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Getty Images Quarterback Jordan Ta’amu, one of the stars during the short-lived XFL 2.0 2020 season, is on the Kansas City practice squad. According to NFL Media, he’s also now on the COVID-19 reserve list. Ta’amu’s positive test result makes it even more appropriate to postpone Sunday’s...

Getty Images Events of recent days make it more and more clear that the best way (perhaps the only way) to get all 256 regular-season and 13 postseason games played this year will be to put all teams in hotels, immediately. Per multiple sources, the NFL gladly would do that. The question is...

Getty Images Some within league circles have wondered aloud why the Patriots caught a break from the NFL, with the news that starting quarterback Cam Newton tested positive for COVID-19 resulting in a postponement of Sunday’s game against the Chiefs — a game in which the Pats were a seven-point...

Getty Images Brett Rypien will continue to start until Drew Lock returns to health. Broncos coach Vic Fangio confirmed that Friday evening. But when will Lock reclaim his job? Lock might need at least one more week for his throwing shoulder to get back to 100 percent after the hit he took in...

Getty Images Week Four of the 2020 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with a win by the Broncos and it continues with 13 more games on Sunday, which means that the 26 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing on Monday night won’t release...

Getty Images The Patriots got one of the best bargains in football history when signing former MVP Cam Newton to a low-dollar deal. The bargain extends well beyond his on-field abilities. “Cam does a great job of connecting with everybody, whether it’s his teammates, his receivers, guys on...

Getty Images The Chiefs had only one player with a limited practice Friday. They have only one player with a designation this week. But that one player is a big name. Defensive end Chris Jones is questionable with a groin injury that limited him in all three practices this week. Jones played...

USA TODAY Sports The Kansas City Chiefs will be without cornerback L’Jarius Sneed for at least the next three weeks as he recovers from a fractured collarbone. The Chiefs placed Sneed on injured reserve, which requires at least a three-week stay before he can return to the active roster. Sneed...

Getty Images Sunday’s game between the Patriots and Chiefs will feature a pair of MVPs in prominent roles as quarterbacks Cam Newton and Patrick Mahomes lead their respective offenses. It will also feature a mutual admiration society. Mahomes said this week that he wishes he “could do some of...

Getty Images Defensive end Chris Jones was limited in practice with the Kansas City Chiefs due to a groin injury as the team prepares to face the New England Patriots on Sunday. Jones played just 37 snaps in Monday night’s win over the Baltimore Ravens. He had averaged nearly 90 percent of...

Getty Images Patriots head coach Bill Belichick has coached against a lot of different teams over his long run in the NFL and he’s seen those teams employ a wide variety of styles. The Chiefs team that Belichick and the Patriots will tangle with falls on the speedier side of the spectrum...

Getty Images The Patriots have played without running back James White for the last two weeks as he’s been away from the team after his father was killed and his mother was injured in a car accident, but it looks like they’ll have him back for Sunday’s game against the Chiefs. White was on the...

Getty Images On the eve of a deadline for producing evidence related to a civil lawsuit, one of Antonio Brown‘s lawyers has decided he no longer wants to be involved. According to Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network, Carson Hancock withdrew from representing Brown in a civil lawsuit filed by...

Getty Images Patriots quarterback Cam Newton wasn’t thrilled with how he played against the Raiders last weekend, but the team still won 36-20 and the guy calling the offensive plays remains pleased with how Newton has been doing in New England. Offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels...

Getty Images Kansas City’s early-season tour of 2019 AFC division champions continues this weekend, with a game against the most recent winners of the AFC East. After beating the AFC South and AFC North champions in Week One and Week Three, the trifecta is within reach. But the Patriots won’t...

Getty Images If there’s a hallmark of the last 20 years for the Patriots, it’s their adaptability. So when their franchise-tagged left guard Joe Thuney needed to slide inside to play center last week, of course there was no problem. With starting center David Andrews out after hand surgery...

Getty Images The Patriots will be starting their Week Five game against the Broncos later than originally scheduled. The NFL announced on Monday that the game will now start at 4:25 p.m. ET. They were supposed to get underway at 1 p.m. under the initial plans for the week. Week Five’s game is...

Getty Images The Patriots put up more than 400 yards of offense for the second straight week in Sunday’s win over the Raiders, but they did it in a very different way. New England ran for 250 yards after throwing for 397 yards in a Week Two loss to the Seahawks. They also put up 217 rushing...

Getty Images Patriots quarterback Cam Newton wasn’t stopped short of the end zone on the final play of Sunday’s game against the Raiders, but he said it was a “kind of frustrating” afternoon. The Patriots beat the Raiders 36-20 to move to 2-1 on the season, but Newton was 17-of-28 for 162...

Getty Images Patriots running back James White missed his second consecutive game today after a car accident killed his father and injured his mother. But his teammates felt his presence. Fellow running back Rex Burkhead, who scored three touchdowns in today’s win over the Raiders, said he and...