Category: Football

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🏆 Five things to know Monday Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is the 2025-26 NBA MVP. With his second win in as many years, Gilgeous-Alexander became just the 14th player in league history to secure back-to-back MVP honors. The Thunder star outdid Victor Wembanyama and Nikola Jokić in voting thanks to his 31.1 points per game on the league’s best team. He undoubtedly hopes that this is

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The 2026 NFL regular-season schedule was released last week, and the Browns will open on Sept. 13 in Jacksonville as early 7.5-point underdogs – the second-biggest Week 1 spread. Which quarterback will be under center for Cleveland among a potential four-man competition between Deshaun Watson, Shedeur Sanders, Dillon Gabriel and rookie Taylen Green? FanDuel offers odds.

Fans who want to wager on NFL futures and tail Matt Severance’s picks need to see the latest FanDuel promo code.

I can’t think of another recent quarterback battle that is so truly fascinating yet utterly uninteresting as those four guys going at it. Clearly, it’s going

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The 2026 NFL schedule is officially released, and as always, is full of some very interesting matchups. While the opponents have been determined for months, we finally know when (and what network) the biggest matchups in the league will be taking place. 

We know the Super Bowl LX rematch between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will be kicking off Week 1 (Wednesday, 8:20 p.m. ET, NBC and Peacock). 

The league will also have a record nine international games, with contests being held in Australia, Brazil, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain.

This season will also feature a game on

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Since giving Anthony Richardson permission to seek a trade in February, the Indianapolis Colts have re-signed starting quarterback Daniel Jones to avoid the transition tag following last season’s Achilles injury and continue to develop 2025 draft pick Riley Leonard as his backup.

Richardson, the No. 4 overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, has one season left on his rookie contract after the franchise declined his fifth-year option. But he has a positive mindset this offseason after reporting to voluntary workouts this month.

“The Colts are still giving me a chance to go out there and work, work hard and potentially get

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I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the 2026 NFL schedule has been released. From a Wednesday kickoff to a record nine international games to a stacked NFL Thanksgiving schedule and NFL Christmas schedule, there’s plenty to talk about. The Week 1 schedule in particular has a lot of intrigue — we ranked all the Week 1 games from No. 1 to 16, and I personally think No. 13 is far more compelling than you’d expect from its low ranking — and one thing worth tracking is where the Week 1 lines go from their post-release opening up until the

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The NFL schedule makers have done it again, producing the 272-piece puzzle that is the 2026 regular season. There are games on every day of the week except for Tuesday. There are loaded “Thursday Night Football,” “Sunday Night Football” and “Monday Night Football” slates. Thanksgiving NFL festivities are now a three-day affair, and Christmas also has a loaded tripleheader. The season starts on a Wednesday and then heads to Australia one day later to open the most expansive international schedule ever.

Phew. Time for us to catch our collective breaths and take a step back. After all, trying to digest 272

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At long last, we finally know the full NFL schedule. The date, time and location of all 272 regular-season games was revealed on Thursday night, and our team here at CBS Sports has had the schedule covered from every conceivable angle.

We’ve got the full schedule of games on CBS and Paramount+. We’ve got the Sunday, Monday and Thursday night schedules. We’ve got the Thanksgiving and Christmas schedules. We’ve got the international slate. We’ve got team-by-team and week-by-week schedules. We’ve got winners and losers. We’ve got every game in Week 1, ranked. We’ve got the NFL’s EVP of media distribution breaking things down with CBS Sports

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