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Getty Images NFL owners have approved a 17-game schedule for the 2021 season and that means each team now has a new opponent on their schedule. The 17th game will be an inter-conference game each season and teams the conferences will alternate hosting duties. The AFC will host the games in...

Getty Images Center Austin Reiter, who started 32 games for the Chiefs the past three seasons, remains a free agent. The Chiefs, though, have found a new starting center with the same first name. Kansas City agreed to terms on a one-year deal with center Austin Blythe, Nate Taylor of...

Getty Images When the NFL last expanded the regular season in 1978, the bump from 14 to 16 games represented 14.28-percent growth. The move from 16 to 17 now equates to a 6.25-percent increase in the games that count. Relative to the last time, then, the current addition of one game won’t mean...

Getty Images In the 12 years after the Lions made Matthew Stafford the No. 1 overall selection, the quarterback called Detroit home. Now, he has a new home, a new team, a new outlook. Stafford told SiriusXM NFL Radio on Monday that change has “reenergized” him. “I definitely feel that way...

Getty Images DeSean Jackson spent three years playing wide receiver in Washington, and Sean McVay was the offensive coordinator for all three of those seasons. Jackson led the NFL in yards per catch in two of those three seasons. So Jackson knows how well he can play in McVay’s offense. That’s...

Getty Images Rams linebacker Travin Howard made his return official Friday, signing his one-year tender. Howard was an exclusive rights free agent. Howard, 24, tore a meniscus during 2020 training camp and missed the entire season. The Rams selected Howard in the seventh round of the 2018...

Getty Images The Rams’ most consequential move of the 2021 offseason is always going to be trading for quarterback Matthew Stafford. But they’ve also brought in some speed and experience at wide receiver by signing Los Angeles native DeSean Jackson to a one-year deal. Speaking to reporters on...

USA TODAY Sports The Rams surprised some when they re-signed edge rusher Leonard Floyd to a four-year, $64 million deal at the start of free agency. Floyd didn’t want to go anywhere else after posting his best season in Los Angeles in 2020 while on a one-year contract. He recorded 10.5 sacks...

Getty Images Immediately after winning Super Bowl LV, the Buccaneers were behind the Chiefs and Packers as the betting favorites to win Super Bowl LVI. Now, the Bucs aren’t far from being the team with the best odds to win it all. Via PointsBet, Tampa Bay’s odds have gone from +1200 to +525...

Getty Images Shane Waldron may be new to the Seattle Seahawks, but at least he’ll have a familiar face as a part of his offense next season. With the Seahawks signing former Los Angeles Rams tight end Gerald Everett last week, Waldron gets to bring a player to Seattle that already has a...

Getty Images After the Rams agreed to trade Jared Goff to the Lions for Matthew Stafford, defensive lineman Michael Brockers said that Stafford moved the Rams a “level up” at the quarterback position. Brockers was a member of the Rams at the time of that comment, but that changed last week...

Getty Images Jared Goff and Michael Brockers have apparently squashed the beef. Not that there seemed to be much to begin with. Before he, too, was traded from the Rams to the Lions, Brockers told TMZ that Matthew Stafford was a “level up” from Goff. On Monday, Brockers told Detroit media that...

Getty Images After Corey Davis signed with the Jets, the Titans have added a new player to their receiving corps. Tennessee has reached a deal to sign Josh Reynolds, Terry McCormick of titaninsider.com reports. Mike Garafolo of NFL Media reports the contract is for one year. Reynolds spent...

Getty Images Matthew Stafford is officially a Ram, which means he’ll have to build chemistry with a new group of receivers. Before Los Angeles announced the addition of DeSean Jackson — whose speed should give the club a deep threat, if healthy — Stafford talked about working with the club’s...

Getty Images Receiver DeSean Jackson has a new NFL home, in his hometown. Jackson has agreed to terms with the Rams on a one-year deal. The team announced the move on Sunday night. The 34-year-old Jackson was a second-round pick of the Eagles in 2008. He spent six seasons with the Eagles...

Getty Images Free agency only officially began Wednesday, but most of the top free agents already know where they are playing next season. The top 37 players on PFT’s top 100 were franchised and/or have signed a new deal. Only 26 of the top 100 remain without a contract for 2021, and many of...

Getty Images During his first press conference as a Rams quarterback, Matthew Stafford was asked a question about how long he thought he would continue playing in the NFL. Stafford said he’s 33 and doesn’t “see the end right around the corner or anything like that” as he prepares for his first...

Getty Images After the Rams agreed to send defensive tackle Michael Brockers to the Lions in exchange for a 2023 seventh-round pick earlier this week, a report emerged that Brockers would receive a new contract in Detroit. Now the details of that new deal have emerged. According to Mike...

USA TODAY Sports Jared Goff is now the Lions’ quarterback after the trade sending him to Detroit became official earlier this week. The quarterback was introduced to local media in a press conference on Friday afternoon. Because it’s the first time he’s spoken in that setting since news of the...

Getty Images Quarterback Matthew Stafford met the media as a member of the Rams for the first time on Friday and he sounded ready to take on the expectations that accompany him in the move to Los Angeles. The Rams were able to advance to the divisional round of the playoffs last season despite...