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After Zverev increased his winning streak to 12 matches, he threw an autographed tennis ball to a familiar NFL face. View the original article to see embedded media. Alexander Zverev, the No. 4 tennis player in the world and the Tokyo Olympics gold medalist, signed several tennis balls before throwing one into the crowd of spectators after winning his first round match at the 2021 U.S. Open. The spectator who caught his pass was free agent wide receiver Dez Bryant. In true Bryant fashion, he caught the ball with ease. Following the celebratory gesture, Zverev will look to win his first Grand Slam to add to his Olympic gold medal. The 24-year-old won his first-round match against Sam Querrey 6-4, 7-5, 6-2 on Tuesday.  With the victory against Querrey, Zverev extended his winning streak to 12 matches. The German finished runner-up in the 2020 U.S. Open final.  As for Bryant, the three-time Pro Bowler has yet to sign with a NFL team for the 2021 season. However, in Jul...

Unvaccinated players face stricter protocols, and if deemed a high-risk close contact or test positive for COVID-19, they would miss substantial time. View the original article to see embedded media. Urban Meyer commented during a press conference Tuesday that a player's COVID-19 vaccination status was taken into consideration for the Jaguars' roster cuts.  "Everyone was considered," Meyer said. "That was part of the [considerations such as] production, let's start talking about this, and also is he vaccinated or not? Can I say that that was a decision maker? It was certainly in consideration." There's a significant difference in COVID-19 protocols between vaccinated and unvaccinated players. If deemed a high-risk close contact or test positive for the virus, an unvaccinated player would miss substantial time compared to a vaccinated player.  Per a report from the NFL Network's Tom Pelissero , fully vaccinated players and staff members wi...

The donations will go towards The Greater New Orleans Foundation, the United Way of Southeast Louisiana and the American Red Cross. View the original article to see embedded media. The Ravens announced that they and The Stephen & Renee Bisciotti Foundation are donating $1 million to Hurricane Ida relief funds, which will assist The Greater New Orleans Foundation, the United Way of Southeast Louisiana and the American Red Cross. "The Ravens have a special connection with New Orleans, which is filled with wonderful people who are now in great need," the franchise said in a statement . "The community treated our organization with first-class hospitality throughout the week of Super Bowl XLVII. We have great affection for the city and its people, so it was especially important for us to aid their recovery efforts." Ida made landfall in the Gulf Coast on Sunday as a Category 4 hurricane, and according to CNN , five people have died so far. Even though hundre...

SI's Albert Breer is joined by Charlie Weis and analyst Brady Quinn to discuss the news of Cam Newton and the Pats parting ways and naming Mac Jones the starter. Former Notre Dame head coach (and former New England Patriots offensive coordinator)  Charlie Weis and former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn reunite on The Hurry-Up today. Weis and Quinn join SI senior writer Albert Breer to discuss the news out of New England today. Former MVP Cam Newton is officially out in New England leaving rookie Mac Jones to step into the starting job.  Breer leads the reaction to Cam leaving and what Jones starting for the Pats in a few weeks means for the squad this season. 

The wide receiver will miss at least the first five games of the season as New Orleans will reportedly place him on the physically unable to perform list. View the original article to see embedded media. Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas will miss at least the first five games of the season as the franchise is expected to place him on the physically unable to perform list, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter. Thomas will be unable to practice until the first six weeks of the season have passed, but due to the Saints' having a bye week in Week 6, he will initially miss just five games. The first game Thomas could appear in is against the Seahawks on Monday Night Football in Week 7.  Thomas had his ankle surgically repaired in June and had long been reportedly expected to miss the start of the 2021 season.  However, coach Sean Payton recently said Thomas was "ahead of schedule" in his recovery. The three-time Pro Bowler played in seven regular-season games in ...

The Patriots are now all-in on Mac Jones, and they may have found a potential star hiding in plain sight. Bill Belichick is probably right, because Bill Belichick is usually right, and so we should pause now to ponder what it means if he is. Belichick just stuffed the rest of his career into Mac Jones’s pocket, just four months after Jones was the fifth quarterback taken in the draft. We are left with the astounding but increasingly likely possibility that Belichick outsmarted the league yet again. The Patriots might have found a star hiding in plain sight: a national-championship winning, All-America quarterback at the nation’s most successful college program. We’ll see how Jones does—next week, next month, next year. But if he excels, I would not want to be the general manager who has to explain how I missed on that guy. Well … uh … I know he showed he could do all this at Alabama … but ... um … you see … Eric Hartline/USA TODAY Sports Maybe Belichick is wrong. But if he’s ...

