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Getty Images Free agent running back Devonta Freeman is undergoing COVID-19 testing with the expectation of signing with the Giants, NFL Media reports. Saquon Barkley‘s torn ACL precipitated the Giants’ need for a veteran running back to go with Dion Lewis and Wayne Gallman. The Giants placed...

Getty Images Owner Jerry Jones was secretive about how many fans the Cowboys would have at their home opener. It’s possible the Cowboys didn’t know what to expect. They ended up with an announced attendance of 21,708. (It’s possible not all of them hung around to see the Cowboys’ comeback...

Getty Images With Week Two over, it’s time to hand out awards. Good ones, and not-so-good ones. The not-so-good come in the form of our Goats (In a Bad Way) draft. On Tuesday’s PFT Live, Simms and I each drafted three coaches or players who deserve criticism for their performances in Week Two...

Getty Images Running back Devonta Freeman is back in the NFL. And he’s has a chance to make some decent money over the balance of the season. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the former Falcons workhorse will make up to $3 million this year with the Giants. Atlanta cut Freeman...

Getty Images Not long ago, NFL coaches resisted doing the unconventional thing because doing the unconventional thing and failing resulted in the kind of criticism that can get a guy fired. At some point in the past few years, NFL coaches have embraced doing the unconventional when analytics...

Getty Images The Bears are 2-0. Which means that Mitchell Trubisky has run his record to 2-0 since fending off Nick Foles for the starting spot on the quarterback depth chart. After Sunday’s 17-13 win over the Giants, Trubisky discussed at length a turbulent offseason that resulted in Trubisky...

Getty Images The play wasn’t in the Falcons’ game plan, but when the Falcons lined up in the wildcat the first time Sunday, they saw something they liked. The Cowboys had a cover-zero look. The Falcons decided then to have receiver Russell Gage attempt a pass if they got the same look later in...

Getty Images After the Falcons failed to recover an onside kick late in Sunday’s loss to the Cowboys, Falcons head coach Dan Quinn said that his players know that NFL rules allow them to recover such a kick before it travels 10 yards. That didn’t appear to be the case as the Falcons players...

Getty Images Deion Sanders called his shot. And he pulled it off. Although the Hall of Famer defensive back likely had a higher-profile program in mind when vowing to become a college football coach in 2021, Sanders officially has been introduced as the new head coach at Jackson State...

Getty Images Sunday was a rough day on the injury front around the NFL, but one player who hurt his knee appears to have avoided a major injury. Falcons right tackle Kaleb McGary left with the Falcons up in the first half of a game they’d eventually lose 40-39 to the Cowboys. He did not return...

Getty Images On Sunday, the Falcons found another way to blow a big lead. They did it in a way that made history. According to ESPN Stats & Info, the Falcons are the first team to lose when scoring 39 or more points and allowing no turnovers. Before Sunday, teams with 39 or more points and no...

USA TODAY Sports Even though his players stood there stunned, as if they didn’t know what to do with the oddly spinning onside kick, Falcons coach Dan Quinn said they do, in fact, understand the rules that allowed them to recover it. That may actually make it worse. Via Stephen Hawkins of the...

Getty Images The Cowboys pulled off a stirring comeback against the Falcons on Sunday by scoring 16 points in the final five minutes of what turned out to be a 40-39 win. Recovering an onside kick was crucial to that process and the Cowboys did that by employing what’s known as the Watermelon...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Cowboys won’t have left tackle Tyron Smith in the lineup for their home opener. Smith missed practice on Thursday and Friday because of a neck injury, but the team kept the door open for him to play by listing him as questionable to face the Falcons...

USA TODAY Sports Cowboys fans still have nightmares of Adrian Clayborn abusing Chaz Green play after play after play in Atlanta three years ago. The Cowboys have neither starting tackle today against the Falcons, and it’s not pretty even with Clayborn no longer with the Falcons. Dak Prescott...

USA TODAY Sports The Falcons scored 20 points in the first quarter, using three Cowboys fumbles and an incompletion on a fake punt for all their points. Their scoring drives have covered 22, 52, 5 and 31 yards. They lead 20-7 as the Cowboys have responded with an Ezekiel Elliott touchdown to...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Cowboys are having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day in their home opener. In the first half, they had three lost fumbles, another they recovered and another overturned on replay. A fake punt fell incomplete. And Falcons receivers ran free...

USA TODAY Sports The Cowboys could have lost Sunday’s game in the first quarter with four fumbles, three of them lost. Instead, they won it in the fourth quarter. Dallas pulled out one of its most miraculous comeback victories in a team history full of them, scoring 16 points in the final 4:57...

Getty Images The Cowboys are hosting offensive guard Ronald Leary on a visit this weekend. Dallas already has placed right tackle La'el Collins on injured reserve with a hip injury. He is eligible to return after Week Three. Left tackle Tyron Smith is a game-time decision this week with a neck...

Getty Images Jackson State has produced four Pro Football Hall of Fame players. Now, a Pro Football Hall of Famers will be producing the football team at Jackson State, reportedly. Rashad Milligan of the Mississippi Clarion Ledger reports that Deion Sanders will become the next coach at...