NORMAN — In a year where Oklahoma made great leaps in several areas, the Sooners’ kickoff return game never got going in 2025. The Sooners fielded only two kickoffs last year. Safety Peyton Bowen ...

The National Football League implemented new kickoff rules ahead of the 2025 season, hoping to see the rate of kickoff returns increase dramatically. The results paid off, with NFL kickoff stats for ...

More changes are coming to the NFL’s already heavily modified kickoff rule for the 2026 season, if the NFL competition committee gets its way. The competition committee released its requested set of ...

There were 1,157 more kickoff returns this season, which led to an increase in concussions. Justin Edmonds / Getty Images A year after its players experienced a historically low number of concussions, ...

The NFL has put the kickoff return back into the game, as demonstrated when Rashid Shaheed began the Seattle Seahawks’ lopsided victory over the San Francisco 49ers in the divisional round of the NFC ...

On Friday, the Buccaneers announced the additions of cornerbacks Kemon Hall and Chase Lucas, as well as defensive lineman Haggai Ndubuisi, a product of the NFL's International Player Pathway Program ...