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After the Cowboys made receiver CeeDee Lamb the 17th overall selection, they offered him a choice in jersey numbers. No. 10 or No. 88. The Cowboys have had 13 players wear No. 10, none of them particularly noteworthy with Reggie Collier and Tavon Austin the most well known. They have had 11 players wear No. […]

The Lions selected linebacker Jarrad Davis in the first round of the 2017 draft because they thought he could be a foundational piece of their defense. After three years with the team, it doesn’t look like Davis has fulfilled that hope. The Lions opted not to pick up his option for the 2021 season this […]

The Cowboys have had a long line of great quarterbacks, but Danny White and Tony Romo didn’t quite ascend to the level of Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman because they never won a Super Bowl. (In fact, neither White nor Romo even got to a Super Bowl as a starting quarterback.) Aikman sees a lot […]

Some NFL teams are beginning to reopen their facilities, but the Lions are taking a cautious approach. Lions coach Matt Patricia said that even if the league and the local authorities give the team the go-ahead to open, it will be a slow process for the Lions do so. “First and foremost we’re going to […]

Matthew Stafford ranked second in the NFL in touchdowns (19), fourth in passing yards (2,499) and fifth in passer rating (106.0) before a Week Nine back injury prematurely ended his season. It was the Lions quarterback’s first year in Darrell Bevell’s offense. Now back to health, and with a year in the offense, Stafford expects […]

Plenty of people took note of a video Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger released on Monday. The video showed Roethlisberger throwing with teammates and then receiving a trim from a barber that Roethlisberger said would have to wait until he could make legit NFL throws following right elbow surgery. While many in Pennsylvania likely focused on […]

Two days ago, the bidding opened at $75,000. Thirty-four bids later, the current bidding has made it to seven figures. With more than nine days left in the auction that benefits COVID-19 relief, the leading bid for Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s Super Bowl LI ring already has hit the $1 million mark. The ring contains […]

While stopping short of offering the carrot of improved draft stock, the NFL did make some changes during Tuesday’s meeting toward the goal of increasing opportunities for minority coaches and personnel employees. In addition to removing team’s ability to block assistants from interviewing for coordinator jobs, the league adopted other new procedures and workplace reforms. […]

It took a former NFL star, a current NFL star, two of world’s best golfers and a pandemic for The Match: Champions for Charity to become the most-watched golf event in cable TV history. Turner Sports announced Monday that Sunday’s charity event featuring Peyton Manning and Tiger Woods’ 1-up victory over Tom Brady and Phil […]

The Steelers are banking on running back James Conner bouncing back after an injury-plagued 2019 season, but they also have high hopes for another member of the backfield. 2019 fourth-round pick Benny Snell came up during Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin’s visit with Kentucky basketball head coach John Calipari on Facebook Live. Snell went to […]

The unofficial start of summer at its core has a solemn purpose. We remember on the final Monday in May those, like Pat Tillman, who have made the ultimate sacrifice in support of our freedoms. This year, it’s very different. Accepting the Commander-in-Chief’s position that the American people are warriors in the fight against COVID-19, […]

Three years ago, Austin Ekeler entered the NFL as an undrafted free agent from Western State. He just turned 25 last week, but Ekeler is the old guy in the running backs room now. “I feel like I just got in the league, but now I’m the oldest guy in the room,” Ekeler said, via […]

The Jets aren’t interested in doing a long-term deal with Jamal Adams right now because of the uncertainty of how COVID-19 might affect the season. The All-Pro safety isn’t interested in waiting. Because contract talks have reached a stalemate, speculation has run rampant about whether Adams will request a trade and/or whether the Jets would […]

Free agent running back Devonta Freeman is prepared to wait until he gets a contract offer to his liking. He may be waiting forever. Retirement may be an option for Freeman, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. Although Rapoport said the more likely option is that Freeman will eventually accept whatever the best offer […]

Ravens center Matt Skura knew something was wrong when he “felt three distinct pops in my knee” after going down with an injury in Week 11 last year and the diagnosis of his injury confirmed that feeling. Skura tore his ACL, MCL and PCL in that game against the Rams and has been rehabbing since […]

After the NFL released the schedule for the 2020 season last week, Bills General Manager Brandon Beane said the team appreciates the respect shown by the league scheduling the Bills for four prime time games. That schedule announcement came after Tom Brady left the Patriots for the Buccaneers in a move that’s led many people […]

The Cowboys are focused on getting quarterback Dak Prescott signed to a new deal before the July 15 deadline for finalizing multi-year contracts with franchise-tagged players. And regardless of whatever has been said or speculated or reported or whatever regarding the negotiations, only two things matter at this point. First, neither side is going to […]

In any given year, Patriots coach Bill Belichick deserves serious consideration for the coach of the year award. This year, he’s one of the favorites to win it. Via FanDuel, Belichick and Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy have the shortest odds to win 2020 coach of the year, at +1200 (i.e., bet $100 to win $1,200). […]

Even though the NFL tabled the proposal to reward teams for hiring minority head coaches with draft position, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin likes the idea. Or at least that the idea was brought up. Via Brooke Pryor of ESPN.com, Tomlin said during a podcast with Kentucky men’s basketball coach John Calipari that he liked the […]

The Giants are going to run Jason Garrett’s offense, which is no surprise given the former Cowboys head coach now is the Giants offensive coordinator. Second-year quarterback Daniel Jones said the “differences are in the verbiage and how we’re going to call certain things.” What excites Jones is “guys have been successful in it.” The […]

