With just two weeks left in the 2024 NFL regular season, 10 teams are fighting for the five remaining playoff spots. Five AFC teams have already punched their playoff tickets: the Buffalo Bills, Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans and defending champion Kansas City Chiefs. Four more in the NFC have joined the postseason party: … Read more
Fantasy Football is all about the matchups. Even though you drafted your team with certain hopes and intentions, your weekly lineup decisions shouldn’t be determined by the order you picked your players in. You need to check who your players play and make sure you’ve got the right guys in — and the wrong guys out. … Read more
Liz Loza, ESPNDec 24, 2024, 02:36 PM ET Fantasy football is a passion for many. Sometimes that passion pushes fantasy managers to make emotional decisions even when the data suggest otherwise. Each week during the 2024 NFL season, Liz Loza will attempt to strike a balance between what the data states and what the heart … Read more
Welcome to the Week 17 picks and let me be the first to wish you a Merry Christmas, but that’s only to the people who are reading this on or before Dec. 25. If you’re reading this after Christmas, then happy early new year. And if you’re reading this five years down the road because … Read more
NFL Nation, ESPNDec 24, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Week 17 of the 2024 NFL season is here, so we’re almost at the finish line. It’s crunch time for many teams looking to break into the playoffs by claiming a spot in the wild-card race. So which teams are trending upward? The No. 1 team in … Read more
Oklahoma was picked to finish 15th in the SEC preseason media poll. The Sooners were only projected to finish ahead of Vanderbilt in the standings but are 12-0, ranked No. 12 in the AP Top 25 poll and have already defined expectations during the first two months of the 2024-25 college basketball season. Part of … Read more
Henry McKenna NFL Reporter There is no single way to win a game as a quarterback. Lamar Jackson is doing it differently than Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes. No one is doing it like Anthony Richardson (though he’s not always winning). No rookie has ever done it quite like Jayden Daniels, with his flare for … Read more
If you’re reading this, that likely means you made it to the championship game, so congratulations. Now, let’s finish the job. Week 17 is a little wacky, with two Wednesday games, a Thursday game, and three Saturday games. You’ll have to make sure your lineup is right, with a lot of moving parts when it … Read more
The New York Giants (2-13) are back on top of the 2025 NFL Draft order after suffering their 10th straight defeat, this time to rookie quarterback Michael Penix Jr. and the Atlanta Falcons. And with two weeks to play, they control their own destiny for the No. 1 pick. Behind New York are the New … Read more
NFL fans will get a rare gift on Christmas Day with two Wednesday games: Chiefs at Steelers (1 p.m. ET kickoff) and Ravens at Texans (4:30 p.m. ET). These are the first NFL games played on a Wednesday in a non-COVID season since 2012. Kansas City is a 3-point favorite in the latest Chiefs vs. Steelers odds, … Read more