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Division favorites, win totals and the NFL’s best (and worst) teams: Takeaways from the 2022 projections
The Bills might have ended last season with a coin flip and heartbreak, but according to ESPN’s Football Power Index,…
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New NFL Power Rankings: 1-32 poll, plus which players benefited most from the draft
May 16, 2022 NFL NationESPN While the long-term story of the 2022 NFL draft will be how the draftees pan…
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The hottest tickets from the NFL’s 2022 schedule release
The NFL schedule got released Thursday night, renewing an anticipation for the next season that, honestly, never quite goes away…
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New York Giants, Kansas City Chiefs and more get creative with schedule release
Happy NFL 2022 schedule release day! With dates attached to matchups, it seems that the regular season is somewhat within…
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NFL experts pick best matchups, biggest winners from schedule release
The 2022 NFL schedule is out, and the league enters its second year with 17 regular-season games after playing a…
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San Francisco 49ers’ looming questions include Deebo Samuel, Jimmy Garoppolo and Nick Bosa
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Since their arrival in 2017, San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch and coach Kyle Shanahan…
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‘You can work out anything’: How the San Francisco 49ers and Deebo Samuel find the ‘best thing’
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The soft deadline for the San Francisco 49ers to trade disgruntled receiver Deebo Samuel — the…
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Seahawks-Buccaneers set as 1st Germany game
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will play the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL’s first regular-season game in Germany. The league announced…
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McShay’s favorite NFL draft pick for all 32 teams: Jermaine Johnson II, Nakobe Dean and other steals
Over three days of the 2022 NFL draft, 262 prospects found new homes. And we saw it all in Las…
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Kiper’s NFL draft grades: Which teams crushed it, and which teams struggled in a strange year
This was my 39th year doing the NFL draft for ESPN, and I can’t remember a trading frenzy quite like…
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49ers make Iowa State QB Purdy ‘Mr. Irrelevant’
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Before Saturday, Iowa State Cyclones quarterback Brock Purdy had a wide range of potential outcomes in…
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Deebo trade calls aren’t ‘remotely close’ for 49ers
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Two nights into the 2022 NFL draft, wide receiver Deebo Samuel is still a member of…
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Kiper’s final NFL mock draft: Projecting tonight’s 32 picks, with a QB surprise
Welcome to NFL draft day, the best day of the year. Who’s ready for one more mock draft? Round 1…
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Miller’s new seven-round NFL mock draft: Two early trades shake up this 262-pick projection
6:30 AM ET Matt MillerESPN The 2022 NFL draft has been the most difficult to predict — even as the…
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Deebo Samuel situation looms above promising draft for San Francisco 49ers
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Barring a trade, the San Francisco 49ers won’t make a first-round selection in the NFL draft…
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49ers GM: ‘Can’t ever imagine’ trading Samuel
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers general manager John Lynch was in no hurry to field questions about receiver…
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San Francisco 49ers reload coaching staff after another ‘brain drain’
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — For the first three years of his tenure as the San Francisco 49ers head coach, Kyle…
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NFL draft: Which teams have gotten the best value since 2012? We rank all 32
No team has gotten more value out of the NFL draft over the past decade than the Seattle Seahawks —…
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Where do the San Francisco 49ers and Deebo Samuel go from here?
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel told…
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Star receiver Samuel asks 49ers to trade him
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — For the past few months, the San Francisco 49ers have repeatedly said they’d like to keep…
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Barnwell’s annual mock draft with 32 first-round trades: Deals for Kyler Murray, DK Metcalf, more
It’s time for one of my favorite annual traditions. After reading dozens of NFL mock drafts without a single trade…
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Three-round NFL mock draft: Kiper and McShay hand out landing spots for top prospects
6:35 AM ET Mel Kiper Jr. Close Football analyst Mel Kiper has served as an NFL draft analyst for ESPN…
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Sources: Star WRs seek deals, to skip workouts
In an offseason that has seen record-breaking contracts for wide receivers, three of the NFL’s top young players at the…
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Kiper’s new two-round NFL mock draft: One trade, four QBs and 64 total picks
Here we go: Two weeks (OK, 15 days) until the start of the 2022 NFL draft. The Jacksonville Jaguars are…
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San Francisco 49ers’ offseason reset with Jimmy Garoppolo still on the roster
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — With one notable exception, the San Francisco 49ers‘ offseason has gone exactly as planned. No, the…
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Seven-round NFL mock draft: Reid’s predictions for all 262 picks
6:30 AM ET Jordan ReidESPN As we approach two weeks until the start of Round 1 of the 2022 NFL…
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McShay’s two-round NFL mock draft: Predictions for the first 64 picks, including two more trades
The 2022 NFL draft is less than a month away, and we just saw yet another massive trade involving first-round…
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49ers’ Kittle moving closer to return; Gould, too
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — As they enter a critical two-game stretch against top NFC West Division foes, the San Francisco…
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Updated NFL Power Rankings: Bills are new No. 1, plus the most improved player for every team
6:50 AM ET NFL NationESPN The NFL Power Rankings are the perfect place to track improvement. While usually that improvement…
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Week 1 takeaways, big questions: Cards’ offensive explosion, Bills’ letdown and Darnold’s revenge
4:40 PM ET NFL NationESPN Week 1 of the 2021 NFL season had a little bit of everything. The Cardinals’…
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Preseason NFL Power Rankings: 1-32 poll, plus who’s on the hot seat for every team
6:50 AM ET NFL NationESPN Preseason is a time for looking ahead, but as we unleash the latest version of…
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Ranking the top NFL quarterbacks in 12 skills: Surprises, snubs, risers and the best of the best
Today’s NFL quarterbacks do so many different things extremely well, and picking out the best of the best is no…
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The biggest question marks for the NFL draft’s top QBs, and how teams can solve them
Like plenty of others in the football nerd/analyst community, I was shocked by the rise of Wyoming’s Josh Allen up…
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