SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Drake Maye did not wait long to earn a spot on the NFL's grandest stage.

In only his second season, the New England Patriots' quarterback led his team to the Super Bowl.

Now Maye, 23, will try to join four other second-year quarterbacks who won Super Bowl titles.

"I'm not too great at my history," Maye said when asked ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Carolina Panthers legend Greg Olsen is feeling very good about his former teammate Luke Kuechly’s chances to make the Pro Football Hall of Fame Thursday.

Olsen is scheduled to fly out to California Thursday, with the idea of celebrating alongside Kuechly if the former linebacker makes the Hall of Fame on his second try.

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — On Jan. 21, Mike Macdonald stepped to a podium at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center, just as he had for the Seahawks’ previous 19 game-week news conferences. The Seahawks’ second-year coach is a man of regimented routine, repeating the same process to ensure the right result.

Only this time, a blue backdrop — ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — In the AFC championship game, Will Campbell looked more like himself.

He allowed just two pressures at Denver, after allowing four in each of the Patriots’ prior playoff wins. This week, the 22-year-old left tackle explained that was no coincidence.

Campbell said the AFC title game was the first time he’s felt fully...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Outside of wearing the same jerseys and representing the city of Seattle, Richard Sherman doesn’t see too many similarities between the current Seahawk defense and the Legion of Boom.

Sherman, the 2014 Super Bowl champion whose Seahawk tenure defined the Legion of Boom’s brash style, explained the two teams have stylistic ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The machine sits in the front corner of the Patriots’ quarterbacks room.

It cost $10,000, one coach guessed.

It has healing powers, one teammate claimed.

Everyone who has made a pilgrimage to use this square box with a clear plastic exterior, small tub on top and mechanical arms and pumps inside, comes away a true ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Giants are hiring NFL chief football administrative officer Dawn Aponte as a senior vice president of football operations and strategy.

John Harbaugh’s shakeup of the organization started with a reassignment of head athletic trainer Ronnie Barnes and the news that senior VP of football operations and strategy Kevin Abrams ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed Minnesota Vikings tight ends coach Brian Angelichio to be Mike McCarthy’s offensive coordinator and hired former Washington Commanders defensive assistant Joe Whitt Jr. as assistant head coach/secondary, the team announced Wednesday.

Angelichio, 53, was McCarthy’s tight ends coach for three...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Former Carolina Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly gets his second shot at the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Thursday night. If there’s any justice in the NFL world, he will make it.

But we already know that the Hall of Fame voters are a notoriously unpredictable lot, based on the fact that six-time Super Bowl champion coach ...Read more

MIAMI — The NFL’s Rooney Rule is well intended, and absolutely needed to encourage diversity in positions of power within a league that has admitted it has had, and still has discriminatory hiring practices despite its minority filled workforce.

However, the rule that forces NFL owners and their search committee to interview not one, but ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When he says he's just focused on the Super Bowl, you believe him. When he emphasizes that he's been waiting his whole life to coach in this game, you're confident he is not distracted.

But Seahawks offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak has almost certainly coached his last game in Seattle for the foreseeable future. Reports ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Ravens interviewed 20 head coaching candidates this offseason. No other NFL team came close.

The size of Baltimore’s search reflected owner Steve Bisciotti’s dynamic hiring approach: gather pertinent information first, then make one of the most important decisions in recent franchise history.

The Ravens still ...Read more

DETROIT — After getting in an altercation on the sidelines of Ford Field, Detroit Lions fan Ryan Kennedy is officially taking Pittsburgh Steelers receiver DK Metcalf and several others — including Ford Field — to court and seeking an excess of $100 million in damages.

Kennedy, a Lions’ season-ticket holder for 15 years, is suing Metcalf...Read more

NEW YORK — NFL commissioner Roger Goodell championed Grammy Award-winner Bad Bunny‘s ability to “unite people” after the artist condemned President Donald Trump’s ICE raids on America’s citizens ahead of his Super Bowl halftime appearance.

“Bad Bunny … is one of the greatest artists in the world, and that’s one of the reasons ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — In this week of pomp and circumstance, this parade of Alcatraz visits and Radio Row and Dodgeball matches for 300-pound grown kids, nobody is having more fun than Garett Bolles.

On Monday, he palled around with contemporaries at a Pro Bowl practice for the first time in his career. He’s up to walk the red carpet at Thursday�...Read more

Bill Belichick isn't the only key figure from the New England Patriots dynasty who won't be getting into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this year.

Team owner Robert Kraft also failed to receive enough votes to be included in the Class of 2026, according to multiple media outlets. The inductees will be announced Thursday night at the NFL Honors ...Read more

NEW YORK — Patrick Mahomes’ offensive coordinator is coming to New York to coach Jaxson Dart.

John Harbaugh is hiring the Chiefs’ Matt Nagy to be the Giants’ new offensive coordinator.

Harbaugh is providing a soft landing for a fellow member of the Andy Reid coaching tree after Kansas City did not renew Nagy’s contract as a non-...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — The potential life-changing effects caused by CTE, or any other ailment associated with football, have not deterred America’s appetite to play or watch the game, which is why the NFL, NCAA and most likely your neighborhood high school are adding weeks to their respective seasons.

When there is this much money to be made, ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Drake Maye and his New England Patriots coaches don’t expect his injured throwing shoulder to limit him in Super Bowl LX.

The New England quarterback returned to practice Monday at Stanford University after sitting out last Friday’s session with an illness, along with his shoulder issue. The Patriots were not required ...Read more