Every year, shortly after the Super Bowl, America’s best college football players head to Indianapolis. It’s a rite of spring, like the migration of birds. Their destination is the Combine, a weeklong ...

For many football fans, watching a match no longer ends with the final whistle. The conversation often continues long after the final score, fuelled by numbers that help explain what really happened ...

Design: Eamonn Dalton/The Athletic; Photos: Carlos Rodrigues/Getty Images Anyone not plugged into football’s online discourse may have missed it, but the analytics community was rocked by a seismic ...

The list of three-figure bonuses for Player Z is long. Some of the incentives feel fairly standard: hitting incremental goal targets and making a certain number of appearances in a season. Others come ...

If you watched the NFL last season, you probably know that no quarterback was more dangerous heaving bombs down the field than Houston Texans rookie C.J. Stroud. What you didn’t know is just how ...

In the quest to track some cornerback/wide receiver matchups, Pro Football Reference provides a baseline of player information to help game managers get a feel for defenses' strengths and weaknesses.