Category : Red Zone Rumors

Wade Phillips, a three-time former NFL head coach, has taken a leave of absence from his current position as head coach of the UFL’s San Antonio Brahmas. The UFL announced on Wednesday that Phillips will step aside for personal reasons. Offensive coordinator Payton Pardee will serve as the interim head

The Nico Iamaleava saga has become one of the biggest stories in all of football. It’s widely regarded as a disaster for the player. One former college coach, who had a disastrous season in the NFL, has chimed in on the subject. “Here’s the reality,” former Jaguars coach Urban Meyer

The District of Columbia has secured the ability to build a football facility at the site of RFK Stadium. Now, they have to come up with a way to build it. That will likely be the much harder aspect of the broader project, given the current appetite among taxpayers for

The Texans have a need on their offensive line, and they’re visiting today with a player who could make sense as their first-round draft pick. Ohio State offensive lineman Donovan Jackson is visiting Houston today, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. Jackson could play either guard or tackle in

The Giants have scheduled private workouts with several quarterbacks in the final days before the draft, but General Manager Joe Schoen said on Wednesday that those sessions are not a sign that they feel pressure to add one to the roster. Schoen said at his pre-draft press conference that the

The Cardinals are squeezing in a visit with one of the top offensive tackles in this year’s draft class before the window for prospects to come to team facilities closes on Wednesday. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Kelvin Banks is meeting with the Cardinals. Arizona has the 16th

The Broncos have a CFP national champion in their building on Wednesday. Per Mike Klis of 9NEWS Denver, Ohio State’s TreVeyon Henderson is on a pre-draft visit with the club. Henderson, 22, was one of two Buckeyes who rushed for over 1,000 yards in 2024, as Ohio State won the

One of the biggest stories as the 2025 draft approaches relates to the plans for Travis Hunter after he’s drafted. He clearly wants to try to play both ways on a full-time basis. Will the team that picks him let him do it? Hopefully, they’ll let him try. It’s far

Quarterback Logan Woodside is back with the Bengals. The Bengals announced Woodside’s signing on Wednesday morning. No terms of the deal were announced. Woodside was a 2018 seventh-round pick in Cincinnati, but was cut at the end of the summer. He played in the AAF before making his NFL regular

Running back Nick Chubb has not drawn much public interest since becoming a free agent in March, but he’s working to remind everyone that he’s available. Chubb is also making it clear that he feels like he has a lot left to offer a team. Chubb made a post to

Veteran cornerback James Bradberry is in Buffalo on Wednesday. Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that Bradberry is paying a visit to the Bills facility as he looks for a place to play in 2025. Bradberry was released by the Eagles earlier this year. Bradberry missed the entire 2024 season after

The Dolphins are working to trade Jalen Ramsey and shipping the veteran out would increase the responsibilities of the rest of the cornerback corps in Miami. Cam Smith is part of that group and the 2023 second-round pick has not lived up to expectations to this point in his NFL

When Ravens head coach John Harbaugh spoke to reporters at the league meetings, he said a contract extension for running back Derrick Henry was definitely in the offseason conversation and the topic came up again in Baltimore on Tuesday. Henry signed a two-year deal in 2024 that is set to

The Jaguars have the chance to add a talented player with the fifth overall pick in this year’s draft, but their selection will be about more than just upgrading the roster as they head into the 2025 season. It will be the first pick and most significant move that the

Missouri offensive tackle Armand Membou is heading to the Jets with the No. 7 overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft, if the betting odds are to be believed. Membou is a -115 favorite to go with the seventh pick at DraftKings. The Jets own that pick, although they could

Panthers General Manager Dan Morgan has decisions to make about what players to add in next week’s draft and he also has to make a call about one of the team’s past first-round selections. Morgan and the Panthers have until May 1 to decide about exercising their option on left

When quarterback Derek Carr suffered a late-season hand injury, the Saints potentially were backed into a contractual corner. It ultimately may have been his shoulder, not his hand, that limited the team’s options. Of his $40 million compensation package for 2025, Carr had $10 million fully guaranteed. Another $30 million

