Earning the No. 1 seed gives a team a first-round bye and home-field advantage throughout the conference playoffs — two major advantages in the chase for the Lombardi.

Since 2013, six of the 13 Super Bowl winners have been the top seed in their respective conference.

Through four weeks, the Chiefs and 49ers lead the oddsboards after 4-0 starts. Kansas City is looking like its old self after missing the playoffs last season, while San Francisco has moved ahead of the preseason NFC favorite Rams.

Let’s check out the No. 1 seed odds for both the AFC and NFC at DraftKings Sportsbook as of Oct. 7.

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No. 1 Seed Odds

AFC 

After starting 3-1, Ravens are the +380 third-choice to get the AFC’s No. 1 seed in 2026 (Mark Alberti/Getty Images).

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Kansas City Chiefs: +235 (bet $10 to win $33.50 total)
Buffalo Bills: +300 (bet $10 to win $40 total)
Baltimore Ravens: +380 (bet $10 to win $48 total)
Jacksonville Jaguars: +500 (bet $10 to win $60 total)
Cincinnati Bengals: +1000 (bet $10 to win $110 total)
Denver Broncos: +1100 (bet $10 to win $120 total)
New England Patriots: +1600 (bet $10 to win $170 total)
Las Vegas Raiders: +5000 (bet $10 to win $510 total)
Indianapolis Colts: +5500 (bet $10 to win $560 total)
Cleveland Browns: +5500 (bet $10 to win $560 total)
Pittsburgh Steelers: +6500 (bet $10 to win $660 total)
Houston Texans: +12000 (bet $10 to win $1,210 total)
New York Jets: +15000 (bet $10 to win $1,510 total)
Los Angeles Chargers: +30000 (bet $10 to win $3,010 total)
Tennessee Titans: +80000 (bet $10 to win $8,010 total)
Miami Dolphins: +100000 (bet $10 to win $10,010 total)

What to know: Last season, the Broncos earned the AFC’s No. 1 seed before falling to the Patriots in heartbreaking fashion in the AFC Championship Game. In 2023, the Ravens finished 13-4 to secure the top seed but were eliminated by Kansas City in the conference championship.

Now, the Chiefs are back atop the oddsboard. After missing the playoffs last season, Kansas City has started 4-0 and moved from +780 before the season to +235 to earn the AFC’s No. 1 seed. The Chiefs have claimed the top seed four times with Patrick Mahomes as their starter in (2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024) and reached the Super Bowl in each of the last three instances.

Buffalo sits second at +300, followed by Baltimore at +380. The Ravens entered the season as the +400 favorites, but Kansas City’s unbeaten start has put the Chiefs in front.

NFC

The Seahawks had the best record in the NFC in 2025 (Steph Chambers/Getty Images).

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San Francisco 49ers: +190 (bet $10 to win $29 total)
Seattle Seahawks: +480 (bet $10 to win $58 total)
Minnesota Vikings: +550 (bet $10 to win $65 total)
Los Angeles Rams: +600 (bet $10 to win $70 total)
Philadelphia Eagles: +800 (bet $10 to win $90 total)
Chicago Bears: +800 (bet $10 to win $90 total)
Detroit Lions: +1400 (bet $10 to win $150 total)
Dallas Cowboys: +2200 (bet $10 to win $230 total)
Atlanta Falcons: +5000 (bet $10 to win $510 total)
Green Bay Packers: +5500 (bet $10 to win $560 total)
Carolina Panthers: +6000 (bet $10 to win $610 total)
New York Giants: +8000 (bet $10 to win $810 total)
New Orleans Saints: +10000 (bet $10 to win $1,010 total)
Washington Commanders: +15000 (bet $10 to win $1,510 total)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: +40000 (bet $10 to win $4,010 total)
Arizona Cardinals: +50000 (bet $10 to win $5,010 total)

What to know: The Seahawks earned the NFC’s No. 1 seed in 2025, with home-field advantage helping Seattle on its way to a Lombardi Trophy. The Rams finished with the conference’s second-best record but were the No. 5 seed after finishing second in the NFC West. In 2024, the Lions went 15-2 to claim the top seed before being upset at home in the divisional round. The Eagles and 49ers earned the No. 1 seed in 2022 and 2023, respectively, and both reached the Super Bowl before losing to the Chiefs.

