Month: April 2025

The Bills recently signed cornerback Christian Benford to a four-year extension. As always, the truth of the deal comes a few days later. As to Benford, the full details have arrived. Here they are, per a source with knowledge of the terms. 1. Signing bonus: $7.5 million. 2. 2025 base

John Vella, an offensive lineman who started for the Oakland Raiders when they won Super Bowl XI, has died at the age of 74. “The Raiders Family mourns the passing of John Vella, a standout on the dominant Raider offensive lines of the 1970s and a starter on Oakland’s Super

We’re still several months away from training camp, but the Browns have started making some summer plans. Head coach Kevin Stefanski revealed at this week’s league meetings that the team has scheduled joint practices with a pair of teams for August. They will practice with the Eagles and Panthers during

The Ravens say the status of kicker Justin Tucker won’t change until the NFL’s investigation into alleged violations of the league’s personal conduct policy is completed. The NFL says there’s no update on the status of that investigation. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was asked about Tucker’s case at the league

The Bengals have signed wide receivers Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins to contract extensions this offseason, but they have not signed defensive end Trey Hendrickson to a new deal and comments from executive vice president Katie Blackburn this week didn’t do much to suggest that an agreement is imminent. It’s

The arguments have been made. The goalposts have moved. The question is whether the ongoing effort to get rid of the tush push is good for the game. It’s not. And the entire effort is a bad look for the sport. Yes, some want to get rid of it. And

Quarterback Quinn Ewers has lined up another pre-draft visit. John Hendrix of Athlon Sports reports that Ewers will visit the Saints. Last week brought word of visits with the Colts, Raiders, and Cowboys. Ewers’s visit with the Saints is expected to take place in mid-April. Saints head coach Kellen Moore

The Eagles will be visiting the White House later this month. Whether all of the Eagles will be visiting the White House remains to be seen. On Tuesday, owner Jeffrey Lurie emphasized that each player must decide whether he wants to go. “Our culture is that these are optional things,”

The NFL will be playing a Week One game in Brazil again this year and it looks like the AFC champions are likely to be involved in it. TheAthletic.com reports that the Chiefs are the favorite to be selected as the designated road team for the September 5 game in

The Falcons are waiting for an opportunity to trade quarterback Kirk Cousins. Cousins is waiting until after the draft to decide whether he’ll waive his no-trade clause. In four weeks, we’ll all know whether one or more teams will still be looking for a starting quarterback. At this point, however,

History has a way of repeating itself. Especially when it comes to the team with a 30-year history of not competing for a Super Bowl win. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones expressed on Tuesday a desire to negotiate a new Micah Parsons contract directly with the player, without dealing with his

Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren didn’t need long to be sure that Ben Johnson was the team’s first choice as head coach. Warren said on PFT Live at the league meeting that very shortly into the Bears’ interview with Johnson, it was easy to see that he had the

Bears head coach Ben Johnson built one of the league’s best offenses during his time as the Lions’ offensive coordinator and he will be trying to do something similar in Chicago this year. During his media session from the league meetings in Palm Beach on Tuesday, Johnson touched on one

Whenever someone asks about the longtime hammerlock Rich McKay has had on the Competition Committee, the answer is simple. McKay, as the belief goes in league circles, continues to chair the Committee because the Commissioner wants him to. And, as the belief also goes, the Commissioner wants McKay in that

The Patriots have received multiple trade inquires about quarterback Joe Milton III, Karen Guregian and Mark Daniels of masslive.com report. The Patriots drafted Drake Maye with the third overall pick a year ago and signed veteran Joshua Dobbs to a two-year, $8 million deal to back him up this season.

Defensive tackle Mason Graham is set for meetings with a couple of teams drafting in the top 10 later this month. Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that Graham is scheduled to visit with the Patriots and Saints over the next few days. The Patriots have the fourth overall pick in

The Bengals remain at an impasse with defensive end Trey Hendrickson and executive vice president Katie Blackburn said on Tuesday that she’d “be lying if I said I knew exactly what’s going to happen” with the player. Hendrickson is looking for a new contract and the Bengals allowed him to

The NFL’s march toward an 18-game season is continuing, even if it was not front and center at this week’s league meeting. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said shifting the schedule to 18 regular-season games and two preseason games was “not a focus” of the league meeting. But Goodell added that

The answer to one big question about wide receiver Chris Godwin’s offseason came last month when the Buccaneers re-signed him to a three-year contract ahead of free agency. Bucs head coach Todd Bowles touched on the other big question during his media session at the league meetings on Tuesday. Godwin

In wide receiver Cooper Kupp’s first press conference after signing with the Seahawks, he said it was “difficult” to leave the Rams and felt there was “not a ton of clarity” from his former team about their decision to move on without him. Rams head coach Sean McVay responded to

The Patriots ranked 31st in the NFL in the NFL Players Association’s report card, with players surveyed criticizing the team for an outdated weight room, locker room and team plane, among other issues. Patriots owner Robert Kraft acknowledged his team needs to be better on that front. Kraft said he’s

This one comes as no surprise to those who pay attention to the way the NFL operates. With Christmas landing on a Thursday in 2025, the NFL will resume its three-window takeover of the day. The inevitability was made official on Tuesday. As expected, Netflix will stream the first two

After making it to the postseason in 2023 for the second time in four years, the Browns were just 3-14 in 2024. But team owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam elected to stay the course with General Manager Andrew Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski this offseason. And from their comments

The Giants have a decision to make about what to do with the third overall pick in the draft, but that’s not the only unsettled piece of business around the team. There’s also the question of who will be calling the team’s offensive plays during the 2025 season. Head coach

The league has tabled the Lions’ proposal to determine playoff seeding solely by record, according to multiple reports. That the measure was tabled and not voted on suggests that it has some significant support around the league — even if it does not have enough votes to pass for now.

49ers General Manager John Lynch said at the end of the 2024 season that the team still had a lot of faith in kicker Jake Moody, but they aren’t going to just hand him the job for the 2025 season. While speaking to reporters at the league meetings in Palm