6:12 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The last time the Kansas City Chiefs played in the Super Bowl, in 1970, Andy Reid was 11 and Patrick Mahomes was 25 years from being born. The Chiefs will finally return to the Super Bowl, 50 years after beating the Minnesota Vikings for their only NFL championship.
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9:24 AM ET Derrick Henry led the league in rushing this year and has powered the sixth-seeded Tennessee Titans to the AFC Championship Game, but he hasn’t impressed one of the guys who will be charged with tackling him on Sunday. “He’s not hard to hit,” Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark told NFL
6:01 PM ET Tennessee Titans defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons was not fined by the NFL because there was no visual evidence of him spitting on Baltimore Ravens guard Marshal Yanda. After the Titans’ 28-12 divisional playoff win in Baltimore, Yanda accused Simmons of spitting in his face. 2 Related “I’ve never been spitten in my
6:05 AM ET COSTA MESA, Calif. — A prescient Nick Saban predicted Antonio Gates‘ career path when he was just a freshman at Michigan State. Saban, then the head coach for the Spartans, recruited Gates to play football. However, he viewed Gates as a twitchy, pass-rushing defensive end. Gates, who had focused on basketball all
6:00 AM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — His first experience in the AFC Championship Game last year taught Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes a few truths about football this deep into the season. The main lesson: to be ready for anything the opponent might throw his way. Mahomes will take those lessons into this
11:04 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots backup quarterback Jarrett Stidham would be the player most affected by Tom Brady leaving the team as a free agent this offseason, but he said that isn’t part of his mindset as he prepares for his second season with the club. “Right now, I can’t really
1:45 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh defended Lamar Jackson’s playoff failure on Friday, highlighting the progress the quarterback has made in two NFL seasons. “He’s 23 years old. He’s younger than Joe Burrow, OK?” Harbaugh said at his end-of-season news conference. “So he’s got a pretty good head start
9:22 AM ET Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders … Kyler Murray? The Arizona Cardinals quarterback, coming off his rookie season, said he believes he could join a short list of athletes to play professional baseball and football at the same time … just not right now. “I think I could,” Murray told the Arizona Republic. “Athletically,
10:42 PM ET LSU quarterback Joe Burrow doesn’t appear to have any reservations about playing for the Cincinnati Bengals. Jimmy Burrow, the father of the Heisman Trophy winner, told Montreal’s TSN 690 radio on Thursday that his son has no qualms about wearing orange and black if the Bengals take Joe with the top overall
4:18 PM ET The Fritz Pollard Alliance will recommend a formal expansion of the NFL’s Rooney Rule in the wake of a hiring cycle that left the league with four minority head coaches and one general manager. The Rooney Rule requires NFL teams to interview at least one minority candidate for key leadership positions. The