Each week, we’ll focus on one game and use a top-down strategy to break it down. This means starting with the bigger picture —how teams, players or trends are performing — and then finding the best ways to apply that information to different betting markets.
With Warner playing at such a ridiculous clip, this 49ers defense should continue to be one of the stingiest in the league, setting up a potential run toward a fourth straight NFC Championship game appearance.
The defensive line is the heart of any successful defense, tasked with both disrupting the opposing quarterback with a pass rush and shutting down rushing attacks at the line of scrimmage. This season, we will monitor NFL defensive line play all season long, ranking the league's unit from No. 1 to No. 32.
Up to five players may run a route on any given play, but only one will receive the target. By examining key data points and characteristics of that play, we can predict the probability of each player being targeted.
Nearly halfway through the college football season, Colorado's Shedeur Sanders leads a fascinating race among the top quarterbacks to see who will be the first one taken in the NFL draft.
Greg Landry, the former Lions quarterback and assistant coach, has died. He was 77. Landry was a first-team All-Pro and Pro Bowler in 1971 and, five years later, earned the NFL's Comeback Player of the Year award.
Patriots wide receiver Kendrick Bourne will make his long-awaited return Sunday, as the team plans to activate him off the physically unable to perform list to face the Dolphins at Gillette Stadium, a source told ESPN's Jeremy Fowler.
Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson has been downgraded to doubtful for Sunday's game against the Jaguars, likely elevating veteran Joe Flacco to the starting role.
The Cowboys have placed wide receiver Brandin Cooks on injured reserve because of a knee issue, which will keep him out of the next four games, the team announced Saturday.
Cardinals tight end Trey McBride was cleared from concussion protocol, but now a new injury concern could keep him out of Sunday's matchup with the 49ers.
The Patriots won't have safety Jabrill Peppers for Sunday's game against the Dolphins, but they are set to have wide receiver Kendrick Bourne in the lineup for the first time this season.
The Patriots listed safety Jabrill Peppers as questionable to play on Sunday on their Friday injury report, but they aren't waiting until Sunday to make a call on his status.
A holding penalty against the Buccaneers' center Graham Barton helped set the stage for the Falcons' game-tying drive late in the fourth quarter on Thursday night, but the damage that penalty did would have been mitigated if officials had also called a foul on the Falcons.
Romeo Doubs has started all four games this season and has played the most snaps of any wide receiver on the Packers, but that is apparently not enough to satisfy him with his role in the offense.
Friday began with news of Patriots linebacker Jalani Tavai tiptoeing around the question of whether Jacoby Brissett or Drake Maye should be playing quarterback for the team, in an appearance on WEEI.
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