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Getty Images Chiefs General Manager Brett Veach noted it’s unlikely the club will bring back Sammy Watkins for 2021. But Kansas City will likely address receiver in some way during the offseason. Watkins and Demarcus Robinson are both slated to become unrestricted free agents, leaving the club...

Getty Images The 5-year-old girl who was in a car hit by then-Chiefs assistant Britt Reid suffered permanent injuries, her family says. Tom Porto, the attorney speaking on behalf of 5-year-old Ariel Young’s family, said on Good Morning America that Young has made some progress in her recovery...

Getty Images The Chiefs ended their season with a trip to the Super Bowl for the second straight year, but their matchup with Tampa didn’t go as well as last year’s game against the 49ers. Kansas City got thumped 31-9 as the Buccaneers pass rush kept Patrick Mahomes and the offense from...

Getty Images The following are PFT’s top 100 free agents for the start of the 2021 league year. The rankings include prospective unrestricted free agents, as well as released players. The list will be updated as events warrant, with signings, tags and re-signings denoted when announced and/or...

Getty Images Chiefs General Manager Brett Veach provided an update on quarterback Patrick Mahomes‘ outlook for the offseason during a Monday press conference. Mahomes hurt his toe during the playoffs and had surgery to repair the injury after the team’s loss to the Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV...

Getty Images Safety Tyrann Mathieu signed a three-year, $42 million deal with the Chiefs before the start of the 2019 season and the first two years provided no reason for regrets on either side. The Chiefs won Super Bowl LIV and won another AFC title during the 2020 season while Mathieu’s...

Getty Images After winning Super Bowl LIV last year, the Chiefs and Sammy Watkins crafted a deal to keep him with the club at a reduced rate for 2020. Now, Watkins is about to become a free agent at the start of the new league year. While Kansas City General Manager Brett Veach hasn’t closed...

Getty Images As the NFL closes in on a new slate of TV deals so that it can officially expand the regular season to 17 games, the formula that will be used to determine each team’s seventeenth game will pay immediate dividends for the league, the networks (or at least one of them), and anyone...

Getty Images Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin has been speaking out publicly this offseason about his belief that there’s been too little progress toward getting more Black head coaches in the NFL. Tomlin said he’s particularly frustrated that Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy, who got...

Getty Images While discussing the differences between Tyreek Hill‘s use of the deuces when running to the end zone and the direct placement by Antoine Winfield, Jr. of the deuces in Hill’s face during the Super Bowl, I had an idea. The NFL punishes such behavior with a system of fines. The...

USA TODAY Sports The Chiefs came close to becoming the first team since the 2004 Patriots to win back-to-back Super Bowls, but ultimately fell short of their goal to “run it back.” During a Tuesday interview with Sports Radio 810 in Kansas City, Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones said the...

Getty Images Chiefs right tackle Mitchell Schwartz missed the majority of the season after suffering a back injury during the team’s Week 6 win over Buffalo. Kansas City and Schwartz held out hope he could return for the rest of the year, potentially even for the Super Bowl. But that did not...

Getty Images The news that Andy Reid’s defrosted face shield will be displayed at the Hall of Fame inspired PFT Live producer Pete Damilatis. Wednesday’s show included a draft that allowed us to take the discussion in various directions. (And we did.) Simms and I drafted the artifacts we’d...

Getty Images The NFL fined Buccaneers safety Antoine Winfield Jr. for flashing Tyreek Hill‘s signature peace sign in the receiver’s face in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LV. Winfield said afterward that he gladly would pay any fine, which ended up being $7,815. Winfield now is turning the...

Getty Images Tennessee legalized sports wagering late last year. It’s biggest event to date has triggered one of the biggest controversies to emerge since the Supreme Court opened the nationwide betting floodgates nearly three years ago. According to TNBets.com, via David Purdum of ESPN.com...

Getty Images J.J. Watt‘s tweets are sparking speculation as to his destination in free agency. But around the league, players are still putting their best foot forward to recruit him. During an interview with Sports Radio 810 WHB, Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones said it would be nice to...

Getty Images The face shield worn by Chiefs coach Andy Reid during the 2020 season is going on display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame announced that Reid has provided a hat and face shield from the season for part of the Hall of Fame’s Pro Football Today Gallery. The...

USA TODAY Sports Rich Gannon is not returning to CBS for a 17th season as an NFL game analyst, the network confirmed to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post. CBS chose not to renew Gannon’s contract, making him a free agent. The network has not named a replacement, but Adam Archuleta and...

Getty Images With four full seasons out of football, there’s no way that Colin Kaepernick ever will play again. Recently, the quarterback who was supplanted by Kaepernick in San Francisco spoke out about the shunning of Kaepernick based on his peaceful protests during the national anthem...

Getty Images Tom Brady is better than this. Or maybe he isn’t. Maybe, just like the rest of us, Tom Brady is petty and vindictive. Maybe he needs to embellish and/or fabricate “haters” in order to continue to work as hard as he does, to deny himself hamburgers and fries and ice cream made with...