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Getty Images Ten teams each received five primetime games. The Packers, Saints, Cowboys, Seahawks, Steelers, Ravens, Rams, 49ers, Chiefs and Bucs are scheduled for five night games each. The Saints and Cowboys also have Thanksgiving Day games, and the Packers a Christmas Day game. The Bears...

Getty Images The Kansas City Chiefs are signing former Tech Tech safety Thomas Leggett, both Leggett and the school announced on Wednesday. Leggett is the younger brother of former New York Jets, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Denver Broncos tight end Jordan Leggett. Leggett played the last three...

Getty Images The release of the schedule for the first weekend of the 2021 NFL season has led to sportsbooks releasing point spreads for the first 16 games of the year. A pair of NFC West teams have been installed as the biggest early favorites. William Hill has the 49ers favored by seven...

USA TODAY Sports The full 2021 schedule won’t be out until later today, but the beginning of the season is taking shape. CBS announced its slate of Week One games and there are several intriguing matchups in the early and late window. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers will begin...

USA TODAY Sports The Chiefs have qualified for two straight Super Bowls. They want to make it to three. G.M. Brett Veach is responsible for finding the players to help get them there. Veach, the man who discovered Patrick Mahomes and sold coach Andy Reid on drafting Mahomes, joined PFT for an...

Getty Images The Chiefs officially have another offensive lineman back in the fold. Per the transaction wire, Andrew Wylie signed his restricted free agent tender, putting him under contract through the 2021 season. Kansas City gave him the right of first refusal tender, meaning Wylie will...

Getty Images Laurent Duvernay-Tardif passed on the chance to help the Kansas City Chiefs defend their Super Bowl title last season for the chance to put his medical degree to use in helping combat the COVID-19 pandemic. After a year away from football and a light seemingly at the end of the...

Getty Images The Chiefs made SMU quarterback Shane Buechele a priority free agent, guaranteeing him $175,000. That should have come as a sign to Jordan Ta'amu that his time on the roster was ending. The Chiefs cut Ta’amu on Monday. That leaves them with Chad Henne, Anthony Gordon and Buechele...

Getty Images Tight end Sean Culkin said earlier this year that he planned to convert his entire salary into Bitcoin, but he’s going to need to find a new job in order to pull that off. Field Yates of ESPN reports that the Chiefs have released Culkin. He had been set to make $920,000 after...

Getty Images Wide receiver Dede Westbrook has not found a team for the 2021 season, but it looks like he may have a couple of options on his radar. Josina Anderson reports that the Bengals and Vikings have both had “preliminary conversations” with the wideout. She adds that some Chiefs players...

Getty Images The Colts have found a new left tackle. According to multiple reports, Indianapolis is signing former Chiefs No. 1 overall pick Eric Fisher to a one-year, $9.4 million deal. Fisher was a mainstay on Kansas City’s offensive line since his selection in 2013. But he tore his...

Getty Images Chiefs defensive end Tamba Hali last played in 2017. On Monday, the Chiefs signed Hali to a one-day contract, so that he could retire as a Chief. Hali never actually played for any other team, so he had already retired as a Chief, as a practical matter. A first-round pick in 2006...

Getty Images During the 2021 draft, the NFL ran a commercial for the May 12 schedule release. The 30-second spot hyped “Rodgers vs Mahomes” as one of the games to be played in the first-ever 17-game season. With the schedule release three days away, there’s a new version of the commercial. And...

Getty Images Brandon Bair, who played 21 NFL career games, played the part of hero after a chance encounter Thursday. The former defensive lineman rescued a truck driver after his semi was struck by a train. Bair was driving on a highway in St. Anthony, Idaho, when he saw a train hit a...

Getty Images The Chiefs added a veteran to their defense on Wednesday. Sam McDowell of the Kansas City Star reports that the team signed linebacker Kamalei Correa. Correa opened last season with the Titans and played in three games for them before being traded to the Jaguars. He started six...

Getty Images Free agent tight end Deon Yelder has agreed to terms with the Washington Football Team, the team announced. He joins John Bates, Marcus Baugh and Temarrick Hemingway in competing for spots behind starter Logan Thomas. The Chiefs did not tender Yelder as a restricted free agent...

Getty Images Veteran safety Will Parks is heading to Kansas City. Parks has agreed to a one-year, $1.13 million deal with the Chiefs, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports. The 26-year-old Parks spent time with both the Broncos and Eagles last season. He originally entered the NFL as a 2016...

Getty Images The Chiefs are signing former Notre Dame receiver Chris Finke, Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports. Finke caught passes from Trevor Lawrence and Ian Book during the pro days at Clemson and Notre Dame respectively, with the Chiefs obviously intrigued enough by what they saw to take...

Getty Images In 2017, Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster had to wait through more than 60 picks before he was drafted. He recently said that the wait to get drafted wasn’t as stressful as his first foray into free agency. “I would probably say free agency was more nerve wracking than draft...

Getty Images The Ja’Wuan James injury, while bad for him, could be good for NFL players generally. Players seem to be realizing that there’s a very real difference between getting injured while working out at the team facility and getting injured while working out elsewhere. The news that...