Last Minute Decisions: Injury Report: Week 7 Week 7 of the NFL season is here, and the Rotoworld crew has everything you need to cash in a winning week. Patrick Daugherty answers your lineup questions with his Week 7 Rankings, Nick Mensio tells you who to start and who to fade in Start’ Em or Sit ‘Em, and Evan Silva breaks down every matchup in his award-winning Matchups Column.As for me, I am … [Read more...]

Johnny Manziel could face NFL discipline following domestic incident Johnny Manziel might be a forgotten man on the football field, but he very much appears to be on the minds of the NFL. The league is investigating Manziel's incident a few weeks ago in which the Cleveland Browns quarterback and his girlfriend, Colleen Crowley, were questioned by police for what they called a "domestic … [Read more...]

Cowboys' Dez Bryant listed as doubtful after missing practice all week Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant increased his workload this week with the hopes of playing Sunday against the New York Giants but will be listed as doubtful for the Week 7 contest. Bryant suffered a broken foot in Week 1 against the Giants, and yet there was optimism that Bryant could heal quicker than expected … [Read more...]

Bears cut Jeremiah Ratliff after heated exchange at team facility Chicago Bears defensive lineman Jeremiah "Jay" Ratliff got into a heated exchange outside Halas Hall, the team's training facility in Lake Forest, Ill., on Wednesday and was released on Thursday. The story was first reported by the Chicago Sun-Times. Ratliff reportedly showed up to the facility "in no condition to practice," … [Read more...]

Putting Jets DT Sheldon Richardson's supposed guarantee in proper context The New York Jets have made a concerted effort under coach Todd Bowles to avoid the sort of bravado that became the norm in locker rooms led by ex-coach Rex Ryan, so it must have come as a surprise to the organization when the following quote was attributed to Sheldon Richardson in Metro New York. "This is going to be … [Read more...]

Football Daily Dose: Dose: Seahawks Smother 49ers The Seattle Seahawks had plenty of frustration to take out on their division rivals on Thursday night after blowing two consecutive late-game leads prior to traveling to Santa Clara to face the San Francisco 49ers. When the clock mercifully hit zeros in this game, the Seahawks owned a 20-3 victory in one of the least exhilarating Thursday night … [Read more...]

Another rivalry dead: Seahawks-49ers just isn't nearly as fun anymore When the San Francisco 49ers found themselves down 17 points in the fourth quarter, head coach Jim Tomsula sent out the punt team — twice in a two-minute span with less than five minutes remaining. He might as well have been punting on the season. Here's what the 49ers' possessions looked like in the 49ers' 20-3 loss … [Read more...]

NFL Europe is perhaps easily forgotten now, but it had an impact NFL Europe is one of those “Oh, right!” things in sports history. Without prompting, you probably wouldn’t easily remember it existed. The league lasted a surprisingly long time for something that never really caught on outside of a relatively small pocket of fans. It went from 1991-2007, with no football played two of those … [Read more...]

Tom Brady wants to play football for another 10 years   People sick of the Patriots, whether because of the team's endless winning, or the controversies that linger on and on, or the air of justified smugness that surrounds the franchise, have always taken comfort in the fact that, at some point, this has to end. Right? At some point, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick have to ride off into the … [Read more...]

Week 7 Coaches on the hot seat The high point of the Kansas City Chiefs' season may have come and gone before halftime of their season opener. With five minutes left in the second quarter of that game, in Houston, the Chiefs were up 27-6 on the Texans. The Texans shut the Chiefs out the rest of the game, but Kansas City did hold on for the win. They haven't won in the five games since. … [Read more...]