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Green Bay will be playing host to the NFL Draft this year and the event will cause a change in the home team’s schedule. Packers head coach Matt LaFleur told reporters on Tuesday that the team will not be holding in-person workouts during the first week of the offseason program

The second year of the UFL did not get off to a great start, in comparison to its first year. Mike Mitchell has the TV numbers for the four games. Friday night’s opener between the St. Louis Battlehawks and the Houston Roughnecks averaged 690,000 viewers on Fox. Last year’s opener,

Free agent defensive lineman Calais Campbell is returning to Arizona. The Cardinals and Campbell have agreed to a one-year contract, the team announced today. The Cardinals took Campbell out of Miami in the second round of the 2008 NFL draft, and he played the first nine seasons of his career

Todd Bowles has won three division titles in three years at the Buccaneers head coach, but the path to the last two of them hasn’t been as smooth as he would have liked. The Buccaneers opened well each season, but found themselves at 4-7 in 2023 and 4-6 last season

Giants head coach Brian Daboll doesn’t know who will be calling offensive plays for the team yet, but he does know who those play calls will be tailored for in the fall. Russell Wilson is now the No. 1 quarterback for the Giants and Daboll said at the league meetings

Edge rusher Calais Campbell is one of the few free agents remaining among PFT’s top-100 free agents. He is 84th on the list. It is not for a lack of interest. Campbell, who turns 39 on Sept. 1, has offers from the Dolphins and Ravens, Barry Jackson of the Miami

The Titans have brought back one of their key special teams players. Tennessee announced on Tuesday that the club has re-signed defensive back Justin Hardee. Hardee, 31, joined the Titans last October as a practice squad player but was signed to the 53-man roster soon after. He appeared in nine

Statistics from the All-America Football Conference, a pro football league that existed from 1946 to 1949 until some of its teams were folded into the NFL, will count toward the NFL’s official records. League owners voted today to approve a proposal that would make AAFC statistics an official part of

Mike Macdonald has experienced coaching against receiver Cooper Kupp, so he has an appreciation for what the receiver can do in Seattle’s revamped offense for 2025. Kupp, 31, was released by the Rams at the start of the new league year last month. He ended up with the Seahawks on

It was a moderate surprise on Tuesday when word came down that the league had tabled — instead of rejected — Detroit’s proposal to change the postseason seeding format. The exact wording of the Lions’ proposal was, “to amend the current playoff seeding format to allow Wild Card teams to

The dynamic kickoff is here to stay, though there will be tweaks to it for the 2025 season. The proposal that passed at the annual league meeting on Tuesday moves a touchback from the 30 to the 35-yard line. It also will change the alignment for players lining up in

This memo was distributed by the league after voting by the 32 teams at today’s meeting: NFL clubs adopted the following rules change proposals, bylaws and resolutions today at the NFL Annual Meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. 2025 Approved Playing Rules Summary 1-A. By Competition Committee; amends Rule 6, to

Steelers owner Art Rooney II sounds confident that Aaron Rodgers will sign with his team soon. “We keep hearing that he’s, I guess, headed in our direction, and so that seems to be all signs are positive so far,” Rooney said, via Brooke Pryor of ESPN. Rooney acknowledged, however, that

The Steelers’ proposal to allow for communication between impending free agents and interested teams during the two-day negotiating period before the start of free agency has passed. It marks a significant change to the free agency process. The two days before the start of a new league year in March

The 49ers might or might not have a contract completed with Brock Purdy by the time the offseason program begins later this month. If they don’t, there’s a chance the quarterback won’t participate in the voluntary offseason program. Some players do during ongoing negotiations. Some players don’t. Coach Kyle Shanahan

The tush push has not been banned. At least not yet. The 32 teams decided not to take a vote today at the league meeting on a proposal brought forward by the Packers that would have outlawed pushing the quarterback immediately after he takes the snap on quarterback sneaks. Although

The Panthers traded with the Steelers for wide receiver Diontae Johnson a year ago to be their No. 1 wide receiver. They inquired about wideout DK Metcalf before the Seahawks traded him to the Steelers. No matter, Panthers coach Dave Canales said he believes Xavier Legette is “that guy.” “I

The Eagles have parted ways with a number of players since winning the Super Bowl and one key part of the offense’s future is still unsettled. Tight end Dallas Goedert is heading into the final year of his contract and that’s led to some chatter about a possible trade. General

The Falcons do not expect Kirk Cousins at their offseason program. “I’m not going to be foolish to think that he’s going to show up for voluntary work right now,” Falcons coach Raheem Morris said Tuesday from the NFL owners meetings in Palm Beach. “We’re dealing with a business-type mode

Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni went from sitting on a hot seat last year to sitting on the throne this year and the timing of that change was well timed from a contractual perspective. Sirianni is headed into the final year of the deal he signed when he was hired

The Giants re-signed linebacker Ty Summers, the team announced. Summers, 29, is a core special teams player, having played 272 special teams snaps and 112 on defense in 16 games last season. He totaled 29 tackles and one pass defensed. Summers entered the league as a seventh-round choice of the

The Eagles made the Super Bowl with safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson in the lineup in 2022 and they won it after bringing him back in 2024, but those results didn’t stop the team from trading Gardner-Johnson to the Texans this month. General Manager Howie Roseman had his first chance to discuss

Patriots executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf said recently that the team will not be drafting for need with the No. 4 pick in April, but there’s not much question about what their biggest need is at this point in the calendar. The Patriots filled a number of

Colts General Manager Chris Ballard says he doesn’t want to change the rules around the tush push just because one team does it better than everyone else. Ballard said on PFT Live at the league meeting that teams are always trying to find ways to improve the quarterback sneak, but

When Lions General Manager Brad Holmes got the job in Detroit, he quickly got to work on one of the biggest trades in NFL history: Sending Matthew Stafford to Los Angeles for Jared Goff and two first-round draft picks. A year later, when Stafford won the Super Bowl with the

More than a month ago, the Rams and quarterback Matthew Stafford struck a deal on a new contract for 2025. The contract has not yet been signed. “We sent it to [agent] Jimmy Sexton this week and so I think it’s just semantics,” coach Sean McVay told PFT Live on

The NFL will play seven international games in 2025 — that number is set in stone. But as the game continues to grow globally, there could be more international games in 2026. NFL executive vice president, club business, international & league events Peter O’Reilly explained on Monday that the league

Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell said on Friday that taking the opportunity to talk to Aaron Rodgers in recent weeks was not a sign of doubt about J.J. McCarthy’s ability to handle the team’s quarterback job. O’Connell said that “two things can be true at the same time” while speaking

The Steelers may or may not have Aaron Rodgers as their starting quarterback in 2025. They continue to wait for the four-time MVP to make a decision on his future with no deadline in place. Mason Rudolph and Skylar Thompson the only quarterbacks on the roster currently. Steelers General Manager

Punter Brad Robbins is back in the NFL. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Robbins has agreed to terms with the Bills. The 2023 sixth-round pick has been out of the NFL since being released by the Bengals last October. Robbins averaged 44.3 yards per punt during his rookie