Rich CiminiOct 24, 2025, 01:16 PM ET Close Rich Cimini is a staff writer who covers the New York Jets and the NFL at ESPN. Rich has covered the Jets for over 30 years, joining ESPN in 2010. Rich also hosts the Flight Deck podcast. He previously was a beat writer for the New York Daily News and is a …
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The Jaxson Dart era has officially begun. The New York Giants plan to bench veteran Russell Wilson and name Dart the team’s starting quarterback, a league source told The Athletic’s Dianna Russini on Tuesday. The first-round rookie, who has already played a handful of snaps this season, will make his first start Sunday at MetLife Stadium against the 3-0 Los …
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As the 2025 season began, the volume of high-end quarterbacks resonated as one of the year’s defining themes. Heading into week 4, there’s still little clarity regarding who could emerge from that pack as the top quarterback for the 2026 NFL draft. ESPN polled 25 NFL scouts and executives to see who they projected as the top quarterback for the …
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As we’ve already said, Brock Purdy is the starter, Mac Jones is the backup. Those two are certainties for 2025. And when it seems like Purdy may have a shot at returning in Week 3, that might mean the extended look of Jones against a better team (read: anyone but the New Orleans Saints) will have to wait. But that …
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There is still no white smoke from the Saints’ facility. Head coach Kellen Moore told reporters on Monday that the team has not finalized its decision on a starting quarterback. “[W]e’ll communicate that once we’ve talked through that with everyone associated with that decision,” Moore said in his press conference. “And so, we’ll go through that process in the next …
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The Browns made it official on Monday, naming Joe Flacco their starting quarterback to open the season. Flacco served as the team’s QB late in the 2023 season to lead Cleveland to its second postseason appearance under head coach Kevin Stefanski and that familiarity likely helped the 40-year-old signal-caller secure the job. In his Tuesday press conference, Stefanski said Flacco …
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Alabama is reportedly going with experience under center to start the 2025 college football season. ESPN’s Chris Low reported Monday that Ty Simpson won the Crimson Tide’s starting quarterback job in the competition against redshirt sophomore Austin Mack and true freshman Keelon Russell. While Simpson has been a backup in each of the last two seasons, this is set to …
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The Colts have issued their first depth chart of the preseason, and it doesn’t shed much light on who’s in the lead in the race to be the starting quarterback. At every position except quarterback, the Colts’ depth chart lists the players in order, with the starters first and then the second string and so on. But at quarterback, the …
Read More »All 32 NFL teams will have reported to training camp by the end of the day, with Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers hitting Latrobe and the Atlanta Falcons hitting Flowery Branch. There’s no shortage of intrigue and storylines so far either. NFL team feeds Advertisement NFL training camp live blog One of the big ones early Wednesday: Brian Daboll …
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