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Getty Images With Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa the highest-paid defensive player in football and Chargers defensive end Melvin Ingram not practicing as he tries to get more money from the team, Simms and I recently looked at the best pass-rushing duos in all of football. It unfolded in the...

Getty Images Chiefs free safety Juan Thornhill practiced Wednesday for the first time since December. Thornhill spent almost three weeks on the active/physically unable to perform list. He passed his physical, and the Chiefs activated him from PUP. The Chiefs, though, will take a deliberate...

Getty Images Rookie running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire has had a couple of “welcome-to-the-NFL” moments in his young career thus far. The first-round draft choice took his first hard hit Sunday when Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark popped Edwards-Helaire out of bounds after a reception...

Getty Images Free agent defensive tackle Xavier Williams worked out for the Patriots on Wednesday, Mike Reiss of ESPN reports. Williams is a candidate to fill one of the Patriots’ open roster spots. The Patriots have depth concerns at the position with Beau Allen absent from practice...

Getty Images Chiefs cornerback Bashaud Breeland has confirmed that he will serve a suspension for the first four games of this NFL season. The suspension, which was first reported as a possibility in April, is now official, according to a post from Breeland on Instagram. “I have received a 4...

Getty Images Washington quarterback Alex Smith currently is writing one of the greatest comeback stories in sports history. Smith’s ongoing effort to get back on the field inspired Monday’s PFT Live draft. What are the best individual comeback stories in NFL history? Our choices appear in the...

Getty Images The Chiefs have finalized plans for a reduced capacity of approximately 22 percent to begin the 2020 season, the team announced Monday. Arrowhead Stadium seats 76,416. The Chiefs said they received approval from Kansas City mayor Quinton Lucas, city of Kansas City health director...

Getty Images Chiefs coach Andy Reid is thrilled to see that Alex Smith isn’t done in the NFL. Reid said today that he was excited to hear that Smith has been cleared to return to the Washington Football Team after the severe leg injury that nearly ended his career in 2018. “How great is that...

Getty Images The Chiefs added some depth at tight end Sunday. They claimed Daniel Helm off waivers from the 49ers, according to the NFL’s transactions wire. Helm has never seen action in an NFL regular-season game despite a call-up to the 49ers’ 53-player roster on Dec. 12, 2019, after...

Getty Images No NFL award is ever clinched before the games even start. This year, one of them already may be. Former Washington quarterback Joe Theismann, who suffered a career-ending broken leg in 1985, believes that current Washington quarterback Alex Smith, who suffered a supposedly...

Getty Images Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has shown that he has the ability to inspire his teammates to keep focused and to continue to push ahead, not matter whether the team is down by 24 points in the divisional round (like it was), by 10 points twice in the championship round (like it...

Getty Images Chiefs cornerback Alex Brown acknowledged on social media that he tore an anterior cruciate ligament during Friday’s practice. “I will be back bigger, better, faster, and stronger,” Brown wrote, via Nate Taylor of TheAthletic.com. “With that being said my brothers still running it...

Getty Images When Travis Kelce signed a four-year, $57 million contract extension with the Chiefs this week, he decided that his first purchase would be something more meaningful than a new car. Kelce announced that he will be buying a building for his Eighty-Seven & Running Foundation to give...

Getty Images FC Dallas defender Reggie Cannon wasn’t bashful about calling out fans who booed players for kneeling during the national anthem on Wednesday night, before the first MLS game featuring fans since the pandemic started. Unfortunately, some weren’t bashful about directing racist...

Getty Images Using a first-round pick on running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire seemed like a luxury for the Chiefs, but he’s quickly become a necessity. According to the Adam Teicher of ESPN.com, the rookie fro LSU was running with the starters in the first day of fully padded practice. They’d...

Getty Images The pandemic has kept the Chiefs from having a traditional ring ceremony. A non-traditional distribution of Super Bowl rings has not yet occurred. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the powers-that-be plan to meet soon to finalize plans for handing out the championship...

Getty Images Quarterback Patrick Mahomes was the first key player on the Chiefs to agree to a long-term extension with the team this offseason, but he wasn’t the last. Defensive tackle Chris Jones got his deal a little more than a week after Mahomes’ deal was done and tight end Travis Kelce...

Getty Images George Kittle became the highest-paid tight end in the league on Thursday and it appears another tight end is about to cash in as well. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the Chiefs and Travis Kelce are close to an agreement on a contract extension. Kittle’s new deal runs for...

Getty Images The Chiefs are tying up their core for the next few years. The deal with Travis Kelce is done, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports, with the tight end agreeing to a four-year, $57 million extension. Kelce is entering the fourth year of a five-year contract set to make base salaries...

Getty Images Longtime NFL offensive line coach Howard Mudd has died as a result of injuries he suffered in a motorcycle accident two weeks ago. Wednesday brought word that Mudd remained in intensive care and in need of more surgery, but his condition took a turn for the worse and his death was...