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Saints RB Alvin Kamara (knee) expected to miss 4-6 weeks
Saints running back Alvin Kamara is expected to miss 4-6 weeks with a sprained MCL. ,Kamara, 31, went down with a knee injury during Tuesday's joint practice with the Dallas Cowboys. Initial tests confirmed he avoided a season-ending injury. ,Multiple outlets reported Wednesday that the five-time Pr...

Reports: Saints RB Alvin Kamara sidelined but avoids serious knee injury
New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara left Tuesday's joint practice with the Dallas Cowboys with a knee injury, according to multiple media reports.,He avoided serious injury but is still expected to be sidelined for a few weeks, NewOrleans.football additionally reported.,Kamara, 31, has spen...

Reports: RB Alvin Kamara staying with Saints on reworked contract
Running back Alvin Kamara will stay with the New Orleans Saints after restructuring his contract for this season, his agent told NFL Network on Wednesday.,Financial terms were not disclosed for Kamara, who was to make up to $11.5 million in base salary in 2026. The Saints had renegotiated his deal i...

Saints RB Alvin Kamara reports to team OTAs
New Orleans running back Alvin Kamara was present for voluntary organized team activities with the Saints on Wednesday.,Kamara's future with the Saints has been an open question entering the final year of his contract. Kamara typically trains away from the team in Miami in the offseason, then return...

Saints RB Alvin Kamara signs 2-year, $24.5M extension
Alvin Kamara is staying with the New Orleans Saints.,The star running back, who recently denied rumors that he wanted to be traded, signed a two-year, $24.5 million contract extension that keeps him with New Orleans through 2026.,Originally reported by NFL Network and the New Orleans Times-Picayune ...

Saints RB Alvin Kamara (back) misses practice
New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara was held out of practice on Wednesday due to back tightness.,Kamara did participate in the team's walkthrough, though, and New Orleans coach Dennis Allen told reporters that the injury was "not a big deal.",A five-time Pro Bowl selection, Kamara violated ...

Saints RB Alvin Kamara seeks new contract, exits minicamp
New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara left Thursday's mandatory minicamp prior to the final practice session due to contract-related reasons, his agent told NFL Network.,Kamara participated in the morning walkthrough before leaving the facility.,He has two seasons remaining on a five-year con...

Saints' Alvin Kamara did a number on this sideline official's leg
Let’s get the content warning out of the way: While not as gruesome as, say, slow motion video of Joe Theisman’s leg swinging the opposite way it’s supposed to, the video of Saints running back Alvin Kamara rolling up on a sideline official is not exactly pleasant to watch. Proceed with caution and ...

Could Trey Lance's 49ers career already be over?
At least the San Francisco 49ers appear to be attempting to keep all of their options open. That is the best way to describe the handling of their starting quarterback situation with Brock Purdy and Trey Lance both recovering from injury, and Jimmy G now in Las Vegas. ...

The media is trying to foster Saquon Barkley unrest — don’t bite
Once the New York Giants signed their future over to Daniel Jones, theri fans could anxiously pivot to running back Saquon Barkley. While the two haven’t quite reached the stage of acrimony, it’s not for a lack of effort from the media. Today’s overblown headline is “Barkley reportedly won’t sign fr...

These are Derek Carr's post-Raiders options
Derek Carr may not be a superstar, but several quarterback-needy teams are interested in his services....

These NFL teams have the most to gain from competent quarterback play
This is pretty self-explanatory, so I’ll make it quick because you have slides to scroll through, and I have better things to write than clickbait. It feels like a lot of NFL teams with a franchise guy under center have fewer blue chips players than most of the squads in search of a QB, which leads ...

Get the NFC South out of here
Nearly every NFL season there is at least one division that if ripped from the league and cast into the sea, the product would be much better. This season, that division is the NFC South. ...

Thursday Night Football Preview: Can the Philadelphia Eagles run the table?
The Eagles are the only remaining undefeated team in the NFL. With 10 weeks left, though, it seems impossible that the Eagles could remain undefeated through the rest of the year. Then you look at their upcoming schedule....

D’Ernest Johnson should have been an NFL trade deadline target
The NFL trade deadline has come and gone, and the positional group most represented in the trades was running back. Christian McCaffrey (San Francisco 49ers), Jeff Wilson Jr. (Miami Dolphins), Chase Edmonds (Denver Broncos), James Robinson (New York Jets), and Nyheim Hines (Buffalo Bills) all found ...

NFL Week 4: Are backup QBs better than we give them credit for?
America loves an underdog story, but the betting public hates backup quarterbacks. Despite the Cowboys going 2-0 with Cooper Rush filling in for Dak Prescott, Dallas is seeing only 16.7 percent of bets placed on them to take down their division rivals, the Washington Commanders on Sunday....

Top 5 potential landing spots for Saquon Barkley
New York Giants halfback Saquon Barkley is in the final year of his rookie contract. In that time, he’s won a Rookie of the Year Award, had two 1,000-yard rushing seasons, and...scored just four times in the last two-plus years due to injuries....

NFC South Preview: It’s Tom Brady’s world, we’re just living in it
Logical outcome: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers get the jump on this division and never relent. Let’s keep it 100: The Panthers, Saints, and Falcons don’t have the cannons to match up to Tampa Bay’s gunpowder on both sides of the ball. Brady breaks Peyton Manning’s single-season passing yardage record, to...

The health of Michael Thomas can make or break the Saints’ season
It’s supposedly only the smallest of detours — like having to briefly merge because of a single city truck in the right lane — but still no New Orleans Saints fan wanted to hear that Michael Thomas is currently injured. He’s been out since Saturday due to a hamstring injury....

Running Back contracts have been stuck in amber for the past decade
We used to be a country. A proper country, where the running back position was the focal point of any NFL offense. Today, they’re the coal miners of the NFL landscape. It’s no secret that as the salary cap has ballooned and the market has blessed the quarterback-receiver connection, the running back...