Category : Red Zone Rumors

The Rams have Matthew Stafford back for this season. Stafford, now 37, is year-to-year. The Rams don’t have a heir apparent on the roster. But they do have two first-round picks for 2026, having acquired the Falcons’ top selection for next year. That gives them ammunition to trade up for

The Cowboys have signed seven of their nine draft picks, the team announced Friday. Offensive guard Tyler Booker, the 12th overall pick, became the first-round selection to agree to his rookie deal. He will receive a four-year, $22.5 million deal with $13 million guaranteed. “We were both on the same

The Packers have most of their draft class under contract. Six of the team’s eight draft picks signed with the team at the start of rookie minicamp on Friday. That group includes third-round wideout Savion Williams, who joined first-rounder Matthew Golden as new additions to the receiving corps. Williams may

The criminal case against former Ravens and Michigan assistant Matt Weiss is moving toward a November 2025 trial. The victims of his alleged hacking of thousands of accounts of female athletes know little or nothing about what he saw. “I feel like we are kind of being held in the

The Seahawks will have 17 undrafted rookies on their roster for this weekend’s rookie minicamp. Eleven of the new additions are on the defensive side, which helps balance things out after the Seahawks used nine of their 11 draft picks on offensive players. The defensive signings are LSU cornerback Zy

Running back Ashton Jeanty wore No. 2 while putting up huge numbers at Boise State and he’ll be wearing the same number while trying to do the same thing for the Raiders. The Raiders announced the jersey numbers for all of this year’s draft picks on Friday and Jeanty will

The Eagles drafted cornerback Quinyon Mitchell in the first round of the 2024 draft and they announced the signing of one of his former college teammates on Friday. Defensive back Maxen Hook was one of nine undrafted rookies to sign with the team. He made three All-MAC teams at Toledo

Cowboys first-round draft pick Tyler Booker has his rookie contract done. Booker and the Cowboys have agreed to the deal today, according to Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports. It’s a four-year, $22.52 million guaranteed contract, and Booker gets a little over $13 million of that as a signing bonus. The

Before trading out of the first round of the 2025 NFL draft, the Texans tried to trade up. Texans General Manager Nick Caserio said the Texans were initially attempting to move up in the first round, but when they couldn’t find a team in the top half of the first

The Eagles have signed three more 2025 draft picks as their rookie minicamp begins this weekend. Philadelphia announced quarterback Kyle McCord, offensive tackle Myles Hinton, and outside linebacker Antwuan Powell-Ryland put pen to paper on Friday. The club also announced linebacker Smael Mondon has signed his rookie deal, which was

The 2025 draft has reintroduced millions to the lost art of the prank phone call. The Jerky Boys did it. Bart Simpson has been doing it since 1989. It was one of the funniest moments in what had to have been one of Jerry Jones’s favorite ‘80s movies, Porky’s. Growing

The list of lawsuits recently filed against former NFL players continues to grow. Former Panthers and Ravens receiver Steve Smith Sr. has been sued in North Carolina under a “homewrecker” law. As explained by Julia Coin of the Charlotte Observer, Smith is accused of having an extended affair with a

The Patriots hired Mike Vrabel to be their head coach in January, giving the club one of the best candidates on the open market. So far, second-year quarterback Drake Maye has liked what Vrabel has brought to the position. “It’s been awesome. It’s been great with coach [Vrabel]. He’s come

The Browns made the highly unusual decision to draft two quarterbacks in the 2025 NFL draft, making Dillon Gabriel the fifth quarterback off the board at pick No. 94, and Shedeur Sanders the sixth quarterback off the board 50 picks later. That wasn’t what they expected to do heading into

Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers won’t be playing with quarterback Shedeur Sanders, but his comments about the rookie may lead some to revisit his team’s decision to pass on Sanders in the future. Sanders wound up going to the Browns in the fifth round and Nabers said on the 7AM

The Eagles lost a few key pieces from their Super Bowl team in March, but they held onto linebacker Zack Baun and have a lot more of their stars returning to the team than leaving when all is said and done. That will lead to a lot of talk about

When the Buccaneers signed former Florida defensive tackle Desmond Watson as an undrafted rookie, the 464-pounder immediately became the heaviest player in NFL history. But Watson says he has already lost weight and might not be the heaviest player in the league if he makes the Bucs’ roster. Watson said

