KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs’ quest for a three-peat began Thursday night with a thrilling win against a top AFC rival.

And it also included an impressive debut for the team’s first-round rookie.

Receiver Xavier Worthy starred in Week 1, rushing for a touchdown and catching another as KC held on for a 27-20 home victory over...Read more

Taylor Swift was there. So was every other red-clad, diehard superfan as the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs opened the NFL season Thursday night at home against the Baltimore Ravens.

With one exception.

A man popularly known as "ChiefsAholic" for wearing a gray wolf's suit to games was sentenced Thursday for committing 11 ...Read more

Taylor Swift is in attendance and ready to root for boyfriend Travis Kelce as the Kansas City Chiefs kick off the NFL season with their opening game against the Baltimore Ravens.

The pop star arrived at Arrowhead Stadium more than an hour before the 8:20 ET kick-off time, donning a matching denim crop-top and short-shorts with over-the-knee red...Read more

The NFL kicks off the season Thursday, and former President Trump appears to be rooting for the same team as Taylor Swift this fall.

The day before the Kansas City Chiefs' home game against the Baltimore Ravens, the current Republican presidential nominee appeared to be going all in on the Chiefs. Trump praised quarterback Patrick Mahomes and ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Travis Kelce wears many hats. He's an All-Pro tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, ubiquitous commercial pitchman, and as boyfriend to the world's biggest pop star, Swiftie in Chief.

It was a different hat — a cartoonish chapeau — Kelce donned a decade ago when he began a journey that would impact thousands of children...Read more

Welcome to the NFL’s 105th season and the 34th year for our King Sport picks in the Miami Herald. This also marks the league’s 23rd season kicking things off with a prime-time Thursday night game. To lend perspective on how long that has been, Miami Hurricanes tight end Cam McCormick was a college freshman when the NFL began Thursday starts....Read more

The Los Angeles Times' NFL writer, Sam Farmer, examines this week's matchups. Lines according to FanDuel Sportsbook (O/U = over/under). Last season's record 162-110 (.596). Using point spreads with the scores Farmer had predicted, his record against the spread would have been 130-135-7 (.491). Team records from last season. All times Pacific.

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It was 1991 when we launched our NFL picks (the “Friday Page”) in the Miami Herald. Nirvana had just released its seminal Nevermind album, Tom Brady was a 14-year-old kid banging around San Mateo, Calif., and current Miami Hurricanes tight end Cam McCormick was a college freshman. Thirty-four seasons later, welcome back to longtime readers ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — When there were 46 days before the Steelers’ season opener, Russell Wilson’s health was brushed off as ‘not much to see here.’

Three days out from Atlanta, it now stands to reason that Wilson’s calf tightness is more concerning. Wilson was limited in Thursday’s practice on the South Side upon reporting that ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In the buoyant clatter of the Chiefs’ locker room, after the last practice before the season begins, rookie running back Carson Steele considered the moment at hand.

He thought about how best to harness the emotional surge he’ll feel when he takes the field Thursday night for the Chiefs’ NFL opener against the ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It was one of the first team meetings of the Dave Canales era. Bryce Young was there, front row. So were his Carolina Panthers teammates. Canales, the 43-year-old coach who worked over a decade in the NFL before landing his first head coaching role at the Panthers, was sharing his vision, telling a story.

That’s when ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Let's get one thing straight.

Jalen Hurts is worth $255 million.

Probably more.

That isn't a question.

That isn't the question.

After a 2023 season in which Hurts took some material steps backward from the quarterback who'd earned himself a gargantuan offseason contract extension, it would be easy to frame 2024 as a year ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Even after listening to Jim Harbaugh speak throughout the Chargers' training camp, edge rusher Khalil Mack still can't figure how his new coach's brain is wired. Whenever Harbaugh is talking, Mack has no idea what he's about to hear.

"Never know what he's going to say when he's in front of the whole group of people in the team ...Read more

RENTON, Wash. — DK Metcalf has been targeted a number of times with questions like the one coming up. I’m just not sure it has ever resulted in a completion for the media member.

It isn’t necessarily team first, individual second when it comes to his responses — it’s team first and nothing else.

So getting the Seahawks receiver to ...Read more

For one brief, steaming moment, the Miami Dolphins will be in their historical element in Sunday’s opener. The projected temperature on the field: Roughly, Mercury.

Just how they want it. The climate shock of the September and October subtropics on opponents has historically been the Dolphins 12th man, the “best under-appreciated home-field...Read more

LOS ANGELES — From his first day on the job, Jim Harbaugh was enamored with Justin Herbert's leadership abilities. The fifth-year quarterback "leads from the front," Harbaugh praised.

That is, unless Herbert is emerging from a broken elevator.

When about a dozen members of the Chargers' traveling party were stuck in an elevator in Dallas ...Read more

DETROIT — A few years after being let go as head coach of the Detroit Lions, Matt Patricia has joined the media.

Patricia is joining the 33rd Team, a media and technology platform, as a contributor, according to a TV interview Patricia did Wednesday morning. Former head coaches Bill Belichick and Adam Gase also joined the company, according ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Jayden Daniels is anything but a paint-by-the numbers pocket NFL quarterback. He’s an escape artist.

The second overall pick of the Washington Commanders and 2023 Heisman Trophy winner can beat you with his feet and his arm.

Bucs outside linebacker Chris Braswell tackled Daniels when his Alabama team beat LSU, 42-28, last ...Read more

DENVER — Pat Surtain II is an anomaly.

He is the rare cornerback who doesn’t taunt opponents or spend news conferences shouting, “I am the best.” Because everybody already knows it.

The Broncos have believed since Surtain’s first training camp that he is their most talented player. Over the past three seasons he has proven it, ...Read more