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The Jets running back has not practised since August 17. Aaron Glenn says that changes this week, five days before New York open the season in Tennessee.

Sixteen seasons, 228 games in midnight green and one strip-sack that gave Philadelphia its first Lombardi. Brandon Graham announced his retirement on Tuesday.

Opta’s supercomputer has run every Week 1 fixture. Los Angeles comes out as the round’s biggest favourite, and Buffalo at Houston is the one game the model refuses to call.

Washington’s leading rusher on Sunday was its quarterback That stat was strange enough before the injury news landed. Demond Williams Jr. put up 61 yards and a touchdown on the ground in a 24-10 Apple Cup win, more than anyone in the Huskies backfield managed. Then Monday brought the bill for that victory: Quaid Carr…

A positional record broken by a whisker Three million dollars. That is all that separates Christian Gonzalez from the man who held the cornerback record for barely three weeks. The talks had dragged on for months before finally getting done overnight, and according to multiple U.S. outlets the New England Patriots have agreed a four-year,…

38 yards through three quarters, and a tape he won’t rewatch “It’s a painful watch. I don’t watch it much.” Arch Manning, Monday, on Ohio State. On the 14-7 loss in Columbus a year ago, in his first career start for Texas. Nine of 15 for 38 yards with an interception. That was his stat…

A weekly press conference nobody was there for the football Bill Belichick took his usual Monday slot. The football part lasted about as long as it needed to. This was his first time in front of reporters since Michael Lombardi, North Carolina’s football general manager, resigned last week. He gave very little away. His staff,…

A ligament in the left thumb, and a $96 million problem Tyler Smith had been playing through it for weeks. Monday, Brian Schottenheimer stopped pretending it would go away: the Dallas Cowboys’ left guard is having the ligament repaired. Injured reserve. Four to six weeks. “Unfortunately, when you’re an offensive lineman, grip strength and that…

Five practices. That’s it. Five sessions since the medical staff gave him the green light. That is the sum total of Alec Pierce’s preparation before he opens his season. It will not stop him taking the field on Sunday. The Indianapolis Colts wide receiver is set to face the Baltimore Ravens in Week 1. “He…