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Week 9 Power Rankings: Updated 1-32 poll, plus the best in-season trade acquisitions ever
How does every team stack up heading into Week 9? We made our 1-32 list and picked the best trade deadline acquisitions of all time.

What Solak thinks about two division races, one coach candidate, potential RB trades
Ben Solak offers takes on the Bucs' division chances, which teams should ask about Justin Herbert and more.

Top Headlines
- Sources: Ex-QB Wilson interviews with NC State, joins Rivers as HC candidate
- Bills release Gardner-Johnson after he served one-game spitting suspension
- Undrafted rookie QB Fagnano to start for banged-up Ravens vs. Jaguars
- Colts rebuff trade interest in Adebawore, instead extend up-and-coming DL
- Giants, CB Newsome agree to 3-year, $46M extension
Inside C.J. Stroud's high-stakes decision not to sign a contract extension -- and what's next


Trade deadline
Nov. 10 at 4 p.m. ET
The rise of the trade deadline: How it went from annual snoozer to annual chaos

Why trade deadline rumors are swirling around Brian Thomas Jr. in Jacksonville


Will Colts trade Taylor?
The team Domonique Foxworth says needs Jonathan Taylor the most

Colts are right to consider trading Taylor, and what they might get in return


Bears rolling right along
Stephen A.: Right now, the Bears look like the NFL's best team

Cleats, controversy and the choice of Bears QB Caleb Williams


NFL Nation
Panthers defenders: We're in 'great hands' after coordinator switch-up


Fantasy Football
Fantasy buzz: No stopping Bears, Seahawks ease Charbonnet back, Minshew takes over

Rankings for Week 9


Looking ahead
NFL playoff picture: Updated projections, chances to make the postseason

Projecting the 2027 NFL draft order: Which teams could have an early pick?


What we learned
Lamar Jackson out again? Zero completions for Baker Mayfield? Let's make sense of a weird Week 8

Questions, takeaways from Sunday's games: What now for Chiefs, Ravens, Commanders?

Top Headlines
- Sources: Ex-QB Wilson interviews with NC State, joins Rivers as HC candidate
- Bills release Gardner-Johnson after he served one-game spitting suspension
- Undrafted rookie QB Fagnano to start for banged-up Ravens vs. Jaguars
- Colts rebuff trade interest in Adebawore, instead extend up-and-coming DL
- Giants, CB Newsome agree to 3-year, $46M extension
- Cardinals rookie RB Love placed on IR, out 4-5 weeks with high ankle sprain
- Veteran kicker Carlson cut by Saints after posting 2nd-worst FG% in NFL
- Sweet Home Chicago: Simmons stymies Darnold, Seahawks in Bears debut
- 👀 Barnwell makes sense of a weird Week 8
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The Bears' aggressive move for Simmons marks the 10th time in the past decade that a team has traded multiple first-round picks for a star player. But the hit rate isn't great.
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ESPN Illustration 2026 NFL playoff picture: AFC, NFC seed projections, chances to make postseason
We're looking ahead to how the 14-team playoff picture could line up -- and who will win divisions -- en route to the Super Bowl.
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