Chiefs promote Nagy to old job as offensive coordinator
February 25, 2023 GMTKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs promoted Matt Nagy to offensive coordinator to replace the departed Eric Bieniemy on Friday, giving him the job he held before departing Andy Reid's staff for an opportunity as the head coach in Chicago.
AP NFL Comeback Player of the Year
February 10, 2023 GMTThe NFL Comeback Player of the Year as awarded by The Associated Press and selected by a nationwide panel of media:
Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh compares QBs to Kaepernick, Smith
September 15, 2022 GMTANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Jim Harbaugh has been here before.
For most coaches, benching the quarterback who just led him to a fantastic season would be a once-in-a-lifetime decision. With J.J. McCarthy starting Saturday for No.
Tim Tebow among first-timers on College Football HOF ballot
June 6, 2022 GMTTim Tebow, who led Florida to two national championships and won the 2007 Heisman Trophy, is among the former players making a first appearance on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot.
The National Football Foundation announced on Monday the players and coaches eligible for election into the Hall of Fame, and 11 of the 80 FBS players are debuting on the ballot.
Washington coach Ron Rivera wins George Halas Award
May 9, 2022 GMTWashington Commanders coach Ron Rivera, who had cancer and made a full recovery, has been selected as the 2022 George Halas Award recipient by the Professional Football Writers of America.
The Halas Award is given to an NFL player, coach or staff member who overcomes adversity to succeed.
Analysis: Stafford, Burrow offer divergent Super Bowl paths
February 8, 2022 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — It's difficult if not impossible to downplay the importance of having a top-level quarterback to win a Super Bowl. Or even get to it.
Sure, there are exceptions such as Jared Goff, Nick Foles and Rex Grossman, though Foles played like a superstar in early 2018.
Buccaneers visit Washington in rematch of wild-card game
November 11, 2021 GMTLANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Tom Brady and the reigning Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers return to the site of their first wild-card victory in last season's playoffs looking like a title contender once again.
Quarterback Taylor Heinicke needs more Alex Smith in game
September 27, 2021 GMTAmong the knocks against Alex Smith in his final NFL season with Washington were his inability to stretch the field and a propensity to play it safe.
Enter Taylor Heinicke, the gunslinger who played with reckless abandon when he started in place of Smith in the playoffs last season, and has resumed that since Ryan Fitzpatrick went down.
Chase Young-led defense is again Washington’s best hope
September 1, 2021 GMTWASHINGTON (7-10)
New faces: QB Ryan Fitzpatrick, CB William Jackson, WR Curtis Samuel, WR Adam Humphries, TE Sammis Reyes, LB Jamin Davis, OT Sam Cosmi, WR Dyami Brown, G Ereck Flowers, OT Charles Leno, EDGE Shaka Toney, DB Benjamin St-Juste, LS Camaron Cheeseman.
Florida QB Emory Jones gets his chance after waiting 3 years
August 30, 2021 GMTGAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Emory Jones first landed on Dan Mullen’s recruiting radar seven years ago.
Jones was a high school freshman in LaGrange, Georgia, and Mullen was scouring the country for another spread quarterback at Mississippi State.
NFC East champ Washington enters FitzMagic training camp
July 24, 2021 GMTWASHINGTON (7-10)
CAMP SITE: Richmond, Virginia
LAST YEAR: After Dwayne Haskins was benched, Kyle Allen got injured and Washington started 2-7, Alex Smith took over to help the team win five of its final seven games behind a strong defense and capture the NFC East.
Retired Washington QB Alex Smith wins Halas adversity award
June 7, 2021 GMTRetired Washington quarterback Alex Smith has won the George Halas Award, presented by the Pro Football Writers of America for overcoming adversity.
Smith, who came back from a life-threatening leg injury and ended a nearly two-year absence by playing in eight games for Washington last season, is the second consecutive Halas winner to retire before being honored.
