Bill Connelly is a staff writer for ESPN.com. I express a lot of opinions on the internet, which inevitably means that I’m wrong on the internet quite a bit. (Anyone who read my 20th-century quarterback rankings piece recently and isn’t an Oklahoma fan probably agrees with this.) However, sometimes I’m right, and I should celebrate that. So allow me to […]

Playing in a conference as deep and competitive as this season’s version of the Big Ten has its pros and cons. Falling into the latter category, it’s easy for even a name-brand program with an accomplished coach to find itself in an early hole. On the plus side, the schedule provides ample opportunities to overcome bad losses with quality wins. […]

Longtime Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim went out of his way to unfairly criticize a reporter Wednesday night during his media availability following the Orange's win over Clemson.  What started as a fairly benign question from The Athletic's Matthew Gutierrez that produced an at-first standard response from Boeheim turned into a personal verbal attack as Boeheim ripped Gutierrez's basketball acumen and seemingly mocked […]

Money can’t buy the Broncos what they really want, as this team is more than a player away from Super Bowl contention. But with more than $40 million of wiggle room under the NFL salary cap, the Broncos just might get what they need: Leadership. While this team could use help at too many positions to count, Denver has void […]

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Wide receiver Golden Tate has been released by the New York Giants in a cost-cutting move, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Wednesday. The move creates $6 million in cap space for the Giants, $10 million if he is designated a post-June 1 cut. Tate was to make $8.5 million and count $11 million against […]

Pass interference replay review was a flop, so much that it was abandoned by the NFL after one year of use, but that’s not going to preclude the league’s owners from considering employing replay to examine other key penalties. With the Annual League (virtual) Meeting coming at the end of the month, owners could vote to approve a new rule […]

The Lions’ revamp continued Wednesday with the addition of a former 1,000-yard receiver. Detroit has agreed to terms on a one-year contract with former Chargers and Raiders wideout Tyrell Williams, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported, per an informed source. Williams was released by Las Vegas on Feb. 24. The deal, which will reunite Williams with former coach and current […]

Trent Brown’s time with the Raiders may soon be coming to an end. Las Vegas has had talks about potentially dealing the big-money offensive tackle this offseason, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported Wednesday, per an informed source. Raiders general manager Mike Mayock declined to commit to Brown on the Raiders’ roster in 2021 during a Wednesday media session with […]

Trevor who? Former NFL quarterback and current NFL analyst Chris Simms has made waves in the past for his yearly NFL draft quarterback rankings and breakdowns. This year’s edition was released on the March 3 edition of “PFT Live,” and featured several surprising picks — most notably, the “generational” talent of Trevor Lawrence isn’t No. 1, and neither is Ohio State’s Justin […]

You’ve seen Tom Brady blitzed, and now you’ve seen Tom Brady blitzed. The Buccaneers quarterback has made a career carving up blitzing defenders, but his seemingly shlossed appearance during Tampa Bay’s Super Bowl boat parade made more headlines than the Bucs’ 31-10 Super Bowl 55 win. Appearing on “The Late Late Show” with James Corden, Brady went over some of the finer […]