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It’s make or break time for JuJu Smith-SchusterIn March, JuJu Smith-Schuster signed a one-year $10.75 million contract with the Kansas City Chiefs. Playing with Patrick Mahomes, this is his prove-it-or-lose- season. There are no more excuses if JuJu doesn’t play up to No. 1 receiver standards when the best young quarterback of this generation is...

Almost half the teams in the NFL have never had a Madden cover playerYou might be surprised to learn how many teams have never had a player appear on the cover of Madden NFL...

Friends don't let friends go on the ManningCastEveryone knows about the Madden curse. Whomstever graces the cover of the latest installment of the Madden franchise is doomed to suffer a terrible season. It doesn’t happen every year, but more often than not, having your face on EA’s broken football simulation video game is a horrible omen....

Deadspin predicts every “1K” player for the 2022 NFL season, Part II: WRs

Welcome to day two of Deadspin’s look at probable “1,000-yarders in the 2022 season. Yesterday, we highlighted the running backs. Today we look at receivers....

Deadspin predicts every '1K' player for the 2022 NFL season, Part I: RBs

One thousand yards on the ground or through the air has long been a benchmark of success in the NFL. Having a 1,000-yard season under your belt makes any defense have to account for you when game-planning. Sure, there are some lesser-known players who had a career year or two surpassing 1,000 yards ...

Browns fans have earned this Factory of Gladness

Take a bow, Browns fans. After years of torment, ridicule, bags over heads, a parade “celebrating” a winless campaign, and a Factory of Sadness, you have earned the right to be excited for this season, and the season after that, and the season after that. Yes, there was already excitement brewing in...

That Time Someone Said Peyton Hillis Wanted To Retire And Join The CIA

Today, the New York Giants released Madden 12 cover athlete—good job, fans—and running back Peyton Hillis. Did you even know Hillis was still in the league? A better question: Do you remember when a rumor came out in March 2012 that Hillis, at that time a free agent, was considering retirement so he...

Peyton Hillis's touchdown in the Giants' win last week came immediately after the team signed him off the proverbial scrapheap — in Hillis's case, off his 1,300-acre soybean farm in Tennessee. The Times has the overalls-to-riches story. [New York Times]...