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Getty Images Broncos head coach Vic Fangio’s announcements about the team’s quarterbacks on Wednesday went beyond sharing that Blake Bortles will not practice in order to limit potential exposure to COVID-19. Fangio also said that Bortles, Drew Lock, Brett Rypien, and Jeff Driskel have been...

Getty Images Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is third in the NFL in receiving yards, but the team tried to make use of another one of his skills in last Sunday’s game against the Buccaneers. The Chiefs were on the 1-yard-line and ran a play that called for Patrick Mahomes to give the ball to...

Getty Images Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has become the best quarterback in the NFL, a sure-fire (if he plays enough seasons) Hall of Famer, and potentially one of the greatest of all time. Not everyone saw that potential at first blush. Receiver Tyreek Hill, appearing on Showtime’s...

Getty Images You know the drill by now. Or at least you should. Every Tuesday, MDS, Charean Williams, and I hand out awards for the offensive player of the week, the defensive player of the week, the rookie of the week, and the coach of the week during PFT PM. The full segment appears in the...

Getty Images The Broncos had to play a game without a quarterback on Sunday because one quarterback, Jeff Driskel, tested positive for COVID-19 and the other three quarterbacks on their roster all had to quarantine because of close contact with Driskel. But none of the three quarterbacks caught...

Getty Images The Broncos found themselves, as of Saturday afternoon, without a quarterback for Sunday’s game against the Saints. Privately, the Broncos aren’t happy with various aspects of the way the situation was handled. Publicly, the Broncos are saying all the right things. “We share the...

USA Today Sports Denver should have at least one quarterback on the field this week. The Broncos announced Tuesday afternoon they’ve activated Drew Lock, Brett Rypien, and Blake Bortles from the reserve/COVID-19 list. All three will be eligible to practice tomorrow as Denver begins on-field...

USA Today Sports Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians usually doesn’t mince words. In recent days, Arians has sprinkled some passive-aggression into his comments about quarterback Tom Brady. Speaking to Tracy Wolfson of CBS in advance of Sunday’s Chiefs-Bucs game, Arians did his best Marie Barone...

USA Today Sports Eighteen quarterback have thrown for 500 or more passing yards in a game. Through the first half of Sunday’s game against the Buccaneers, No. 15 for the Chiefs seemed destined to be No. 19. After throwing for 219 passing yards in the first quarter and 359 in the first two...

Getty Images In a sign of how far ahead of the rest of the league the Chiefs’ passing attack is, Kansas City has not just the NFL’s most productive receiver, but the second-most productive receiver as well. Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill leads the NFL with 1,021 receiving yards this season...

Getty Images Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill may be having the best first quarter in NFL history. The first quarter isn’t even over yet as we’re posting this, and Hill has seven catches for 203 yards and two touchdowns. It’s been utterly ridiculous watching Patrick Mahomes and Hill humiliate...

Getty Images When Patrick Mahomes and Tyreek Hill are connecting, it’s just not fair. That must have been how the Buccaneers felt today when Hill had more than 200 receiving yards before the first quarter was over. It appeared that the Chiefs’ offense couldn’t be stopped. As the game...

Getty Images Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady faced the virtual music with reporters after Sunday’s loss to the Chiefs. But he didn’t face it for very long. The post-game press conference ended after less than two-and-a-half minutes, with this question from Jenna Laine of ESPN.com prompting a...

Getty Images The Buccaneers placed defensive lineman Vita Vea on the reserve/COVID-19 list Saturday, the team announced. Vea went on injured reserve Oct. 13 with a broken leg that ended his season. Inside linebacker Jack Cichy, who went on injured reserve the same day as Vea, was activated...

Getty Images The days following Tampa Bay’s latest loss included multiple comments from multiple members of the coaching staff that seemed, in totality, to shift blame from the coaching staff for offensive struggles (specifically with the deep ball) to quarterback Tom Brady. On Friday, Brady...

Getty Images The left side of the Buccaneers offensive line is questionable to play against the Chiefs on Sunday. Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians said that left tackle Donovan Smith and left guard Ali Marpet will each get that designation on the final injury report of the week. Smith is...

Getty Images The playing career of Buccaneers center A.Q. Shipley seems to be over. Coach Bruce Arians told reporters that Shipley will be going on injured reserve, and that he’ll be “starting his coaching career.” Arians suggested that Shipley’s Monday night injury, originally downplayed as...

Getty Images The Chiefs are set to get wide receiver Sammy Watkins back in the lineup for Sunday’s game against the Buccaneers. Watkins has not played since Week 5 because of a hamstring injury, but he was a full participant in practice all week and did not receive an injury designation on the...

Getty Images Week 12 of the 2020 NFL season kicked off on Thursday with wins by the Texans and the Washington Football Team and it continues with 12 more games on Sunday, which means that the 24 teams in those games submitted their final injury reports of the week on Friday. The teams playing...

Getty Images The Tampa Bay offense isn’t consistently clicking. As a result, questions have been swirling regarding the responsibility of quarterback Tom Brady for the execution of the attack, and for its design. Is he being asked to do things he’s not comfortable doing? How involved is he in...