The free and premium ESPN stories on given players. A maximum of 50 stories can be returned at a time.
player_news(playerId, parseHTML = FALSE)A single player ID number.
Should HTML stories be parsed with xml2::read_html()?
A data frame of news stories.
Other player functions:
all_players(),
list_players(),
player_info(),
player_lookup(),
player_outlook(),
recent_activity(),
transaction_counter()
player_news(playerId = "15847")
#> # A tibble: 10 × 6
#> id published type premium headline body
#> <int> <dttm> <chr> <lgl> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 15847 2026-09-22 21:01:02 Story FALSE Rest-of-season rankings: Wa… "<p>…
#> 2 15847 2026-09-21 05:09:55 Story FALSE Week 2 winners and losers: … "<p>…
#> 3 15847 2026-09-21 05:02:47 Rotowire FALSE Kelce secured nine of 11 ta… "Pat…
#> 4 15847 2026-09-21 03:56:14 Media FALSE Mahomes fires to Kelce for … "Mah…
#> 5 15847 2026-09-16 20:59:59 Story FALSE Fantasy football matchup ra… "<p>…
#> 6 15847 2026-09-15 04:26:30 Rotowire FALSE Kelce brought in three of f… "Kel…
#> 7 15847 2026-08-29 03:28:07 Rotowire FALSE Kelce secured his only targ… "Kel…
#> 8 15847 2026-08-13 02:37:55 Rotowire FALSE Kelce said Wednesday that h… "'Th…
#> 9 15847 2026-07-30 17:56:55 Rotowire FALSE Kelce was one of Kansas Cit… "'He…
#> 10 15847 2026-06-05 10:57:16 Story FALSE Don't be surprised if ... S… "<p>…