• A long list of former NFL stars will be eligible for the Hall of Fame next year.

First-time eligibles for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026 include:🏈Larry Fitzgerald🏈Drew Brees🏈Philip Rivers🏈Jason Witten🏈Frank Gore🏈Julian Edelman🏈Maurkice Pouncey🏈LeSean McCoy🏈Thomas Davis🏈Greg Olsen🏈Alex Smith🏈Dez Bryant

🏈Stephen Gostkowski… pic.twitter.com/5n2VjFfoG8

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) February 7, 2025

• Even though the Bengals fell short of the playoffs, Joe Burrow bounced back hard after a wrist injury ended his 2023 campaign early.
• Jalen Carter has been dealing with illness this week as the Eagles prepare for the Super Bowl in New Orleans. (Bill Streicher/Imagn Images)
• Defensive tackle Jalen Carter was limited Wednesday with an illness, but he was a full participant Thursday.
• Everyone on the Eagles practiced Thursday, but three players were limited.
• WR Devonta Smith | Hamstring
• C Nick Gates | Groin
• DE Brandon Graham | Elbow
• Full injury report
• South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley, born and raised in Philadelphia, is a noted superfan of the Philadelphia Eagles. But with her Eagles playing in Super Bowl LIX, Staley will not be able to attend the championship due to President Donald Trump’s visit.
• Staley had planned to fly to New Orleans, but told reporters Wednesday that she would not be able to since the airspace would be closed in anticipation of the president’s flight. Under Federal Aviation Administration rules, airspace activity is limited when the president is flying.
• “And I’m not going to the Super Bowl; Trump is going to be at the Super Bowl so they closed the airspace,” Staley told reporters Wednesday, via Greenville News. “Party here though.”
• Read the full story here.
• The Jaguars officially have their next offensive coordinator. They struck a deal with Grant Udinski for the role on Wednesday night. The 28-year-old has been on the Vikings’ staff since 2022, and most recently was their assistant offensive coordinator.
• Udinski will now take over in Jacksonville under new head coach Liam Coen.
• Super Bowl tickets will never be cheap, but this week they’re certainly cheaper.
• In a trend that hasn’t been seen since Super Bowl LIII — that featured the February 2019 matchup between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams in Atlanta — the early week “get-in” price for the cheapest available tickets is threatening to fall below $4,000. The get-in price represents the cheapest available ticket on the secondary market. According to market data from ticketIQ, Tuesday’s pricing for the rematch of the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles at the Caesars Superdome continues to dramatically drop. As of late afternoon Tuesday, a foursome of upper bowl seats were available for $4,122 each.
• It’s an early surprise for a game that will feature two pieces of history: the Chiefs going for an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl win in the post-merger era, and the first instance of a sitting U.S. President attending a Super Bowl. The U.S. Secret Service announced Tuesday that President Donald Trump will be attending Sunday’s game, noting the presence of agents in New Orleans over the past week.
• “Extensive planning and coordination have been in place to ensure the safety of all attendees, players and staff,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement Tuesday. “Security measures have been further enhanced this year, given that this will be the first time a sitting President of the United States will attend the event.”
• Thus far, the news of Trump’s attendance and the Chiefs’ reach for three-peat history hasn’t provided a boost in Super Bowl ticket pricing. Instead, tickets have continued to see a staggering drop from the conference title games and into this week — down more than 35% in the previous nine days. As of Tuesday, ticketIQ data also showed an average list price (the average of all available tickets) of $7,409, which is also down 33% since the day after the AFC and NFC title games.
• Read the full story here.
• Charlie Strong is joining the Buccaneers’ staff as a defensive line coach, reports NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
• Strong, 64, has been a head coach at Louisville, Texas and South Florida. In 2021, he was an assistant head coach and inside linebackers coach for the Jaguars, followed by one season as co-defensive coordinator at Miami. Strong was a defensive analyst at Alabama in 2023 before taking last year off from football.