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Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell is the winner of the 2025 Horrigan Award, the Pro Football Writers of America announced Friday. The Horrigan Award is given to the league or club official for his or her qualities and professional style in helping the pro football writers do their job. O’Connell was

After winning AP offensive rookie of the year in 2023, Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud didn’t have as much success in his second season. While Houston still won the AFC South and won a postseason game, Stroud’s yards per game went down from 273.9 in his first season to 219.2. He

The Steelers announced a change to their roster on Friday afternoon. They have waived defensive end Blake Mangelson. Mangelson signed with the team as an undrafted free agent. Mangelson had 82 tackles, 12 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, an interception, and a fumble recovery in 41 games at BYU. The

The Steelers have wrapped up their first week of organized team activities and the sessions took place without any resolution regarding Aaron Rodgers’s plans for the 2025 season. Rodgers has not sent any signal about his plans and the Steelers have not set any deadline for a call to be

Scott Hanson, the longtime host of NFL’s RedZone Channel, has confirmed that he will be back in 2025. Hanson, whose old contract with NFL Media expired after the 2024 season, announced today that he has agreed to return this year. In a social media post noting that the first Sunday

The Lions won 15 games in 2024 and a repeat in 2025 will take navigating a schedule that is one of the hardest in the league in paper. Only the Giants have a schedule of opponents with a higher 2024 winning percentage than the one Detroit will play this fall.

By settling the concussion class action in 2013, the NFL avoided public disclosure of what it knew and when it knew it about the long-term health risks of head trauma. Thirteen years later, it may still happen. Via Daniel Kaplan, the longstanding fight between the NFL and its insurance companies

San Francisco is going to add some help at edge rusher, but it will take another couple of days. Per Adam Schefter of ESPN, the 49ers are finalizing a deal with the Eagles to acquire Bryce Huff in exchange for a Day 3 draft pick. The trade will not be

The Giants have their second 2025 first-round pick under contract. New York announced on Friday that quarterback Jaxson Dart has signed his rookie deal. According to multiple reports, Dart’s four-year contract is worth $16.954 million with a signing bonus of $8.97 million. While Dart was the No. 25 pick of

The Bills announced a number of changes to their personnel department on Friday, including a new title for Terrance Gray. Gray has been promoted to assistant General Manager. Gray spent the last three seasons as the team’s director of player personnel and has landed G.M. interviews around the league in

After helping lead the 49ers to Super Bowl LVIII in 2023, Christian McCaffrey’s 2024 season was marred by injury. McCaffrey dealt with bilateral Achilles tendinitis well into the regular season. Then in his fourth game of the year, he suffered a PCL injury that sidelined him for the rest of

The 49ers are practicing without Ricky Pearsall right now because of a hamstring injury and they’re also waiting for another member of the wide receiving corps to get back to full health. Brandon Aiyuk tore his ACL and MCL in Week Seven of last season and General Manager John Lynch

The Lions are set for joint practices ahead of two of this summer’s preseason games. Head coach Dan Campbell said on Friday that the team plans to have two days of joint practices with the Dolphins before a home game on August 16. They’ll then welcome the Texans for a

In Super Bowl LIX, Kellen Moore was the offensive coordinator for the winning team, and Justin Reid played safety for the losing team. After the game, Moore was hired as head coach of the Saints, and a month later, Reid signed a free agent contract with the Saints. And Reid

Ravens tight end Isaiah Likely is entering the final year of his rookie deal, recently noting that he’s focused on making plays happen rather than his contract. But if his head coach’s vision comes to fruition, Likely will be in line for a big payday moving forward. “I want to

First, it was coach Kevin O’Connell. Now, Vikings G.M. Kwesi Adofo-Mensah has received his reward for three solid seasons on the job. NFL Media reports that the Vikings have signed Adofo-Mensah to a “multiyear contract extension.” That tells us the bare minimum. It’s at least two years on top of

49ers quarterback Brock Purdy has a new contract, but the team isn’t looking for anything new from him as a result. That was the message from head coach Kyle Shanahan during a Thursday press conference. Purdy’s contract confirms that the 49ers see him as the centerpiece of their franchise and

The Ravens have had a few weeks to see how wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins fits in their offense and they aren’t having any buyer’s remorse. Hopkins signed with the Ravens after a quiet playoff run for the Chiefs capped a season that fell short of his earlier heights whether he

Bo Nix completed two-thirds of his passes and threw 29 touchdowns while leading the Broncos to the playoffs during his rookie season, but he isn’t entering his second season with the belief that he’s figured it all out. Nix said on Thursday that he feels “like I’m a lot further”

San Francisco head coach Kyle Shanahan attributes some of his team’s struggles last season to coming off a loss in the Super Bowl. Which means that explanation won’t fly this year. Shanahan said that a year ago, his players were worn down from a full postseason that ended with a

Plenty of people are watching to see if and when Aaron Rodgers decides to sign with the Steelers, but it doesn’t sound like tight end Pat Freiermuth is spending much time thinking about the prospect. Freiermuth is the team’s leading returning receiver from the 2024 season, so one might imagine

Amid talk that Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce could be playing his last NFL season in 2025, Patrick Mahomes says it hasn’t looked that way during the team’s offseason work. Mahomes was asked about Kelce potentially retiring after this season and said that Kelce seems like he’s enthusiastic about continuing

Each of the NFL’s five main TV partners will have a nationally televised game in the preseason, and today the NFL announced the schedule for those games. The 2025 NFL preseason kicks off on NBC with the Hall of Fame Game, with the Chargers facing the Lions in Canton, Ohio,

The Bengals and defensive end Trey Hendrickson continue their impasse. The organization’s leverage comes from the fact that it doesn’t care if Hendrickson shows up. The player’s case is boosted by public support from key players like quarterback Joe Burrow and receiver Ja’Marr Chase. Still, the two sides don’t see

While the Browns did not have much team success in 2024, receiver Jerry Jeudy had his best season as a pro, catching 90 passes for 1,229 yards with four touchdowns. He’d like to build on that in 2025, but first, Cleveland has to get its quarterback position settled. As the

The Seahawks announced a pair of roster moves on Thursday. They have signed undrafted rookie defensive tackle Anthony Campbell. Defensive tackle DeMeco Roland, who also went undrafted this year, was waived in a corresponding move. Campbell played at Miami for the last two years and appeared in nine games. He

The Dolphins have had trade discussions with the Steelers about tight end Jonnu Smith, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports. Per Schefter, talks started after Smith expressed an interest in reworking his deal, which is scheduled to pay him $4.8 million this season. Smith is set to become a free agent

In what may be the last year of his career, Calais Campbell has signed with the Cardinals, the team that drafted him in 2008. Campbell will turn 39 before the season starts and is the oldest defensive lineman in the NFL, and he recognizes that he was brought in to