David Helman

Los Angeles

Podcast Host and Reporter at FOX Sports

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Articles

2025 NFL schedule release: Ranking the 11 best games on FOX

14 hours ago | foxsports.com | David Helman

We’re truly living in a golden era of NFL football. A league with more parity and more star quarterbacks than ever before is scheduling like it. The NFL has branched out into new time slots, new days of the week, new methods for airing games. There are more good games and more ways to watch them than ever before. Still, there’s something so satisfying about a good Sunday slate. It’s fun to watch football on Thursdays, Fridays and Mondays, but it’s tough to beat the OG.
NFL schedule wish list: Eagles-Chiefs on Christmas among ideal NFL matchups

1 week ago | foxnews.com | David Helman

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! It’s a fun thought, but predicting the NFL schedule feels like so much wasted energy. Thirty-two teams playing 272 games across five days of the week over the course of five months? Who could possibly expect to nail more than a handful of pointless predictions? So, while we wait for the unveiling of the 2025 schedule, which drops on Wednesday, May 14, let’s try a different approach.
2025 NFL Draft winners and losers: Giants go big; Steelers still in limbo

2 weeks ago | foxnews.com | David Helman

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! At this point in our draft-consuming history, I'd like to think we've grown a bit. The true purpose of the NFL Draft is to build for the long term, making decisions that will play out slowly over the course of several years. We're all aware that the true value of this draft won't be fully known until 2027 or 2028. But the purpose of pro sports is ultimately entertainment, and what's the point if we're not having some fun?
Cowboys working on two 'substantive' trades? Here are 5 players they should target

3 weeks ago | foxnews.com | David Helman

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Leave it to Jerry Jones to drum up the intrigue. The Cowboys owner and general manager has long been famous for headline-grabbing quotes. So, why would this week be any different? Jones and the rest of the Cowboys' brain trust held the team's annual pre-draft press conference Tuesday, handling questions about their needs, wants and dreams for the upcoming festivities.
Cowboys 7-round mock draft: How Dallas can get back to title contention

3 weeks ago | foxnews.com | David Helman

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Dallas Cowboys remind me a bit of myself in high school: bad student, good test taker. It might drive everyone around you crazy, but you can usually mitigate your own inaction during the semester if you nail the final. And, as inactive as the Cowboys might be during the busy weeks of free agency, they do routinely offset that bad habit by hitting home runs in the draft. Once again, that appears to be the strategy.
If the NFL had an expansion draft, would Mahomes go No. 1? Who takes a non-QB first?

4 weeks ago | foxnews.com | David Helman |Henry McKenna

Let's blow it up and start over. Let's have fun with a mock draft that's unlike all the others. Imagine a scenario where, today, the NFL decides to reset the league. Using the current draft order (but snaking after the first round for competitive balance) and with zero dollars on everyone's books, the league allows teams to draft from the player pool, including veterans and draft-eligible rookies. Those players then arrive on their new clubs with their current contract terms.
2025 NFL Draft QB matchmaker: Shedeur Sanders to Rams? Best team fits for 9 QBs

1 month ago | foxsports.com | David Helman

It's become a cliché in the last decade, but that only underscores how true it is: Success in the NFL comes down to fit just as much as talent and determination. As good as these guys are, it does wonders to land on the right roster, or in the right offense, or with the right coaches in your ear — or, if you're really lucky, all of the above. That's why we're putting the crystal ball aside today.
Has Grassley succumbed to Trump, Musk?

1 month ago | thegazette.com | David Helman

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Sen. Grassley, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is holding hearings on judicial injunctions placed on Trump administration actions. He says Federal judges have "hobbled" the Executive Branch. Sen. Grassley has served in the Senate for 44 years. Judges have issued injunctions this entire time through seven presidents.
Eight teams that can contend in 2025 if they nail the NFL Draft

1 month ago | foxnews.com | David Helman

They call it NFL Christmas because there's no telling what surprises are waiting in the draft. And the beauty of the draft is that, whether it's the first overall selection or pick No. 199, anyone could go on to become the league's next legend. All of that fun rhetoric aside, no two drafts are created equal. Many NFL clubs are already primed for contention, no matter what happens at the end of April, and an unlucky few are probably still at least one more draft away.
Don't draft a QB first, Giants - let it ride with Russell Wilson, Jameis Winston

1 month ago | foxnews.com | David Helman

The New York Giants, at the very least, will be more entertaining in 2025. However far he might have fallen from his peak, Russell Wilson can still win games with a decent roster around him, as he demonstrated last year. Jameis Winston will be a media darling, providing midweek soundbites and game-day viral moments. If pressed into action, we know he can heave a touchdown — and an interception — or two. For those reasons alone, the Giants' decision-making this week makes sense.