Texas led all states in producing players for the 2025 NFL draft. Of the 257 players drafted last week, 37 of theme played their high school football in Texas, the most of any state. That included No. 1 overall pick Cam Ward and five other first-round picks. Texas was followed

Last year, the NFL gave Aaron Rodgers and the Jets a slew of early-season prime-time and short-week games because, as NFL V.P. of broadcast planning Mike North candidly admitted, “I feel like the Jets kind of owe us one.” This year, Rodgers has yet to sign with the Steelers. If

Drake Maye had an up-and-down rookie year for the Patriots in 2024. But the organization has made significant moves to set up the 2024 No. 3 overall pick for more success in 2025 — including bringing back Josh McDaniels to be the team’s offensive coordinator under head coach Mike Vrabel.

The Patriots signed Stefon Diggs to give give Drake Maye a strong veteran target, despite the receiver coming an ACL tear suffered last October. In his Thursday press conference, Maye told reporters that he’s been watching Diggs for years and is excited to play wit him. “Shoot, Stefon, he was

When Michigan defensive tackle Mason Graham weighed in at 296 pounds at the Scouting Combine, it raised some eyebrows? Graham was listed at 320 in college, and for a defensive tackle, anything under 300 is small. But Graham says he’s currently 310 pounds and that his weight fluctuations are no

Titans General Manager Mike Borgonzi said this week that the team won’t be naming a starting quarterback at this point in the offseason because he wants there to be “competition in every room” on the roster. Borgonzi also said that it will be up to head coach Brian Callahan to

The Buccaneers are making a couple of promotions in their front office. According to Albert Breer of SI.com, Tampa Bay is promoting Rob McCartney to assistant General Manager and Mike Biehl to vice president of player personnel. McCartney is entering his 15th season with the Bucs. He previously spent three

Hall of Fame tight end and media personality Shannon Sharpe stepped aside from his two-days-per-week employment with ESPN, in the aftermath of the filing of a civil complaint against him alleging sexual assault and other claims. While Sharpe didn’t step aside until Thursday, his on-air First Take partner knew it

The 49ers turned over their roster this offseason. They parted ways with eight starters, who have a combined 54 years of NFL experience. They added 17 rookies to the roster and have 38 players on their 90-player roster who have two or fewer seasons of experience. This 49ers team, unlike

The Chargers did not exercise the fifth-year option on the contract of offensive lineman Zion Johnson, Daniel Popper of TheAthletic.com reports. The option would have paid Johnson $17.560 million for 2026. He now goes into the 2025 season in the final year of his contract and scheduled to become a

The Senate Finance Committee will be holding a hearing on Tuesday regarding the ongoing migration of sports from broadcast TV to streaming. One requested witness has opted to pass. John Ourand of Puck reports that Commissioner Roger Goodell has declined an invitation to participate. The letter to Goodell from Finance

Hall of Fame offensive lineman Steve Hutchinson spent five years in Seattle, wearing No. 76. While his number isn’t retired, rookie first-rounder Grey Zabel wanted to be sure Hutchinson was OK with Zabel wearing it. “He was all for it and super excited for it,” Zabel told reporters on Thursday,

The Nikefication of the NFL will continue. One of the overlooked items that emerged during the draft is this: Starting in 2025, the NFL will introduce “Rivalries” jerseys inspired by the communities of the teams. The first wave, debuting in 2025, will cover the teams of the AFC East and

Pre-draft chatter about prospects can be strategic. Teams that like a player (and hope to draft him) will be inclined to traffic in negativity. Teams that don’t like a player (and hope someone above them will pick him) like to fuel a player’s hype. With Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders, there

Running back Omarion Hampton had to wait until the 22nd overall pick to hear his name called in the first round of the draft last week, but he was more concerned with the team doing the picking than the number of the pick. Hampton said on The Jim Rome Show

Not long after Boston College edge rusher Donovan Ezeiruaku found out he was heading to Dallas, his phone rang again. It was Micah Parsons calling, welcoming him to town. “It’s going to be fun,” Ezeiruaku said, via Tommy Yarrish of the team website. “He reached out after the draft. He

