Men’s Journal – September 2019

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Before being traded to the

Browns in March, OBJ was

perhaps the most accomplished

young wide receiver in NFL

histor y. Now he gets to go from

snagging errant Eli Manning passes

with his f ingertips to catching slants in

stride from Baker Mayf ield.

BAKER MAYFIELD

TO ODELL BECKHAM JR.

WILL BE THE NEXT JOE

MONTANA TO JERRY RICE

It’ll get harder and harder to get through

an NFL game without wincing or looking

away from the TV once or twice. The game

is too fast now, the players are too big, and

the collisions are too violent. The rules

might be reducing injuries, but the ones

still happening seem to be more frighten-

ing than ever. And teams still lie about

injuries as often as they can get away with

it. None of this will stop in 2019.

THERE WILL BE FEWER INJURIES (THAT WE KNOW OF),

BUT THEY’LL BE WORSE THAN EVER

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Every week this

fall at the

Meadowlands,

an all-world

tailback will

take the field for the

home team. Saquon

Barkley will continue to

vindicate the Giants for

drafting him second

overall last year (instead

of a potential franchise

quarterback that the

team desperately needs).

Meanwhile, Le’Veon Bell,

the Jets’ new running

back, will resume being

awesome, after sitting

out last season with

Pittsburgh. He’s the

Kawhi Leonard of the NFL.

THE LEAGUE’S

TWO BEST

RUNNING BACKS

WILL BOTH BE IN

NEW YORK

THE NFL WILL HOLD OUT ON GAMBLING

It’s unprecedented for NFL franchise

owners to turn down money that they

could otherwise be swimming in. And

yet, unlike the NBA and MLB, which have

both cut deals with casinos for a piece

of the action now that sports gambling is legal, the NFL

way to regulate betting on football without full and

NFL, gambling will have to wait.

DAMAGE REPORT OFFICIAL LEAGUE-WIDE REGULAR-SEASON INJURIES

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In six seasons, Rice (far left) caught 55 touchdown passes from Montana.