Baltimore’s 20-13 win over Tennessee in Sunday’s wild-card meeting was satisfying on multiple levels. The Ravens avenged their last two losses to the Titans, including one that knocked the team from the 2020 playoffs. It limited 2,000-yard rusher Derrick Henry to a mere 40 yards on 18 carries. And, it got sweet revenge after Tennessee stood on Baltimore’s logo earlier […]

Time after time, Derrick Henry tried to puncture the Baltimore Ravens defense. Time after time, the NFL’s leading rusher was blasted backward, stopped cold in his tracks. Baltimore’s defense flocked to the ball, stuffing Henry, holding the mammoth back to 40 rushing yards on 18 attempts, for a measly 2.2 yards per carry, in a 20-13 road victory. “We played […]

The Cleveland Browns hardly had time to celebrate being back on the playoff stage after an 18-year wait before finding out they'd be doing so without their head coach and top offensive lineman due to COVID-19. But that doesn't erase the fact that the Browns have finally shed the label of league laughingstock and are playing in the postseason for the first […]

Hard Rock Stadium in metro Miami has become a strange scene to behold this week during a state surge of COVID-19. On Friday, long lines of cars waited at the stadium to get vaccinations for residents who are 65 and older — a reminder that a deadly virus is on the loose and reached record levels Thursday in Florida. On Monday, the […]

Just months removed from justifying calls from the peanut gallery to “Let Russ Cook,” Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks looked absolutely cooked on Saturday night. In Seattle’s 30-20 wild-card loss to the divisional rival Los Angeles Rams, the Seahawks mustered 11 first downs and 278 total yards against L.A. and converted just 2 of 14 third-down attempts. Seattle was […]

Derrick Henry needed 223 rushing yards in Week 17 to hit the 2,000-yard mark for the season. No problem — the Titans star ran for 250. That made Henry the eighth running back in NFL history to hit 2,000 yards on the ground in a single season. Henry finished Sunday with 34 carries for 250 yards and two touchdowns. Thanks to […]

ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. The casual smile gets you first. Then comes the all-knowing, perfectly timed glance up to the cameras. It was all Ohio State running back Trey Sermon could do — cheesing it up for television as officials reviewed whether he scored a touchdown on a long run against Clemson […]

College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Alabama and Ohio State most recently met during the inaugural College Football Playoff in 2015. Behind coach Urban Meyer and quarterback Cardale Jones, the Buckeyes won the Allstate Sugar Bowl semifinal 42-35 and went on to […]

NFL ROUND-UP: Tom Brady stars for Tampa Bay Buccaneers in first play-off win since historic 2002 year… while Buffalo Bills survive Hail Mary to edge Indianapolis Colts for first post-season victory in 25 years The first triple-header of NFL wildcard games took place on Saturday  Tom Brady inspired the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a first play-off win since 2002 Brady threw […]