Category : Red Zone Rumors

Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren didn’t need long to be sure that Ben Johnson was the team’s first choice as head coach. Warren said on PFT Live at the league meeting that very shortly into the Bears’ interview with Johnson, it was easy to see that he had the

Bears head coach Ben Johnson built one of the league’s best offenses during his time as the Lions’ offensive coordinator and he will be trying to do something similar in Chicago this year. During his media session from the league meetings in Palm Beach on Tuesday, Johnson touched on one

Whenever someone asks about the longtime hammerlock Rich McKay has had on the Competition Committee, the answer is simple. McKay, as the belief goes in league circles, continues to chair the Committee because the Commissioner wants him to. And, as the belief also goes, the Commissioner wants McKay in that

The Patriots have received multiple trade inquires about quarterback Joe Milton III, Karen Guregian and Mark Daniels of masslive.com report. The Patriots drafted Drake Maye with the third overall pick a year ago and signed veteran Joshua Dobbs to a two-year, $8 million deal to back him up this season.

Defensive tackle Mason Graham is set for meetings with a couple of teams drafting in the top 10 later this month. Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports that Graham is scheduled to visit with the Patriots and Saints over the next few days. The Patriots have the fourth overall pick in

The Bengals remain at an impasse with defensive end Trey Hendrickson and executive vice president Katie Blackburn said on Tuesday that she’d “be lying if I said I knew exactly what’s going to happen” with the player. Hendrickson is looking for a new contract and the Bengals allowed him to

The NFL’s march toward an 18-game season is continuing, even if it was not front and center at this week’s league meeting. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said shifting the schedule to 18 regular-season games and two preseason games was “not a focus” of the league meeting. But Goodell added that

The answer to one big question about wide receiver Chris Godwin’s offseason came last month when the Buccaneers re-signed him to a three-year contract ahead of free agency. Bucs head coach Todd Bowles touched on the other big question during his media session at the league meetings on Tuesday. Godwin

In wide receiver Cooper Kupp’s first press conference after signing with the Seahawks, he said it was “difficult” to leave the Rams and felt there was “not a ton of clarity” from his former team about their decision to move on without him. Rams head coach Sean McVay responded to

The Patriots ranked 31st in the NFL in the NFL Players Association’s report card, with players surveyed criticizing the team for an outdated weight room, locker room and team plane, among other issues. Patriots owner Robert Kraft acknowledged his team needs to be better on that front. Kraft said he’s

This one comes as no surprise to those who pay attention to the way the NFL operates. With Christmas landing on a Thursday in 2025, the NFL will resume its three-window takeover of the day. The inevitability was made official on Tuesday. As expected, Netflix will stream the first two

After making it to the postseason in 2023 for the second time in four years, the Browns were just 3-14 in 2024. But team owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam elected to stay the course with General Manager Andrew Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski this offseason. And from their comments

The Giants have a decision to make about what to do with the third overall pick in the draft, but that’s not the only unsettled piece of business around the team. There’s also the question of who will be calling the team’s offensive plays during the 2025 season. Head coach

The league has tabled the Lions’ proposal to determine playoff seeding solely by record, according to multiple reports. That the measure was tabled and not voted on suggests that it has some significant support around the league — even if it does not have enough votes to pass for now.

49ers General Manager John Lynch said at the end of the 2024 season that the team still had a lot of faith in kicker Jake Moody, but they aren’t going to just hand him the job for the 2025 season. While speaking to reporters at the league meetings in Palm

Owners discussed the tush push play for more than half an hour Tuesday, the chairman of the Competition Committee, Rich McKay, said. In the end, the vote was tabled until the May meetings. The Packers, who presented the proposal seeking to ban the tush push, want the committee to consider

A report on Tuesday indicated that the Cowboys have offered to make Micah Parsons the highest-paid non-quarterback in the NFL and that Parsons has agreed to the framework of an extension. The caveat is that the Cowboys have not included Parsons’s agent David Mulugheta in the talks and that Parsons

The NFL will double down on sportsmanship next season, executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent said Tuesday. Violent gestures are up 133 percent and sexual taunting is up 52 percent, Vincent said. The topic was discussed with coaches, General Managers and owners Tuesday. “It just has no place

NFL players want to compete in flag football in the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Patrick Mahomes and Tyreek Hill are among those who have expressed interest. “I’ve heard directly from a lot of players who want to participate and represent their country, whether it’s United States or the

The tush push has become the story of the week. With the subject tabled until the next league meetings in May, it could become the story of the entire offseason. It feels at times like a moving target. Is the concern safety-related? Is it about football aesthetics? Are both a

The NFL did not ban the tush push at the league meeting today, but it might soon ban all plays in which players get pushed and pulled by other players. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said a broader discussion will take place on making it illegal to push players, and more

With only 60 percent of Deshaun Watson’s landmark five-year, $230 million contract concluded, Browns owner Jimmy Haslam has admitted what everyone already knew. The trade — arguably the single worst transaction in NFL history — was a complete and total failure. Haslam added that, ultimately, ownership should be held accountable.

The Bears start their offseason program on Monday and one of the biggest tasks in the coming weeks will be fostering a strong connection between quarterback Caleb Williams and new head coach Ben Johnson. Johnson said on Tuesday they will “go back to the basics” with the first steps of

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