LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert underwent a surgical procedure Monday to stabilize a fracture in his non-throwing hand and his status for next Monday night’s game against Philadelphia will be determined later in the week, the team announced.

Herbert sustained the injury in the first quarter of Sunday’s ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Police confirmed that Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo’s house was vandalized early Saturday morning, two days before a viral video surfaced Monday depicting objects being thrown in the direction of a home.

According to the Moorestown Police Department, Patullo’s home was vandalized with multiple eggs...Read more

LANDOVER, Md. — As his right knee perched 2 inches above the ground, the Denver Broncos’ season became lost in the clouds.

Everything seems possible when Bo Nix makes plays like this.

You saw it. You know it. You Bo-lieve it. Clear the schedule. Check Expedia for flights to Santa Clara, Calif., in February.

Late in the second quarter ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Vikings are waiving veteran wide receiver Adam Thielen following a request by his representation for his release, the team announced Monday morning via a statement from General Manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah.

Thielen was inactive for the Vikings’ 26-0 loss to the Seahawks in Seattle on Sunday.

Both Adofo-Mensah’s ...Read more

MIAMI — Consider it the game-saving interception that almost never happened, and actually won’t count in the stat books.

I’m referring to Tyler Shough’s two-point conversion throw at the end of the fourth quarter, which followed a 15-yard touchdown reception to Devaughn Vele, and would have tied the score 19-19 with 1:17 left in ...Read more

LANDOVER, Md. — Nik Bonitto called game.

The streak is alive.

The Broncos have won nine straight.

They are tied with New England for the best record in football at 10-2.

It was anything but easy.

Bonitto batted down a game-deciding, two-point conversion attempt and Denver survived a scare at Washington on Sunday night with a 27-26 ...Read more

MIAMI — We are two-thirds through a Miami Dolphins season full of stuff that makes you wonder about and doubt — full of questions. Amid all of those, though, is an exclamation point, a certainty, an unequivocal major positive moving forward.

De’Von Achane!

The third-year running back out of Texas A&M just turned 24, should be headed to ...Read more

SEATTLE — The final score — a 26-0 win that was the Seattle Seahawks’ first shutout in more than a decade — doesn’t accurately indicate how long it seemed to take them to gain control of Sunday’s game against the Minnesota Vikings.

The Vikings used a variety of blitzes to make life uncomfortable for Sam Darnold and the Seahawks ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ladies and gentlemen, the victorious Justin Herbert.

Give him a hand.

(The Chargers wish you could.)

Herbert, who has been knocked around all season but so far had avoided injury, saw that streak come to a disappointing end Sunday, even though the Chargers walked away with a 31-14 win over the Las Vegas Raiders. It was the ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Wait, was this a playoff game? It’s only late November, but it felt like early January at Acrisure Stadium.

That’s how much the Pittsburgh Steelers’s 26-7 romp at the hands of the Buffalo Bills resembled one of their typical postseason failures. This beat-down Sunday was just ahead of schedule.

The Steelers actually had a ...Read more

MIAMI — Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.

The Miami Dolphins benefited from the return of three starters — right tackle Austin Jackson, tight end Darren Waller and cornerback Rasul Douglas — en route to their 21-17 victory of the New Orleans Saints.

While the game itself was far from the most entertaining game in NFL history, in...Read more

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Kicker Nick Folk sent the Atlanta Falcons home with a 56-yard field goal at the buzzer to lift the New York Jets to a 27-24 victory Sunday at MetLife Stadium.

The Falcons couldn’t hold another fourth-quarter lead as they collapsed over the final 8:53 of the game.

The Jets improved to 3-9. The Falcons are now 4-8, ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — They did not intimidate, and they did not dominate.

In the big book of memorable defensive performances in Tampa Bay history, Sunday’s game against the Arizona Cardinals will be several pages from the top.

And yet it was still a step forward.

A sign of life for a unit under siege.

The Bucs beat the Cardinals 20-17 on Sunday...Read more

CLEVELAND — Win No. 9 in the San Francisco 49ers’ seemingly playoff-bound season came in 26-8 fashion Sunday. But it wasn’t looking too secure until a third-quarter swing.

The 49ers clung to a 10-8 lead when, well, let’s hear from referee Brad Allen.

“Boom, this way!” Allen shouted on a live mic as 49ers linebacker Luke Gifford ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Humility, as Sean McVay likes to say, is only a day away.

The Los Angeles Rams lived it on Sunday.

The Carolina Panthers defeated the Rams, 31-28, before 71,292 at Bank of America Stadium, ending the Rams’ six-game winning streak, dropping their record to 9-3 and knocking them out of the top seed in the NFC.

The Rams ...Read more

NEW YORK — Few teams in all of sports are as intertwined as the Giants and New England Patriots.

Over the past four decades, the Giants and Pats have battled in instant-classic Super Bowls, employed the same big-name coaches and, most recently, sought the same young franchise quarterback.

Including the playoffs, the teams have split their ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — It was easy to catch the chants rising out of the Lincoln Financial Field stands Friday, a call for change that feels closer and closer to happening, no matter what Nick Sirianni might say, no matter how much the Eagles head coach might stand behind his friend and offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo. Those “FIRE-KEVIN” ...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Jumbotron in this building is enormous, 160 feet long and 72 feet tall, but tucked just beyond the centerpiece big screen are the banners. The Cowboys once enjoyed a dynasty, and the 1992, 1993 and 1995 world championship flags hang from the rafters to prove it.

A reminder of what once was.

The Chiefs have hung a few ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have wandered back to a crossroads they swore they were done visiting, the intersection of Overhyped Avenue and Uh-oh Boulevard.

A 5-1 start morphed into a 6-5 collapse, the kind of slump that makes you wonder if the early surge was real. They’ve dropped three straight, misplaced a good chunk of ...Read more