Former Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin sent shockwaves throughout the football world after announcing that he would be stepping down from his position after the team’s loss in the AFC Wild Card playoffs to the Houston Texans. Pittsburgh wasted no time, hiring Mike McCarthy in the coming weeks. Although McCarthy enters Pittsburgh with a solid coaching resume, some believe he is already sitting on one of the hottest coaching seats in the league.

In an article from Rotowire, they ranked all the NFL coaches by how hot their seats are entering the season. McCarthy was labeled as having the third...

The Pittsburgh Steelers have gone all-in on the 2026 season, loading up for seemingly one last good swing at competing for a Super Bowl. They’ve spent a ton of money on an aging roster, and built up a lot of depth across the board. Yet, there is one position group that has some worried about […]

The day began with six unsigned rookie draft picks with two of them belonging to the Las Vegas Raiders.

Now, though, on the eve of he team’s rookie reporting date for training camp, the team is down to one unsigned rookie as ESPN has reported cornerback Jermod McCoy plans to sign his rookie deal Wednesday. He was a fourth-round pick from Tennessee.

That means the Raiders lone unsigned rookie is first-round pick (and No. 1 overall choice) quarterback Fernando Mendoza. The only first-round draft picks who are unsigned are Mendoza and fellow quarterback Ty Simpson, who was the No. 13...

Aaron Donald‘s NFL comeback might be in the works, but he is not expected to make a decision on returning to the Rams anytime soon.

“I don’t think, and it doesn’t sound like, we’re gonna get an immediate answer, or an immediate signing, of Aaron Donald,” ESPN’s Adam Schefter said. “He’s not gonna come back until he feels like he’s ready to be Aaron Donald again.”

Donald is currently focused on getting back into football shape after two years away from the gridiron. There is no timeline to his process; any decision is unlikely to come until Los Angeles is...

The Pittsburgh Steelers have one of the oldest rosters in the NFL, but Omar Khan and the front office have quietly done a good job replenishing the team’s young talent and building the foundation for the next era. Apparently, ESPN’s Aaron Schatz isn’t quite as impressed. In his annual under-25 talent rankings, the Steelers landed […]

The Carolina Panthers announced a flurry of roster moves to start training camp, including placing LT Ikem Ekwonu and DT Tershawn Wharton on the active/PUP list, via Joe Person.

The Panthers also placed DT Bobby Brown (hamstring) on the active/non-football injury list along with CB Jaycee Horn and RT Taylor Moton, which was reported yesterday.

Undrafted CB Jaylon Guilbeau was waived from the non-football injury list as well.

Ekwonu is recovering from a torn patellar tendon sustained in the playoff loss to the Rams in January. His outlook for this season is cloudy. Wharton had neck surgery this offseason and...

Ty Simpson is not your typical former five-star recruit, neither in how long it took him to become a starter at Alabama, nor in the fact that his time on the bench to prevent him from becoming a first-round pick. Despite spending his first three years as a backup, including two behind a starter whose accuracy was a significant hindrance to the team, Simpson has been tabbed as the heir apparent to Matthew Stafford.

The Los Angeles Rams believe in Simpson’s talent. And so do some of the people who followed his unusual journey over four years at Alabama.

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One of the many changes Brian Schottenheimer brought to the Cowboys that may have gone largely unnoticed is the re-introduction of permanent team captains.

Under Mike McCarthy, the Cowboys had a rotating system that allowed dozens of players to serve as captain at least once. In some cases, players that were on the practice squad a week earlier were elevated to captains. McCarthy defended it as a way to promote leadership across the roster, but that approach never quite sat right with the fans.

But since last year, the Cowboys are back to a system that features six team captains...

If prognosticators at The Athletic are correct, the New York Giants could be in the thick of a playoff race and perhaps a fight for the NFC East title in the final weeks of the 2026-27 NFL season.

The commonly accepted over/under victory total for the Giants via oddsmakers has been 7.5. Using that number, The Athletic’s Vic Tafur recently took the “over.” He wrote:

I like to avoid crowds the older I get, but there’s no getting away from (blows trumpet) the most popular season-total bet of them all. Offensive guru Brian Daboll was pretty incompetent as the...

Welcome to Steelers Morning Rush, our new daily short-form podcast with Alan Saunders, giving a longer perspective on a single news topic surrounding the Pittsburgh Steelers or the National Football League.

Today, it’s the Steelers captains, which under former head coach Mike Tomlin, were appointed for a full season and did not wear the NFL’s standard patches. Will those things change under Mike McCarthy, who has given out weekly captaincies in the past? That was the way the Steelers operated for most of their history, before beginning to give out permanent captaincies in 1998. So will Aaron Rodgers, Cam Heyward...

The Indianapolis Colts are entering a pivotal season under Shane Steichen. The Colts’ head coach had a strong debut season, leading Indianapolis to nine wins. But he’s produced back-to-back eight-win campaigns, and now he could be on the hot seat.

Sure, the Colts, at times, looked like the NFL’s best team, but that was before Daniel Jones tore his Achilles tendon. The question is, can the Colts return to the elite level they were playing at after getting out to a 7-1 start a year ago?

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The New England Patriots are back at Gillette Stadium this week as they will hold their first training camp practice of the summer on Saturday. With things now officially ramping up in preparation for the 2026 season, jobs are ready to be won throughout training camp.

Here are the top positional battles we’ll be watching on the practice fields.

Third running back

The top of the Patriots running back depth chart is set with Rhamondre Stevenson and TreVeyon Henderson. The third spot behind them, however, remains up for grabs.

After getting off to a strong start last season before...