Through four weeks of 2026, San Francisco has taken control of the oddsboard. The 49ers 4-0 start includes wins over the Rams and Broncos, two teams that reached their respective conference championship games last season. Their odds have shortened from +900 before the season to +190, making them the new favorites to finish atop the NFC.

San Francisco has been the No. 1 seed twice under Kyle Shanahan, in 2019 and 2023, and reached the Super Bowl both times. Brock Purdy has helped fuel this year’s unbeaten start with 11 touchdown passes and just one interception.

Meanwhile, the Rams entered the season as the +305 favorites but are 2-2 and have slipped to fourth at +600. Seattle (+480) and Minnesota (+550) also sit ahead of Los Angeles as the race for the NFC’s first-round bye takes shape.

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After losing Tyler Lindenbaum to the Las Vegas Raiders in free agency this past offseason, the Baltimore Ravens have finally filled the void.

The Ravens have acquired center Cam Jurgens from the Philadelphia Eagles, the team announced on Wednesday afternoon. Baltimore is sending a 2027 fifth-round pick and a 2028 second-round pick to Philadelphia for Jurgens and a 2027 seventh-round pick, per ESPN.

At just 27 years old, Jurgens was groomed and once viewed as the heir apparent to long-time All-Pro center Jason Kelce. With a clear need at center after losing multiple centers to injury, Jurgens should project seamlessly within Ravens offensive coordinator Declan Doyle’s scheme.

After Landon Dickerson landed on injured reserve early in the season, Jurgens briefly kicked out to left guard while rookie Drew Kendall stepped in at center. With the trade to the Ravens now official, the expectation is that Jurgens will shift back to his natural center position.

The Ravens’ depth at the position took a major hit after losing starting center Danny Pinter to season-ending knee surgery in training camp. Matters worsened when both Ethan Pocic and Jovaughn Gwyn suffered injuries in Week 3, paving the way for Wednesday’s trade for Jurgens.

Jurgens signed a four-year, $68 million contract extension in the 2025 offseason and remains under contract through the 2029 season.

Following the trade, the Eagles now have multiple first- and second-round picks in the 2028 NFL Draft and are up to nine picks total; they acquired an extra first-round pick in June in the A.J. Brown trade with the New England Patriots.

Jurgens has struggled this season, recording a 38.7 overall grade along with a 31.7 pass-blocking and 50.3 run-blocking grade, according to Pro Football Focus. He’ll be switching schemes, with the Ravens potentially viewing Jurgens as a better fit for their wide-zone run scheme.

With the center position solidified, all eyes turn toward quarterback Lamar Jackson’s health as the Ravens pursue Super Bowl aspirations under first-year head coach Jesse Minter. Jackson is expected to miss Baltimore’s Week 5 road tilt against the Atlanta Falcons due to an ankle sprain.

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Longtime Oregon Ducks men’s basketball coach Dana Altman is retiring effective immediately, the school announced on Wednesday.

Altman, 68, took over ahead of the 2010-11 season and is the winningest coach in Oregon history with a 382-182 record. The Ducks made nine NCAA Tournament appearances over that span, including a Final Four berth in 2017.

Oregon also won four Pac-12 regular season titles and four Pac-12 tournament titles during his tenure.

Over the course of his 37-year career as a head coach, Altman’s record is 792-425. Before he came to Eugene, Altman was the head coach at Creighton for 16 years.

“I have had to make two really tough decisions in my coaching career,” said Altman. “The first was leaving Creighton, a place my family and I dearly loved, to come to Oregon. This is the second,” Altman said in a statement. “I’ve loved every minute of coaching here, and stepping away is difficult and truly painful. I love coaching, it’s what I know best and what I’ve been fortunate enough to do for almost five decades. I’m going to miss my coaches, my players and our incredible fans more than I can express. But I know this is the right thing to do at this time.”

Oregon will begin the national search for Altman’s successor after the season. Assistant coach Tony Stubblefield will coach the Ducks for the 2026-27 season.

The Ducks struggled last season, going 12-20, and the program lost nine players to the transfer portal and three to graduation in the offseason.

Stubblefield has spent two stints as an assistant to Altman at Oregon. He left to become head coach at DePaul from 2021-24 before returning to the Ducks.

“Winning 382 games over 16 years, including making nine NCAA Tournaments and a Final Four, is an incredible track record. But the record book tells only part of the story,” Oregon athletic director Rob Mullins said. “Dana and Reva have given so much of themselves to this university and to the young men who played for him, and we thank him for all his contributions to Oregon student-athletes, the game of basketball, and the University of Oregon.”

