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The left tackle, once a crucial building block for a franchise, is seeing its importance -- and contract money -- slipping, writes ESPN the Magazine's David Fleming.

A year after the NFL legend committed suicide, Junior Seau's family shares their private photo albums to tell his story in ESPN The Magazine's Photo Issue.

It started with a kiss. For Super Bowl XLVII, the Baltimore Ravens' locker room was located deep under the north side of the Superdome, about 50 feet from the field and at the epicenter of an impossible labyrinth of tunnels, doorways, ramps, curta...

It's 5:15 a.m. on Tuesday and inside the San Francisco Airport, an excited Scott Fujita is waiting to board a plane back to his beloved New Orleans for a full week of Super Bowl activities. As a linebacker with the Saints from 2006 to 2009, Fujita pl...

Usually at the conclusion of the AFC and NFC Championship Games we are afforded a brief, yet wonderful, grace period before the unrelenting avalanche of Super Bowl hype begins. This year, in particular, the respite was especially lavish -- by my cloc...

Near the end of last season I sat down with Aaron Rodgers for a fascinating and in-depth look at the art of playing quarterback. After elevating the most dynamic and demanding position in sports to an entirely new level, Rodgers was on the verge of w...

I went ahead and ran the numbers and I don't know if you're aware of this or not, but one of the major flaws of the current NFL playoff system is that the season is actually over for 24 teams and 75% of the fan bases. We keep watching, obviously, ...

Sure, he now has his own signature salsa TD dance and, of course, a Chunky Soup commercial featuring his "mom" (or, rather, an actress playing his mom), but Victor Cruz didn't truly become a household name until he entered the most powerful star-maki...

When it comes to the NFL benchmarks for rushing and receiving in a single season, history couldn't be more clear: It's now or never for both Adrian Peterson and Calvin Johnson. This week Peterson and the Minnesota Vikings face the Houston Texans, ...

On Sunday, thanks to eight turnovers and a 0.4 QBR score by John Skelton, the Cardinals were blown out 58-0 by Seattle in what was the fourth-worst shutout loss in the NFL in the past 72 years. It was the Cards' ninth loss in a row. Afterward Larry F...

It was the best and worst six seconds of the season. By now you've seen the angry and awesomely awkward postgame handshake between the Steelers' Mike Tomlin and the Ravens' John Harbaugh. Having just beaten Baltimore at home with Charlie Batch und...

Editor's note: This is an extended version of a story that appears in the Dec. 10 issue of ESPN The Magazine. Subscribe today! My old-fashioned face-to-face conversation with the Lions' Ndamukong Suh started out with a classic 21st-century tech mo...

In ESPN The Magazine, David Fleming interviews legendary high school football coach John McKissick, who tutored A.J. Green.

Everyone has something to say about Ndamukong Suh. In ESPN The Magazine, David Fleming asks the Lions star to respond to the best rips and quips. He didn't disappoint.

The great ones know it's never too early to talk turkey. In late October, after a 24-3 win over Arizona, 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh was asked if he finally believed in quarterback Alex Smith. His answer officially kicked off the Flem File's 16th...

I've got theories on where football is headed. Lots and lots of theories. I won't say they're all outlandish, or bizarre, but let me put it this way: I used to get a kick out of running them by Brad Childress when he was the coach in Minnesota and...