We learned late last week that Saints quarterback Derek Carr has a shoulder injury that could require surgery and that revelation led to increased speculation that the team will take former Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders with the ninth overall pick. It also increased chatter that another team with interest in

The Giants are continuing to do their homework on quarterbacks in next week’s draft. Per Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, New York will hold a private workout with Alabama’s Jalen Milroe this week. This comes after word emerged that the club would also work out Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders. New York

General Manager Chris Grier confirmed that the Dolphins are looking to trade defensive back Jalen Ramsey in his pre-draft press conference on Tuesday afternoon. Grier noted that while Ramsey did not request a trade, nor did he want a contract adjustment, the team and player eventually agreed that a trade

The Dolphins are looking at trade options involving cornerback Jalen Ramsey, but they are not doing the same with wide receiver Tyreek Hill. Hill’s future with the Dolphins became a talking point due to Hill’s comments at the end of the 2024 season, but the wideout reversed course to say

Late last month at the annual league meeting, Ravens head coach John Harbaugh told reporters that he fully expects tight end Mark Andrews to be a part of the team in 2025. Andrews, 29, is entering the last year of his contract. He’s set to be paid $7 million in

Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni was asked at the league meetings about tight end Dallas Goedert’s future with the team and said that you “want to be able to have back as many guys as you possibly can, but that’s not the reality of the NFL.” Moving on without Goedert

Do-it-all superstar Travis Hunter knows he’s at the mercy of the NFL’s sorting hat. But he’s not completely powerless when it comes to the question of whether he’ll get his wish to be the NFL’s first true full-time, two-way player in decades. If the team that drafts him won’t let

On Monday, the NFL announced 17 prospects who are attending the draft in Green Bay. On Tuesday, the number went to 18. Kentucky cornerback Maxwell Hairston has accepted an invite to attend in person, Dane Brugler of TheAthletic.com reports. Hairston is projected as a first-round pick. His top-30 visits included

Don’t make a power play if you don’t have the power. That’s the lesson former Tennessee quarterback (and current man without a college football country) Nico Iamaleava has learned in recent days. He had a $2.4 million NIL bird in the hand in Knoxville. His effort to beat the bushes

Word in February was that there were “strong indications” that cornerback Jaire Alexander would be moving on from the Packers before the 2025 season, but Alexander remains on the Green Bay roster a little over a week before the start of the draft. Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

When the Cowboys last won a Super Bowl, moving their all-time total to five, the Eagles had been to only one — a loss in Super Bowl XV. Since then, the Eagles have three Super Bowl appearances and two wins. The Cowboys haven’t even been back to an NFC Championship.

The Patriots traded third-string quarterback Joe Milton III before the offseason program began. The timing was not a coincidence. Milton reportedly viewed himself as starter, as good or better than 2024 first-round pick Drake Maye, and the Patriots weren’t going to give him a shot at the job. The Patriots

The Dolphins desperately need a competent backup to quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. One who can run the offense the way Tua does, when Tua can’t. In recent years, they obviously have lacked that kind of player. They think they have one now in Zach Wilson. On Tuesday, G.M. Chris Grier explained

Bears cornerback Kyler Gordon revealed Tuesday that he was not present for the first week of the team’s offseason program as the team and his agent finalized a contract extension. Gordon and the Bears agreed to a three-year, $40 million extension that includes $31.25 million guaranteed on Sunday. It makes

The Dolphins revealed Tuesday that they are seeking to trade cornerback Jalen Ramsey. General Manager Chris Grier did not specify the reason for shopping Ramsey, who the Dolphins have paid a $4 million roster bonus with $21 million left to be paid in 2025. He will become the latest big

The Ravens have 11 picks in the 2025 draft, which is tied for the most in the league. General Manager Eric DeCosta will continue the team’s best-player-available approach, which was served the Ravens well, but he does expect to draft “at least” one cornerback and one safety. The Ravens have

Offensive lineman Max Scharping is back with the Steelers. Scharping was signed off the Commanders’ practice squad last October and the NFL’s daily transaction report for Tuesday shows that he has re-signed with the team. Scharping appeared in two games for the Steelers and played seven offensive snaps. He spent

The Giants will be adding multiple rookies to the roster as draft picks and undrafted free agent signings in the near future and they opened some space on the 90-man roster for them on Tuesday. The NFL’s daily transaction report brings word that they have released defensive tackle Ross Blacklock.

