Month: May 2025

Super Bowl XLIII MVP Santonio Holmes is back in football, more than a decade after his NFL career ended. Holmes is the new receivers coach at Central State University in Ohio. A first-round pick from Ohio State in 2006, Holmes capped his third NFL season with a game-winning catch in

Bengals offensive guard Cordell Volson had his contract restructured, according to the team’s official transaction page. Ben Baby of ESPN reports that Volson will see his base salary reduced but will get more guaranteed money for 2025 and an opportunity to earn more cash with incentives. Volson received a steep

Linebacker Fred Warner’s new three-year deal with the 49ers is now official. The 49ers formally announced the agreement on Thursday afternoon. Warner is a four-time first-team All-Pro and he’s made the team the last three seasons while starting all 115 games he’s played since the 49ers drafted him in the

The presidential college sports commission is gone. There was one? There wasn’t, but there was going to be. Now, it’s not happening. Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports, citing unnamed Congressional sources, reports that the White House is “pressing pause” on the planned commission. Dellenger explains that the move is possibly

CeeDee Lamb initially injured his right shoulder in a Week 9 game against the Falcons. The Cowboys wide receiver played through the pain, even after aggravating it in the Thanksgiving Day game against the Giants and before doing it again against the Bucs in Week 16 to end his season.

Thursday’s NFL transaction wire has delivered some news on a Cardinals defensive back. Arizona has placed cornerback Sean Murphy-Bunting on the reserve/non-football injury list, which means he’ll be sidelined for the 2025 season. There has not been any reporting as of yet on Murphy-Bunting’s injury or how he suffered it.

A day after the NFL abandoned the possibility of taking away guaranteed high seeds for division winners, college football took away guaranteed high seeds for conference champions. Via multiple reports, the College Football Playoff will use a straight seeding model in 2025. The decision was the result of a unanimous

Joe Thuney hasn’t been with the Bears for very long. But the versatile offensive lineman nevertheless agreed to an extension with Chicago, putting him under contract with Chicago through 2027. The four-time Super Bowl champion said this week that he “couldn’t be happier” than to be with the Bears. “As

The Giants signed first-round edge rusher Abdul Carter to a four-year, $45.3 million fully guaranteed contract. But to get it done, they needed to make room. The team had less than $2 million in cap space before restructuring Brian Burns’ contract. Field Yates of ESPN reports that the Giants converted

The Saints took an offensive tackle in the first round of the draft for the third time in the last four years when they selected Kelvin Banks with the ninth overall pick in April, so someone is going to be shifting positions in order for all three players to get

The Giants have their top draft pick in the fold. Giants pass rusher Abdul Carter, the third overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft, has signed his rookie contract, his agents told reporters. It’s a four-year, $45.255 million contract, as determined by the NFL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement with the players’

Steelers owner Art Rooney II said at the start of April that the team would not wait forever for Aaron Rodgers to sign and he had a chance to address where things stand with the still unsigned quarterback at the end of this week’s league meetings. Rooney said late last

While it seemed at times that receiver Tyreek Hill could be headed elsewhere in 2025, it now appears he will be with the club in the coming season. Hill is still recovering from offseason wrist surgery. But he has been present and engaged during the team’s offseason program, a couple

Lions defensive end Aidan Hutchinson said something during his Thursday press conference that should create a lot of smiles around the Detroit area. Hutchinson has been recovering from last year’s broken tibia and fibula for some time and there have been plenty of good reports on his progress, including a

Eagles fans are in a mood to celebrate after the attempt to ban the tush push failed, and the team is capitalizing with a sale of new marchandise. The top item at the Eagles’ Pro Shop today is a T-shirt with an image of quarterback Jalen Hurts prepared to take

The true and accurate details of the new Brock Purdy deal have been revealed. One detail that came to light in the aftermath of the announcement of the contract was the fact that Purdy has a no-trade clause. During the press conference announcing the contract, Purdy was asked whether it

As a member of a four-win Jacksonville team, receiver Brian Thomas Jr. quietly had a very strong rookie season in 2024. He led all first-year players with 1,282 receiving yards and 10 receiving touchdowns, ending up as a Pro Bowler and No. 4 in offensive rookie of the year voting.

The Dolphins have not traded cornerback Jalen Ramsey yet, but they aren’t letting that stop them from talking about him in the past tense. Defensive coordinator Anthony Weaver said on Wednesday that Ramsey “played very good ball for us” and that he’s not expecting any “sympathy cards” from others regarding

Colts owner Jim Irsay died on Wednesday at 65. He was many things — authentic, unique, and passionate about the game and his team. He was flawed (aren’t we all?), but he owned it. And he found ways to use his own challenges to help others fighting the same or

Colts coach Shane Steichen and Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon parlayed the Eagles’ tush-push-fueled Super Bowl run into their current gigs. Their teams nevertheless voted in favor of banning the play. Indianapolis and Arizona were among the 22 teams that voted to prohibit all pushing of the runner. Steichen previously was

There has been a development in New Orleans’ quarterback competition. Jake Haener is likely to be sidelined for the rest of the offseason program by an oblique strain, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Part of the three-way competition that also includes Spencer Rattler and rookie Tyler Shough, Haener suffered the

49ers quarterback Brock Purdy saw “a lot of changes and turnover” around the team early in the offseason, but his desire to sign a contract extension never wavered. Purdy’s push paid off this week with a five-year contract extension that will pay him an average of $45 million a season

Wide receiver Garrett Wilson is in the market for a contract extension and head coach Aaron Glenn’s plans for the wideout are unlikely to have him scaling back his demands at the negotiating table. Glenn said on Wednesday that the lesson he’s learned about Wilson since being hired in January

Cornerback Kaiir Elam is hoping his second NFL stop proves to be better than his first and he’s already noticed one big difference with the Cowboys. Elam was a Bills first-round pick in 2022 and Buffalo traded him to the Cowboys this offseason after three seasons that fell short of

It’s fitting, we suppose, that the debate regarding an awkwardly-named play included an awkwardly-worded comment. And the Eagles tell PFT they have no comment at all on the thing owner Jeffrey Lurie said while addressing the room in support of keeping the “tush push” in the rule book. Seth Wickersham

This week, ESPN’s Around The Horn goes dark, after more than 22 years. The move has been coming for months, and ESPN will be filling the time slot with, well, something. Andrew Marchand of TheAthletic.com reports that, before Shannon Sharpe took a hiatus after being sued for sexual assault and

There’s a new award coming to the NFL. NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent announced at the league meetings on Wednesday that the league will introduce the Protector of the Year Award this year. The award will be given to the player chosen as the league’s top