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We have finally made it. Training camp and the preseason are behind us; the 53-man rosters are set, and now we’re officially in the week leading up to Week 1 of the 2026 NFL regular season. The Broncos will head to Arrowhead Stadium on Monday Night to take on the returning Patrick Mahomes and the […]
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Throughout the offseason program and training camp, all indications have been that Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes would be ready to play Week 1 against the Broncos — despite suffering a torn ACL in December
Chiefs’ quarterback Mahomes is expected to return to Week 1 after ACL rehab, with head coach Sean Payton affirming his readiness
Chiefs head coach Andy Reid hasn’t set anything in stone regarding quarterback Patrick Mahomes’s availability for their Monday night game against the Broncos in Week 1, but all indications are that he’ll be in the lineup. Assuming that’s the case, the biggest question will be whether his lack of work in the preseason and the long layoff since he tore his ACL last year will have any negative impact on the offense. Wide receiver Xavier Worthy said at a Wednesday press conference that Mahomes’s “will and want to” will help ensure that the team doesn’t hit any rough patches. “Me and Pat, we’ve kind of been working this offseason and obviously the timing and stuff you need to work on. . . . I feel like when it’s time to play, we’ll all be ready,” Worthy said. Reid also had a press conference on Wednesday and said only that Mahomes will keep practicing in the days leading up to the opener. The Chiefs will practice once more this week and then reconvene on Monday to begin their final preparations for Denver
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Until 2024, trying to predict NFL Comeback Player of the Year was a total crapshoot because there really were no criteria for those Associated Press voters. But starting with that '24 season, the criteria was changed to give the award to a player who returned from "illness, physical injury, or other circumstances that led him to miss playing time the previous season." So, long story short, it could no longer go to a guy who was just terrible one year (if healthy) and good the next. I took a look Monday at updated NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year betting trends from BetMGM and today will do the same for Comeback Player of the Year with the season kicking off one week from tonight. Much like for NFL MVP, CPOY has become a quarterback award, with a signal-caller having won seven straight seasons until that run ended in 2025 with 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey taking it home. Sign up to wager on NFL using the BetMGM bonus code CBSSPORTS to get up to $1,500 in bonus bets: Fans can stay up to date with information from our NFL news page, and bettors should also look for picks from the SportsLine Projection Model and our experts during the 2026 NFL season. McCaffrey was the first tailback winner since the Cardinals ' Garrison Hearst in 2001. Hard to argue against McCaffrey, though. He was limited to just four games in 2024 but played all 17 last year and totaled better than 2,100 yards from scrimmage and 17 TDs. Lions pass rusher Aidan Hutchinson was second in the 2025 voting and Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott third. Two players have won this award twice in quarterbacks Chad Pennington and Joe Burrow , but needless to say McCaffrey won't be winning again this year. He isn't even a betting option at BetMGM. Nor should he be. But San Francisco has three Pro Bowl-caliber players returning from major 2025 injuries who are close to the top of the board in pass-rusher Nick Bosa (+2000), linebacker Fred Warner (+3000) and tight end George Kittle (+3000). Running backs have never won this in back-to-back years and the one with the shortest odds is the Giants ' back-flipping Cam Skattebo at +3500. A defensive player hasn't won since Chiefs safety Eric Berry in 2015, and newly unretired Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald is a +800 fourth-favorite. Considering the future Hall of Famer hasn't played since 2023, he'd be my choice as it would be a story right out of Hollywood. Wager on the NFL with the latest FanDuel promo code and get up to $350 in bonus bets: But the favorites are three quarterbacks: Kansas City's Patrick Mahomes (+185), Washington's Jayden Daniels (+400) and Minnesota's Kyler Murray (+550). The book is quite exposed on Mahomes, as he leads in handle (46.2%) and tickets sold (18.1%) on this prop. Comeback Player of the Year is about the only thing Mahomes hasn't won yet in the NFL, but he "somewhat" qualifies coming off a torn ACL and LCL that limited him to 14 games last year. He will be ready for the season opener vs. Denver. Since he was cleared in late July to participate in all football activities, Mahomes has not missed any practices but didn't play in the preseason. If you were wondering, Tom Brady won Comeback Player of the Year in 2009 after suffering a major knee injury of his own in the 2008 opener and missing the rest of that season. So the obvious GOAT parallels are there, but Brady missed basically a full campaign , while Mahomes missed three games. Berry has been Kansas City's only winner since this award returned in 1998. Murray is second in tickets (12.0%) and handle (9.7%) at BetMGM, and he has the double-whammy of coming back from injury and starting over with a new team, as Murray has won the Vikings ' starting job over former first round pick J.J. McCarthy . Murray probably has more offensive talent around him than Mahomes does. Bet futures and more NFL picks at DraftKings, where new users get $200 in bonus bets after they spend $5+: The player the book is most exposed on is another ve [... truncated ...]