For late May, normally a slow time in the NFL, the league’s really busy. A couple of significant rules—adding a full-time Sky Judge to every officiating crew, and revolutionizing the onside kick—will come up for votes in a special videoconference session Thursday. The league last week began directing the opening of team facilities shuttered for […]

Seahawks head coach Brian Schottenheimer thinks his team has a couple of things going for it as they prepare for the 2020 season under unusual circumstances. The Seahawks have continuity at the upper levels of head coach Pete Carroll’s staff, which Schottenheimer thinks may give them “a chance to get more done than the new […]

Jacksonville has added a veteran quarterback, though not one who’s likely to compete for the starting job. Mike Glennon has agreed to terms with the Jaguars, Mike Garafolo of NFL Network reports. The 30-year-old Glennon spent last year with the Raiders, where he played sparingly as a backup to Derek Carr. He spent a year […]

New Giants coach Joe Judge has added one of his former players to his coaching staff. According to Ralph Vacchiano of SNY, the Giants have added Nick Williams as their new  offensive quality control coach. Williams was the wide receivers coach and NFL liaison at Southern Illinois. He played at Alabama from 2009-2012, and Judge was […]

NFL executive V.P. of football operations Troy Vincent admits that the league’s minority hiring system is broken. Ultimately, there are only two ways to truly fix it. First, the NFL needs more minority owners. That’s far easier said than done, however. For starters, teams rarely are available to be purchased. When they are, they’re ridiculously […]

As the Jaguars try to win enough games to stave off a franchise reset, one of the most important positions on the offensive line could be in new hands. As explained by John Reid of the Florida Times-Union, Will Richardson will move from right guard to left tackle, where he’ll have a chance to supplant […]

The Bears made a mistake by trading up and taking quarterback Mitch Trubisky in the 2017 draft. The Bears admitted the mistake, and avoided compounding it, by declining to exercise Trubisky’s fifth-year option. Because he was a top-10 pick, Trubisky’s fifth-year option for 2021 would have been the quarterback transition tender for 2020. That’s $24.837 […]

The Seahawks want to add a veteran running back, and it appears they will add one. The only question is: Which one? Seattle has shown interest in Carlos Hyde, Devonta Freeman and Marshawn Lynch. It appeared Freeman was the most likely (and perhaps best) option, and the Seahawks offered a one-year, $4 million deal to […]

Nick Foles‘ arrival in a trade set the table for a quarterback competition in Chicago, but there won’t be a virtual component of it. The Bears are holding the same kind of remote offseason program as the other 31 teams in the league, which means that there’s no on field work. Head coach Matt Nagy […]

While Leonard Floyd will be suiting up for a new team in the Los Angeles Rams this season, he will have a familiar face coaching him Floyd reunites with defensive coordinator Brandon Staley in Los Angeles. Staley was the outside linebackers coach for the Chicago Bears for two of Floyd’s four seasons with the team […]

Among the proposed rules changes that NFL team owners will be considering this week are a pair that deal with the addition of an eighth official who would have access to video and be able to communicate with the officials on the field in order to catch any obvious missed calls. The Competition Committee has […]

The Bears are scheduled to play their first preseason game on August 15 against the Browns and head coach Matt Nagy is planning a different approach to that game than last year’s exhibition contests. Nagy rested first-team players during the preseason, but said during a recent appearance on The Waddle and Silvy Show that the […]

Prior to the release of the 2020 NFL schedule, there were reports and rumors that the NFL planned to fill the early portions of the schedule with games that could easily be canceled. That didn’t happen. Instead, the NFL put together a strong slate of Week One games, showing that the NFL is fully planning […]

For the first time in 2019, pass interference was reviewable on replay. That worked so poorly that in 2020, it won’t be. And NFL Executive Vice President of Football Operations Troy Vincent says the NFL needs to learn from its mistake. Vincent told Peter King for Football Morning in America that the league has to […]

Since he’s coming off neck surgery, it’s unclear when Joe Flacco will even be ready to play. And in a perfect world for the Jets, he wouldn’t play at all. But their new backup quarterback has at least shown he could help them in their own division. As noted by Peter King of NBC’s Football […]

The Colts signed Philip Rivers to a one-year deal as a free agent this offseason and Jacoby Brissett is back to play out the final year of his deal, so the team is well-stocked with options for this season and without much certainty beyond the coming season. While the team thinks Rivers will stick around […]

Pernell McPhee returned to the Ravens last year and helped the team earn the top seed in the AFC playoffs, but he couldn’t help them overcome the Titans in their first postseason game. That left McPhee feeling that “what we did last year was ok, but it wasn’t acceptable” and he said that the loss […]

In 2014, the Greenbrier lured the Saints to West Virginia for training camp. After a three-year run with the Saints, the Greenbrier persuaded the Texans to give it a try for two years. The Greenbrier went back to being not an NFL training camp in 2019, but the resort could be back in business after […]

Paul Tagliabue was there when the work began. He understands there is much more to be done when it comes to minority hiring in the NFL. Commissioner when the Rooney Rule was written in 2003, Tagliabue saw the number of minority coaches rise to seven by the time he left office in 2006. It has […]

The Saints have built a talented roster, and it skews older. That’s not just at quarterback, where 41-year-old Drew Brees is back for another push, but across the board. And all that experience, coupled with the obvious restraints created by the coronavirus pandemic have led coach Sean Payton (who knows about the virus too well, […]