Reporting by the Associated Press.

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There’s a race to the bottom of the NFL standings four games into the season, including some surprisingly winless teams.

A record-tying five teams are 0-4 one month in, marking just the seventh time that has happened in NFL history and the first since 2019.

Some of the winless teams aren’t too surprising, with Miami there as part of a rebuild in a season when the Dolphins are carrying a record $184 million in dead money charges on the salary cap. Tennessee is winless after back-to-back three-win seasons.

The other winless teams are a bit more of a surprise: Tampa Bay is there after coming into the season as the favorite to win the NFC South, while Houston and the Los Angeles Chargers are 0-4 after making the playoffs last season.

This is just the third time in NFL history that two teams started a season 0-4 after making the playoffs the previous season. It also happened in 1999 with defending conference champions Atlanta and Denver doing it, and in 1992 with the Los Angeles Raiders and New York Jets both starting 0-4.

The Buccaneers have lost four one-score games, with their minus-20 point differential the fifth-best ever for an 0-4 team, and the best since Minnesota was outscored by 19 points over the first four games in 2011.

The Chargers haven’t been nearly as competitive, getting outscored by 39 points for the second-worst point differential in the league so far.

The start for the Texans has been frustrating because they have led in the final 2 minutes in three of the four losses, including a 34-30 loss to Dallas on Sunday when the Cowboys scored the winning touchdown with 40 seconds to play.

They are the second team since at least 1991 to lose three times in the first four games after leading in the final 2 minutes. The Chargers did it in 2016. The only other teams in the Super Bowl era to start the season 0-4 despite leading at any point in the fourth quarter in three of the games were the 2013 Bucs and 2011 Vikings.

C.J. Stroud is the first quarterback since 1950, when starts were first tracked, to lose the first four games of a season without throwing an interception.

Three teams have started the season 4-0, with Kansas City and Minnesota doing it after missing the playoffs in 2025. The last time two teams started 4-0 after missing the playoffs was 2013, when the Chiefs and New Orleans did it.

Reporting by the Associated Press.

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Math, even in an engineering-based sport such as NASCAR, is apparently hard.

When most of the competitors in any NASCAR series talk about The Chase and the new format, it often includes some version of winning is important.

Yeah, of course. 

A win earns a driver 55 points. Second is worth 35 points. If a driver sweeps both stages and wins and earns the point for the fastest lap, that means the driver will earn at least 23 points more than any other driver and potentially 60-70 points on a driver who doesn’t have a good day.

So when Joey Logano went on a tear during the summer, going from 20th in the standings to inside the top 10 in a matter of weeks and when Kyle Larson put a decent buffer between himself and the field by earning max points at Kansas, the math was startling.

Mathematically, there are a few drivers who can still catch Kyle Larson in the hunt for The Chase.

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Even Tyler Reddick winning the first three races and bolting to a 100-point lead on the field early in the year wasn’t enough to warn many. He had a 110-point lead after 10 races and ended up third in the standings to the tune of 133 points behind Denny Hamlin after 26 events.

“Maybe we’re not as smart as we think,” Logano said with a laugh during a recent virtual news conference.

“Look at Tyler Reddick at the beginning of the year. He was checked out [and] I already penciled him in as the regular-season champion,” Logano said. “I figured that was for sure, but as quickly as they get out there and take a big lead it can change just as quick if someone else gets hot at the right time.

“We’ve seen it. We’ve lived it.”

It should have been apparent to everyone, right? If anyone had run some models, they would have noticed how much fluctuation in the standings could come when someone wins.

When his driver won at Texas earlier this year, Chase Elliott crew chief Alan Gustafson indicated he felt a driver could viably win the title even if he was not near the top of the standings at the start of The Chase.

Tyler Reddick’s hot start early in the season gave him a comfortable cushion for The Chase that he eventually lost.

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“When you look at how Tyler started the season and the lead that he had over the course of the first five or six weeks, I’m like, ‘Gosh, 100-point lead, they’d have a hard time messing that up, really,’” Elliott told me and other reporters last week.

“And little did you realize — or little did I realize — people stack a couple wins, and guys can have 70-plus point days if they’re having a good day. … Certainly, the added bonuses of winning and those 20 points certainly, and potentially the fastest lap, if you have that. I know it doesn’t sound like a lot, but every one stacks.”

Even with the ability to make a run or increase the gap with points, the biggest difference between this Chase and the former elimination Chase is that going into Charlotte this weekend, there would still be 12 drivers vying for a title because a win could advance them to the next round.

