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The league sent a memo reminding teams that while referees are encouraged to answer questions candidly, all conversations with officials are confidential and not to be discussed publicly — a directive that follows Rams coach Sean McVay's disclosure of a pass-interference conversation this week

The network and its longtime No. 1 NFL analyst have agreed to separate, with Jim Nantz and JJ Watt remaining CBS' top broadcast team for the rest of the season

Denver special teams coordinator Darren Rizzi says his counterparts around the league are nearly unanimous: the NFL should change how the holder rule operates on kickoffs so it is used for weather, not to create an advantage for the kickin…

The NFL's September honors are out, spotlighting the top performers from the season's opening month across offense, defense and special teams in both conferences

A busy Wednesday saw injured-reserve placements across Green Bay, Carolina, Tampa Bay, Dallas and Houston, big veteran pickups, and a league-wide wave of practice-squad signings

Kirk Herbstreit and Amazon have agreed to a multiyear extension to remain on Thursday Night Football, solidifying one of the league's marquee broadcast pairings. The deal includes flexibility for Amazon if a top target such as Rams head co…

The NFL shifted Chicago's road game at Green Bay out of the late-afternoon window, moving it to 1 p.m. ET on Fox with Caleb Williams likely out

A roundup of Sunday's key availability decisions, headlined by Panthers receiver Jalen Coker playing and Steelers cornerback Joey Porter Jr. sitting out again

The league's Week 2 discipline was heavy on unsportsmanlike conduct — mostly celebrations and vulgar acts — with a pair of receivers leading the way

The union says neither players nor the NFLPA were given notice that the celebrations would draw fines, and it's working with the league on how to resolve them

NFLPA president J.C. Tretter laid out the union's concerns about the playing surface in Brazil ahead of Sunday's Cowboys-Ravens game at Maracanã Stadium, detailing both the specific field issues and a broader warning about the league's int…

Game-day designations are in for the early slate, with a healthy Bengals core active while the Falcons again sit their quarterback

Bills safety Sam Franklin, Dolphins cornerback Chris Johnson and Packers safety Evan Williams were fined in Week 1 for fouls in the five categories the NFL and NFLPA count toward a suspension

The first week of the NFL season is in the books, and with it our Power Index is back. One caveat before we dive in: the index grades how each team is performing right now and how that projects toward making the playoffs — which means the…

A Wednesday of injury-list shuffling and matching depth moves across the league: San Francisco, Washington, Minnesota and Arizona rebuilt around injured starters, while Jacksonville, Atlanta and Miami made corresponding promotions

The first Monday night of the NFL season drew a crowd. Kansas City's 31-10 win over Denver averaged 23.2 million viewers, making it ESPN's most-watched Week 1 Monday Night Football game and the third-most watched Monday night game in the n…

The Pro Football Hall of Fame's overhaul of its selection process has started costing people their votes. Nineteen selectors will not vote on the Class of 2027, a group that accounts for 280 combined years of experience on the panel. The n…

In one of the strangest sagas this offseason of pro players returning to college the next twist has landed. The league office has closed the door on two camp departures for the rest of the season. The NFL sent a memo to clubs clarifying th…

ESPN is locking in its voice of the NFL for the long haul. The network has struck a six-year extension with Joe Buck worth roughly $108 million, pushing his annual pay to $18 million and his contract through 2032. The numbers tell the stor…

A lighter transaction day before Week 1: Washington and Detroit trimmed veterans off the active roster, Tennessee reshuffled its interior offensive line, and Houston backfilled a defensive tackle spot after an injury designation

Thursday's roster transactions across the league, headlined by the Cowboys locking up Brevyn Spann-Ford and the 49ers placing DT Alfred Collins on injured reserve

Wednesday's transaction sheet was headlined by the Cowboys placing left guard Tyler Smith on injured reserve and the Seahawks' late safety adjustments for the opener, with practice-squad shuffling across the league as Week 1 begins

Free-agent tight end Dae'Quan Wright is still waiting to learn whether the NFL will clear him to play this season after his bid to return to LSU fell through this week. Wright went undrafted out of Ole Miss and signed with the…

Tuesday's transaction sheet was mostly practice-squad shuffling and injured-reserve settlements as Week 1 nears, headlined by the Buccaneers officially announcing Baker Mayfield's extension and the Vikings signing Harrison Smith