The NFL’s approach to filling up the green room at the draft could soon pivot to including players who will be waiting a while to be drafted. There was a time when the league invited players who were expected to be hanging around beyond the first night. Per a source

The Cowboys have not moved up in the first round since 2012 when they got to sixth overall to select LSU cornerback Morris Claiborne. Executive vice president Stephen Jones said Tuesday isn’t unlikely the Cowboys move up this year. I don’t necessarily see us moving up, based on the way

After James Gladstone was hired as the Jaguars’ General Manager earlier this year, he said he saw a lot of similarities between where the Jags are now and where the Rams were when he joined them in 2016. The Rams were in bad shape at that point, but they turned

Case Keenum is on his eighth NFL team and heading into his 12th season, and through all those years on all those teams, he thinks he has learned a lot that he can impart on a young quarterback. So as the Bears’ backup, Keenum is eager to work with Caleb

Jalen Milroe’s busy pre-draft season is continuing out West this week. Per Adam Schefter of ESPN, Milroe is taking a pre-draft visit with the Seahawks on Tuesday and will meet later this week with the Rams. The Seahawks signed Sam Darnold to a three-year deal and recently added Drew Lock

Add one more to the list of quarterbacks the Giants will work out privately before next week’s draft. Per Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports, Louisville’s Tyler Shough will work out for New York later this week. Notably, Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders and Alabama’s Jalen Milroe will also have private workouts with

Tyron Smith will be back in Dallas. For one day. Via Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, Smith will sign a one-day contract with the Cowboys and retire. The ninth overall pick in the 2011 draft, Smith spent 13 years with the Cowboys. He joined the Jets in 2024, starting 10

As a rookie, Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold wore No. 0. He has made a change for 2025, as a tribute to a former teammate. Via Eric Woodyard of ESPN.com, Arnold will wear No. 6 in honor of Khyree Jackson. Jackson, who played with Arnold at Alabama, died last July in

Chicago’s Caleb Williams is one of many talented young quarterbacks in the NFL right now, but Williams says they’re not all buddies. Nor does he want to be. Williams told Esquire he thinks the NFL’s other quarterbacks are “probably great guys,” but that becoming close with players on other teams

The Steelers have a pair of incoming rookie running backs in their building on Tuesday. According to multiple reports, Ohio State’s TreVeyon Henderson and Central Florida’s RJ Harvey are taking a pre-draft visit with Pittsburgh. Henderson was one of two Buckeyes who rushed for over 1,000 yards in 2024, as

Seventeen players accepted NFL-issued invitations to the draft. Not everyone who received an invitation pounced on the opportunity. Penn State tight end Tyler Warren, the best prospect at his position and a no-brainer first-round pick, declined an invitation to attend the festivities at Green Bay, we’re told. He chose to

Maybe Bill Belichick should have taken a job with a private university. By becoming the head coach at North Carolina, Belichick accepted a position that would make all of his official communications public records. That’s how we got confirmation the powers-that-be in Chapel Hill were nervous about Belichick quickly bolting

Quarterback Dak Prescott knows what it’s like to be pushing for a new contract from the Cowboys, so it makes sense that he’d be asked to weigh in on defensive end Micah Parsons’s own quest for an extension this offseason. Parsons has taken one page from Prescott’s book. The quarterback

Last September, the Dolphins rushed to give cornerback Jalen Ramsey a contract with a new-money average of $24.1 million, days after the Broncos made cornerback Patrick Surtain II the highest-paid cornerback with a new-money average of $24 million. Fewer than eight months later, the Dolphins are looking to trade Ramsey.

The NFL has announced that 17 players will be in Green Bay for the 2025 NFL draft. The betting odds say 16 of those players are likely first-round picks. Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe is the only player at the draft who is viewed as an underdog to be a first-round