The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 NFL Combine. NFL Draft season is in high gear, with prospect interviews already underway in Indianapolis at the NFL Scouting Combine. As the league’s offseason spotlight turns to college stars and how they might fit at the next level, there’s no group better qualified to assess them…
Some are names and faces you know — Jason Kelce, Sean McVay, Kevin O’Connell, Nicole Lynn — while others are behind the scenes and under the radar … for now. This is The Athletic’s NFL 50 under 40, a list of rising coaches, executives, personalities and other personnel who significantly impact the NFL and will…
Not every NFL team is blessed with cap space this offseason. The New England Patriots, for example, have little worry and plenty incentive to spend at an estimated $119 million in cap space, according to Over The Cap. Other teams, such as the New Orleans Saints, with a $51 million hole to climb out of,…
While the Philadelphia Eagles put a bow on Super Bowl LIX celebrations today, the NFL offseason has begun in earnest. And with that comes the next five months of belaboring over the biggest fixes, adds and improvements your favorite teams need to close the gap. Survey The Athletic’s NFL beat reporters and you’ll find Super…
OK, we heard you — at least a vocal portion of you — who want a little bit of a stepped up trivia challenge as we head into the AFC and NFC title games on Sunday. Plenty were stoked about last week’s quiz on Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, yet some of you wanted the…
In a major upset, Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen was named the 2024 NFL MVP in a historically rare victory Thursday night. Allen, 28, received 27 first-place votes to emerge with his first MVP award over first-team All-Pro quarterback Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens. Allen also had 22 second-place votes and one third-place vote,…
All-Pro defensive end Myles Garrett has requested a trade. The Cleveland Browns have been adamant that they’re not moving Garrett, but the public request will invite real suitors and, given their roster holes and bloated contracts, could force the Browns to consider a shift in their thinking. The Browns would only trade Garrett because they…
For about a week leading up to the A.F.C. championship game, Meredith Nolan had been living on a hulking research vessel parked in an Antarctic port. The ship, called the Noosfera, had been waiting for favorable sea conditions before plowing into the icy waters below the southern tip of South America. It was late January,…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Josh Allen exited the visiting team’s media room at Arrowhead Stadium following his obligatory postgame news conference. He walked down the narrow hallway to the visitor’s locker room. Allen normally has a pep in his step when he’s going from place to place. At that moment, Allen took one slow step…
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — During the Buffalo Bills’ playoff drought, ESPN anchor Kevin Connors used to have a running joke on air. Connors, a lifelong Bills fan from Long Island, would refer to the Bills as America’s Team. It would elicit a laugh from his co-anchor, one baked in sympathy for Connors and the other…