Category : Red Zone Rumors

When it comes to the general practice of prank calls, The Jerky Boys were artists. When prank calls are specifically made to prospects during the draft, those who do it are just jerks. And while it’s impossible to prevent any and all prank calls made by friends or others who

Now that the dust is settling on the stunning Shedeur Sanders draft-weekend rollercoaster, more specific details are emerging about the attitude more than a few teams had about him. Via Jaclyn Hendricks of the New York Post, former NFL quarterback and long-time NFL analyst Boomer Esiason addressed the issue during

The Seahawks are exercising the fifth-year option on left tackle Charles Cross’ contract, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports. The fifth-year option for 2026 for Cross is a fully guaranteed $17.56 million, and 13 left tackles average more than that per season. 49ers left tackle Trent Williams has the highest

Free agent linebacker Isaiah Simmons is signing with the Packers, Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports reports. Simmons, 26, visited the Packers two weeks ago. He spent the past two seasons with the Giants. In 2024, Simmons appeared in all 17 games, registering 21 total tackles with two passes defensed and

Free agent wide receiver Diontae Johnson visited the Browns on Monday, according to the NFL’s transactions report. Johnson has bounced around the league, on the roster of four teams in a calendar year. He most recently was with the Ravens, who claimed him off waivers from the Texans in January

The Saints agreed to terms with free agent defensive end Chris Rumph II on a one-year contract, the team announced Monday. Rumph spent all of last season on the Chargers’ injured reserve list with a foot injury. The Chargers selected him in the fourth round in 2021 out of Duke,

The Eagles have found a fairly powerful ally in their effort to keep the tush push in pro football. During the Super Bowl champions’ visit to the White House, President Donald Trump said he wants the NFL to keep the maneuver in the game. “The Eagles scored a touchdown on

Georgia State offensive lineman Ben Chukwuma, a native of Nigeria who moved to the U.S. at 17, did not begin playing football until 2020 when he showed up for an open tryout. Chukwuma knew nothing about American football. Five years later, Chukwuma has the most guaranteed money of any undrafted

The Rams didn’t draft any offensive linemen this year, but they did move to sign some rookie blockers after the draft. The team announced 17 agreements with undrafted free agents on Monday and the group includes four offensive linemen. Wyatt Bowles of Utah State, Ben Dooley of Boise State, Willie

The deadline for teams to exercise their fifth-year options on the contracts of 2022 first-round picks is in a couple of days and the Titans don’t have a difficult one to make. Wide receiver Traylon Burks was the team’s first-round pick that year and the team has undergone serious changes

The Falcons only drafted five players this year, which made the post-draft rush to sign undrafted players a big part of General Manager Terry Fontenot’s plans. Fontenot said at a press conference over the weekend that the Falcons “really have to attack undrafted free agency in the right way” and

When Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts was recently asked about attending his team’s Monday visit to the White House, he didn’t have an answer. He now does. Via Yamiche Alcindor of NBC News, Hurts will not be making the trip. Others will also be absent. The White House attributes the development

Running back Chris Evans is set to head to Denver for an attempt to resume his NFL career. Evans ruptured the patellar tendon in his knee while playing for the Bengals last summer and he missed the entire 2024 season as a result. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that

The Commanders and the District of Columbia announced an agreement for the Commanders to build a stadium at the site that the franchise once called home. It is a $3 billion deal that will allow the Commanders to erect a new building where RFK Stadium once stood. That was the

The Shedeur Sanders draft-day slide was a big story. Big enough to make it into Monday’s briefing from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. It wasn’t a complete surprise, given that President Donald Trump chimed after the first round of the draft regarding the failure of Sanders to be selected

There’s a unique sort of pressure that comes from consistently banging on the door to a Super Bowl appearance. The Bills are feeling that pressure. The pressure manifested itself on Monday morning, when G.M. Brandon Beane appeared on WGR Radio in Buffalo’s Jeremy and Joe Show. Needless to say, Beane

The Vikings and quarterback Sam Howell have made things official. Minnesota announced on Monday that Howell has passed his physical with the organization, completing the trade that sent him to the NFC North club from Seattle. Minnesota acquired Howell and the No. 172 overall pick from Seattle in exchange for