After this race, there would still be eight drivers who could have a good shot at winning the title.

Will 2026 finally be the year that Denny Hamlin gets it done in the postseason?

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Now there are six, and even that’s a little bit of a reach since two of the drivers are at least 80 points back. 

Yes, that might be doubting the math again, but you’ve got to figure that a driver more than 100 points out is going to need three wins in the final six to be able to cut the gap on the drivers who are at the top and surging already.

Tyler Reddick is the driver in seventh, the driver who is 106 points out of the lead. After five races this year, Reddick had a 61-point lead on the field and he had won three races. After six, he had a 95-point cushion.

It was a cushion that went away and he eventually lost the lead after the 18th race of the season. 

Ryan Blaney noted that “the best of the best” are left in The Chase.

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There are only five races left. The math tells us everyone has a shot. The reality tells us not everyone has a shot.

What the drivers do know is they pretty much have to win at some point over the final five races to win the title.

And in some ways the outlook is the same as always.

“Everybody here is the best of the best and they can turn it on and figure things out,” Blaney told me and other reporters on Saturday. “That’s why you continue to work and never give up.

“They’ve been able to do that very well and it’s going to take a lot to catch them.”

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Kasey Kahne is returning to NASCAR in a full-time ride in 2027 and he’s ready for the competition and for the fun.

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Kasey Kahne didn’t like the way his full-time NASCAR career ended. 

So he hopes he can finish it off with something that makes him smile — nine years after his last full-time season.

The 46-year-old Kahne will compete full time in NASCAR’s truck series in 2027, as he drives the No. 77 for Spire Motorsports. 

Kahne’s last full-time NASCAR season came to an abrupt end in September 2018 when his body could not handle (or recover quickly enough) from the physical demands of weekly Cup races.

Kasey Kahne will make his return to a full-time ride in NASCAR in 2027.

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Spire co-owner Jeff Dickerson approached Kahne in August at the Knoxville Nationals sprint-car event to ask him if he would consider running full time for Spire. Since getting out of the NASCAR seat in 2018, Kahne has competed in sprint-car racing.

“To get that type of an opportunity to run a truck and be with a team with a lot of success, I was like, ‘Man, I can’t pass this up,’” Kahne said on Speed with Harvick and Buxton. “I got excited pretty quick.”

Kahne knows he won’t have as much success as his current truck stats, which is five wins in six races. He last raced a truck in 2015. He competed in one O’Reilly Series race in 2025 at Rockingham.

“I want to enjoy it, but I wouldn’t be doing it either if I didn’t want to be competitive,” Kahne said. “I just still love the competition and just trying to win every time you’re on track, just trying to do the best that you can and get the most out of each weekend.”

Kasey Kahne is looking forward to having fun and to being competitive when he returns to his full-time ride next season.

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He will have plenty of competition next year, as Kahne still plans to run about as many sprint-car races as he has truck races. There are 25 races on the truck schedule.

And this opportunity gives Kahne a way to end his NASCAR career on his terms. He won 18 Cup races over 15 years in Cup.

“My body, in a way, was just giving up on me. To run those full Cup races week after week and be able to be just as sharp at the end of the race or later in the season as it got hotter and more humid … so I was frustrated with that and just how it all ended,” Kahne said.

Kahne noted that, health wise, he still would not be able to do a full Cup season. But the shorter truck schedule with more weekends off, shorter races and more night races give him confidence he will not have a recurrence of those health issues.

“I think that will fit me really well,” Kahne said during a virtual news conference on Wednesday. “There’s more ways to stay cool these days than there was back then as well.

“I just think working hard to make sure that I stay cool, and the truck is as cooled as it can be — mall that stuff will help throughout the season and will make it possible.”

Kahne said his deal is currently for one year and that he is just focused on 2027 at the moment. 

A lot has changed since his last full-time season, as he expects to be in the simulator much more than in the past. He said his biggest adjustment at Rockingham was just getting used to pit road again.

“I’m definitely going to have fun with it,” Kahne said. “I look at it, and they have some really strong truck teams, really strong drivers. And yeah, it’s going to be a blast to get in the middle of it and kind of see where we stack up and just enjoy every bit of it.”

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The MLB postseason continues with a four-game divisional series slate on Wednesday, and new users can use Kalshi promo code FOXSPORTS to unlock a $55 bonus. 

