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Midseason NFL Awards: Portis or Brees for MVP?

We’re already coming up on November and the halfway point of the 2008 NFL season, and what a season it’s been so far. At the start of the season, who’d have expected the Tennessee Titans to be 7-0 right now and four games ahead of the Indianapolis Colts and Jacksonville Jaguars in the AFC [...]

Best in the NFL? Look no further than the NFC East

I’m waiting until after at least next week to start any sort of NFL power rankings, simply because I wanted to see how everyone did in the first month or so of the season before really making any judgments one way or another as to who the best of the best is. I considered [...]

Which early NFL surprises aren’t pretenders, and which struggling contenders are?

It doesn’t take long as a football fan to know that you should only take so much stock in preseason predictions, because once the teams hit the field, you can put those predictions through the shredder. Through the first couple of weeks of the NFL season, a number of contenders have gotten off to [...]

Texans’ Okoye could be this season’s rising star

Mario Williams, the No. 1 overall pick of the 2006 draft, proved to be arguably the NFL’s biggest breakout defensive player last year (OK, maybe San Diego’s Antonio Cromartie has an argument), and one of Williams’ Houston Texans teammates might be the rising defensive star of 2008. Amobi Okoye, who only turned 21 a few weeks [...]

Alge Crumpler in ‘heaven’ with Young, Titans

The Tennessee Titans signed veteran tight end Alge Crumpler in the offseason to give Vince Young a reliable aerial target. According to Matt Severance, the acquisition is already paying off well for both sides.

Roosevelt Colvin a nice late pickup for Texans

It’s rare a team can acquire a starting-caliber player in June from the free-agent market, but that’s what the Houston Texans believe they have done in signing former Patriots linebacker Rosevelt Colvin. Colvin, 30, is a 10-year NFL veteran with 52 1/2 sacks and will join the Texans as a complement to defensive end Mario Williams. [...]