The Steelers are moving on from one of their 2024 draft picks. Pittsburgh announced on Monday that the club is releasing cornerback Ryan Watts. Watts, 23, spent the entire 2024 season on injured reserve after suffering a neck injury late in the preseason. “Unfortunately, today we are releasing Ryan Watts

The status of Saints quarterback Derek Carr continues to be one of the most important — and strangest — stories of the offseason. Carr had a shoulder injury that no one knew about. It came up out of nowhere. Questions linger about when it happened, how bad it is, whether

The Steelers picked defensive lineman Derrick Harmon in the first round last Thursday and the rookie’s arrival appears to have helped push a veteran off the roster in Pittsburgh. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the Steelers are going to release defensive tackle Montravius Adams. The move will clear $2.25

Gabriel Taylor, the younger brother of Commanders legend Sean Taylor, will get a chance to follow in his brother’s footsteps. The former Rice safety has accepted an invitation to participate in the Commanders’ upcoming rookie minicamp on a tryout basis. Gabriel Taylor played five years for Rice. In 2024, he

Quarterback Quinn Ewers had the longest wait to hear his name called of anyone at his position during the 2025 draft, but was finally selected by Miami at No. 231 in the seventh round. After making the pick, General Manager Chris Grier told reporters that Ewers “obviously had a very

The Steelers drafted seven players this year and they are set to add seven more rookies who went undrafted. One of those additions was a college teammate of two of the team’s draft picks. Safety Sebastian Castro played at Iowa with second-round running back Kaleb Johnson and fifth-round defensive end

Wide receiver Xavier Restrepo caught a lot of passes from quarterback Cam Ward at the University of Miami, but his production for the Hurricanes wasn’t enough to convince a team to draft him. Restrepo’s consolation is that he will get a chance to show he’s capable of playing in the

After the first round of the draft, Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said that the team did not feel it was necessary to draft a wide receiver this year and the team backed him over the final six rounds. The Cowboys did not select a wideout for the first

In 2023, the Lions drafted tight end Sam LaPorta and he immediately became one of the NFL’s most productive tight ends in offensive coordinator Ben Johnson’s offense. Now Johnson is head coach of the Bears, and he thinks he just found a tight end who is a lot like LaPorta,

Eagles first-round draft pick Jihaad Campbell was born and raised in the Philadelphia area, and as he made his trip to the Eagles’ facility after the draft, he realized what a special moment it was in his life. “When I was on the plane, I was looking like, ‘Dang, I’m

At six-foot-six and 464 pounds, defensive tackle Desmond Watson would have been the largest draft pick in NFL history. He was not drafted. Via the Associated Press, Watson has instead signed with the Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent. It’ll be a homecoming for Watson, who grew up 20 minutes

A deal is in place. All that’s left is the approval. The Washington Post reports that the Commanders and D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser have reached an agreement on a new facility to be built at the site of the defunct RFK Stadium. The deal is expected to be announced on

The reports of the demise of Dre Greenlaw’s season have been greatly exaggerated. Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Greenlaw will be ready to go in eight weeks. As another source explained it, Green did not suffered a torn quadriceps. It’s only a strain. However it plays out,

The Falcons won’t be taking action against defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich in connection with his son’s prank call to Shedeur Sanders during the second night of the draft. The NFL still could. “We have been in contact with the Falcons and we are reviewing the matter,” a league spokesman told

The Panthers are bringing in another potential weapon for their offense. Carolina announced on Sunday night that the club has agreed to terms with veteran receiver Hunter Renfrow. Renfrow, 29, did not play in 2024 after the Raiders released him in March of that year. While he’s dealt with injuries,

One of the Broncos’ key free agent signees won’t see the field for a while. Jennifer Lee Chan of NBC Sports Bay Area reports that linebacker Dre Greenlaw tore a quadriceps while working out. The injury could force him to miss a substantial portion of the 2025 season, per Chan.

