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Getty Images Another Sunday, another green light for football. With all 256 regular-season games played in the original 17-week structure and with the first eight playoff games accomplished without postponement, Sunday’s games are cleared to proceed, according to Mark Maske of the Washington...

Getty Images The Chiefs hoped to get running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire back in the lineup for Sunday’s game against the Browns, but it looks like that won’t happen. Edwards-Helaire missed the final weeks of the regular season with an ankle injury and is also listed on this week’s injury...

Getty Images In advance of their divisional-round matchup with the Browns on Sunday, the Chiefs have made a series of roster moves. Kansas City placed tight end Deon Yelder on injured reserve. Yelder was questionable to play Sunday’s game with a groin injury after he didn’t participate in...

Getty Images All four playoff games will have fans in the stands this weekend, all at much less than stadium capacity as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to make life very different than normal. The smallest crowd will be in New Orleans, where the Saints will host 3,500 fans against the...

Getty Images Everyone remembers the Chiefs won the Super Bowl last season. Everyone seems to have forgotten what it took for them to get there and then win it. It was anything but easy. The Chiefs came back from double-digit deficits in all three postseason games in 2019. The good news: They...

Getty Images Browns defensive end Myles Garrett has gone back-to-back weeks without a sack, getting shutout by the Steelers in Week 17 and the wild-card round. One of the league’s best pass rushers, Garrett looked like a defensive player of the year candidate early on in the eyes. From Weeks...

Getty Images The Chiefs went 14-2 in the regular season — 14-1 in the first 16 weeks to lock up the AFC’s No. 1 overall seed. At points, there was some speculation about the Chiefs potentially getting bored during games, causing a bit of a lull. It’s hard to really say that had much of an...

Getty Images Last week, “the Browns is the Browns” helped catapult Cleveland to a playoff win over the Steelers. This week, Chiefs receiver Sammy Watkins provided a watered-down equivalent — but it’s still more than enough for the Browns to use as a rallying cry. The Browns aren’t blameless in...

Getty Images The Browns activated their last player off the reserve/COVID-19 list earlier on Friday. Now, they have all of their coaches back, too. Head coach Kevin Stefanski said tight ends coach Drew Petzing and defensive backs coach Jeff Howard had returned to the building. And per multiple...

Getty Images Last month, Seahawks wide receiver Josh Gordon was conditionally reinstated, and the team expected him back on the field before the season was over. That didn’t happen, and now it may never happen. Gordon’s conditional reinstatement has been rescinded and he is now suspended...

Getty Images The Browns finished the season No. 3 in rushing this season, largely splitting the load between running backs Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt. Chubb four games but still had 1,067 yards and 12 touchdowns. Hunt tallied 841 yards rushing and six rushing touchdowns. Chiefs safety Tyrann...

Getty Images The three Browns who didn’t practice on Wednesday didn’t practice on Thursday either. Right tackle Jack Conklin (hamstring/knee), linebacker B.J. Goodson (shoulder), and tight end David Njoku (hamstring) all did not participate on Thursday. Per ESPN’s Jake Trotter, head coach...

Getty Images By now, you probably know the story. The Chiefs drafted Kareem Hunt and he led the league in rushing as a rookie. Then in November 2018, the club cut him after video surfaced of Hunt shoving and kicking a woman. The Browns gave Hunt a second chance in 2019 and now he’s helped...

Getty Images Chiefs rookie running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire was a limited participant in Wednesday’s practice, but he was not on the field on Thursday. Edwards-Helaire (ankle/hip) was one of four players who did not participate in Thursday’s session. The running back has not played since...

Getty Images The Steelers had myriad issues in their 48-37 loss to the Browns, including five critical turnovers. But the defense had its issues, too, as Cleveland totaled 390 yards of offense and Baker Mayfield threw for 263 yards with three touchdowns and no interceptions. On Thursday...

Getty Images The Browns have their head coach back and now they have one of their wide receivers, too. Cleveland activated KhaDarel Hodge off the reserve/COVID-19 list on Thursday, bringing the club closer to full strength heading into Sunday’s playoff game against Kansas City. Hodge went on...

Getty Images Steelers wide receiver Chase Claypool says the Browns were “super classless” during Super Wild Card Weekend. Extending a war of words that started when Claypool predicted the Browns will lose to the Chiefs and continued with Browns linebacker Sione Takitaki calling Claypool “salty...

Getty Images The Cleveland Browns were dealt an unfavorable hand for last weekend’s playoff opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Head coach Kevin Stefanski and star guard Joel Bitonio had to miss the game due to COVID-19 and the Browns were barely able to practice in the lead up to the game...

Getty Images Before the Browns beat the Steelers last Sunday, Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield posted a video to Instagram that referenced Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster‘s dismissive comments about the Browns. Last weekend’s win set the Browns up for a game in Kansas City this...

Getty Images The NFC playoffs will give us the NFL’s oldest quarterback matchup ever this weekend. In the AFC, it’s a different story. All four starting quarterbacks whose teams advanced to the divisional round of the AFC playoffs are 25 or younger. This is the first time ever that all four...