7:06 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN RENTON, Wash. — Pete Carroll didn’t think he could acquire a safety of Quandre Diggs‘ caliber to reinforce the suddenly thin back end of the Seattle Seahawks‘ secondary. Diggs never thought he’d be traded only a year after signing an extension with the Detroit Lions and less than two months
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11:13 AM ET Jim Harbaugh is refuting reports of interest in NFL jobs by sending a letter to parents of current players and commitments that addresses recent rumors of an exit strategy from Michigan. The letter was first reported by The Michigan Insider and was confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. Harbaugh states in the letter
6:24 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers‘ window as a contender might not be all the way open yet, but there’s little doubt that it’s starting to slide upward. For proof, one need only to look at what they did Tuesday morning, landing veteran receiver Emmanuel Sanders from the Denver Broncos.
5:19 PM ET The Detroit Lions traded starting safety Quandre Diggs and a 2021 seventh-round pick to the Seattle Seahawks for a 2020 fifth-round pick on Tuesday. Diggs had been a starter for the Lions since 2017 at slot cornerback and safety. Over the past two seasons he had become one of Detroit’s most reliable
9:46 AM ET The XFL’s inaugural season will open Feb. 8 with a game between the D.C. Defenders and Seattle Dragons in Washington, D.C., according to a full schedule the league released Tuesday morning. The game will be televised on ABC. Each of the XFL’s eight teams have been divided into two divisions. They will
11:34 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Emboldened by his terrific Week 6 performance, New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold entered Monday night playing and talking like a true franchise quarterback. By the second quarter of the Jets’ 33-0 loss to the New England Patriots, he was talking like a beaten man. “I’m seeing ghosts,”
5:35 PM ET Ravens outside linebacker Pernell McPhee is expected to miss the rest of the season after likely tearing his triceps in Baltimore’s 30-16 upset win in Seattle on Sunday, coach John Harbaugh announced Monday. This marks the third straight game in which the Ravens defense lost a player to a season-ending injury. Safeties
6:00 AM ET DENVER — Travis Kelce didn’t have to introduce himself in a literal sense to quarterback Matt Moore, his teammate of less than two months, during Thursday night’s game against the Denver Broncos. But in a football sense, the two were strangers, and Kelce wasn’t alone among his Kansas City Chiefs teammates. “I’m
6:15 PM ET The Colts and Vikings got big division wins, but it was Aaron Rodgers’ six total touchdowns for the Packers that stole the offensive show in Week 7. And while it wasn’t pretty, the 49ers survived brutal conditions in Washington D.C. to move to 6-0 on the season. In the afternoon slate, Baltimore
5:33 PM ET CHICAGO – All-purpose threat Cordarrelle Patterson‘s seventh career kickoff-return touchdown couldn’t have come at a better time for the Chicago Bears on Sunday. The New Orleans Saints had just jumped out to a 9-0 first quarter lead when Patterson fielded a kickoff 2 yards deep in his own end zone and outraced