Chad Henne was the unlikeliest of NFL playoff heroes last week. The Kansas City Chiefs’ backup quarterback had run for just 19 net yards since 2014. Yet on a critical late-game third-down against the Cleveland Browns, Henne somehow scrambled for 13 of the 14 yards he needed to convert. Then, in the middle of color […]
The NFL’s divisional round is complete, and we’re looking forward to a really talented and interesting final four — one that features the defending champs, a feel-good upstart and two of the greatest QBs of all time playing for teams that feel both familiar and unfamiliar. For each matchup, we’ll be breaking things down using […]
We start with the results of the NFL’s divisional round, where Drew Brees may have played his last game after New Orleans’s loss to Tampa Bay. The Saints have had some fluky playoff exits in the past few years, and while this wasn’t one of them, it feels like Brees should perhaps have more than […]
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): After an up-and-down divisional round, only four teams remain — and, unbelievably, we’re only three games away from crowning an NFL champion. Let’s start with the only upset of the weekend, a game that saw the longest pass of the night thrown not by either of the two legendary quarterbacks […]
We know which athletes are great, but we know less about what makes them great. To help, FiveThirtyEight is compiling The Greatness Files, a compendium of, well, what makes great athletes great. Next up in our series: some guy named Patrick Mahomes. I grew up a Joe Montana fan. I was 2 years old when […]