Why will it just be the brothers on the ‘Monday Night Football’ alternate telecast? 1.  It was reported Monday that ESPN’s alternate Monday Night Football telecast featuring Peyton and Eli Manning, which will air on ESPN2 for 10 weeks this season, will not have a host or play-by-play person. The broadcast will just feature the two Mannings with an array of guests. Sources have told me that just two people auditioned with Peyton and Eli: Good Morning Football ’s Kyle Brandt and ESPN’s Mina Kimes. Both reportedly performed very well, but on Aug. 23, Peyton and Eli called the Jaguars-Saints Monday Night Football game without a host as a test. The brothers apparently knocked it out of the park and convinced ESPN and Peyton’s Omaha Productions that a host wasn’t needed.  While it would've been great to see Brandt react to an Angry Run in real time , this isn’t totally shocking. The alternate broadcast was always going to be The Peyton Manning Show and a host, no matter who...

Rookie Mac Jones is thrust into a starting role and the effects will be felt across the offense for fantasy managers The quarterback battle in New England is over, and it ended unexpectedly. Cam Newton was released Tuesday morning , and rookie Mac Jones was named the Patriots' starting quarterback. Brian Fluharty/USA TODAY Sports Newton, the 2015 NFL MVP, was entering his second year with the team and was trying to hold off Jones, the Patriots' first-round draft pick out of Alabama, for the starting job. With Jones behind center, the fantasy stock of every skill position player in New England rises, and he becomes a viable fantasy backup option. Jones's weapons aren't much on paper, but he has a diverse running back group, a solid crop of receivers, and two talented tight ends. He's also insured by one of the best offensive lines in football. Jones similarly had great protection at Alabama, which gave him the time to efficiently and effectively spread the b...

It became clear the rookie came along faster than expected, so the gig had to be his. While there was a bit of a rush to paint Tuesday’s news of the Patriots’ releasing Cam Newton as either some kind of non-vaccination revenge or general evidence of Belichickian cold heartedness, there exists another scenario that might be worth exploring. For starters, Mac Jones outplayed Cam Newton this preseason. Jones, depending on who you ask, outplayed almost all rookie quarterbacks this preseason. The ball was out on time. He looked comfortable in the pocket. He nestled snugly into an offense that asks him to perform the kind of unsexy, mechanical tasks that he does particularly well. If you followed the diligent work of the New England football beat, you saw Jones begin to accumulate a larger share of the reps, which is another tell that Belichick’s mind was close to made up. He is a coach who crafted a legend not out of being evil, but out of being open to running a meritocracy. Eric H...

The 2021 NFL season begins soon and it's time to find an edge in the betting market on season-long player prop over/under totals With  SI Sportsbook  opening soon paired with my season-long and weekly NFL stat projections, my natural progression is to find flaws and opportunities in the betting lines to beat the books on futures and player props. The goal is to set a fair outlook on each team’s offense and each player's injury risk and upside. By doing over four months of research, I hope to find betting opportunities on player props. RB Mike Davis, Atlanta Falcons Dale Zanine/USA TODAY Sports There are two excellent betting opportunities posted at the sportsbooks with Davis. My last set of projections have him rushing for 649 yards on 180 carries with six rushing touchdowns. His over/under in rushing yards is 800.5. I don’t view Davis as a season-long answer at running back. Over his six years in the league, he averaged only 3.7 yards per rush while also lacking ex...

Cam Newton issued a statement Tuesday morning shortly after multiple reports of his release, thanking Patriots fans for their support. View the original article to see embedded media. Shortly after reports surfaced that the Patriots were releasing Cam Newton , the veteran quarterback issued a statement thanking fans for their support. "I really appreciate all the love and support during this time, but I must say...please don't feel sorry for me," Newton wrote in an Instagram post. Newton struggled last season, his first with New England, as the franchise finished 7—9 and missed the playoffs. In 15 starts, Newton averaged a career-low 177.1 passing yards per game and finished the season with eight passing touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He also had 592 rushing yards and 12 rushing touchdowns. The 32-year-old Newton spent the first nine seasons of his NFL career with the Panthers, making three Pro Bowl appearances and winning the MVP award in 2015, becoming just th...

