With NFL free agency contract negotiation window opening March 9 at noon ET, CBS Sports is providing a position-by-position look at the free agent landscape. Though the traditional "middle" or ...

The NFL Draft allows the opportunity to retrospectively examine what we thought of future top draft picks as high school prospects. In doing so, we can learn from successes and mistakes to improve our ...

Editor’s note: The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Eddie Brown is breaking down prospects, position by position, leading up to the NFL draft (April 23-25). Here are his top 10 linebackers, plus players he ...

PFF's Bradley Locker called Baltimore Ravens 2nd-year standout Teddye Buchanan the NFL's "Next Great Player" at inside linebacker.

The transformation of the NFL into a pass-centric league over the past few decades has forced defensive coordinators to use various five-DB packages as their base defenses. While nickel defenses ...

If there's one position group that the Chicago Bears have consistently hit on, it's linebackers. From Dick Butkus to Mike Singletary, Brian Urlacher to Roquan Smith, Chicago's defense has seemingly ...

The 2026 NFL Draft was an unpredictable event. Considered one of the weaker classes in recent memory, there wasn't exactly consensus opinions across all seven rounds. That welcomed surprise picks and ...

Don’t look now, but after just 1 round of the 2026 NFL draft, the Washington Commanders may already have ended the debate over who has the best group of inside linebackers in the NFL. After drafting ...

Nobody in the draft room called his name. Not in the first round. Not in the seventh. Azeez Al-Shaair walked into the NFL in 2019 without a team believing he was worth a single pick. He spent four ...