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All Access: NFL Notebook, CFL Week 12 & Top Football Headlines

NFL rookies shine during preseason action, while the CFL playoff race heats up. Plus, more top storylines.
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Terrion Arnold, back on an island

A charmed football life takes a sordid turn for the NFL cornerback
“Football doesn’t build character, it reveals it,” Terrion Arnold said, on the tape from the 2024 NFL combine. In Seattle last week, John Schneider grinned and brought other Seahawks officials in to watch it.
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Ged Doughton
Great writing as usual.
Eddie Haskell is not just a fictional TV character and coaches have their own “beer googles” when it comes to talent.
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Dan the Man
This might be the best column I've ever read, and I've read many of them.

Running Back Risers After Week 1 of the NFL Preseason (2026 Fantasy Football)

Corbin Young examines several running back risers in FFPC ADP after Week 1 of the NFL preseason of the 2026 fantasy football season.
A full week of NFL preseason games arrived, causing fantasy managers to tilt with injuries, highlight plays, and more. We’re looking at the risers and fallers in Average Draft Position (ADP) over the past week in the Fantasy Football Players Championship (FFPC) leagues, seen below.
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Ayaan Bhakhri
Good picks.

OffBall
Aug 15

Olivia Miles Swag, Clever NFL WAGs & Your Fantasy Football Bag

OffBall Daily Digest 8.14
Welcome to the Weekend Digest, which will carry us through Sunday. We’re STILL waiting for the next Kylian Mbappé shoe to drop and the NFL will be on Aaron Donald hate watch all weekend. Our editors have a serious case of fantasy football fever, Olivia Miles is certifying new WNBA sickos and
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AT $65 MILLION A YEAR, GOD FORBID, MCAFEE MIGHT EVEN RUN FOR PRESIDENT

ESPN doesn’t care if he’s insanely overexposed, letting the megastar dominate NFL and college football coverage as he meets Donald Trump, records an album and could seek a higher office someday
There he is, a future President of the United States, wearing a backwards white cap and leaning over with a greenish wristband to shake hands with Donald Trump. Their meeting was not a shock, because Pat McAfee is the only man on Earth who manages more time on television and social media than Trump.
Jay Mariotti

Football Is Back! Well, Sort Of.

Tonight's Hall of Fame Game opens the NFL calendar, signaling that football season is near, even as the league's actual stars have mostly disappeared from the preseason.
This time a year ago, I noted my own personal conflicted feelings about the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, which officially marks the preseason kicko…
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Do you have any data to show how much preseason QB's (or any position for that matter) EVENTUALLY become useful players? Even if not in the upcoming season.
In other words, is pre-season a place where useful players are actually developed, or only a place where fringe players are fighting for roster spots?




Behind the Blueprint: Adrian Manning

Kansas State’s Assistant Director of Scouting shares how trusting your evaluation, building relationships and learning from the NFL model are shaping the next generation of college football personnel.
College football roster building looks very different than it did even a few years ago. The transfer portal, NIL and an increasingly sophisticated player personnel infrastructure have changed how programs identify, evaluate and retain talent.
Ty Scheiner


#Enotes: SIX games of exhibition NFL football? Yes, it actually happened

I grew up waiting impatiently for regular season NFL games to commence.
I’m old enough to remember when NFL teams played SIX exhibition games. Six!
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The only thing that excited me about last night's game eas watching the 2 UDFAs playing really strong against Bengals starring offense. I do think Brad did it again with UDFA this year.


Why Adam Silver Beat Roger Goodell

The reasons behind why the NBA had great timing but the NFL does not
The TV Grim Reaper account tracks the decline of the traditional television media ecosystem, often in ways that contradict more access-driven publications. The Reaper has called his shot on the following take: NFL commissioner Roger Goodell massively screwed up his TV rights negotiations
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ddp76
"Imagine losing the most important technological battle ever because you wanted to own Titans-Browns."
This almost caused the coffee through my nose this morning!
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Adam
It’s pretty funny that the AI bubble is now crowding out the sports broadcast rights bubble.




Draft Watch Show: NCAA Week 0 Prospect Primer

AAF Draft Watch show hosts Ric Serritella and Russ Lande preview the NCAA slate for Week 0 with an eye on top prospects for the 2027 NFL Draft.
*AAF Draft Watch Show, Powered By SMWW Flag Football Leadership Course.
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Brian Mitchell: Belated best wishes

Prolific returner, runner, receiver deserves HOF consideration
🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈
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Dan Rambo
He would have been a HOF QB if he made it to the CFL after his Senior Yr...I tried.
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Steven S. Neff
My friends and I are playing with the 2000 season cards of the board game APBA football. We have nicknamed Brian Mitchell “Mr. Inevitable.” He is unstoppable.

Lance’s 2026 PPR Fantasy Football Rankings (10-1)

The countdown continues with Nos. 10-1, featuring the next 10 players in my PPR fantasy football rankings for the 2026 NFL season.
This series ranks the top 100 PPR fantasy football players heading into the 2026 NFL season, based on projected fantasy production and overall value.
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Go Long
Aug 21

‘Bad shit’s going to happen:’ On Tate Ratledge, the Georgia tragedy & cutthroat NFL life

The Detroit Lions starter opens up. Subscribers can access in full. Ratledge does not disappoint. His story is the plight of all pro football players.
Tate Ratledge is a 6-foot-6 tatted creature created in a Dan Campbell Lab. Of course this guard from the SEC rocked a mullet through college. Of course the Detroit Lions head coach coveted an offensive guard who was booted from four daycares as a kid.
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James Schwartz
Great piece Ty.