Month: April 2025

Cornerback Will Johnson was finally able to do some drills for NFL teams at a workout earlier this week and the former Michigan star is wrapping up the pre-draft visit period in Seattle. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Johnson is at the Seahawks facility to meet with the

Wade Phillips, a three-time former NFL head coach, has taken a leave of absence from his current position as head coach of the UFL’s San Antonio Brahmas. The UFL announced on Wednesday that Phillips will step aside for personal reasons. Offensive coordinator Payton Pardee will serve as the interim head

The Nico Iamaleava saga has become one of the biggest stories in all of football. It’s widely regarded as a disaster for the player. One former college coach, who had a disastrous season in the NFL, has chimed in on the subject. “Here’s the reality,” former Jaguars coach Urban Meyer

The District of Columbia has secured the ability to build a football facility at the site of RFK Stadium. Now, they have to come up with a way to build it. That will likely be the much harder aspect of the broader project, given the current appetite among taxpayers for

The Texans have a need on their offensive line, and they’re visiting today with a player who could make sense as their first-round draft pick. Ohio State offensive lineman Donovan Jackson is visiting Houston today, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. Jackson could play either guard or tackle in

The Giants have scheduled private workouts with several quarterbacks in the final days before the draft, but General Manager Joe Schoen said on Wednesday that those sessions are not a sign that they feel pressure to add one to the roster. Schoen said at his pre-draft press conference that the

The Cardinals are squeezing in a visit with one of the top offensive tackles in this year’s draft class before the window for prospects to come to team facilities closes on Wednesday. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Kelvin Banks is meeting with the Cardinals. Arizona has the 16th

The Broncos have a CFP national champion in their building on Wednesday. Per Mike Klis of 9NEWS Denver, Ohio State’s TreVeyon Henderson is on a pre-draft visit with the club. Henderson, 22, was one of two Buckeyes who rushed for over 1,000 yards in 2024, as Ohio State won the

One of the biggest stories as the 2025 draft approaches relates to the plans for Travis Hunter after he’s drafted. He clearly wants to try to play both ways on a full-time basis. Will the team that picks him let him do it? Hopefully, they’ll let him try. It’s far

Quarterback Logan Woodside is back with the Bengals. The Bengals announced Woodside’s signing on Wednesday morning. No terms of the deal were announced. Woodside was a 2018 seventh-round pick in Cincinnati, but was cut at the end of the summer. He played in the AAF before making his NFL regular

Running back Nick Chubb has not drawn much public interest since becoming a free agent in March, but he’s working to remind everyone that he’s available. Chubb is also making it clear that he feels like he has a lot left to offer a team. Chubb made a post to

Veteran cornerback James Bradberry is in Buffalo on Wednesday. Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that Bradberry is paying a visit to the Bills facility as he looks for a place to play in 2025. Bradberry was released by the Eagles earlier this year. Bradberry missed the entire 2024 season after

The Dolphins are working to trade Jalen Ramsey and shipping the veteran out would increase the responsibilities of the rest of the cornerback corps in Miami. Cam Smith is part of that group and the 2023 second-round pick has not lived up to expectations to this point in his NFL

When Ravens head coach John Harbaugh spoke to reporters at the league meetings, he said a contract extension for running back Derrick Henry was definitely in the offseason conversation and the topic came up again in Baltimore on Tuesday. Henry signed a two-year deal in 2024 that is set to

The Jaguars have the chance to add a talented player with the fifth overall pick in this year’s draft, but their selection will be about more than just upgrading the roster as they head into the 2025 season. It will be the first pick and most significant move that the

Missouri offensive tackle Armand Membou is heading to the Jets with the No. 7 overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft, if the betting odds are to be believed. Membou is a -115 favorite to go with the seventh pick at DraftKings. The Jets own that pick, although they could

Panthers General Manager Dan Morgan has decisions to make about what players to add in next week’s draft and he also has to make a call about one of the team’s past first-round selections. Morgan and the Panthers have until May 1 to decide about exercising their option on left

When quarterback Derek Carr suffered a late-season hand injury, the Saints potentially were backed into a contractual corner. It ultimately may have been his shoulder, not his hand, that limited the team’s options. Of his $40 million compensation package for 2025, Carr had $10 million fully guaranteed. Another $30 million

We learned late last week that Saints quarterback Derek Carr has a shoulder injury that could require surgery and that revelation led to increased speculation that the team will take former Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders with the ninth overall pick. It also increased chatter that another team with interest in

The Giants are continuing to do their homework on quarterbacks in next week’s draft. Per Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, New York will hold a private workout with Alabama’s Jalen Milroe this week. This comes after word emerged that the club would also work out Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders. New York

General Manager Chris Grier confirmed that the Dolphins are looking to trade defensive back Jalen Ramsey in his pre-draft press conference on Tuesday afternoon. Grier noted that while Ramsey did not request a trade, nor did he want a contract adjustment, the team and player eventually agreed that a trade

The Dolphins are looking at trade options involving cornerback Jalen Ramsey, but they are not doing the same with wide receiver Tyreek Hill. Hill’s future with the Dolphins became a talking point due to Hill’s comments at the end of the 2024 season, but the wideout reversed course to say

Late last month at the annual league meeting, Ravens head coach John Harbaugh told reporters that he fully expects tight end Mark Andrews to be a part of the team in 2025. Andrews, 29, is entering the last year of his contract. He’s set to be paid $7 million in

Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni was asked at the league meetings about tight end Dallas Goedert’s future with the team and said that you “want to be able to have back as many guys as you possibly can, but that’s not the reality of the NFL.” Moving on without Goedert

Do-it-all superstar Travis Hunter knows he’s at the mercy of the NFL’s sorting hat. But he’s not completely powerless when it comes to the question of whether he’ll get his wish to be the NFL’s first true full-time, two-way player in decades. If the team that drafts him won’t let

On Monday, the NFL announced 17 prospects who are attending the draft in Green Bay. On Tuesday, the number went to 18. Kentucky cornerback Maxwell Hairston has accepted an invite to attend in person, Dane Brugler of TheAthletic.com reports. Hairston is projected as a first-round pick. His top-30 visits included

Don’t make a power play if you don’t have the power. That’s the lesson former Tennessee quarterback (and current man without a college football country) Nico Iamaleava has learned in recent days. He had a $2.4 million NIL bird in the hand in Knoxville. His effort to beat the bushes

Word in February was that there were “strong indications” that cornerback Jaire Alexander would be moving on from the Packers before the 2025 season, but Alexander remains on the Green Bay roster a little over a week before the start of the draft. Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

When the Cowboys last won a Super Bowl, moving their all-time total to five, the Eagles had been to only one — a loss in Super Bowl XV. Since then, the Eagles have three Super Bowl appearances and two wins. The Cowboys haven’t even been back to an NFC Championship.

The Patriots traded third-string quarterback Joe Milton III before the offseason program began. The timing was not a coincidence. Milton reportedly viewed himself as starter, as good or better than 2024 first-round pick Drake Maye, and the Patriots weren’t going to give him a shot at the job. The Patriots