Mark Maske

Washington, D.C.

Sports reporter covering the NFL

Education: University of Virginia, BA in rhetoric and communications

Mark Maske covers the NFL for The Washington Post. He has covered the NFL and the Washington Football Team since 1998. He previously covered baseball, the Baltimore Orioles, the effort to bring a major league team to Washington, and colleges. He had two stints as a Washington Football Team beat writer, from 1998 to 2004 and again in 2012 and 2013. He currently covers the NFL at large, focusing on league-wide issues and stories.
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Deshaun Watson denies new allegations; Browns say he’ll play Sunday

The NFL is reviewing allegations of sexual assault and battery made by a woman in Texas in a civil suit filed Monday but has left Watson eligible to play.

September 11, 2024

NFL Top 5 for Week 2: A disappointing start for the new kickoff format

Top five teams and all the rest, kickoffs, rookie QBs, Jordan Love’s injury and more in The Post’s midweek NFL package.

September 11, 2024

NFL to review new allegations against Deshaun Watson

The NFL is set to review new allegations of sexual misconduct against Deshaun Watson, who remains eligible to play for the Cleveland Browns.

September 10, 2024

49ers play spoiler as Aaron Rodgers returns, and they roll over the Jets

San Francisco began its latest bid to make a championship run by beating Rodgers and the Jets convincingly, 32-19.

September 10, 2024

Deshaun Watson is accused of sexual assault in new lawsuit

The civil suit, filed Monday in Texas, says Watson “roughly sexually assaulted” a woman in 2020.

September 9, 2024

Kirk Cousins’s debut was a dud for the revamped Falcons

Kirk Cousins threw two interceptions, the offense sputtered badly, and the Falcons lost at home to the Steelers in their first game under Raheem Morris.

September 9, 2024
Quarterback Kirk Cousins and the Falcons line up for a play during their season-opening loss Sunday to the Steelers in Atlanta. (Danny Karnik/AP)

Dak Prescott, the Cowboys’ $240 million man, starts the year with a win

The four-year extension keeps Prescott from being eligible for free agency next spring and makes the QB the NFL’s highest-paid player by average annual value.

September 8, 2024

Steelers might not have QB certainty, but they have a hard-fought win

After scratching Russell Wilson with a calf injury and starting Justin Fields at quarterback, the Steelers won in Atlanta behind six Chris Boswell field goals.

September 8, 2024

Jordan Love injured as Packers fall to Eagles in NFL’s first game in Brazil

The Packers’ quarterback left the game with six seconds remaining after suffering an injury to his left leg as Green Bay succumbed to Philadelphia, 34-29, in São Paulo.

September 7, 2024

The NFL’s limits on Tom Brady are ‘not ideal,’ but he can still thrive

Brady’s new career in the Fox booth will be complicated but not threatened by his pending stake in the Las Vegas Raiders, league and media sources say.

September 6, 2024