Super Bowl, NFL news, live updates: Josh Allen takes home NFL MVP honors

Josh Allen, Steve McNair (2003) and John Elway (1987) are the only players to win the NFL's MVP award without also being named first-team All-Pro.

After leading the Vikings to a 14-3 finish and nearly to the No. 1 seed in the NFC in what was their best season in years, Kevin O'Connell is the NFL's Coach of the Year.

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

The longtime New York Giants quarterback, who won a pair of Super Bowls, missed out on becoming a first ballot Hall of Famer.

For more on Manning's snub, click here.

The Bills quarterback is the "nicest guy in the NFL!"

Jared Verse had 66 tackles and 4.5 sacks this season while dominating for the Rams.

"I was just taking a minute to reconnect with my inner excellence." 🤣

All 32 candidates for the Walter Payton Man of the Year award take the stage in New Orleans 👏

Even though the Bengals fell short of the playoffs, Joe Burrow bounced back hard after a wrist injury ended his 2023 campaign early.

Saquon Barkley dominated all year with the Eagles in historic fashion. No wonder he capped it off with OPOY honors.

Patrick Surtain brings home the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year honors.

It's official: Jayden Daniels is the Offensive NFL Rookie of the Year.

Bill Belichick brought all of his Super Bowl rings to the NFL Honors red carpet tonight in New Orleans.

The biggest names in the football world are getting ready for NFL Honors tonight in New Orleans.

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.

With the Kansas City Chiefs set to play for their third straight championship, the state of NFL officiating is under the microscope ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl.

So much so that commissioner Roger Goodell fielded multiple questions about the integrity of officiating during his annual Super Bowl conference on Monday. There, Goodell called fan theories that the NFL and its officials favor the Chiefs "ridiculous."

The NFL Referees Association weighed in Tuesday with a statement from executive director Scott Green, who ran with Goodell's comments from Monday.

Read the full story here.

Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce took the stage at the Caesars Superdome on Monday night to kick off Super Bowl week in New Orleans. Naturally, he was hit with plenty of questions about his pop star girlfriend.

Taylor Swift, apparently, makes an incredible breakfast.

"I would say, I’m a breakfast guy," Kelce said on Monday. "Her Pop-Tarts are unbelievable. Homemade pop tarts, they’re unbelievable.”

Swift has been seen at countless Kansas City games since the two started dating, sometimes with other celebrity friends in the Chiefs universe. The two met on the field after the Chiefs beat the Buffalo Bills in the AFC Championship game last month, and Swift is sure to be at the Superdome supporting him on Sunday when they take on the Philadelphia Eagles in an attempt to win what would be a historic third straight championship.

Everybody is getting in on the Chiefs "conspiracy" talk tonight in New Orleans. This time, Chiefs owner Clark Hunt got into it on the NFL Network.

For more on Roger Goodell addressing the idea, click here.

"I said I would wear that mink jacket to my wedding, or to the Super Bowl, whichever one happened first. Obviously I'm not married, so I'm gonna wear my daddy's mink jacket"

"I feel like I still got a lot of good football left in me."

Travis Kelce isn't ready to call it a career just yet, even with everything else he has going on outside of the game.

The last time the Eagles and Chiefs faced off in the Super Bowl, the Kelce brothers were on opposite sides of the field. Now Jason's retired from the Eagles, while Travis seeks his fourth Super Bowl ring. Travis wishes that Jason was still on the opposing sideline.

"Of course I wish Jason was out there," Kelce said. "Being at the mountaintop with your brother is something special that I’ll never forget. Obviously it’s being so close to him retiring, I wish he would’ve played another year.

"He’s very content where he is in life right now. I’m happy as hell for him. He gets to be around his family and his baby girls a little bit more. I’ll go out there and try to represent the family the best I can."

Travis Kelce wasn't escaping opening night without some questions about Taylor Swift. He got one about her cooking. Apparently Swift is a talented baker.

"Her pop tarts are unbelievable, man," Kelce said. "Homemade pop tarts. Unbelievable."

Mavericks fan Patrick Mahomes took a diplomatic approach to the Luka Dončić-Anthony Davis trade.

"As a Dallas fan, it hurts me," Mahomes said. "But I’m happy for him that he’s gonna be able to go out there and be in L.A. and get to try to achieve his dream of winning a championship.

"He did so much not only for the basketball team but for the city of Dallas. I'll always be appreciative of those years. But I’m excited for the Mavericks moving forward and the guys that they’ve brought in."

And now, Patrick Mahomes gets his turn in front of Super Bowl media. He's been here before.

The Super Bowl champion Chiefs get their marching band entrance.

The two quarterbacks took the stage together tonight at the Superdome.

The Chiefs are in the building.

Saquon Barkley may have found his former team their next quarterback...

The Eagles running back will turn 28 on Sunday in New Orleans.

Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie probably isn't going to buy the Boston Celtics anytime soon.

Guillermo is bringing the hard-hitting questions to the Super Bowl once again 🤣

The NFL’s dedicated push to add diversity in all levels of America’s most popular sport will continue.

That was the message delivered by commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday during his annual state of the league address to kick off Super Bowl week — declining to follow in the footsteps of some major U.S. corporations stripping away diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from their business models.

Click the photo for more on Goodell's comments Monday from Charles Robinson on the ground in New Orleans.

Jalen Hurts has a different name for the tush push that he helped make famous: "I call it the quarterback sneak."

Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is taking his turn facing Super Bowl media.

The Eagles led by head coach Nick Sirianni and owner Jeffrey Lurie take the stage ahead Super Bowl opening night shenanigans.

Cooper Kupp's time with the Los Angeles Rams is apparently over.

The longtime wide receiver shared on social media on Monday night that the team was looking to trade him. What such a trade would look like, or when it would come down, remains to be seen.

"I don’t agree with the decision and always believed it was going to begin and end in LA."

For more on Cooper Kupp's announcement, click here.