Each week of the NFL season, The Baltimore Sun will recap the best and worst from around the league. Here are our winners and losers from Week 2:

Loser: Ravens

You’re going to hear this stat a lot this week: In three seasons since the NFL moved to a 17-game schedule, 21 teams have started 0-2. Only two have made the playoffs.

After a ...Read more

In the raucous visiting locker room at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field late Monday night, Falcons coach Raheem Morris had a question for his players circled around him.

“I know we’re happy about this moment, but who the (expletive) is next?” the first-year coach asked before raising a clenched fist to bring his team in for a ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Justin Fields is in line to make a third consecutive start at quarterback for the Steelers when they play their home opener Sunday afternoon against the Chargers.

Russell Wilson, who has been dealing with a calf injury since late July, has not been cleared by the team's medical staff and is not scheduled to fully participate in ...Read more

Each week I’ll list the best widely available free agents for fantasy football — I define “widely available” as being owned in around half of all ESPN or Yahoo leagues — and some guys who are probably better off in the free-agent pool than collecting dust on your roster.

Follow me on X (formerly known as Twitter) @UTEddieBrown if you ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa will be placed on injured reserve, according to NFL insiders Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo.

This comes less than a week after Tagovailoa suffered a concussion during the Dolphins 31-10 loss to the Buffalo Bills.

The franchise quarterback will miss the next four games and be eligible to ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs are signing running back Kareem Hunt to their practice squad, a source confirmed to The Kansas City Star.

Hunt’s addition was first reported by NFL insider Jordan Schultz.

The development comes as the Chiefs search for a replacement for starting running back Isiah Pacheco, who was injured in Sunday...Read more

LANDOVER, Md. — The star of Dan Quinn’s first win as head coach of the Washington Commanders may know him the least of any of his teammates. But, playing for his fifth NFL team after signing this past week, Washington kicker Austin Seibert has figured out pretty quickly what distinguishes the former Atlanta Falcons coach from his past ...Read more

MIAMI — Tua Tagovailoa had not walked off the field Thursday night under his own power when the cacophony of unsolicited advice began pouring in from all around.

“He should retire!” America declared.

By apparent immediate consensus, social media concluded that the Miami Dolphins quarterback’s third concussion and first in almost two ...Read more

PLEASANTON, Calif. — The best seat in the house is still reserved for John Madden.

His throne is fully reclined and draped in a fleece Raiders blanket. It sits squarely before a 20-foot-tall LED wall, a study in sensory overload, showing every NFL broadcast at once.

When the Hall of Fame coach retired from the TV booth in 2009, until his ...Read more

With 2:57 left in the first quarter Sunday, Geno Smith took a shotgun snap, looked left and saw a 6-foot-4, 235-pound blur behind the defense. The 33-year-old quarterback’s feathery spiral hit DK Metcalf in stride, and he high-stepped into the end zone for a 56-yard score.

The play was perfectly executed.

The celebration?

Not so much.

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PITTSBURGH — If anything has become evident about the Steelers offense after two games — beyond the inability to score points — it's that replacing Diontae Johnson's production will be more difficult than imagined.

In other words, it has become apparent why the Steelers were in pursuit of receivers Brandon Aiyuk and Mike Williams before ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins might want to know if “You like that!”

Cousins guided the Falcons on a clutch six-play, 70-yard touchdown drive and Jessie Bates III sealed the 22-21 win over the Eagles with an interception with 19 seconds to play on Monday at Lincoln Financial Field.

The Falcons took a lead into the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — With 1:39 remaining in the fourth quarter, down by six points, the Atlanta Falcons stormed 70 yards down the field and spoiled the Eagles’ home opener.

Kirk Cousins, the familiar Week 2 foe who signed with the Falcons in the offseason, completed a 7-yard touchdown pass to Drake London to pull off a 22-21 comeback win on ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Jalen Hurts finally looked like he got his legs back after a two-year absence.

Saquon Barkley 2024 continued to look like Saquon Barkley 2022, showing just how good he can be when performing behind an excellent offensive line (rather than a Giants offensive line).

DeVonta Smith excelled in the absence of A.J. Brown, the team�...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Some mornings, depending on how awake and alert one can be around 5:30 a.m., Jeff Stoutland will pause on his walk through the hallway inside the Eagles' NovaCare Complex. There are photographs of people and moments memorialized all over the building, but there's a specific image that Stoutland, the Eagles' offensive line coach ...Read more

BOSTON — Patriots linebacker Ja’Whaun Bentley suffered a torn pec in Sunday’s loss to the Seahawks and is out for the season, a source confirmed.

The news was first reported by NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport.

The defensive captain appeared to suffer the injury with 3:35 remaining in the first quarter of the 23-20 loss to the Seahawks. He ...Read more

The San Francisco 49ers’ biggest question coming into the 2024 season was whether they could avoid many of the same issues that befell them in the post-Super Bowl 2020 campaign.

Luckily, the world hasn’t been stricken with a worldwide pandemic again.

But the Niners sure seem to have caught the injury bug again.

Two of the team’s most ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The vast majority of bettors lost Sunday when six NFL underdogs won outright.

But it was a glorious day for a Caesars Sportsbook bettor who turned $3 into $10,976 after hitting a nine-team NFL money-line parlay.

The bettor correctly called all six outright upsets and threw in three favorites for good measure.

“This person’s ...Read more