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Getty Images Sammy Watkins missed six games with injuries in the regular season and then both playoff games. He is “very optimistic” that his calf injury is healthy enough to allow him to play in the Super Bowl. His injuries and the falling salary cap could help the Chiefs keep Watkins next...

Getty Images When the Buccaneers score a touchdown at Raymond James Stadium, cannons fire at Tampa’s pirate ship-themed home field. But not at the Super Bowl. NFL officials told Jenna Laine of ESPN that they will not permit the cannons to be fired after Buccaneers touchdowns at Super Bowl LV...

Getty Images Jason Pierre-Paul is one of only six players on the Bucs’ roster with Super Bowl experience. He won a Super Bowl ring in 2011 as the Giants beat Tom Brady‘s Patriots. Pierre-Paul, who was traded to Tampa before the 2018 season, now is on the same team with Brady and back on...

Getty Images When the 2020 season began, Le'Veon Bell was playing running back for the Jets and Antonio Brown was a free agent with an eight-game suspension looming over his head. The 2020 season will end with the former Steelers teammates in very different surroundings. Bell is playing for...

Getty Images Some of the NFL’s oldest head coaches have also been among the most successful in recent years, and that includes 68-year-old Bruce Arians and 62-year-old Andy Reid, who will meet on Sunday at Super Bowl LV. Reid joked that he and the other 60-something coaches (a list that also...

Getty Images The Buccaneers won’t have to put out a practice report today, even though they held a walkthrough. “Today was a bonus day, so we had walkthrough,” Bucs coach Bruce Arians said. “We had about 40 or 50 plays of walkthrough.” Everyone participated, Arians said, but it sounds as if...

Getty Images Running back LeSean McCoy hasn’t played a lot for the Buccaneers this year, but he isn’t having any second thoughts about the decision to sign with the team. McCoy said Tuesday that he had spoken to the Eagles this summer about a return to Philadelphia and that he wanted it to...

USA TODAY Sports Kansas City’s offense is one of the most dynamic units in the league largely because of quarterback Patrick Mahomes. But it doesn’t hurt that he has two elite receiving options in Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce. Kelce set a record for receiving yards by a tight end in 2020...

Getty Images Kate Sowers became the first female coach in a Super Bowl a year ago with the 49ers. This year, Maral Javadifar and Lori Locust are coaching in the big game for the Bucs. Javadifar (pictured) is the team’s assistant strength and conditioning coach and Locust the assistant...

USA TODAY Sports Just over a week removed from their loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC Championship game, Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur stands by the decision to kick a field goal down eight in the closing minutes. LaFleur elected for a 26-yard field goal try as the...

Getty Images It’s six days before Tom Brady will play in his tenth Super Bowl and first as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It’s the first time in 10 appearances in the title game that Brady is still at home as he prepares for a Super Bowl. Usually, teams would be in the host city of the...

USA TODAY Sports Tyrann Mathieu was one of Bruce Arians’ first draft picks with the Cardinals back in 2013. The safety was in Arizona for Arians’ complete five-year tenure as head coach. Arians retired after the 2017 season, the Cardinals cut Mathieu, and he subsequently signed with the Texans...

Getty Images The Chiefs have designated tight end Deon Yelder to return from injured reserve. Yelder went onto the IR list earlier this month with a groin injury. He will become eligible to play Sunday if the Chiefs activate him back to the active roster by Saturday at 4 p.m. ET. He caught...

USA TODAY Sports Mike Pettine no longer is with the Packers, but the team’s former defensive coordinator still is taking heat in Green Bay for allowing Scotty Miller‘s touchdown before halftime in the NFC Championship Game. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported head coach Matt LaFleur wanted...

Getty Images Patrick Mahomes was 6 1/2 when Tom Brady played in his first Super Bowl. So while Mahomes likely dreamed of playing in a Super Bowl one day, he likely never dreamed he would play against Brady in one. The GOAT and the Kid meet for a fifth time, this time in the biggest game of the...

Getty Images Before training camp, Chris Jones promised to bring “five-plus rings to Kansas City.” After reaching a second consecutive Super Bowl, the Chiefs defensive lineman now wants what Tom Brady has. First, the Chiefs have to repeat, something that hasn’t happened since Brady’s 2003-04...

Getty Images When the Buccaneers played the Chiefs back in November, Tyreek Hill torched Tampa Bay’s secondary for 269 yards and three touchdowns. He had 203 of those yards and a pair of TDs in the first quarter alone, scoring on 75-yard and 44-yard passes. In all, quarterback Patrick Mahomes...

Getty Images Jason Pierre-Paul is in the Super Bowl for the second time in his career and there were moments when that seemed like an unlikely milestone for him to reach. Pierre-Paul suffered serious hand injuries in a fireworks accident in July 2015 that led to multiple surgeries and an...

Getty Images Two years ago at this time, Jared Goff and Ndamukong Suh were on the Rams preparing to play the Patriots in Super Bowl LIII. Now Suh is back in the Super Bowl, and Goff just got traded to the Lions — the team that drafted Suh at No. 2 overall back in 2010. “I actually spoke to...

Getty Images Once upon a time, Tom Brady consistently said that he planned to play 10 more years. Then, he pivoted to a plan that had him playing through the year in which he turns 45. With the 2022 campaign just two seasons away and with Brady playing as well as ever, Brady was asked on...