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SportsXplain StaffMatthew Stafford now owns one of the NFL records a quarterback would rather avoid. The Los Angeles Rams quarterback threw the 33rd pick-six of his career during a 30-26 loss to the Denver Broncos on September 27, 2026, passing Brett Favre for the most interceptions returned for touchdowns in NFL history. [Yahoo Sports] Denver safety … Read more
Miami Dolphins running back De’Von Achane suffered a torn ACL in his right knee during Miami’s Week 3 game, ending his 2026 season and creating a major question about when one of the NFL’s fastest offensive players will be ready to return in 2027. The Dolphins confirmed the season-ending nature of Achane’s injury after additional … Read more
Cris Collinsworth has spent years praising Patrick Mahomes during NFL broadcasts. In September 2026, the long-running joke that the NBC analyst is unusually enthusiastic about the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback turned into another round of accusations that Collinsworth is biased toward Mahomes and the Chiefs. The latest backlash followed NBC’s September 20 Sunday Night Football … Read more
Kristaps Porziņģis will miss the start of the Golden State Warriors’ 2026 training camp because of an unspecified health issue, adding another major availability concern for a Warriors roster already dealing with several significant injuries. Warriors general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. announced at the team’s September 28 media day that Porziņģis is out indefinitely and … Read more
The Green Bay Packers signed veteran offensive lineman Mekhi Becton on September 28, 2026, as they attempt to repair an offensive line that has been hit by injuries and inconsistent play during a 1-2 start. Becton worked out for Green Bay on Monday morning and agreed to join the Packers shortly afterward. He is expected … Read more
The Minnesota Vikings’ decision to trade J.J. McCarthy to the New York Giants ended one of the NFL’s shortest and strangest experiments with a highly drafted quarterback. Minnesota traded McCarthy, the No. 10 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, to New York on September 28, 2026, for a fifth-round pick in the 2027 draft. … Read more
A walk-off field goal in the NFL is a field goal that wins the game on its final play, meaning the successful kick ends the contest immediately and the opposing team does not get another possession. The phrase is borrowed from baseball’s “walk-off” terminology. It is not a special type of kick or a separate … Read more
Florida made one of the biggest moves of the 2026 college football season when the Gators jumped 13 places from No. 21 to No. 8 in the Associated Press Top 25 following a dominant 52-28 victory over then-No. 4 Ole Miss. The enormous jump illustrates an important feature of the AP poll: teams do not … Read more
When an NFL player is listed as inactive, it means he is on his team’s roster but is not eligible to play in that particular game. Teams announce their inactive players shortly before kickoff. Once a player has been designated inactive for that game, he cannot simply enter later because another player gets hurt or … Read more
The Dallas Cowboys and Baltimore Ravens traveled thousands of miles from home to play a regular-season NFL game in Rio de Janeiro because Brazil has become one of the league’s most important international growth markets. The Ravens’ 34-31 victory over the Cowboys on September 27, 2026, was the first NFL regular-season game ever played in … Read more