Category: Football

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It’s the final short slate of the season as six teams will be on bye in Week 14. The action starts hot and heavy with the highest opening total of the week on the Green Bay Packers and current Super Bowl favorites Detroit Lions facing off on Thursday night. The week’s biggest favorite are the Philadelphia Eagles, who opened at -12 over the Carolina Panthers. The prime time games will have the Kansas City Chiefs defending their league-best 11-1 record against division rivals

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Dec 2, 2024, 09:00 AM ETOpen Extended Reactions

THE RUMORS ABOUT the kid are so ridiculous that everybody in Yulee, Florida, believes them. Because who could even make this stuff up?

A little, 12-year-old giant who powers up with Snickers bars before and during games? A running back who is so untackleable that area football coaches agreed he has to leave the game every time his team gets a 21-point lead? A sixth-grader everybody calls “Shocka” because he has been shocking the world since before he was born?

These are the kinds of tall tales that traveled quickly along the dirt roads

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Jamison Hensley, ESPN Staff WriterDec 3, 2024, 06:00 AM ET

CloseJamison Hensley is a reporter covering the Baltimore Ravens for ESPN. Jamison joined ESPN in 2011, covering the AFC North before focusing exclusively on the Ravens beginning in 2013. Jamison won the National Sports Media Association Maryland Sportswriter of the Year award in 2018, and he authored a book titled: Flying High: Stories of the Baltimore Ravens. He was the Ravens beat writer for the Baltimore Sun from 2000-2011.Open Extended Reactions

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — After Sunday’s 24-19 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, Baltimore Ravens quarterback <a data-player-guid="7d76fbb1-1c5e-d9f4-954f-cad43f720ae2"

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Sarah Barshop, ESPN Staff WriterDec 3, 2024, 06:00 AM ET

CloseSarah Barshop covers the Los Angeles Rams for ESPN. She joined ESPN in 2016 to cover the Green Bay Packers for ESPN Milwaukee. She then moved to Houston to cover the Texans. She came to ESPN after working as a writer and editor for Sports Illustrated. You can follow her on Twitter @sarahbarshop.Open Extended Reactions

NEW ORLEANS — The Los Angeles Rams went into the locker room at halftime against the New Orleans Saints with zero points.

Down just 6-0, despite not scoring a point in the first half

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DJ Bien-Aime, ESPNDec 3, 2024, 06:00 AM ET

CloseDJ Bien-Aime covers the Houston Texans for ESPN. He joined ESPN in July of 2022 after covering the New York Jets. He’s a former athlete who finished his college career at Louisville. You can catch DJ on ESPN Radio on his show, “Talkin’ Texans.”Open Extended Reactions

HOUSTON — There was 3:31 left, and the Jacksonville Jaguars had just cut 17-point fourth quarter lead by the Houston Texans to 23-20 on Sunday

Jaguars quarterback Mac Jones had just thrown his second touchdown of the quarter after replacing Trevor

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Courtney Cronin, ESPN Staff WriterDec 3, 2024, 06:03 AM ET

CloseCourtney Cronin joined ESPN in 2017, originally covering the Minnesota Vikings before switching to the Chicago Bears in 2022. Courtney is a frequent panelist on Around the Horn and host of Best Week Ever on ESPN Radio. She also co-hosts The Chicago Bears Podcast on ESPN 1000. She previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News as a multimedia sports journalist.Open Extended Reactions

CHICAGO — While Chicago Bears players gathered their belongings inside the visitors locker room at Ford Field on Thanksgiving afternoon, team president and CEO Kevin Warren hung

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NFL Nation, ESPNDec 3, 2024, 07:00 AM ET

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Welcome to Week 14 of the 2024 NFL season.

Last week brought three exciting Thanksgiving Day games, a wild Black Friday finish and thrillers over the weekend. The Minnesota Vikings and Indianapolis Colts won in the two-minute drill, the Philadelphia Eagles overpowered the Baltimore Ravens, and the Detroit Lions and Kansas City Chiefs narrowly escaped with victories.

San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey (posterior cruciate ligament injury) is on IR, and Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback

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Daniel Oyefusi, ESPNDec 3, 2024, 02:16 AM ET

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DENVER — Browns wide receiver Jerry Jeudy, playing his first game in Denver since being traded by the Broncos in March, recorded a career-high nine catches for 235 receiving yards and one touchdown in Cleveland’s 41-32 loss Monday night.

It was the most receiving yards by a player in his first game against a former team in

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