The ALDS features the Guardians visiting the White Sox and the Rays traveling to face the Yankees. Chicago took a 2-0 series lead after Braden Montgomery’s two-run double helped fuel a three-run sixth inning in Game 2. 

Tampa Bay also moved within one win of the ALCS after a 5-2 Game 2 victory over New York, capitalizing on four Yankees errors and a key two-run single from Richie Palacios.

The NLDS slate features the Dodgers visiting the Braves and the Brewers traveling to face the Padres. Los Angeles took a 2-1 series lead after Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out 10 over seven innings in Game 3, with Kiké Hernández and Freddie Freeman homering. 

San Diego kept its season alive with a 4-3 Game 3 win over Milwaukee, as Jake Cronenworth homered and the Padres took advantage of a costly Brewers error to even the series at 2-1.

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ALLIANZ FIELD (St. Paul, Minn.) — Mauricio Pochettino had a plan.

Ahead of FIFA’s first international window of the 2030 World Cup cycle, the coach of the U.S. men’s national team knew that the Americans’ four exhibition games in late September and early October presented a unique opportunity to take a long look at the next generation of American talent before games that matter resume in November with the Concacaf Nations League quarterfinals.

He summoned the kids. He played them all, with 20-year-old Cole Campbell, who became the 13 and final previously uncapped invitee to debut for the USA when he entered as a substitute in the second half of Tuesday’s 1-0 win over Canada in the Twin Cities.

Pochettino got goals from teenagers in all four matches. Mathis Albert became the youngest scorer in program history, then saw his record smashed just four days later by fellow 17-year-old Cavan Sullivan. Justin Ellis, 19, scored the winner Tuesday against the Reds, his second goal in as many starts, having also found the net in the 4-1 win over Peru on Sept. 26 that started the USA on its way to a clean four-game sweep. Julian Hall, 18, scored in his first three international appearances, including game-winners over Chile and Peru.

The plan could hardly have gone much better.

“The players, I think they deserve the credit,” Pochettino said after Tuesday’s contest. “I’m not talking only about the results. I’m talking about the way that we competed.

“I think it was amazing,” the Argentine continued, “to play always with the same intensity, with the same commitment, with the same passion. That is something that we need to keep.”

Surely he needs to keep some of the kids around, too.

(Photo by Patrick Mulligan/USSF/Getty Images)

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With the U.S. youth national teams idle this window, Pochettino didn’t have to consider the needs of the U.S. under-23 squad. That will change in November, when Olympic coach Steve Cherundolo convenes a group of players that will compete for the majority of roster spots at the 2028 Summer Games in Los Angeles — an event the U.S. Soccer Federation is desperate to have a strong showing in on home soil.

So Pochettino’s strategy was always to give big minutes to youngsters like Hall and Ellis with the senior team early this autumn. The former Tottenham, Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea boss revealed after Tuesday’s victory that that would’ve been the case even if World Cup striker Ricardo Pepi hadn’t gotten hurt playing for Dutch champs PSV Eindhoven a day before he was scheduled to arrive at the USSF’s training base outside of Atlanta.

In November, the original idea went, most of the youngsters would return to the U-23s or even the U.S. U-20s, which in August qualified for next year’s FIFA U-20 World Cup in Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. Their performances this month  could alter that thinking, however. Following the 3-0 win over Mexico, Pochettino told me that it “was a fantastic problem” to have.

“Having a plan, you can adjust things and fix situations or change if you are seeing that you need to change,” he said on Tuesday.

(Photo by David Berding/USSF/Getty Images)

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Still, Pochettino won’t have the luxury of not caring about results next month. The Americans learned earlier Tuesday that they will face 2026 World Cup participants Haiti over two legs in mid-November, with a spot in next March’s Nations League finals on the line.

“They made the World Cup for a reason: because they’re a tough team,” U.S. defender Chris Richards, who started the 2-1 win over Haiti in last year’s Concacaf Gold Cup, said of Les Grenadiers. “Got to go in there with the same mindset we’ve had throughout this camp, and we have to earn a victory to get to March.”

“We’re very excited for it,” the Premier Leaguer added. “It’s another chance to prove ourselves. And whoever will be at that camp, I know we’ll go in there with our heads held high after what we did in this camp, and hopefully, gonna get two wins.”

(Photo by Taylor Banner/USSF/Getty Images)

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One camp into the new cycle, the competition for places should be fierce — especially if 2026 cycle mainstays such as Pepi, Folarin Balogun, Weston McKennie and Christian Pulisic are all healthy and available and performing well for their European clubs.

