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Byline: Nate Davis USA TODAY And then there were four. Sunday's games Times Eastern Commanders at Eagles, 3 p.m., Fox Bills at Chiefs, 6:30 p.m., CBS, Paramount+ The NFL's 2024 [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, Lamar Jackson will very likely be the NFL's 2024 MVP. Should he be? As it tends to inherently be, the MVP debate has been a spirited one [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, Don't let the Kansas City Chiefs' (latest) pedestrian performance Saturday fool you. Did they look overly impressive in their playoff opener while beating the Houston Texans 23-14? [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, The Detroit Lions have enjoyed an exhilarating renaissance that mirrored their city's. Unfortunately, a return to the dark ages might be unavoidable. The NFC's top-seeded playoff squad [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Eagles won on Sunday. They have no plans to follow up with any celebrations. "No Victory Monday for us," said head coach Nick [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY BALTIMORE - It was unsurprising and unspectacular, another Pittsburgh Steelers season ending with a whimper instead of a winner. One of the NFL's flagship franchises [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY As immensely destructive wildfires continue raging through the greater Los Angeles area, the NFL has already put together an alternate plan in the event Monday [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY Is it possible that Bill Belichick won't even be one and done at UNC? Multiple NFL teams, including the Las Vegas Raiders, according to NFL [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY Though 'Black Monday' has evolved into something that's more of a battleship gray - Doug Pederson, formerly of the Jaguars, was the only NFL head [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY The 2024 NFL postseason field is finally set. It only took a year of planning and strategizing (in most clubs' cases anyway), and 272 regular-season [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY NFL power rankings entering Week 18 (previous rank in parentheses): 1. Buffalo Bills (1): It would be a cop-out to cluster a half-dozen teams as [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, For the Cincinnati Bengals, it's simply Tee little, Tee late. The Stripes ran their winning streak to four Saturday, surviving the fading Denver Broncos 30-24 - thanks [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, and Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY Was the NFL's latest attempt to claim ownership of the Christmas sporting space the kind of present worthy of a spot under [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY NFL power rankings entering Week 17 of the 2024 season (previous rank in parentheses): 1. Buffalo Bills (1): Yes, they struggled to beat last-place New [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY The 32 things we learned from Week 16 of the 2024 NFL season: 1. It's a tale as old as time (or, at least, 105 [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY BALTIMORE - On the longest night of the year, the Baltimore Ravens reminded the NFL, in front of a prime-time viewing audience, that they're a [...]

Byline: Nate Davis USA TODAY NFL power rankings entering Week 16 of the 2024 season (previous rank in parentheses): 1. Buffalo Bills (3): They've scored at least 30 points in [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY Every week for the duration of the 2024 NFL regular season, USA TODAY Sports will provide timely updates to the league's ever-evolving playoff picture, typically [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY The 32 things we learned from Week 15 of the NFL season through Sunday: 0. The number of wins the New York Giants have at [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY NFL power rankings entering Week 15 of the 2024 season (previous rank in parentheses): 1. Detroit Lions (1): Their positioning at the top of the [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY Where things stand with Week 14 of the NFL season complete: NFC x - 1. Detroit Lions (12-1), NFC North leaders: For the first time [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY The 32 things we learned from Week 14 of the 2024 NFL season: 0. The number of touchdown passes thrown by Atlanta Falcons QB Kirk [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY You're decidedly forgiven if you failed to make Browns at Broncos appointment viewing on 'Monday Night Football' last week but your bad if that was [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, Jarrett Bell and Jim Reineking USA TODAY Among the distinctive visuals provided by every NFL game are the venue-specific ones - stadiums adding their own colors, backdrops [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY NFL power rankings entering Week 13 of the 2024 season (previous rank in parentheses): 1. Detroit Lions (1): In their 95-season existence, they'd never had [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, There is no denying Saquon Barkley's greatness. There's no denying he salvaged his career by signing with the Philadelphia Eagles this year - or, said differently, by [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY Every week for the duration of the 2024 regular season, USA TODAY Sports will provide timely updates to the league's ever-evolving playoff picture - starting [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY The 32 things learned from Week 12 of the NFL season before the "Monday Night Football" game: 0. The number of interceptions thrown by Green [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, As the New York Jets finish leveling their latest and greatest rebuild, they might as well take this thing just about all the way down to the [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY Creeping change is giving way to sweeping change for the wreckage that is the New York Jets. Six weeks after terminating former head coach Robert [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY The 32 things we learned from Week 11 of the NFL season: 1. Sunday provided ample evidence that the league should brand at least one [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY NFL power rankings entering Week 11 of the season (previous rank in parentheses): 1. Kansas City Chiefs (1): Their plus-58 point differential is the smallest [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, Irrelevant. It's a descriptor rarely associated with the Dallas Cowboys. But after reports surfaced Saturday that quarterback Dak Prescott's hamstring injury will likely end his season, rather [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY For the NFL's 32 teams, Tuesday was Election Day - i.e. electing whether or not to make a move ahead of the 4 p.m. ET [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY NFL power rankings entering Week 10 of the 2024 season (previous rank in parentheses): 1. Kansas City Chiefs (1): One hallmark of a championship organization? [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY The 32 things learned from Week 9: 0. The number of combined receptions by five Houston Texans players - targeted a total of 11 times [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY The ongoing flurry of activity ahead of the NFL trade deadline continued Tuesday as teams, specifically those in the AFC, continue trying to keep up [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY Since their stunning 5-0 start, it has been a rough three weeks for the Minnesota Vikings. They are coming off back-to-back defeats, their Week 8 [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY NFL power rankings entering Week 9 of the 2024 season (previous rank in parentheses): 1. Kansas City Chiefs (1): Guess who now owns the most [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY The 32 things we learned from Week 8 of the 2024 NFL season: 0. Still the number of wins the New York Jets have since [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY 1. Kansas City Chiefs (1): Patrick Mahomes joined Peyton Manning (2015) as the only quarterbacks in the past 30 years to guide their teams to [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills must be fans of the game 'Counter-Strike.' Mere hours after they defeated the New York Jets on Monday and [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY NFL power rankings entering Week 7 of the season (previous rank in parentheses): 1. Kansas City Chiefs (1): Coming out of their bye, four of [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY Sometimes marriages end in divorce. And sometimes those divorces lead to reconciliation and a renewal of vows. Such is apparently the case with Aaron Rodgers [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY The 32 things we learned from Week 6 of the NFL season: 0. The number of interim head coaches who have guided a team to [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY The San Francisco 49ers are alive and well. Rumors of their demise proved exaggerated following a 36-24 victory over the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday, a [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY After one major modification, the New York Jets' retrofit continued Thursday morning. Interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich, who replaced fired Robert Saleh two days earlier, [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY As grossly premature and unfair as it often seems to discuss NFL head coaches' job security prior to a given season, Tuesday was the latest [...]

Byline: Nate Davis and Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY Robert Saleh quite obviously entered the 2024 NFL season on the hot seat. Tuesday morning, the New York Jets hit his eject [...]

Byline: Nate Davis, USA TODAY NFL power rankings entering Week 6 of the 2024 season (previous rank in parentheses): 1. Kansas City Chiefs (1): With their first double-digit win of [...]