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Microsoft’s Copilot produced a wildly entertaining — and instructive — first-round mock of the 2026 NFL Draft after Week 1, exposing both the speed and the limits of conversational AI when it tries to translate fuzzy, fast-moving sports data into roster decisions. Background USA TODAY’s...

Training camp arrives each summer as pro football’s annual battleground, the pivotal phase where roster dreams are realized, risks are exposed, and championship blueprints begin to emerge. For the Atlanta Falcons, 2025’s camp storylines are supercharged by a franchise at a crossroads: a revamped...

Each spring, anticipation builds across the sporting world as the NFL Combine brings together more than 300 of the nation’s most promising athletes, thrusting them under the unforgiving scrutiny of coaches and scouts from all 32 NFL clubs. For decades, the event has served as a crucible where...

The NFL’s annual draft has long been a magnet for speculation, hope, and debate among fans, analysts, and front office personnel. No event in the football calendar is as meticulously dissected or as pivotal for a franchise's long-term prospects. With the 2025 NFL Draft looming, an intriguing...

In the blindingly fast world of the NFL—where draft cycles seem to spin at warp speed and speculation outpaces even the most agile wide receiver—the appetite for mock drafts has become insatiable. Just barely after the 2025 NFL Draft dust has settled, the sporting public and analysts alike are...

Microsoft Copilot’s grading of the 2025 NFL Draft’s opening round sent ripples through both football and tech spheres, not merely for the high marks it handed out but for the greater questions it raised about the evolving interplay between algorithmic judgment and old-fashioned human expertise...

If Microsoft Copilot’s draft night were an NFL team, it would be the coach who hugs every rookie, hands out rave reviews at the presser, and then wonders where all the playoff wins went. The 2025 NFL Draft’s first round saw the AI smothering hopefuls in A's and A-'s, playing the role of the...

Four AIs walk into a draft war room—a massive digital cloud overhanging the NFL’s annual festival of hope, hype, and, inevitably, heartbreak. Marching Bots and Mock Drafts: The AI Takeover of the NFL’s Crystal Ball NFL mock drafts: there’s nothing quite like them for generating heated debate...

It all came full circle on a sunny April day in Tempe, Arizona, when Patrick Peterson — three-time All-Pro, eight-time Pro Bowler, and perhaps the last cornerback in America who could both track a gazelle on a deep post and shut down his Twitter notifications at halftime — officially retired as...

When you think of quarterbacks who have shaped NFL history, it's tempting to jump straight to the names splattered across every highlight reel: Brady, Montana, Manning. But before Tom Brady became New England's perennial savior, the original chosen one—at least for the Patriots—was Drew Bledsoe...

Kansas City’s rookie receivers aren’t just battling linebackers and cornerbacks—they’re apparently also squaring off against bathroom scales. Xavier Worthy, the Chiefs’ shiny new first-round pick, showed up to rookie minicamp tipping the scales at a stately 169 pounds. That “stateliness” is, of...

Aaron Rodgers strolled into New Jersey two years ago, heralded as the final upgrade for a New York Jets franchise that’s made futility a local tradition. Now, as Rodgers, 41 years old and almost as many off-field headlines to his name, faces an uncertain future, the only thing clear is this: the...

Forget Skynet, forget Watson—the real battle between man and machine isn't being waged in some underground laboratory or dystopian sci-fi future. No, it’s happening in the football-obsessed, peanut-shell-strewn world of the NFL draft, where Microsoft Copilot—AI’s latest jock—went pick-for-pick...

If you’ve ever played Madden NFL and spent days tweaking your roster for the perfect blend of unstoppable athleticism and, well, not-so-stoppable statistics, then you’ll understand the conundrum facing NFL franchises as they ogle Texas A&M’s Shemar Stewart. Imagine a superhero physique —...

Shedeur Sanders’ journey through the raucous minefield of the NFL draft process has been anything but quiet, but if you were expecting a full-throttle controversy-fueled ride, you might want to recalibrate your expectations—for better or worse. First Impressions: From Social Media Smoke to NFL...

In a world where artificial intelligence is steadily infiltrating every sector—from email filtering and Windows updates to even the football draft—Microsoft’s “Copilot” AI chatbot has once again raised eyebrows in an unexpected arena. An AI-generated mock draft recently put forth a baffling...

The recent experiment in sports analytics has shone a spotlight on AI’s growing role in predicting outcomes traditionally reserved for human experts. USA TODAY Sports took a deep dive into the 2025 NFL draft using Microsoft’s Copilot AI chatbot—a tool more often seen integrated into Windows...