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Getty Images The NFL announced its 2021 schedule on Wednesday night. The includes 17 games on ESPN’s Monday Night Football. It does not feature a doubleheader on the first Monday night of the season. ESPN also will air a Week 18 Saturday doubleheader. Those games, which will kickoff at 4:15...

Getty Images The Buccaneers and Cowboys will begin the 2021 the season on Thursday, Sept. 9. But Thursday Night Football will technically begin the next week with a divisional contest between the Giants and Washington on NFL Network. After Carolina visits Houston in Week Three, the Week Four...

Getty Images Ten teams each received five primetime games. The Packers, Saints, Cowboys, Seahawks, Steelers, Ravens, Rams, 49ers, Chiefs and Bucs are scheduled for five night games each. The Saints and Cowboys also have Thanksgiving Day games, and the Packers a Christmas Day game. The Bears...

Getty Images The release of the schedule for the first weekend of the 2021 NFL season has led to sportsbooks releasing point spreads for the first 16 games of the year. A pair of NFC West teams have been installed as the biggest early favorites. William Hill has the 49ers favored by seven...

USA TODAY Sports Whether Aaron Rodgers is still with the Packers or makes his way to the Broncos, he’ll be playing at 4:25 p.m. on FOX in Week One. But there will be at least one familiar quarterback in a new place in the network’s early slate to open the season. The Seahawks will travel to...

Getty Images The NFL’s international series is officially back with a pair of October games. The Falcons will host the Jets in Week Five and the Jaguars will host the Dolphins in Week Six. Both games will be played at 9:30 a.m. ET. The Jets-Falcons matchup on Oct. 10 will air on NFL Network...

Getty Images The Lions were on the phone with a final offer to trade up when the Falcons were on the clock with the fourth overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft. In video from inside their draft room that the Falcons posted today, Atlanta General Manager Terry Fontenot takes a call from the Lions...

Getty Images The Falcons announced Tuesday they’ve released kicker Elliott Fry. Atlanta signed Fry to its practice squad in October and he appeared in one game for the franchise, hitting a field goal and one of his two extra-point attempts. He remained on the practice squad for the rest of the...

Getty Images The NFL is set to announce the 2021 schedule on Wednesday and it is expected to include the return of international games after they were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year. A return to Mexico City is not expected to be part of that announcement. NFL Commissioner...

Getty Images The future of the Falcons tight end position is Kyle Pitts, but the team is confident that there’s still a place for Hayden Hurst in the present. Pitts figures to be a major part of the offense, but tight ends coach Justin Peelle thinks Hurst will also play a significant role in...

Getty Images Feleipe Franks was one of the most polarizing quarterback prospects in this year’s NFL draft, with scouts not thinking much of his talents as a passer but the analytics suggesting that Franks was a better quarterback than meets the eye. Ultimately the scouts won out, and Franks...

Getty Images All three players from the Falcons’ three-man running back rotation last season have left Atlanta this offseason, and the Falcons don’t know who their starting running back will be in 2021. Falcons running backs coach Desmond Kitchings told Tori McElhaney of TheAthletic.com that...

Getty Images Last month, the NFL revolutionized the rules regarding jersey numbers. Since then, 16 players have taken advantage of the shift. Peter King lists them in his latest edition of Football Morning in America. King arranged them by number. We’ll list them by player in alphabetical...

Getty Images The Falcons gave quarterback Matt Ryan a new weapon to work with when they drafted tight end Kyle Pitts last month and he’ll be working with a new quarterbacks coach as well. Charles London joined head coach Arthur Smith’s staff after spending the last three years with the Bears...

Getty Images The Falcons announced 20 undrafted free agent signings on Monday and Thursday brought the announcement of another addition to the roster. Wide receiver Juwan Green signed a deal with the team. Green went undrafted last year and spent the entire season on Atlanta’s practice squad...

Getty Images The Titans signed free agent running back Brian Hill on Wednesday, the team announced. He will compete with Darrynton Evans and Jeremy McNichols for the backup role behind Derrick Henry. The Falcons made Hill a fifth-round choice out of Wyoming in 2017. He played one game for the...

Getty Images Falcons head coach Arthur Smith has been adamant that Atlanta is not undergoing a rebuild, which is part of why the club selected tight end Kyle Pitts at No. 4 overall instead of quarterback. So when Pitts was available after the first three picks, there was no question what...

Getty Images When the Ravens brought in tackle Alejandro Villanueva for a visit last month, word from Baltimore reporters was that the team was not expected to make a move until after the draft. Compensatory draft picks were central to that approach. The Ravens and other teams have prized the...

Getty Images The Falcons didn’t take a quarterback in this year’s draft, but they have added a rookie free agent to the depth chart. Feleipe Franks has signed with the team after going unpicked over the weekend. Franks played three years at Florida and transferred to Arkansas for the 2020...

Getty Images The deadline for NFL teams to exercise their fifth-year contract options on 2018 first-round picks passed on Monday afternoon and 21 players had those options picked up. Panthers quarterback Sam Darnold is part of that group. Carolina traded for Darnold last month and announced...