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Buffalo and Baltimore won their openers, but backing a winner and backing a team to cover are different decisions. The early NFL Week 2 picks here take the points with Detroit, New Orleans and Washington. Lions at Bills opens the week on Thursday, September 17, before Sunday's games and the Monday night finale.

The NFL Draft is one of the biggest events of the football year. Teams use it to add young players who may help them improve for future seasons.

Every draft class has its consensus first-round names, the prospects who dominate mock drafts and draft media coverage for months. But the players who often define a franchise's long-term success are the sleepers — the prospects who slip past their true talent level on draft boards due to level of competition, injury history, or simply a lack of hype, only to outproduce far more celebrated names once they hit an NFL roster. Here is a breakdown of where sleepers tend to come from in the 2026 class, and the traits that separate a genuine sleeper from a player who was correctly rated all along.

A great college football highlight travels fast. One-handed catches, 60-yard throws and tackles that send helmets rolling across the field can turn a prospect into a familiar name before most people have watched an entire game. The trouble begins when one spectacular play becomes the scouting report.

Washington gets the draft back after eight decades, and the clock on the class that will fill it started running this month. The NFL confirmed in June that the 2027 event runs from 29 April to 1 May on the National Mall, with the draft theater set in front of the Capitol and the fan festival stretching along Pennsylvania Avenue between 3rd and 7th Streets.

The NFL has never been short on numbers. From 40-yard dash times and quarterback passer ratings to yards after contact, pressure rates and win probabilities, modern football is increasingly driven by data.

An NFL Sunday rarely comes down to a single game. The day starts with the early slate, moves into the late-afternoon window and finishes with the prime-time matchup.

Casinos have existed long enough and remain intriguing enough to create numerous myths which have been passed on through time.

Preparing for the NFL Draft is different from getting ready for a normal game week. Prospects spend weeks repeating movements that will eventually be measured, timed, and compared with those of every other player at their position.

Been tracking the NFL Draft for 14 years now, and my whole approach to scouting has completely flipped in the last three seasons.

The 2027 NFL Draft already resembles a reservation book filled months in advance. Quarterbacks Arch Manning and Dante Moore command premium attention, but Jeremiah Smith, Dylan Stewart, and Colin Simmons give NFL teams reasons to look beyond the sport’s most valuable position.

The first few NFL prop boards of a season can be awkward places to judge rookies. Draft position is still fresh in everyone’s mind, preseason highlights are easy to remember and there may be only a handful of meaningful professional snaps to work with.