Football

When you watch an NFL game, you’ll hear announcers say things like “they’re in a nickel package” or “that was a Cover 2 look.” To the average fan it can sound like jargon. To coaches and players, defensive formations are the chess moves that define every play — how many big bodies are on the … Read more

Every NFL season starts in the same place: a 23,000-seat stadium in Canton, Ohio, next door to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame Game is the league’s annual preseason opener, played during enshrinement weekend as the new class of Hall of Famers is honored on the field. In 2026, that means … Read more

Every July, as NFL training camps open, the same three letters start appearing next to star players’ names: PUP. The Physically Unable to Perform list is one of the most-searched and least-understood roster designations in football — partly because “on the PUP list” in July and “on the PUP list” in September mean two very … Read more

Every NFL team carries a 16-player practice squad alongside its 53-man active roster — a mix of rookies who didn’t survive final cuts, veterans hanging on for another shot, and scout-team specialists who make game weeks run. They practice every day and learn the full playbook, but their paychecks live in a completely different universe … Read more

Every one of the 257 players drafted in April 2026 will report to training camp this month on a contract he had almost no say in. The NFL rookie wage scale assigns a predetermined value to every draft slot — the higher the pick, the bigger the deal — and there is virtually nothing left … Read more

The reigning Super Bowl champions are opening their doors. The Seattle Seahawks are the featured team for Hard Knocks 2026, HBO and NFL Films’ all-access training camp series. The five-episode season premieres Tuesday, August 11, 2026, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and HBO Max, with new episodes on the following Tuesdays through the finale … Read more

The Pro Football Hall of Fame has 387 members counting this year’s class — the 2026 group headlined by Drew Brees and Larry Fitzgerald that gets enshrined in Canton this August — and the way they distribute across the NFL’s 32 franchises is a map of the league’s entire power history: the Bears and Packers, … Read more

The Seattle Seahawks just sold for $9.612 billion — the most ever paid for an NFL franchise, obliterating the Washington Commanders’ $6.05 billion record by more than 50%, and nearly 50 times what the late Paul Allen paid for the same team in 1997. The buyer: the family of tech billionaire Vinod Khosla, the Sun … Read more

Football returns in nine days. The defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks open the 2026 NFL training camp season when their rookies report on July 17, the 49ers follow a day later, and by July 28, the leaguewide veteran deadline, all 32 teams will be in camp, beginning the six-week gauntlet that turns 90-man offseason … Read more