Following Newton's release, Mac Jones, New England's No. 15 pick in the 2021 NFL draft, will be the team's Week 1 starter. View the original article to see embedded media. The Patriots released quarterback Cam Newton on Tuesday, according to The MMQB's Albert Breer. The news was first reported by The Boston Globe 's Jim McBride. Newton had been preparing for his second season with the franchise after re-signing on a one-year deal this past offseason.  As a result of the release, Mac Jones, New England's No. 15 pick in the 2021 NFL draft, will be the team's Week 1 starter, per Breer. The 32-year-old Newton struggled last season, his first with the Patriots, as the franchise finished 7—9 and missed the playoffs. In 15 starts, Newton averaged a career-low 177.1 passing yards per game and finished the season with eight passing touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He also had 592 rushing yards and 12 rushing touchdowns. Last Monday, amid the quarterback bat...

Players like Sterling Shepard and Patrick Queen shared their reasons for making the switch once the rule was loosened. Patrick Queen charged toward Saints quarterback Taysom Hill, diving at his opponent’s legs and forcing him to the ground for a loss of 12 yards. The Ravens linebacker stayed down for a moment, kneeling on the ground and flexing while a teammate came over and gave him a few taps on the helmet as the crowd at M&T Bank Stadium cheered. The play didn’t just force a fourth down in an August preseason game; it also gave fans a glimpse of something the NFL had never seen before: a sack by a player wearing a single-digit jersey number. Since the league imposed a stricter system in 1973 (before sacks were official), only quarterbacks, kickers and punters could don single-digit numbers. But, in April, the longstanding restrictions changed when NFL owners accepted a proposal from the Chiefs. Players across the league, like Queen, quickly took advantage of the opportuni...

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Fully vaccinated players will now undergo weekly COVID-19 testing during the 2021 season, per the NFL's latest protocols. Jeff Hanisch/USA TODAY Sports The NFL and NFLPA have agreed to updated COVID-19 protocols for the 2021 season, according to the NFL Network's Tom Pelissero . The updated protocols include weekly testing for fully vaccinated players and staff, per Pelissero. Vaccinated players can reportedly opt in to taking a voluntary second test each week, while unvaccinated players will reportedly be required to undergo a COVID-19 test every day at the club facility.  Unvaccinated players will not be required to wear masks at outdoor practices or walkthroughs, though masks will still be required indoors. All team medical staff, strength and conditioning coaches and equipment staff will be required to wear masks. The NFL did not make any update to its COVID-19 close-contact protocols, per Pelissero . Fully vaccinated individuals will not b...

If the 49ers are really going to deploy both Jimmy Garoppolo and Trey Lance, their coach can draw on one particular experience in Washington. No games this week! But there will be a lot of activity, so let’s get into all that … Stan Szeto/USA TODAY Sports (Shanahan); Marc Lebryk/USA TODAY Sports (Wentz); Christopher Hanewinckel/USA TODAY Sports (Fields) • I understand the skepticism that the Niners will be able to make a Jimmy Garoppolo/Trey Lance shuttle work. But as a counter, I’ve got a story to tell—one that I think will bring some context to Kyle Shanahan’s staff’s ability to pull it off. And so I’ll take you back to 2012 and Washington, where Shanahan as offensive coordinator, his dad was head coach and Niners offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel was a quality control coach. After drafting Robert Griffin III with the second pick that April, Kyle Shanahan built an adapted version of the Baylor Air Raid offense that Griffin ran in college to shorten the learning curve. At ...

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We watched the preseason so you didn't have to and here's everything you need to know ahead of the 2021 NFL season. The 2021 NFL preseason is in the books, leaving teams with a one-week bye of sorts to prepare for the start of the regular campaign. With fantasy football drafts ramping up all over the globe, let’s take a look back at the news and notes of the last several weeks and their effect on how you rank your players and draft your squads moving forward. Quarterbacks - Dak Prescott (shoulder) missed the entire preseason, but Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said his quarterback is “good to go” for Week 1. He should be drafted as a top-5 QB. Tim Heitman/USA TODAY Sports - To the surprise of no one, Trevor Lawrence has won the starting job in Jacksonville. He’s a high to mid-tier No. 2 fantasy quarterback. The Jaguars then traded Gardner Minshew to the Philadelphia Eagles. C.J. Beathard looks like Lawrence’s new backup. - Jimmy Garoppolo and Trey Lance rotated with...