NFL Week 6: How to survive and advance in your knockout pool
NFL Week 6: How to survive and advance in your knockout pool
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NFL Week 6: How to survive and advance in your knockout pool
Predicting win-loss records for all 32 NFL teams in 2020
Free agency has had its run. The NFL Draft is over. A first take on how teams will finish the upcoming season.
The NFL Draft is over and most free-agent moves have taken place. What does the 2020 season look like at an early glance for all 32 teams?
There were growing pains in Year One for Kyler Murray and Kliff Kingsbury. They will continue in Year Two with more progress. Being in the NFC West doesn’t make improvement easy.
The players who became the NFL draft’s Mr. Irrelevant
Mr. Irrelevant is a tribute to the player chosen last in the NFL Draft.
The last pick in the NFL Draft is honored as Mr. Irrelevant. He is feted in Southern California as if he were the first pick. Thanks to Mrirrelevant.org we can back at the players and what became of them.
Kelvin Kirk was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 17th round of the 1976 NFL Draft, making him the first Mr. Irrelevant. He wound up playing seven seasons in the Canadian Football League with the Toronto Argonauts, Calgary Stampeders, Saskatchewan Roughriders and Ottawa Rough Riders. Kirk worked as an artist for the Ottawa Citizen before his sudden death by heart attack while playing a pick–up game of basketball in 2003.
The New England Patriots are no longer the favorites in the AFC East, according to one sportsbook’s future odds.
Caesars Sportsbook fed the appetite Thursday of bettors looking for any sort of action. The sportsbook released its odds package for the upcoming NFL season. One of the more intriguing opportunities has the New England Patriots no longer as the favorites in the AFC East. That honor goes to the Buffalo Bills. Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are 17-1 when it comes to winning the Super Bowl.
Odds to win NFC: 20-1
Division: 6-1
Over/under: 7.5
Odds to make playoffs: Yes +245, No -290
The No. 2 overall pick every year since 1960
More than two dozen of the players taken in the 2015 NFL Draft are no longer with the team that selected them.
The 2015 NFL Draft is five years ago and it is hard to believe how much movement there has been among players taken in the first round.
Drafted out of Texas, Malcom Brown spent four seasons with the New England Patriots before moving on to the New Orleans Saints in 2019. The defensive tackle will head into his second season in the Big Easy with 10.5 career sacks.
A look at players who were chosen immediately following the NFL Draft’s first pick.
Everyone remembers who went first in the NFL Draft. However, who were the players taken in the second slot over the last 60 years?
George Izo played quarterback at Notre Dame and was the second overall pick by the Chicago Cardinals as well as being a territorial selection of the New York Titans in the new AFL. He played for four teams in an NFL career that ended in the 1966 season.
Ranking the quarterback situations for all 32 NFL teams heading into the draft