires will see their future earnings […]

It took Sheila Ford Hamp about one second to respond when asked about the potential for women in key roles in the NFL.
“The sky is the limit for anything females want to do,” said Hamp, the principal owner of the […]

By Paul Newberry
ATLANTA (AP) — No more football for Johnny Football unless it’s just for kicks.
After a self-destructing pro career that never came close to fulfilling his enormous potential, Johnny Manziel say […]

By Barry Wilner
Maybe the lack of competitiveness in the Super Bowl was a good sign for the NFL.
After a year in which the challenges of playing a full and barely interrupted season provided more than enough […]

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Lori Locust and Maral Javadifar, Super Bowl champs.
To their many fans in the NFL world and beyond, that’s got a real nice ring to it.
Locust and Javadifar became the first female coaches on […]

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady made his seventh Super Bowl title look familiar – despite moving south to a new team and conference during a pandemic.
Brady threw two touchdown passes to old friend Rob Gronkowski a […]

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Wearing N95 masks and plastic face shields, John Goodman, his wife Alison McMillian and their two teenage sons navigated the crowded streets outside Raymond James Stadium and settled into t […]

The reigning Swedish champion Carlstad Crusaders have signed Timothy Morovick as their quarterback for the 2021 season.

Ironically, Morovick was the quarterback for Carlstad’s arch rivals in 2020, the St […]

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Craig Cathers is decked out like a guy who’s ready — totally fired up — for his team to play in the Super Bowl.
The 37-year-old native of Plattsburgh, New York, who recently moved to Minneap […]

By Rob Maaddi and Barry Wilner
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The many lessons learned from 2020 will be needed as the NFL moves forward, Commissioner Roger Goodell noted Thursday in his annual state of the league news c […]

By Ken Maguire
Dedrick Dodge has two Super Bowl rings — not bad for a guy who was working at an Anheuser-Busch plant after his Florida State career.
So how did Dodge go from being passed over by every NFL team o […]

By Teresa M. Walker
Playing a season through a pandemic did not take the NFL’s attention off other health issues, specifically concussions, with the league finding those dropped about 5% in 2020.
Jeff Miller, N […]

By Tim Dahlberg
The Super Bowl is always defined by numbers, this one perhaps more than others because there’s one number — positive tests for COVID-19 this week — that no one wants to see.
Still, this Super […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs placed a pair of backups, wide receiver Demarcus Robinson and center Daniel Kilgore, on the COVID-19 list as close contacts Monday as they begin final preparations f […]