The Panthers have picked up the fifth-year option on left tackle Ikem Ekwonu’s contract. He is expected to get a long-term deal, something the Panthers did for defensive lineman Derrick Brown and cornerback Jaycee Horn in the same situation. The only question is: When? “I have no timeline, honestly,” Ekwonu

Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers didn’t do much to hide his frustrations when the ball didn’t come his way during his rookie season and it doesn’t sound like he’ll be any more circumspect in his second season. The question of whether wide receivers are divas came up during Nabers’s appearance

The Raiders had left tackle Kolton Miller participate in its voluntary offseason program this week. The team still has not seen Brock Bowers. The second-year tight end remains in Georgia, finishing up his college degree, Vinny Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. Bowers had a historic rookie season, breaking

Every May, most teams must decide whether to exercise the fifth-year option on one or more first-round draft picks from three years earlier. If exercised, the team delays the player’s opportunity to hit the open market by another year. For players drafted in every other round, there’s no way to

The Cowboys are declining the fifth-year option of cornerback Kaiir Elam, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports. The team acquired Elam in a trade with the Bills this offseason. Buffalo will receive a 2025 fifth-round selection and a 2026 seventh-rounder, while sending a 2025 sixth-round choice to the Cowboys along with

The Titans will decline the fifth-year option on the contract of wide receiver Treylon Burks, as expected, Paul Kuharsky of paulkuharsky.com reports. The comments of Chad Brinker, the team’s president of football operations, on Monday hinted at the decision. Burks, 25, tore his anterior cruciate ligament in Week 6 last

The Texans opened up a spot on their 90-man roster Thursday. The team announced that they have waived defensive tackle Jayden Peevy. Peevy signed to the team’s practice squad last November and signed a future contract with the team in January. Peevy did not appear in any games for the

Packers General Manager Brian Gutekunst said recently that he wants linebacker Quay Walker on the roster in 2026 one way or another, but it won’t be under the terms of the team’s fifth-year option on his contract. Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports that the team will not exercise that option.

The Raiders made an addition to their receiving corps on Thursday. They announced the signing of free agent wide receiver Collin Johnson. No terms were included in the announcement. Johnson was a 2020 fifth-round pick of the Jaguars and moved onto the Giants as a waiver claim the next year.

One bad interview killed Kramer’s coffee-table-book-about-coffee-tables tour. Bill Belichick’s book tour has survived. Belichick has a public appearance on Tuesday, May 6, in New York. It’s an NYU event, with Belichick and Suzy Welch. (Tickets are free.) In the email that Belichick’s girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, posted earlier this week, Belichick

Tyler Lockett recently joined the Titans, giving them a strong veteran receiver to help rookie quarterback Cam Ward. In his Thursday press conference, Tennessee head coach Brian Callahan said he feels good about adding the longtime Seahawk. “He [has been] a productive player for a long time,” Callahan said. “On

For the first time ever, one player is among the favorites for a full-season award on both sides of the ball. DraftKings has Jaguars receiver/cornerback Travis Hunter near the top of the list for both offensive and defensive rookie of the year. On the offensive side, Hunter has +750 odds,

When Mike Vrabel took the Patriots’ head-coaching job earlier this year, he was clear that Drake Maye’s ability to handle the on-field responsibilities of a quarterback were a big reason for his decision. Maye’s skills weren’t enough to win games on their own, howerver, and the Patriots have made moves

As North Carolina coach Bill Belichick tries to fetch a mop and a bucket, the mess is spreading. Via the Daily Mail, Belichick’s daughter-in-law has publicly criticized Jordon Hudson for her role in the disastrous CBS interview. Responding to Instagram comments supporting Hudson as a publicist who was simply doing

The Cardinals selected Marvin Harrison Jr. with the No. 4 overall pick in last year’s draft. It was seen as a strong pick at the time, and even though his numbers weren’t off the charts, Harrison delivered a solid rookie season. But entering 2025, head coach Jonathan Gannon says Harrison

After the Giants traded up to take quarterback Jaxson Dart in the first round last week, head coach Brian Daboll made it clear that Russell Wilson remains in the top spot on the depth chart. Daboll added “that’s how it’ll be once we get started here in the spring” after

Shedeur Sanders was far from the only draft pick who got a prank call telling him he was drafted before he really was. Eagles sixth-round quarterback Kyle McCord revealed after he was drafted that he had received multiple prank calls from the Philadelphia area before he got the real call