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No matter what happens in the next two days, defensive end Michael Sam is confident he offered a strong closing argument to make the St. Louis Rams roster Thursday night.

Hoyer, Manziel lead Browns over Bears 33-13

Lions rookie linebacker Kyle Van Noy had surgery to repair his "core muscle" Thursday.

Eli Manning and the New York Giants have a lot of work to do before their regular-season opener next Monday night in Detroit.

Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick is being fined $22,500 for unnecessary roughness, a league source told ESPN's Ed Werder.

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith has been suspended without pay for the first nine games of the 2014 regular season for violating the National Football League's policies on substances of abuse and personal cond...

The Chicago Bears have waived former Northern Illinois star quarterback Jordan Lynch.

Wide receiver and 2010 Pro Bowl return man Marc Mariani says he's been cut by the Tennessee Titans.

Rookie Dallas safety Ahmad Dixon has been fined $22,050 for a hit on Miami receiver Matt Hazel in a preseason game last week.

49ers linebacker Aldon Smith, center, was suspended nine games for the 2014 season. Reuters

The 2014 NFL season is finally set to get underway, as all 32 teams played in their final preseason games on Thursday. On Saturday, each team will be forced to determine its final 53-man roster with which it will start t...

As most fantasy leagues begin their drafts this weekend, owners will scour stats, schedules and rankings to hopefully come up with what the Washington Post dubbed the "perfect draft." Setting up a 12-team standard league...

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith has been suspended for nine games by the NFL after a series of off-field legal issues.

It's a good bet that some of the players who'll be asked to turn in their playbooks in Denver will be scooped up by other teams this weekend.

Dee Milliner's status for the New York Jets' regular-season opener is still unclear.

Coach Rex Ryan has defiantly said that the Jets will still field a top-five defense despite their problems at cornerback.

After four preseason clunkers, the Kansas City Chiefs know things are about to get real.

The Packers rookies who have made two of the strongest impressions this preseason weren't at the top of the team's draft board.

Baltimore Ravens defensive tackle Haloti Ngata was fined $8,268 by the NFL for kicking a Washington Redskins player in Saturday's preseason game.

The Giants went 7-9 and became an easy target for late-night television comedians and a frequent punching bag on sports-talk radio.

If the four-game preseason schedule is here to stay, why not be creative and figure out ways to make it about more than setting offenses and not getting hurt?

Johnny Manziel's ready to hand off his nickname. Or at least share it.