The Giants released wide receiver Darius Slayton, the Cowboys are placing left guard Tyler Smith on injured reserve after thumb surgery, and a wave of practice-squad moves hit the Browns, Buccaneers and Lions on the final Monday before the season opens

The Giants reached reported extension agreements with guard Jon Runyan and quarterback Jameis Winston on Sunday

The NFL's commissioner isn't going anywhere. NFL teams were notified Sunday that Roger Goodell has finalized a new four-season extension that runs through the 2030 league season, with the contract expiring March 31, 2031, per Adam Schefter…

Minnesota confirmed Harrison Smith's return for a 15th season, and the official transactions feed brought a steady wave of injury-settlement releases and practice-squad reshuffling as teams completed Week 1 roster housekeeping

A light transaction day around the league as teams put the finishing touches on their practice squads ahead of the Week 1 kickoff. The headliner was Kansas City waiving a quarterback who started its final two games last season, while Atlan…

Veteran guard Shaq Mason is back on the market and eligible to play immediately after the NFL notified him that the investigation into his 2025 legal matters has been closed without discipline. Mason was most recently with the…

The Pro Football Hall of Fame will fundamentally reshape how its classes are chosen, shrinking the selection committee from 50 members to 28 and discarding the separate Seniors category for the 2027 election. The overhaul, first reported b…

Wednesday's moves were driven mainly by final roster-setting and practice-squad churn, with the headline signings by the Raiders. Teams also filled out their 16-man practice squads and made a handful of cuts to reach the post-cutdown limit…

Mike Vrabel addressed The Athletic's internal review of Dianna Russini for the first time Thursday, saying the Patriots have moved on and are focused on their season opener against Seattle

The players' union is filling a key seat. The NFL Players Association announced that Matt Taylor will join the organization as chief communications officer, effective September 8, per Adam Schefter. Taylor arrives from the agen…

CBS analyst and former Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo released a statement saying multiple back surgeries led to a dependence on pain medication, and his efforts to get off them led to an over-reliance on alcohol

The waiver claim deadline passed at 1 p.m. ET on Monday, and fourteen teams filed claims for a combined 29 players. The Miami Dolphins were the most aggressive club, claiming seven players, while 13 other teams added at least one new face…

Every club trimmed its initial 53-man roster by the 6 p.m. ET Sunday (Aug. 30) deadline. The subtraction is only half the story — the players let go are now the league's next acquisition market, and the clock starts immediately. Also remem…

The NFL will not place any additional players on the commissioner's exempt list on Sunday, according to Adam Schefter, closing the door on further paid-leave moves for the day after Josh Jacobs, Jonathon Cooper and Terrion Arnold were alre…

A running log of every NFL roster transaction reported on August 29, 2026 — trades, signings, waivers and releases — as teams cut from 90 to 53 ahead of Sunday's deadline

The latest round of NFL roster transactions as teams pare toward the 53-man limit, headlined by the Browns and Steelers each releasing more than a dozen players

The NFL and NFLPA have rolled out a new on-field safety enforcement framework that, for the first time, can extend financial punishment to coaches and teams — not just players — when specific rules are chronically violated. The change clos…

Thursday's transaction wire was busy across both conferences as teams trimmed and reshuffled ahead of the weekend. The headline move was the Seahawks locking up Leonard Williams on a three-year, $90 million extension, while the Packers add…

The Browns cut their 2023 third-round receiver on Thursday, and because he's still inside his rookie deal, he goes on waivers, where all 31 other teams will get a chance to put in a claim. Every potential team will have to weigh his health…

The NFL has settled its replay-review operation for the 2026 season, and a familiar name is back in the mix. Teams were told at Wednesday's league meeting in New York that the three people making replay decisions this year will…

The league reached commercial agreements with DraftKings, FanDuel and Fanatics Betting and Gaming ahead of the 2026 season

The day's full run of NFL roster transactions: waiver claims, injured-reserve placements, signings and a Tuesday trade, all confirmed against the league's official transaction wire

The NFL is officially done with the Pro Bowl game. After years of sagging competitiveness and a string of format experiments — flag football, skills competitions, AFC-vs-NFC exhibitions — the league will no longer stage an all-star game, m…