Michigan Panthers wide receiver Samson Nacua, the brother of Rams wide receiver Puka Nacua, slapped a fan in the face following Saturday night’s game in St. Louis. Video of the incident shows a fan in the front row leaning onto the field and apparently exchanging words with Nacua, who then

The Jaguars spent the last few days adding rookies to their roster, but Sunday was a moment for striking a deal with a more seasoned player. Agent Drew Rosenhaus told ESPN that his client Emmanuel Ogbah has agreed to sign with the Jags. It’s a one-year deal worth up to

In his upcoming book, The Art of Winning, Bill Belichick made one very strategic omission. Patriots owner Robert Kraft is mentioned nowhere in the entire publication. During Belichick’s book-tour interview with CBS Mornings, Belichick gave an arguably inartful explanation about the failure to include any reference to Kraft. Asked about

The mystery has been solved. Well, one of them at least. The Falcons have announced that the prank call placed during the second night of the draft traces to defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich. In a statement, the Falcons said that Ulbrich’s 21-year-old son, Jax, “unintentionally came across the draft contact

Bill Belichick’s first book comes out soon. He’s doing a book tour. Based on the most recent broadcast interview, it seems to be going roughly as well as the tour for Kramer’s coffee-table book about coffee tables. In a mostly fluff-filed sit-down with Tony Dokoupil of CBS Mornings, the 73-year-old

The Dolphins added one cornerback in the draft and it looks like they have plans to bolster the group with an older player as well. General Manager Chris Grier said in a press conference on Saturday that “we’ve had a number of conversations with players” when asked about signing a

And then there were three. Per a league source, a third prospect received a prank call during the 2025 draft. Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders and Colts tight end Tyler Warren received fake calls telling them they were being drafted before they were. Another player received a phony call 30 minutes

The NFL draft might not draw a Super Bowl-level TV audience. It definitely generates a Super Bowl-level crowd. The league announced that 600,000 attended the draft in Green Bay. While that’s down from last year’s all-time record of 775,000 in Detroit, Detroit is a much larger city and metropolitan area.

Shedeur Sanders apparently isn’t the only prospect who got punked during the draft. Via Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports, tight end Tyler Warren received a prank call when the Jets were on the clock with the seventh overall pick, on Thursday night. (Warren was eventually picked by the Colts, at

The Saints announced agreements with 11 undrafted free agents on Sunday. Defensive end Omari Thomas is part of the group. Thomas played 61 games and made 41 starts during his time at Tennessee and had 115 tackles, five sacks, 17 tackles for loss, 12 passes defensed, a forced fumble, a

The Panthers are bringing in the son of one of the top receivers in franchise history. Mike Garafolo of NFL Media reports that they have agreed to sign Muhsin “Moose” Muhammad III as an undrafted free agent. His father is second in Panthers history in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving

As quarterback Shedeur Sanders slid through round two and three of the draft, the question of whether he should try to return to college football for another year caught fire. There’s another player to whom that question is relevant — quarterback Quinn Ewers. Per a source with knowledge of the

The draft has come and gone, and cornerback Jalen Ramsey remains on the Miami roster. Earlier this month, the Dolphins confirmed that they’re trying to trade Ramsey. They surely would have preferred to get 2025 draft picks. Now, they’ll either get one or more players or one or more 2026

The Shedeur Sanders free fall included a Friday night prank call from someone who claimed to be Saints G.M. Mickey Loomis. With Shedeur explaining on Saturday that the call came to a phone he received directly from the NFL, the question becomes who leaked the number? If Shedeur’s version is

During a Super Bowl week interview with PFT Live, Jalen Milroe made it clear that he has no desire to play anything but quarterback. As he said, “You never ask a zebra to be a dog.” The team that drafted Milroe agrees with his assessment. After Milroe joined the Seahawks

As we learned from last year’s offseason Hard Knocks, Giants coach Brian Daboll likes to put quarterback prospects on the white board and grill them. On Thursday, a report emerged suggesting that one such session between Daboll and quarterback prospect Shedeur Sanders did not go well. Todd McShay of The

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is pushing for the league’s international series to include more games on more continents. Goodell told Pat McAfee that the NFL is serious about establishing itself as a mainstream sport around the world, and he mentioned that the league could play its first game in Asia