MIAMI — Tua Tagovailoa is having an identity crisis.

Physically he looks like the same guy with longer, braided hair.

His weight has gone up and down the past couple of years, but that happens as we age and have children.

But game wise, ability wise, the Miami Dolphins’ starting quarterback doesn’t feel like himself.

He isn’t playing...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The question floating around Gainesville right now isn’t whether Lane Kiffin is the best candidate for the University of Florida’s head coaching job.

It’s whether the Gators are actually willing to spend $150 million — fully guaranteed, over 10 years — to hire him.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for the Gators ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The NFL voted against banning the Tush Push at the league meetings in April. That doesn’t mean the play has become any less controversial since.

On Monday, for the first time since the vote, the Birds will face the architects of the proposal to ban the play — the Green Bay Packers.

Coach Matt LaFleur said in the spring ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A.J. Brown didn’t spend the bye week wrapped up in the madness of the trade deadline and the external speculation that surrounded his Eagles future.

Rather, Brown says he planted himself in his yard and played football with his toddler son, A.J. Jr., shutting out the rumors that circulated in the lead-up to Tuesday’s ...Read more

DENVER — This time, the Broncos‘ prolific fourth-quarter offense didn’t show up.

No matter, Denver’s defense most certainly did.

The Broncos scraped and scrimped, struggled and staggered, but in the end, they somehow came away with a 10-7 win against Las Vegas at Empower Field on Thursday night.

This team has won seven straight games,...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — As a second-round draft pick of an NFL team, Marshawn Kneeland was the rarest of statistics.

According to a study by Ohio State University, Kneeland was among the fewer than 1% of high school football players who played in the NFL. He made it.

Wednesday evening, the second-year defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys became ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rico Dowdle is turning a fine from the NFL into something that will help his home state.

How, exactly?

By launching a GoFundMe.

“After much thought, I’ve launched a GoFundMe for my fines,” Dowdle wrote on the webpage he created Wednesday evening. “Key said I got three pumps, but I guess the NFL disagrees.”

And ...Read more

MIAMI — Former NFL star Antonio Brown was extradited from the Middle East to the U.S. to face trial for a shooting that occurred outside a Miami boxing event earlier this year, police confirmed Thursday afternoon.

Brown, 37, is being held in Essex County, N.J., awaiting another extradition to Miami-Dade County, Miami police said. It is ...Read more

Here’s a look back at Week 9’s action and fantasy advice for the week ahead:

WEEK 9 RECAP

Ravens 28, Dolphins 6: In the four games Lamar Jackson has started and finished, he’s the weekly QB4, QB3, QB3 and QB9.

Bears 47, Bengals 42: Only Brock Bowers scored more fantasy points than Colston Loveland in Week 9. Loveland finished with six ...Read more

CHICAGO — Nobody at Halas Hall is worried about Rome Odunze.

Odunze’s father James Odunze caught the attention of Bears fans on social media this week when he shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) suggesting the Bears should “trade Rome Odunze to a team that will actually throw to him.”

Speaking on Thursday at Halas Hall, the younger ...Read more

Los Angeles Times NFL writer Sam Farmer examines the matchups and makes his predictions for Week 10 of the NFL season.

All lines and over/under numbers are according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

Last week, Farmer posted a 10-4 (.714) record. Through the first nine weeks of the season, he is 88-47 (.652).

Using point spreads with the scores Farmer ...Read more

We’re coming off a decent Week 9, which, in this season’s rugged climb, is a good thing. I’ll take the 10-4 outright, and any percentage against the spread that starts with a ‘5’. ATS should-a been better, though, as we nailed both of our outright upset picks (!) with Bills beating Chiefs and Broncos winning at Texans. Also had ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The initial plan was to possibly work rookies Teddye Buchanan, Mike Green and Malaki Starks into the starting lineup. Now, as the Baltimore Ravens begin the second half of the 2025 season against the Vikings in Minnesota on Sunday, it’s to get all three through the proverbial wall.

The wall is one part mental exhaustion, and the...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Listen, if the defense keeps playing like it did against the Indianpolis Colts, the Pittsburgh Steelers won’t need Jakobi Meyers or anyone else. They won’t even need an offense. They can just trot out Chris Boswell after each forced turnover.

But what if the still 30th-ranked defense reverts to form — or, more likely, falls...Read more

SEATTLE — Whether you're a veteran general manager or an X warrior with a cat avatar — it's virtually impossible to immediately evaluate a trade. What sounds incredible at the time is often a failure; what sounds ridiculous at the time is often a success.

What's much easier to evaluate, however, is intent — and the Seahawks just made ...Read more

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — For the first time since Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has been under coach Mike McDaniel, the question of whether he will soon be benched is legitimately in the public sphere.

An NFL.com report over the weekend indicated that, if Tagovailoa continues to play poorly in this 2-7 season in which he has thrown a...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Antonio Brown once assaulted a Gatorade cooler when he wasn’t getting enough passes thrown his way from Ben Roethlisberger. George Pickens threw even more temper tantrums when he wasn’t getting fed enough.

The Steelers do not currently have any diva receivers on their roster and they kept it that way when they did not acquire...Read more

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Dan Campbell is a coach who never stops fighting.

Naturally, he respects others who do the same.

So he sympathizes with Washington Commanders coach Dan Quinn, who's drawing ample criticism this week after star quarterback Jayden Daniels was hurt in the final minutes of a blowout loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Defensive end Jonathan Greenard sees that “dog” in quarterback J.J. McCarthy.

Left tackle Christian Darrisaw called it “swagger.”

Right tackle Brian O’Neill joked that McCarthy was “crashing out” in the postgame locker room celebration, when after the Vikings’ 27-24 win over the Detroit Lions, McCarthy yelled, ...Read more