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New Jaguars offensive coordinator Jay Gruden knows the most important task he faces in Jacksonville is developing a strong relationship and rapport with second-year quarterback Gardner Minshew. Following the trade if Nick Foles to Chicago this offseason, the reins of the Jaguars’ offense have been handed over in full to Minshew. Minshew has a promising […]

The Steelers agreed to a deal with free agent tight end Eric Ebron in March. Nearly two months later, he’s finally able to finalize the deal. Ebron tweeted that he’s passed his physical and feels good, predicting big things. Passed Physical. Running and cutting with no pain finally. I promise u this gone be something […]

In an ordinary offseason, Steelers outside linebacker T.J. Watt would be able to be by rookie Alex Highsmith‘s side, to teach him how the team does business. In case you haven’t noticed, this is not an ordinary offseason. Watt’s still offered to do everything possible to help the third-round pick, in whatever limited capacity he […]

It took over two months of free agency after his release from the Pittsburgh Steelers for Anthony Chickillo to find a new home with the New Orleans Saints. But even after playing the waiting game, Chickillo is pleased with his new destination with the Saints. “Couldn’t ask for a better organization, with a better head […]

A year ago, Ted Ginn boasted he still was the fastest man in the league and challenged all comers in a “pole-to-pole race” for $10,000. The receiver, though, didn’t show up for the “40 Yards of Gold” to prove it. Ginn ran a 4.37-second 40-yard dash at the 2007 Combine while recovering from a sprained […]

Commissioner Roger Goodell admitted during Super Bowl week that more needed to be done to create opportunities for minority coach and General Manager candidates. Now, he’s going to do something about it, perhaps including draft incentives for teams. According to Jim Trotter of NFL Network, the league will present a pair of resolutions at Tuesday’s […]

Ben Roethlisberger‘s decision to get a haircut generated a reaction from Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and the impetus for the trip to the barber shop was a throwing session with teammates. Roethlisberger had let his hair and beard grow unfettered as he rehabbed from the right elbow surgery that ended his 2019 season and said […]

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has generally sounded a cautious note about when his state will be ready to reopen, but when it comes to pro sports, Cuomo is optimistic it can happen soon — as long as stadiums are empty. Cuomo said today that New York wants to see the Bills and other pro […]

Joe Flacco entered every one of the previous 12 seasons as his team’s starter. He was given no opportunity to join a team as a starting quarterback this offseason, so he signed a one-year deal with the Jets. Flacco will backup Sam Darnold. “For me personally, I want to play football,” Flacco said on SiriusXM […]

The Chiefs are scheduled to open the 2020 NFL season by hosting the Texans on September 10 and it will be a rematch of last season’s divisional round game that ended with the Chiefs winning by 20 points. Oddsmakers like their chances of winning by a comfortable margin again in September. Caesars Sportsbook lists the […]

When it comes to underlying conditions, Steelers running back James Conner has a legitimate one — he beat cancer four years ago. But Conner said during an interview with Adam Schefter of ESPN that he didn’t think about any excess risk that might put him in. “Honestly, it truly doesn’t,” Conner said, via the Pittsburgh […]

While the NFL’s proposal to offer teams draft picks to help spur minority hiring might be a first step, but those who have worked within the league seem skeptical that it will actually achieve the desired result. Veteran linebacker Sam Acho, who is a member of the NFL Players Association’s executive committee, said during an […]

Last year, he landed at No. 38 without ever playing a down in the NFL. This year, Washington quarterback Dwayne Haskins has fallen one spot on the Chris Simms top 40 quarterback countdown, to No. 39. Why 39? Well, watch the video from Tuesday’s PFT Live and find out. Haskins started seven games last season, […]

Wide receiver Kevin White hasn’t given up hope of continuing his NFL career, but the free agent was out of football last year and only managed to play 14 games in four seasons after the Bears made him the seventh overall pick in the draft. The injuries that kept him off the field and a […]

Jason Witten is no longer a member of the Cowboys, but he’s still available for the player set to replace him as the team’s starting tight end. Blake Jarwin said Witten reached out to him recently to talk about the “awesome opportunity” that’s in front of him this season. Jarwin said that Witten said he […]

Vince McMahon won’t be trying to buy back the XFL. But someone else apparently will. Daniel Kaplan of TheAthletic.com reports that “dozens of bidders” are reviewing the league’s financial information, with interest in buying the XFL and relaunching it next February. McMahon himself will not be a bidder; he confirmed this during deposition testimony given […]

Another NFL team could be coming to West Virginia later this year. Per multiple sources, the Detroit Lions and Carolina Panthers have received proposals from The Greenbrier resort for 2020 training camp. The realities of the pandemic are prompting some teams to look elsewhere for training-camp locations. As one source explained it, the Panthers are […]

The Raiders were supposed to move to Nevada until after training camp. That, though, could come sooner than planned. The team is “seriously considering” holding training camp at its new headquarters in Henderson, Nevada, rather than in Napa, California, Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. The Raiders’ new team facility is scheduled to […]

The recent video of Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisbeger throwing passes and ultimately getting his Yukon Cornelius beard removed was posted to his Twitter page. Which, for plenty of Twitter users, made it impossible to watch. It was impossible to watch because the official Ben Roethlisberger Twitter account has blocked, indiscriminately and perhaps randomly, hundred if […]

