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Byron Buxton's season is over in Minnesota. The Twins outfielder is headed to surgery on his right hip after landing on the injured list August thirtieth, and there is no coming back this year. It's another brutal chapter in a career that has spent too much time in the training room and not enough on the field.
Shifting to Philadelphia, Saquon Barkley is doing something he hasn't had to do in a long time — learning the position almost from scratch. The Eagles' wide zone, under-center scheme is largely foreign to the veteran back, and Barkley himself says he's going back to feeling like a little kid again. After his dominant twenty twenty-four campaign, the bar is sky high, and the process of recapturing that level starts now.
And across the league, the Maxx Crosby trade conversation is not going away. As the twenty twenty-six NFL season kicks off, the Raiders pass rusher remains the most talked-about name in trade speculation. New season, same noise — and every week that ticks by without a resolution only turns up the volume.
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