MIAMI — The aura around him, the sizzle in his wake, still hasn’t left Odell Beckham Jr.

He conveys stylish cool like Dwyane Wade did. OBJ has appeared as himself in TV series, and in music videos by Drake and Nicki Minaj. His welcome to instant stardom 10 years ago was on the biggest media stage in America, New York, and it catapulted him ...Read more

Are we sure Jared Goff is worth more than $50 million per year?

Because if he is, that’s going to be a problem for the 49ers.

San Francisco has long anticipated paying Brock Purdy, the team’s third-year quarterback, at the market rate starting in 2026.

But Goff just reset the market with a four-year, $212 million contract.

In this era of...Read more

BALTIMORE — After Lamar Jackson took home his second NFL Most Valuable Player award last season, the Ravens are scheduled for a healthy dose of prime-time action this year.

Baltimore will play five nationally televised night games — tied for the most in franchise history — over the first dozen weeks of the 2024 NFL season, including ...Read more

SEATTLE — The Seahawks will open the Mike Macdonald era on Sept. 8 against the Denver Broncos at Lumen Field.

They’ll end the first season of Macdonald’s rookie year on Jan. 4 or 5 in Los Angeles against the Rams.

In between, they’ll play four prime-time games — but they won’t play on Thanksgiving or Christmas or internationally.

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CHICAGO — The Caleb Williams era in Chicago will begin Sept. 8 at Soldier Field when the Bears open the 2024 regular season against the Tennessee Titans.

In Week 2 of his rookie year, Williams will be featured in prime time against the Houston Texans and quarterback C.J. Stroud, the 2023 offensive rookie of the year. That game at NRG Stadium ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Jim Harbaugh era of Chargers football will begin at SoFi Stadium against the rival Las Vegas Raiders, the franchise with which Harbaugh was an assistant in 2002-03.

He coached quarterbacks during those two seasons, when the Raiders were still playing in Oakland.

The Chargers will face Las Vegas at 1:05 p.m. Sept. 8, the NFL...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The NFL knows and desires drama.

Last season's NFC wild-card playoff game between the Rams and the Detroit Lions at Ford Field in Detroit was a spectacle that featured one of the most pulsating atmospheres in recent league history.

The Rams and quarterback Matthew Stafford will get a chance to avenge the defeat when they open ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — A year ago, NFL executives and their network partners decided Baker Mayfield and the Bucs weren’t must-see TV.

You could tell by the too-early Week 5 bye and 11 kickoffs at 1 p.m., games that weren’t televised to much of the nation. It was the skid row of schedules.

But winning a third consecutive NFC South title, beating ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Eagles are hitting the road early and often this season.

Five of their first seven games in 2024 will take place beyond Lincoln Financial Field, the NFL revealed in its leaguewide, regular-season schedule release on Wednesday. That includes the Eagles’ Week 1 matchup against the Green Bay Packers in São Paulo, Brazil, in...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Somehow, the NFL couldn’t find a game for the Chiefs on a Tuesday.

But the league covered every other day of the week with the 2024 regular-season schedule unveiled on Wednesday evening.

That’s right. In addition to games played on the usual network or streaming contracts — typically, those are Sundays, Mondays and ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The NFL provided a sneak-peek at the Chiefs’ schedule before the arrival of the full entrée later Wednesday, and out of the gate, it’s an AFC championship game rematch.

And then comes a rematch of the two AFC title games before that.

The Baltimore Ravens, the team the Chiefs beat in January to advance to Super Bowl ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It's not just coming up with a schedule that works for all 32 teams, the NFL also has the challenge of pleasing its broadcast partners by evenly doling out the premier games.

To that end, the league ranks the matchups in terms of quality from 1 to 272.

That's entirely subjective, of course, but people can generally agree on top...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Harrison Butker is a three-time Super Bowl champion and one of the most accurate field goal kickers in NFL history.

As such, the Kansas City Chiefs kicker was given a platform to express his views as the commencement speaker at Benedictine College.

The devout Christian used the opportunity to give some radical thoughts and ...Read more

Netflix has acquired the exclusive rights to two NFL Christmas games, the streamer's most aggressive move yet into live sports.

The company announced Wednesday ahead of its advertiser presentation in New York that it will be the global home of the league's two Dec. 25 football contests. The games fall on a Wednesday this year.

The teams for ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker’s commencement address to Benedictine College is under fire in social media. The Kansas City Chiefs place kicker is Catholic, and delivered a very traditional and orthodox commencement address at this private Catholic liberal arts college in Atchison, Kan., last weekend.

Raised Catholic and still a ...Read more

Why it took Tom Brady by surprise that his divorce with Gisele Bündchen, her relationship with Jiu-Jitsu instructor Joaquim Valente and other aspects of their private life would be the targets of numerous barbs during his three-hour Netflix roast is puzzling.

The only joke the seven-time Super Bowl champion quarterback took exception to during...Read more

BALTIMORE — As far as Baltimore fans are concerned, the NFL couldn’t have picked a better opener to the 2024 season than having the Ravens travel to Kansas City to play the Chiefs on Sept. 5.

Maybe someone will come up with a name like the “Revenge or Avenge Bowl” as the bitter feeling still lingers in town from the 17-10 AFC ...Read more

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — It has been a tumultuous two months since quarterback Kirk Cousins signed with the Falcons.

While trying to recover from an Achilles surgery after signing a four-year contract worth up to $180 million March 12, the franchise was hit with allegations of tampering in signing Cousins and then drafted his eventual successor ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Benedictine College wisely turned off the comments for its YouTube video of Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker delivering the school’s commencement speech on Sunday to the graduating class of 2024.

Butker is a devout Catholic and Benedictine is a Catholic liberal arts college in Atchison, Kan. So Butker spoke mostly about his ...Read more

The Giants have the “weakest” offensive line in the NFL after free agency and the draft, as judged by analytics site Pro Football Focus.

Co-owner John Mara said in March that “a priority going into this offseason was to get the offensive line fixed.”

But PFF was not impressed by how the signings of Packers guard Jon Runyan, Raiders ...Read more