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Insider NFL analysts Mel Kiper, Gary Horton, Matt Williamson, Field Yates and Herm Edwards break down every NFL team in five key categories to see how the league might stack up three years from now entering the 2016 season.

Story | Conversation | June 19, 2013

One of the takeways from John Clayton's assessment of the ugly 2009 NFL draft: The NFC North performed less disastrously than most. As Clayton notes, only 60 of the players drafted that year remain with their original teams. Nearly 20 percent of t...

We're Black and Blue All Over: We discussed the possibility of the Minnesota Vikings drafting Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o as recently as last Friday, and over the weekend, Sports Illustrated's Peter King added a more grist to the mill. Accord...

We're Black and Blue All Over: Wednesday's busy day of news, videos and podcasts left some practice updates for the early morning. Here's the NFC North summary as best as I can gather: Chicago Bears tailback Matt Forte was a limited participant...

We're Black and Blue All Over: Here's an interesting possibility for how the Detroit Lions might use new slot receiver Mike Thomas, whom they acquired Tuesday from the Jacksonville Jaguars: out of the backfield in a pass-catching role the Lions on...

Five nuggets of knowledge about Week 7: One-possession games: The Arizona Cardinals have lost all six games in franchise history at the 31-year-old Metrodome, and last season's 34-10 loss there to the Minnesota Vikings was particularly ugly. The ...

Christopher Harris explains what his observations from Week 6 mean for Week 7 in fantasy football, including thoughts on Andre Johnson, and safe and big-play wide receivers.

We're Black and Blue All Over. (We're also on Facebook and Twitter.) GREEN BAY, Wis. -- We had two wild games Sunday in the NFC North and we're still not done with Week 4 yet. It won't be over until the Chicago Bears and Dallas Cowboys play on ...

I don't want to overrate one week, but I feel pretty comfortable in being skeptical about the Green Bay Packers defense, not only for purposes of owning it in fantasy, but for enjoying individual players against it that others might not feel com...

Blog | September 12, 2012

Eric Karabell offers his thoughts on a handful of tough Week 2 rankings decisions, including where to rank Matthew Stafford against an imposing Niners defense and what we should expect out of Wes Welker.

Blog | Conversation | September 12, 2012

We're Black and Blue All Over: It appears the Green Bay Packers are taking their training camp competition at right cornerback, as well as nickel safety, down to the wire. Reports from Green Bay suggest that the candidates for both spots haven't b...

We in the NFC North narrowly avoided disaster, I mean victory, in the 2011 vote to determine the cover of "Madden NFL 12." A vigorous voting campaign allowed Cleveland Browns running back Peyton Hillis to defeat Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Ro...

Will Ray Rice be the first athlete to ever appear on the cover of two EA Sports titles in the same year? It could happen as Rice already won the fan vote for the "NFL Blitz" cover, and now that EA Sports has finished announcing all of the participant...

Will Ray Rice be the first athlete to ever appear on the cover of two EA Sports titles in the same year? It could happen as Rice already won the fan vote for the "NFL Blitz" cover, and now that EA Sports has finished announcing all of the participant...

INDIANAPOLIS -- When he first made the suggestion last week, it slipped through the figurative space in my head. The second time, I took note. And when Minnesota Vikings GM Rick Spielman mentioned Thursday for the third, fourth and fifth times "the o...

FALLING 1. Secondary play in Chicago and Minnesota: Between the two of them, the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings have maybe one or two defensive backs who should be considered 2012 starters heading into the offseason. Bears cornerback Charles ...