The tundra may not be frozen at Lambeau Field in October. But it will be well-worn. The Packers host the Falcons on Monday Night Football in Week Four, a game which will be played on Oct. 5. That will be a quick turnaround, since the venerable stadium will host Wisconsin and Notre Dame on Saturday, […]

In the early ’70s, Brian’s Song became must-see TV for millions. The speech that provides the film’s most powerful moment happened 50 years ago tonight. As explained by Mike Vaccaro the New York Post, Bears running back Gale Sayers paid tribute to teammate Brian Piccolo during the Pro Football Writers Awards Dinner, at what is […]

After spending his rookie year exclusively on special teams, Packers linebacker Ty Summers is looking for a place at the table on the starting defense this year. Summers led the Packers last year with 311 snaps on special teams, but he never got on the field on defense. This year he wants to prove he […]

Kenyan Drake did enough last season that the Cardinals wanted to keep him, using the one-year, $8.48 million transition tag on him. The running back wants a long-term deal but knows “everything else will handle itself at an appropriate time” if he does what he expects to do this season. “I tell people all the […]

Yes, the statistics regarding the conversion rate for third-and-15 and fourth-and-15 roughly suggest that an onside kick and its scrimmage-play alternative will have the same success rate. But there are two reasons to believe that the success rate of the fourth-and-15 play as an onside-kick alternative will be even higher. First, teams usually don’t try […]

Ben Roethlisberger‘s haircut got barber Carlos Norman in trouble with the governor. Attorney Marc Kohnen is trying to get Norman out of it. Barber shops remain closed in Pennsylvania. Thus, the Steelers quarterback’s video of him receiving a trim from Norman’s Cuttin’ Edge Barber Shop drew a rebuke from Governor Tom Wolf. Wolf would not […]

Tua Tagovailoa was the second quarterback selected in last month’s draft, and he has yet to play a game. Dolphins fans, though, are buying in. Literally. Tagovailoa has the NFL’s two highest-selling jerseys since the draft, Cameron Wolfe of ESPN reports. Tagovailoa’s aqua Dolphins men’s jersey is the No. 1 seller the past two weeks […]

As former Falcons running back Devonta Freeman waits for the kind of contract that simply won’t be available to a 28-year-old running back who has missed 16 games over the past two seasons due to injury and who hasn’t had a 1,000-yard season since 2016, there have been reports and rumors that he’ll take a […]

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 […]

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 […]

NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith said in an interview taped last week that he and his sport are closely following what other sports are doing. Auto racing is back. Golf returns next month. The National Hockey League, which, like the NFL, can’t social distance while competing, announced its plan to get back to action. The […]

Josh Johnson led the XFL with a 106.3 passer rating, throwing for 1,076 yards with 11 touchdowns and two interceptions in four games. It has not led to an NFL opportunity. Johnson, 34, continues to prepare as if he will get one. “I think about it every day,” the Los Angeles Wildcats quarterback told Gilbert […]

On Sunday, there was some chatter between Peyton Manning and Tom Brady regarding people that Peyton would like to use as his caddy, from Nick Foles to Bill Belichick. So we used that as the inspiration for Tuesday’s PFT Live draft: Which NFL personality would you like to caddy for? (Or, if we’re being grammatically […]

Minkah Fitzpatrick already has proved well worth the price the Steelers paid in a trade with the Dolphins. The safety made 57 tackles, five interceptions, a forced fumble, two fumble recoveries and earned All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors. Maurkice Pouncey in 2011 and Le’Veon Bell in 2014 were the only other Steelers players to earn […]

Darius Slay and Damon Harrison didn’t hold back on their way out of Detroit. Both expressed relief at getting out of town and took swipes at head coach Matt Patricia and the Lion Way. Lions defensive end Trey Flowers, who is entering his second season in Detroit, downplayed their criticisms. “That’s just how business goes,” […]

Ahmaud Arbery, the Georgia man who was shot and killed while jogging near his home in February, is the cousin of Lions defensive back Tracy Walker. “That’s crazy they killed my cousin in cold blood like this,” Walker wrote on Twitter. Walker described Arbery as “a person full of laughter and joy,” in an interview […]

The Lions are trying to turn Jamal Agnew into a full-time receiver. Peter King broke the news in his weekly Football Morning in America column Monday after the Lions allowed him access to a virtual receivers meeting. Agnew was on the video call. Agnew has played 30 offensive snaps in his career, mostly as a […]

The slow time was made for lists. And for the second straight PFT Live slow time we’ve begun to unveil a list that will get some people riled up. It’s the Chris Simms top 40 quarterback countdown, and we’ll be counting them down to No. 1 through the start of our annual hiatus. We got […]

The 49ers and Seahawks aren’t set to face each other in a Sunday night game this season, but they’ll both be making multiple appearances at home early in the season. Both NFC West teams are scheduled to host Sunday Night Football games twice in the first six weeks of the regular season. The Seahawks will […]

Live sports eventually will be back. Until live sports return on a given Saturday night, how about some Saturday Night Live featuring men who play sports? It’s SNL week on NBCSN, and it gets started at 7:00 p.m. ET on Monday with four classic episodes featuring NFL players. The evening begins with Tom Brady hosting […]

ESPN keeps asking Peyton Manning to become its lead analyst on Monday Night Football. He keeps saying no. The future Hall of Famer hasn’t ruled out becoming an announcer in the future, though. Manning joined The Rich Eisen Show on Tuesday and said announcing is “not in the cards for me right now, but I […]