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The NFL's 53-man roster deadline was Sunday, but rosters remain in flux with waiver claims. All players cut with fewer than four accrued seasons must pass through waivers, and teams can claim as many players as they want. However, players claimed automatically make the 53-man roster, meaning clubs have to make corresponding moves by cutting others. The Las Vegas Raiders hold the No. 1 spot in the claim order, but they selected just one player during the initial wave on Monday: Former San Francisco 49ers cornerback Darrell Luter Jr . As it turns out, Luter was the "belle of the waiver-wire ball," as ESPN reports that he had the most teams interested in him among any cut player with five. The Tennessee Titans , Miami Dolphins , Dallas Cowboys and Indianapolis Colts all tried to claim Luter. Luter was a fifth-round pick of the 49ers in 2023 out of South Alabama. He played in seven games as a rookie and worked in on special teams as the 49ers made it to Super Bowl LVIII. Luter did have an unfortunate lowlight on the biggest stage of them all, as a Tommy Townsend punt bounced off his foot in the third quarter and was recovered by the Kansas City Chiefs . One play later, Patrick Mahomes hit Marquez Valdes-Scantling on a 16-yard touchdown to give the Chiefs' their first lead of the game. San Francisco lost the Super Bowl in overtime, 25-22. In his second NFL season, Luter played just three games and made three tackles before being placed on injured reserve. In 2025, he had his best season yet, playing in all 17 games with three starts, while recording 28 tackles, one tackle for loss, one pass defensed and one fumble recovery. This preseason, Luter recorded three tackles and four passes defensed before being cut. The 49ers chose Nate Hobbs , Renardo Green , Upton Stout , Jack Jones , Ephesians Prysock , Deommodore Lenoir and Siran Neal over him. The Raiders kept six cornerbacks on their initial 53-man roster: Taron Johnson , Hezekiah Masses , Jermod McCoy , Darien Porter , Eric Stokes and Decamerion Richardson . When Las Vegas claimed Luter, Richardson was the casualty
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Rookie quarterback grades for Week 3 of the 2026 NFL preseason
At a time when the scrutiny of prediction markets seems to be increasing, Polymarket has withdrawn a wager based on Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes playing in his team's Week 1 game against the Broncos
Polymarket withdrew a wager on Patrick Mahomes playing in Week 1, citing pressure from the CFTC and NFL
Jason Logan's AFC West preview for 2026, where Patrick Mahomes' health is the X-factor in a very deep division
Patrick Mahomes has been on the field for all of training camp, but that doesn't necessarily mean that he's going to be on the field when the Kansas City Chiefs host the Denver Broncos on Monday night in Week 1. Before Mahomes can suit up in the opener, he has to be cleared for game action, which hasn't happened yet. The Chiefs quarterback tore his ACL and LCL back in December , but he wasn't down for long. By the time spring rolled around, he was cleared to throw passes at OTAs , and when the Chiefs reported to training camp in late July, he was fully cleared to participate in practice. But as the calendar gets ready to turn to September, the Chiefs' medical staff still hasn't given him the OK to play just yet, as noted by ESPN . The last hurdle that Mahomes still needs to overcome is that he has to actually be cleared to play in a game. Chiefs coach Andy Reid was asked about Mahomes' recovery this week and whether he thought his QB would be ready for the opener and he wasn't ready to committ to the two-time MVP as his starter. "I'm literally taking it day by day. No predictions here on anything," Reid said of Mahomes possibly starting in Week 1. "If the doctors and trainers and everybody that are involved in this give him the OK, and most of all, if he feels like he can, then we'll address that when we get there." That's not exactly an encouraging answer. The Chiefs will be playing in their their final preseason game on Friday against the Seahawks and Mahomes won't be suiting up, which means that for the first time in his 10-year career, he won't be be taking a single preseason snap. Mahomes wanted to play in the second preseason game , but the Chiefs held him out. On Monday, Reid was directly asked if Mahomes was held out because he hadn't been fully cleared. "Probably not cleared enough," the Chiefs coach said. With just 18 days to go until the opener, it seems like Mahomes' status for the game is still genuinely up in the air. After tearing his ligaments on Dec. 14, Mahomes immediately underwent surgery the next day , and he did that because he wanted to be back on the field as soon as possible. Mahomes was told that it would take about nine months for him to rehab, and coincidentally, Kansas City's opener is being played almost nine months to the day that the injury happened. "It's nine months, it's the amount of time [doctors] said from the beginning, that if I did everything the right way, I would be ready to play Week 1," Mahomes said this week, via ESPN . "I'm someone that, if you put [a goal] out in front of me, I want to go out and get it and maximize every single opportunity, every rep in the weight room, every hour that I can spend in the building to get my body right." Mahomes has been targeting a Week 1 return since the day he underwent surgery, and as far as he's concerned, nothing has changed. "This has always been the plan," Mahomes said of a Week 1 return. "From the day I got the surgery, as quick as I did, to hopefully the first game of the year, the plan will go accordingly, and I'll be able to go out there and be myself." Although Mahomes has participated in every practice of training camp so far, he still hasn't taken any hits, and that's the big difference between being cleared for practice and being cleared for a game. "You know, obviously I haven't played in the game and been able to get hit," Mahomes said, via KMBC.com . "But having people around me and competing and doing stuff like that, it's almost like I do everything I naturally do, and then after, it's kind of like the coaches coaching me, like, 'Hey, let's calm down a little bit.' Being a competitor, I want to go out there and win." Playing in a game also means that Mahomes will be scrambling and making cuts, something he hasn't really had to do in camp. "I try to not make those hard cuts and stuff like that. But at the end of the day, I'm a competitor, and it kind of just takes over sometimes," Mahomes said. "So you want to st [... truncated ...]
Patrick Mahomes likely to start Week 1, but Chiefs' offense has seen regression over past three seasons
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