“Obviously, there are a lot of new faces, and they all had great energy and worked very hard while they were here,” two-time World Cup veteran Gio Reyna said.  “It definitely brings competition, which is what we all need. And I think it’s great  for the upcoming cycle to push everybody.”

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Jamaal Williams hasn’t taken an NFL handoff since January 2025. The New England Patriots just gave him a reason to keep training.

The 2022 NFL rushing touchdowns leader was one of five free agents who worked out for New England on Tuesday in Foxboro, 98.5 The Sports Hub reported, citing NFL insider Ari Meirov. No signing had been reported as of Tuesday night.

The timing isn’t a coincidence. Lead back Rhamondre Stevenson limped off with about a minute left in Sunday’s 29-26 win at Buffalo, and coach Mike Vrabel said Wednesday that Stevenson would not practice.

The door isn’t closed on Sunday, though. “There’s a chance he could play,” Vrabel said, per Patriots Wire.

Behind Stevenson, the Patriots (2-2) have only TreVeyon Henderson and Corey Kiner on the active roster, with Lan Larison on the practice squad. New England also had two open roster spots after releasing edge rusher Jose Ramirez on Tuesday, and it hosts the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday.

If Williams gets another shot, it’ll come four years after the best season of his career. In 2022, his second year in Detroit, he ran for 1,066 yards and an NFL-high 17 touchdowns, breaking Barry Sanders’ Lions record of 16.

He set it at Lambeau Field, of all places. Williams scored twice against his former team in the regular-season finale, helping the Lions knock the Packers out of playoff contention. Then he gave one of the most memorable postgame interviews of the year, tearing up as he dedicated the night to his late great-grandfather before turning to the doubters and telling them to “stop playing with us.”

That season was the outlier in a career built on being dependable. A fourth-round pick out of BYU in 2017, Williams led the Packers in rushing as a rookie and spent four years as Aaron Jones’ running mate in Green Bay before signing with Detroit in 2021.

The 2022 breakout earned him a three-year, $12 million deal with the New Orleans Saints, but he managed just 470 rushing yards and two touchdowns over two seasons there before being released in March 2025. He still scored at least one rushing touchdown in all eight of his NFL seasons and has 4,122 career rushing yards and 32 touchdowns.

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Williams worked out for the Chicago Bears and Miami Dolphins in August 2025 but went unsigned and sat out the entire season.

He has been knocking on doors since. Last month, Williams reached out to Lions coach Dan Campbell about a reunion, the Detroit Free Press reported. Campbell told him Detroit was set at running back for now but would keep him in mind.

Now, at 31, he’s waiting to see if New England calls back.

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The MLB postseason continues with a pivotal NLDS matchup between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves, and new users can use Polymarket promo code FOX to claim a $25 bonus. 

Los Angeles took a 2-1 series lead after Yoshinobu Yamamoto dominated in Game 3, striking out 10 batters across seven innings. Kiké Hernández and Freddie Freeman homered to add insurance in the Dodgers’ Game 3 win, putting Atlanta on the brink of elimination. 

Meanwhile, in the other NLDS series, the Padres put off elimination one more night after a huge Game 3 win last night. Tonight, they look to force the series back to Milwaukee for Game 4. The Yankees are in the same situation as the Padres were last night. New York is facing elimination against the Rays, but now the series shifts to the Bronx.

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Teams	Chance	Yes	No
LA Dodgers	57%	58¢	43¢
ATL Braves	43%	43¢	58¢

How to Watch Game 4 Dodgers vs. Braves

• When: Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. ET
• Where: Truist Park, Atlanta, GA
• TV: FS1
• Stream: Watch 3 days free on FOX One

*Probabilities are subject to change* 

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Teams	Chance	Yes	No
TB Rays	40%	40¢	61¢
NY Yankees	60%	61¢	40¢

How to Watch Game 3 Rays vs. Yankees

• When: Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at 8:00 p.m. ET
• Where: Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY
• TV: TBS

*Probabilities are subject to change* 

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Teams	Chance	Yes	No
MIL Brewers	50%	50¢	51¢
SD Padres	50%	51¢	50¢

How to Watch Game 4 Brewers vs. Padres

• When: Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at 10:00 p.m. ET
• Where: Petco Park, San Diego, CA
• TV: FS1
• Stream: Watch 3 days free on FOX One

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