Alex Smith retires after comeback from gruesome leg injury
April 19, 2021 GMTAlex Smith retired Monday after making an improbable comeback from a gruesome broken leg, saying he's ready to leave the NFL but believing he's still able to play quarterback...
AP source: Washington signing QB Fitzpatrick, CB Jackson
March 17, 2021 GMTWashington is the next stop on the FitzMagic tour.
Veteran quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and cornerback William Jackson have agreed to sign with the Washington Football Team, according to a person with direct knowledge of the moves...
Washington releases Comeback Player of the Year Alex Smith
March 5, 2021 GMTWashington released AP Comeback Player of the Year Alex Smith on Friday, a move that was expected but still provides a cold ending to the veteran quarterback's storybook tenure with the organization...
Watson? Newton? Smith? Allen? Washington explores QB options
February 4, 2021 GMTWashington will have a starting quarterback next season. Just don't expect Ron Rivera to tip his hand on who that will be...
3 title game quarterbacks have similar draft history
January 20, 2021 GMTAaron Rodgers, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen have something in common besides being three of the four starting quarterbacks remaining in the NFL playoffs...
Washington goes from ‘Why not us?’ to ‘Who’s the QB?’
January 11, 2021 GMTRon Rivera and Washington embraced a “Why not us?” mentality in exceeding expectations to win the NFC East...
Buccaneers, Rams and Bills advance to NFL’s divisional round
January 10, 2021 GMTLANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Tom Brady threw for 381 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers past Washington 31-23 in their NFC wild-card game Saturday night for their first playoff victory since the 2002 season...
Heinicke impresses, but Washington comes up short vs. Bucs
January 10, 2021 GMTLANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Undrafted, unheralded Taylor Heinicke took on big, bad Tom Brady — who had no idea who the QB out of Old Dominion was when they briefly were teammates a few years ago — and, while the end result went about as expected, The Latest on wild-card Saturday in the NFL playoffs (all times EST):The Latest: Heinicke starts for Washington vs. Brady, Bucs
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Smith out, Heinicke starts for Washington vs. Tampa Bay
January 9, 2021 GMTLANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Alex Smith is not in uniform for Washington’s wild-card game against Tampa Bay, with Taylor Heinicke starting at quarterback on Saturday night against Tom Brady and the Buccaneers...
Bucs and Browns reach territory Tom Brady visits annually
January 8, 2021 GMTLet's see: Tom Brady and his six Super Bowl rings versus a 7-9 division winner. Need we say more?...
Mr. Smith goes to Washington, takes another team to playoffs
January 5, 2021 GMTIf the Alex Smith story becomes a movie, Alex Smith doesn't want to see it.
Weekend Sports In Brief
January 4, 2021 GMTNFL
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Alex Smith threw two touchdown passes and Washington beat the Philadelphia Eagles 20-14 Sunday night to capture the lowly NFC East...
NFL playoff field: powerhouses, pretenders and a 7-9 team
January 4, 2021 GMTFrom the rested in Kansas City and Pittsburgh to the relieved in Cleveland, Chicago and Los Angeles, the field for the Super Bowl chase is set...
New final exam: Heinicke pauses school to QB for Washington
December 31, 2020 GMTTaylor Heinicke had math, not football, on his mind this fall.
Heinicke was back in school online at Old Dominion University, six years after he finished his college career as the school's most accomplished quarterback with four NFL organizations and an XFL backup stint in his rearview mirror...
Washington releases 2019 1st-round pick Dwayne Haskins
December 28, 2020 GMTWashington released 2019 first-round pick Dwayne Haskins on Monday, less than 24 hours after he committed three turnovers in a loss to Carolina and in the aftermath of another violation of pandemic protocols...
Dwayne Haskins starts for Washington despite breaking rules
December 27, 2020 GMTDwayne Haskins gets his second consecutive start for Washington with quarterback Alex Smith out again because of a right calf injury...
