PHILADELPHIA — Opposing offensive linemen are getting creative in their efforts to stop Jalen Carter, whether they're double-teaming the Eagles' second-year defensive tackle or getting away with some seemingly suspect blocking techniques.

Vic Fangio is aware that the latter issue of apparent holds and subsequent no-calls against Carter ...Read more

DENVER — The Broncos are going young at wide receiver.

Denver waived wide receiver Josh Reynolds on Tuesday, according to the league’s transaction wire.

Reynolds broke his finger catching a touchdown Week 5 against Las Vegas and needed minor surgery, landing him on injured reserve. While he was out, Reynolds was shot twice in an incident ...Read more

The San Francisco 49ers shored up their suddenly thin running back corps on Tuesday by claiming Israel Abanikanda off waivers from the New York Jets.

In a corresponding move, the Niners placed Christian McCaffrey on injured reserve after he suffered a right knee injury in Sunday night’s 35-10 loss to the Bills. Coach Kyle Shanahan on Monday ...Read more

The 49ers’ season is over.

Ignore the nonsense being pushed about this team winning out and making the playoffs. Cue the famous Jim Mora Sr. soundbite:

“Playoffs? Playoffs? You kidding me? Playoffs? I just hope we can win a game.”

And yet there is so much to play for in the season’s final five games.

The beauty of the NFL is that ...Read more

DENVER — Jerry Jeudy is a boo-liever in Broncos Country again.

“I loved it,” the Cleveland Browns’ WR1 and 2020 Broncos first-round draft pick said late Monday of the catcalls from Denver fans while his old team pulled out a wacky, wild 41-32 win. “They only boo you when they know that something’s gonna happen, and there’s ...Read more

Each week I’ll list the best widely available free agents for fantasy football — I define “widely available” as being owned in around half of all ESPN or Yahoo leagues — and some guys who are probably better off in the free-agent pool than collecting dust on your roster.

Follow me on X (formerly known as Twitter) @UTEddieBrown if you ...Read more

Each week of the NFL season, The Baltimore Sun will recap the best and worst from around the league. Here are our winners and losers from Week 13:

Loser: Ravens

It’s so hard to get a read on these Ravens.

One minute, they look like the best team in the NFL. The next, the defense can’t get off the field, the offense struggles to finish ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Russell Wilson has brought more than the veteran leadership that has been missing from the Steelers quarterback position. He has re-introduced another missing element: the touchdown pass.

Wilson has thrown 10 touchdowns in six starts since becoming the starter, which is already more than Kenny Pickett threw in either of his two ...Read more

BALTIMORE — When you watch him from the distance and comfort of the press box, Lamar Jackson seems less like a quarterback and more like the quickest, flashiest point guard on the playground. At all times, he knows what he is doing and knows that he is capable of doing it. He doesn't throw a football so much as he flicks it, sometimes ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — For a second time this season, Dallas Goedert is expected to be sidelined for the short term.

The 29-year-old tight end sustained a knee injury on Sunday in the Eagles' 24-19 victory over the Baltimore Ravens and is considered week-to-week, an NFL source told The Philadelphia Inquirer. The injury isn't considered to be season-...Read more

Before moving on to the fact we’re a hockey town now, let’s go to the correction box for this column:

I picked the Miami Dolphins to go 11-6 this season, win the AFC East and get a playoff win. Could you get more wrong? The trifecta!

I then picked the Miami Hurricanes to go 10-2 and win the ACC. Even with partial credit for the correct ...Read more

NEW YORK — Following Sunday’s 26-21 loss to the Seattle Seahawks, Jets interim coach Jeff Ulbrich left the door open for a potential quarterback change after falling to 3-9 on the season.

“Not as of today,” he said when asked about benching Aaron Rodgers.

On Monday, Rodgers’ 41st birthday, Ulbrich emphatically backed Rodgers and said...Read more

Heartbreak has struck the San Francisco 49ers family again with the news that the newborn son of left tackle Trent Williams died on Nov. 24.

Sondra Williams, the wife of the 49ers’ tackle, said in an Instagram post the baby had been diagnosed with Trisomy 13 — a rare genetic condition — and that a twin daughter had been lost earlier in ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Bears President Kevin Warren sat alongside general manager Ryan Poles on Monday at Halas Hall and said they would work “in tandem” to find the team’s next head coach.

Warren said Poles will remain the GM and will be the “point person” in identifying the replacement for Matt Eberflus, who on Friday became the first ...Read more

CHICAGO — The mission for Thomas Brown, now that he has chosen to accept it, indeed seems impossible.

With five games remaining in a sinking Chicago Bears season, Brown is suddenly at the helm of a damaged and wayward ship in stormy seas, trying to steer an exhausted football team to shore. Some shore. Any shore will do.

At this point, the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The coach pounded the podium once, twice, six times in all. He was preaching, and he wanted his message heard. So Nick Sirianni spent the last 100 seconds of his postgame news conference after Sunday’s 24-19 win at Baltimore campaigning for Jalen Hurts to be the NFL’s Most Valuable Player.

“He was frigging on.” Pounds ...Read more

BALTIMORE — What role — if any — Diontae Johnson will have with the Ravens going forward remains to be seen.

The veteran wide receiver, whom Baltimore acquired from the Carolina Panthers ahead of last month’s trade deadline in a swap of draft picks, did not play in Sunday’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Afterward, coach John ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Quarterback Matthew Stafford suffered a "little" lateral ankle sprain in the Rams' victory over the New Orleans Saints, but the injury is not expected to affect his preparation for Sunday's game against the Buffalo Bills, coach Sean McVay said Monday.

"Nothing that's going to change his weekly rhythm as far as practice," McVay ...Read more

The San Francisco 49ers are 5-7. They have the same record as the NFL’s laughingstock, the Dallas Cowboys.

They’re in last place in the NFC West, two games back of first-place Seattle, and they’re injured beyond recognition.

This is a bad football team.

I know because they do what all bad teams do: play poorly in the biggest moments.

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SEATTLE — Credit the Seahawks for salvaging an otherwise dismal weekend in Seattle sports.

Consider the cascading dominoes that dropped Saturday:

— In Pullman, Wyoming quarterback Evan Svoboda found John Michael Gyllenborg up the seam for an 18-yard score with 24 seconds left, securing an unthinkable 15-14 upset of the suddenly crumbling...Read more