The NFL and the NFL Players Association have jointly rewritten the league's on-field discipline system, shifting the weight of punishment away from players who make isolated mistakes and onto those whose repeated technique choices endanger…

NFL owners unanimously approved the sale of the Seattle Seahawks to the Khosla family on Wednesday, a record $9.6 billion transaction that still has one final procedural step before it is fully official

The league says a player who returns to college this season is barred from signing with an NFL team in 2026, while a cut NFL player remains a free agent free to go elsewhere

Every first-year player will sport a jersey patch that becomes a 1-of-1 autographed card after his on-field debut, the league's latest tie-in with Topps

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has long spoken about the league's global ambitions, but his latest remarks represent the clearest signal yet that a franchise permanently based outside the United States is no longer a matter of if, but when…

Both power conferences adopted rules Tuesday blocking players who declared for the draft or appeared on an NFL roster from playing college football, hours after Dae'Quan Wright cleared waivers on his way from the Browns to LSU

All eight teams in the two divisions revealed their alternate looks for 2026, complete with new helmets and head-to-head matchup dates spread across the season

A rundown of Monday's NFL roster transactions as teams trim toward the Aug. 30 cutdown, including a busy day of signings, injured-reserve placements and practice-squad shuffles

The veteran edge rusher is launching a platform with Sports Academy that debuts in January 2027 in Melissa, Texas

Sunday's transaction log was shaped by injury fallout and a pair of notable reinforcements as clubs pushed toward cutdown week. The headline moves came from Cleveland and San Francisco, with Los Angeles and Jacksonville adding depth on the…

A light but active Saturday transaction log touched four clubs as teams jockey toward cutdown week: the Falcons and Seahawks each added a body, while the Texans and Dolphins shuffled the back end of their rosters

20 transactions across 9 teams on August 21, 2026, headlined by the Titans (5) and Eagles (4)

Every official NFL roster transaction recorded across the league on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, plus one reported injured-reserve move not yet on the wire

The league sanctioned both clubs $500,000 apiece after a fight-plagued joint practice earlier this week in Oxnard, the latest sign the NFL is cracking down on unsportsmanlike conduct at camp

The NFL's legal fight with former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores shows no sign of ending quietly. According to Pro Football Talk, the league is continuing to push for arbitration on several fronts of Flores' discrimination lawsuit,…

The day's tracked roster transactions across the league, from waiver claims and releases to injured-reserve placements and signings, compiled by the XFN Football news desk

The day's NFL roster transactions: the Commanders led with a sweeping overhaul, plus notable signings by the Giants, Falcons, Bills and Ravens

The NFL and Fanatics have reached a deal making the retailer an official league sportsbook, with the agreement expected to be announced before the regular season

Commissioner Roger Goodell told a German outlet he believes NFL franchises will one day exist outside the United States as the league's international footprint keeps expanding

Monday's transaction wire was dominated by camp-roster churn as teams fine-tune the back end of their depth charts ahead of final cutdowns. Eight rosters moves landed today, with the Giants and a handful of NFC clubs doing the bulk of the…

The day's NFL transactions: a busy afternoon of camp churn, headlined by the Raiders adding WR Noah Brown and releasing DT Benito Jones, plus minor signings, waiver moves and injury-list placements across Detroit, Miami, Houston, Tennessee, Chicago and Cleveland

The Philadelphia Eagles have traded for Maxx Crosby in a blockbuster deal

A rundown of Saturday's NFL roster moves: Arizona added three players and placed three on IR, New England signed two offensive linemen and waived a running back, Houston signed Brett Rypien and placed Graham Mertz on IR, plus the rest of the day's transactions

The first wave of 2026 rookie quarterbacks combined to go 61-of-80 for 684 yards with six touchdowns and no interceptions in their preseason debuts

A roundup of Thursday's official NFL roster transactions, including Kendall Lamm's retirement placement and a series of waivers and injured-reserve moves ahead of roster cuts

Troy Aikman now faces Brady-like limits on his Monday Night Football broadcast role, ESPN confirmed

A full rundown of official NFL roster transactions from Aug. 13, 2026 — signings, waivers and injured-reserve placements across the league

A roundup of Wednesday's official roster transactions across the NFL, including the 49ers' busy day of additions and a series of signings, waivers, and IR placements