TV-MA | 8 episodes | Documentary, Sports | 12 July 2023 (USA) The fifth Netflix-produced sports docuseries, “Quarterback” is an eight-episode, 334-minute mixed-bag marathon that will certainly appeal to fans of the three profiled players and devoted NFL followers but will not likely rope in any new converts and may even turn some viewers completely off. The series opens with…

DESTIN, Fla.—Former Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett, who also played for New England, Houston, and Baltimore during five seasons in the NFL, has died. He was 35. Mallett died in an apparent drowning, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. Mallett was a football coach at White Hall High School in his native Arkansas, and the…

ATLANTA—After getting much of the blame for a disappointing season by Clemson standards, DJ Uiagalelei needed good things to happen in the season opener. With one whirling dervish of a play, the quarterback showed why the Tigers still have plenty of faith in him. Uiagalelei threw for one touchdown and ran for another, overcoming a…

Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman is out indefinitely with a “non-football related condition.” Hartman, a three-year starter, sought medical attention after practice Tuesday, Wake Forest said, for an issue unrelated to that session and football in general. He was advised to step away from competition indefinitely. “Tuesday was a frustrating day, but I am extremely…

Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman is out indefinitely with a “non-football related condition.” Hartman, a three-year starter, sought medical attention after practice Tuesday, Wake Forest said, for an issue unrelated to that session and football in general. He was advised to step away from competition indefinitely. “Tuesday was a frustrating day, but I am extremely…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was killed Saturday when he was hit by a dump truck while he was walking on a South Florida highway. Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Lt. Indiana Miranda confirmed the accident on westbound Interstate 595. Haskins was pronounced dead at the scene. Miranda didn’t say why the 24-year-old Haskins…

A promising NFL hopeful last month was caught on camera donating some of his new Nike gear to a homeless woman on a street corner, garnering him favorable attention from sports fans and Twitter users on social media. In the footage, quarterback Malik Willis, 22, of Lynchburg, Virginia’s Liberty Flames college football club, demonstrated that a…

Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers and wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling stood together on the sideline last month at Cincinnati admiring the work of De’Vondre Campbell. The Packers’ new inside linebacker had nine tackles, broke up a pass, and snared another that day, helping Green Bay edge the Bengals. “We just said, ‘How in the hell…

LAKE FOREST, Ill.—Chicago Bears coach Matt Nagy has changed his mind and made Justin Fields the Chicago Bears’ starting quarterback going forward. On Monday, Nagy had said Fields was still the backup and playing only because of Andy Dalton’s knee injury. But on Tuesday he told both quarterbacks of the change and announced it Wednesday….

Sometimes, the abdicating king, or the deposed one, returns to his kingdom. It happens often in the NFL yet rarely is as newsworthy as Tom Brady, who led the Patriots to six Super Bowl titles, going back to New England. He’ll do that on Sunday night, eight months after taking the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to…