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The NFL will move the game to Orlando, Fla., starting next season, where it will be played in the Citrus Bowl, Bloomberg Sports reported Thursday. MORE: Photos from 2016 Pro Bowl The league’s contract with Hawaii’s tourism authority expires at the end of May, and the NFL has opted not to renew it. Only twice since 1979 has the Pro Bowl not been held in Honolulu. Houston and Sydney, Australia, were also considered as possible locations for the Pro Bowl, the report said....

The 2021 NFL Draft quarterback class is going to be one that will be talked about for years to come: Just two other times in NFL history have five quarterbacks been taken in the first round, and this next crop could be the best. “Could” is the operative term here. In Week 1, Jacksonville’s Trevor Lawrence, New York’s Zach Wilson and New England’s Mac Jones all made their first career starts with varying degrees of success, and San Francisco’s Trey Lance and Chicago’s Justin Fields got into the mix with a little action, as well....

DiNucci was drafted by the Cowboys in the seventh round of the 2020 NFL Draft. The rookie QB featured in three games last season after Dak Prescott went down with a serious leg injury against the New York Giants. The young QB has yet to throw a touchdown in an NFL game. Garrett Gilbert was signed to the Cowboys’ practice squad last season and found himself promoted to the active roster once Prescott was ruled out for the rest of the 2020 NFL season....

Last week, six former team employees met with members of Congress to discuss sexism and hostility they said they experienced while employed by the team. At the U.S. House roundtable discussion, Tiffani Johnston, a former cheerleader and marketing manager for the team, said Snyder inappropriately touched her and “aggressively pushed” her toward his limo while she was employed by the organization. The NFL hired attorney Beth Wilkinson to investigate allegations against Snyder and the organization in 2020, but a report was never released, which the former employees criticized at the roundtable with lawmakers last week....

Thursday’s schedule release, which came after a dramatic free agency period and this year’s draft, was another milestone ahead of the new campaign, which is currently scheduled to start in September. If the Chiefs, led by 2018 league MVP and last year’s Super Bowl MVP Mahomes, are to repeat as champions, their first task will be to reach the postseason, ideally with the number one seeding. With the 16 regular-season games now set out, we have taken a look at the highlights from their schedule....

Two games against the New York Jets, Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins are a thing of the past for the former Patriots quarterback, who moved to the Bucs in free agency after two decades in New England. Now, as he bids to take the Bucs to a home Super Bowl in Tampa Bay, it is the New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons and Carolina Panthers who are Brady’s chief concerns....

Aside from putting some good teams in London and bringing on some decent matchups in the first week of the year, the league balanced out the schedule quite nicely down the stretch. Here are five takeaways from the NFL schedule release: Five takeaways from NFL schedule release 1. Good offense vs. defense matchups early While the NFL loves its offense, there may be nothing more satisfying than seeing a juggernaut have to work for everything they get....

The Oakland Raiders play the Washington Redskins in primetime in an interesting inter-conference matchup. Sporting News provides live updates for all 14 games Sunday. NFL SCORES: Week 3 scoreboard, stats NFL scores: Week 3 results, highlights Jacksonville Jaguars 44, Baltimore Ravens 7 MORE: Results, stats Indianapolis Colts 31, Cleveland Browns 28 MORE: Results, stats Philadelphia Eagles 27, New York Giants 24 MORE: Results, stats New York Jets 20, Miami Dolphins 6 MORE: Results, stats...

Graham was aware his two post-touchdown jams during last week’s 31-24 preseason win over the Titans would draw unsportsmanlike conduct flags. Now he — as well as the rest of the league — is aware the stunts will cost a hefty amount of cash, too. PHOTOS: Awesome goalpost dunks “Look, one time in 40 years a goal post gets tilted and all of a sudden we have to change the rules?...

Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome confirmed in his Combine press conference on Saturday that it's something that will come up and could go into effect during the league owners meetings in Florida next month. The Fritz Pollard Alliance, the watchdog group for diversity in the NFL, has pushed for this with both Commissioner Roger Goodell and the league's competition committee. In addition, if a player directed the N-word or similar derogatory term at another player a second time, he would be ejected from a game....

"NFL Network has done a tremendous job building Thursday night and will retain games, but we are in discussions to air a part of the package with existing and potentially new broadcast and cable partners," league spokesman Brian McCarthy said Sunday. NFL Network began airing an eight-game package in 2006, which increased to 13 in 2012. The league could sell some of those games to an outside network, starting as soon as next season....

The Thanksgiving slate of games, which routinely comes in among the most-watched sporting events of the year, has become a spectacle itself. While it’s steeped in tradition, with the Lions and Cowboys both hosting a game in the same time slot each year, the NFL has capitalized on the day by adding a third game in prime-time and turning the halftime shows themselves into an event. MORE: What NFL games are on Thanksgiving in 2022?...

As always, the 2018 schedule features both the Lions and Cowboys, two Turkey Day fixtures for decades. Detroit hosts the Bears, no strangers to Thanksgiving games themselves, while Dallas welcomes the the Redskins. This year’s primetime game is between the Saints and Falcons in New Orleans. All three games are NFC divisional matchups between rivals, which hopefully should make for an entertaining afternoon. Here’s everything to know about how to watch the games, including streaming information and betting odds....

Let’s run down a few. MORE: Day 2 picks who can make Pro Bowl | NFL Draft: Check the picks Derrick Henry at Titans RB: “Exotic smashmouth” offense, Mike Mularkey has decreed. The Titans traded for DeMarco Murray but apparently won’t make him carry the offensive share quite like he did in Dallas, which makes sense. And it’s hard to consider Murray a sure thing after 2015 — or all that tire tread from 2014....

So for the second time this season, the Steelers receiver was hit with a hefty fine for what the league considers to be a “sexually suggestive” touchdown celebration during 43-14 win over the Chiefs on Monday night. According to ESPN.com, Brown’s latest infraction will cost him $24,309. FANTASY: Week 5 start or sit Brown was fined $12,154 in Week 1 for twerking, a first-time offense officially classified as “’excessive profanity, other unsportsmanlike conduct....

The NFL estimates the salary cap in 2017 will be between $166 million and $170 million, but despite that big number, there still will be a bunch of teams that might struggle with the cap. Using a $168 million salary cap limit, we look at the teams that project to have less than $21 million in cap space before they start cutting players and/or restructuring contracts to prepare for free agency....

The Jets have a more desperate need at the position, but the Giants could also use an upgrade with the ex-Bronco, Arizona Cardinal and Philadelphia Eagle. After Aqib Talib (Broncos), Darrelle Revis (Patriots) and Alterraun Verner (Buccaneers) didn't last long on the market, DRC is the best available free-agent corner.

It’s getting more and more difficult for oddsmakers and the betting public to make a case for a non-QB to win the MVP. There are some decent sleeper candidates, but your money is almost always better spent on a signal-caller. Below, we’ll break down a couple of favorites, sleepers, and long shots who provide betting value for the 2022 NFL MVP award. MORE NFL BETTING: Best Bets for 2022 | Every team’s win total O/U pick...

Philadelphia — or at least its front office — did not have long to celebrate its championship. The waiver system for 2018 began the day after the big game. On Feb. 20, the window opened for teams to begin designating franchise or transition players. The NFL Combine began Feb. 27 and ended March 5. Seemingly in an effort to remain the talk of the sports world throughout the year, the NFL has stuffed the calendar with key dates and events, spreading them out through kickoff of the 2018 regular season....