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Every defensive line rebuild needs a player who's already spent two years absorbing the details before being asked to carry a starting role,

The Bill Walsh National Football League (NFL) Coaching Diversity Fellowship has launched the careers of several prominent head coaches, including Mike Tomlin and Lovie Smith.

No sooner does one NFL Draft end than the other begins. In today's sports and gambling climate, sometimes it can feel like everything overlaps.

Football fans are comfortable with uncertainty. A highly rated prospect can miss, an underdog can control a game, and one tipped pass can overturn hours of analysis. Yet the word "randomness" describes different things depending on whether someone is running an NFL simulation or playing a digital game of chance. Understanding that distinction makes both experiences easier to interpret.

I've spent way too much time wondering what happens to professional football players when the cameras stop rolling and the stadiums go quiet. Those weird months between February and July when there's literally nothing happening.

Positional value plays an important role in first round draft picks. Read our analysis to learn more.

Buffalo and Baltimore won their openers, but backing a winner and backing a team to cover are different decisions. The early NFL Week 2 picks here take the points with Detroit, New Orleans and Washington. Lions at Bills opens the week on Thursday, September 17, before Sunday's games and the Monday night finale.

The NFL Draft is one of the biggest events of the football year. Teams use it to add young players who may help them improve for future seasons.

Every draft class has its consensus first-round names, the prospects who dominate mock drafts and draft media coverage for months. But the players who often define a franchise's long-term success are the sleepers — the prospects who slip past their true talent level on draft boards due to level of competition, injury history, or simply a lack of hype, only to outproduce far more celebrated names once they hit an NFL roster. Here is a breakdown of where sleepers tend to come from in the 2026 class, and the traits that separate a genuine sleeper from a player who was correctly rated all along.

A great college football highlight travels fast. One-handed catches, 60-yard throws and tackles that send helmets rolling across the field can turn a prospect into a familiar name before most people have watched an entire game. The trouble begins when one spectacular play becomes the scouting report.

Washington gets the draft back after eight decades, and the clock on the class that will fill it started running this month. The NFL confirmed in June that the 2027 event runs from 29 April to 1 May on the National Mall, with the draft theater set in front of the Capitol and the fan festival stretching along Pennsylvania Avenue between 3rd and 7th Streets.

The NFL has never been short on numbers. From 40-yard dash times and quarterback passer ratings to yards after contact, pressure rates and win probabilities, modern football is increasingly driven by data.