Haskins fined, in line to start for Washington if needed
December 23, 2020 GMTDwayne Haskins was handed a hefty fine Wednesday for partying with several people not wearing a mask but will start at quarterback for Washington on Sunday against Carolina if Alex Smith isn’t healthy enough to go...
Haskins finds groove too late, Washington win streak ends
December 20, 2020 GMTLANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Dwayne Haskins threw two interceptions, and Washington fell into a deep hole against Seattle before something changed...
Haskins to start for Washington vs. Seattle with Smith out
December 18, 2020 GMTASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Dwayne Haskins is set to start at quarterback for Washington on Sunday against Seattle because starter Alex Smith is out with a right calf injury...
Alex Smith leaves Washington’s game with right leg issue
December 14, 2020 GMTAlex Smith left Washington's game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday with soreness and tightness in his right leg, which he broke in two places in November 2018, sidelining him for nearly two calendar years...
Washington leads NFC East after gritty 23-15 win over 49ers
December 14, 2020 GMTGLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Washington seized further control of a sloppy and occasionally comical NFC East race with its fourth straight win on Sunday...
Surprise! Washington ends Pittsburgh’s perfect season 23-17
December 8, 2020 GMTPITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers spent three months shaking off whatever 2020 threw at them...
Smith, Washington in 1st after Thanksgiving win over Cowboys
November 27, 2020 GMTARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Alex Smith has Washington at least temporarily in first place in the NFC East after winning on Thanksgiving for the first time, two years after a planned holiday showing was wrecked by the quarterback's career-threatening leg injury...
Smith rallies Washington after Bengals’ Burrow carted off
November 22, 2020 GMTLANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Chase Young told college teammate Joe Burrow he loved him and to get well after the top pick's scary knee injury Sunday...
Unbeaten Steelers still on top of AP Pro32 poll
November 17, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — After some recent close games, the Pittsburgh Steelers didn't need nine lives to get to 9-0...
Falling behind in games continues to haunt Washington
November 16, 2020 GMTAlex Smith looked up at the scoreboard late in the first half, saw the big “3” next to Washington and started thinking about what went wrong...
Washington’s Smith set for 1st NFL start since November 2018
November 11, 2020 GMTThe last time Alex Smith practiced as a starting quarterback, Washington wasn't just known as “Football Team,” Jay Gruden was the coach, and the world had not been plunged into a pandemic...
Smith returns as Goff-led Rams beat Washington to get to 4-1
October 11, 2020 GMTLANDOVER, Md. (AP) — The ball slipped out of Jared Goff's right hand trying to spike it after a touchdown...
Washington benches QB Haskins, switches to Allen vs. Rams
October 7, 2020 GMTDwayne Haskins didn't show enough progress in Ron Rivera's eyes, so he's going from starting quarterback to out of uniform...
Full circle for Jets’ Gore with facing familiar foe in 49ers
September 18, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Frank Gore took his first snap as a pro in what seems like a lifetime ago. And in the physical, not-for-long nature of the NFL, it might as well have been...
Chiefs’ Pat Mahomes living up to his ‘Showtime’ nickname
July 29, 2019 GMTST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — Patrick Mahomes spent this past offseason riding horses through the surf and throwing passes on the beach, swapping jokes with Jimmy Kimmel and hob-knobbing with celebrities on the red carpet...
Redskins QB Alex Smith sheds leg brace 8 months after injury
July 15, 2019 GMTASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith has finally shed the massive brace on his right leg eight months after breaking his tibia and fibula in gruesome fashion...
Redskins QB Alex Smith on playing again: ‘That’s the plan’
June 21, 2019 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith says he hopes to play football again but still needs to make basic progress like relearning how to run after breaking his right leg.
Let’s talk quarterbacks. As in potential backup QBs
April 28, 2019 GMTNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Let's talk quarterbacks. As in potential backup quarterbacks in the NFL, and maybe starters down the road...
Chiefs GM: Planning already happening for Mahomes contract
February 7, 2019 GMTKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs are already planning their future around signing quarterback Patrick Mahomes to a long-term contract, even though the NFL MVP won't be eligible to sign an extension until after next season...
Alex Smith’s public appearance creates further questions about playing future
January 23, 2019 GMTAlex Smith's first public appearance since his gruesome season-ending Nov. 18injury raised more questions than answers. The Redskins quarterback was on crutches and appeared Monday to be in good spirits, but can he be back under center in just eight months?
Kyler Murray provides draft intrigue for quarterback-needy Redskins
January 15, 2019 GMTThere's a joke making the rounds on Twitter among the most pessimistic of Redskins' fans. It goes something like this: "Is there anything more predictable than the Redskins drafting Kyler Murray only for him to choose professional baseball instead?"
Adrian Peterson proved to be valuable leader for Redskins
January 3, 2019 GMTAfter the Redskins final game of the season, running back Adrian Peterson delivered a message to teammates, urging them to be passionate about what they do and focused in the offseason.
Work on being a champion first, he said, and everything else stats, Pro Bowls, MVPs would come.
Redskins will have 15th pick in 2019 NFL Draft
December 31, 2018 GMTLANDOVER After going 7-9 and missing the playoffs, the Washington Redskins will be awarded the 15th pick in the 2019 NFL Draft.
The Redskins finished the season tied with the Miami Dolphins, Atlanta Falcons and Carolina Panthers at 7-9.
Redskins QB McCoy breaks fibula in right leg, out for season
December 4, 2018 GMTPHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Washington Redskins are accustomed to the knot in the stomach and the bad news that inevitably hits when a quarterback goes down: Colt McCoy is done for the year with a broken right leg, the same fate as his predecessor, Alex Smith.
Wentz tosses for 2 TDs, leads Eagles over Redskins 28-13
December 4, 2018 GMTPHILADELPHIA (AP) — Carson Wentz was at his best back on the move again.
Wentz tossed two touchdown passes, Darren Sproles ran for a score and the Philadelphia Eagles stayed in the hunt for the NFC East title with a 28-13 victory over the depleted Washington Redskins on Monday night...
Theismann ‘turned away’ after seeing Redskins QB Smith hurt
November 18, 2018 GMTLANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Alex Smith seemed to know immediately this was bad. Really, really bad. He covered his face with both hands, then a white towel, before his fractured right leg was placed in an air cast and he was carted off the field.
Texans beat Redskins 23-21 to extend winning streak to 7
November 18, 2018 GMTLANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Justin Reid intercepted the ball in the end zone and saw nothing but green grass in front of him...
Alex Smith carted off with leg injury vs. Texans
November 18, 2018 GMTLANDOVER Redskins quarterback Alex Smith was carted off midway through the third quarter in Sunday's game against the Houston Texans with an ankle injury.
The Redskins announced Smith will miss the rest of the game.
Pat Mahomes sets Chiefs’ single-season record for touchdown passes in Week 10
November 11, 2018 GMTThe Kansas City Chiefs traded Alex Smith to the Washington Redskins last winter because they felt Pat Mahomes was ready to take over under center.
Just 10 games into this season, Mahomes did something neither Smith nor any other Kansas City quarterback had ever done: throw 31 touchdown passes in one year.
Alex Smith: ‘I have to do my job better’
November 8, 2018 GMTASHBURN After the Redskins lost starters Paul Richardson, Shawn Lauvao and Brandon Scherff earlier this week to season-ending injuries, quarterback Alex Smith said Wednesday he didnt feel pressure to make up for their absence.
Redskins, last in NFL in second-half scoring, want to fix finishing
October 17, 2018 GMTASHBURN, Va. Jay Gruden and Alex Smith like to say that every game is different and serves up its own unique obstacles. While that is true, the pattern among the Washington Redskins' three wins this year is undeniable: They jump out to a healthy lead in the first half, then struggle to put points on the board after halftime.