Category : Red Zone Rumors

The Rams have made it official. The team confirmed reports that they have agreed to a new deal with quarterback Matthew Stafford on Friday afternoon. The team called it a contract restructure as Stafford had two years left on his current pact and offered no details about the new agreement.

Matthew Stafford won’t be the Raiders’ quarterback in 2025 and neither will Desmond Ridder. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the Raiders will not tender a contract to Ridder as a restricted free agent. Doing so would have given the Raiders a chance to match any offer for Ridder’s

The Chiefs informed guard Trey Smith this week that they’ll be using their franchise tag on him and we learned on Friday what salary that tag will carry. The NFL informed teams of the franchise and transition tag values for offensive linemen and every other position. Smith will make $23.402

Earlier this week, Aaron Rodgers (through his agent) reached out to the Giants. With the Rams and Matthew Stafford reaching an agreement that will keep Stafford in L.A., Rodgers’s interest in the Giants might be mutual. The fact that Rodgers sought out the Giants strongly suggests that objectively “good” teams

Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe plans to throw at the Scouting Combine this weekend. Top quarterback Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders do not plan on throwing, so Milroe will as will Ole Miss’ Jaxson Dart and Texas’ Quinn Ewers. “It’s a dream come true,” Milroe said Friday. “I remember watching the

UCLA linebacker Kain Medrano impressed on the field in Indianapolis at the Scouting Combine. Medrano ran a 4.46-second 40-yard dash, making him the fastest linebacker at this year’s Combine. The 6-foot-3, 222-pound Medrano spent six years at UCLA, with a redshirt season and a covid exemption giving him extra NCAA

Quarterback Matthew Stafford has been talking to other teams about a potential change of address this offseason and he’s reportedly set to speak to his current one to close out the week. Dianna Russini of TheAthletic.com reports that Stafford is set to meet with the Rams on Friday. The quarterback

The Titans have not given a clear indication of which way they may be leaning when it comes to this year’s No. 1 overall pick. But one of the players who is expected to be firmly in the mix for being the first off the board is quarterback Cam Ward.

The NFL Players Association asked players on all 32 teams to grade their owners, and only one NFL owner got an F. Jets owner Woody Johnson received that one failing grade, ranking 32nd in the league in how players perceive their ownership. The NFLPA report card suggests that players view

Wide receiver Emeka Egbuka has met with a number of teams during the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, but he’ll be saving his on-field activities until a later date. Egbuka told reporters in Indianapolis on Friday that he will not be running the 40 or doing other physical testing on the

Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers played through some injuries last season. He reportedly tore his oblique, an injury that was called a strain and kept him out of part of one game and two other games. Then, in a Nov. 23 game against Kentucky, Ewers was diagnosed with a high-ankle sprain.

Neither of the top two quarterback prospects in this year’s draft class will be throwing in Indianapolis this weekend. Shedeur Sanders announced that he would not be working out before the Scouting Combine began this week and Cam Ward told reporters at his Friday press conference that he won’t be

The Eagles have found their new quarterbacks coach. Bowling Green announced that their head coach Scot Loeffler is leaving the school in order to join Nick Sirianni’s staff. Doug Nussmeier was the position coach for the Super Bowl champs in 2024, but he followed Kellen Moore to the Saints and

Ja’Lynn Polk was the 10th wide receiver drafted last April, but his production placed him much lower than his peers when it came to receiving yards. Polk had just 12 catches for 87 yards despite playing 15 games for a team desperate for targets in the passing game. To make

The Seahawks moved on from safety Rayshawn Jenkins as a starter during the 2024 season and they’re open to moving him to a different team in 2025. Per a report from Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports, the Seahawks have granted Jenkins permission to talk to other teams about a trade.

The Lions are parting ways with veteran linebacker Jalen Reeves-Maybin. Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the Lions plan to release Reeves-Maybin heading into the new league year. The move will clear nearly $1.9 million in cap space for the 2025 season. Reeves-Maybin was a Pro Bowl and second-team

Tom Brady’s meeting with Matthew Stafford was apparently productive. The Raiders and Stafford’s camp have found common ground on what a new contract could look like, the Las Vegas Review-Journal is reporting. Although “common ground” is not the same thing as actually agreeing to the terms of a contract, the

Kyler Murray is entering his seventh season still looking for his first playoff win. He has no bigger believer in his ability to lead the Cardinals to their first playoff win since 2015 than Jonathan Gannon. Gannon consistently has sung his quarterback’s praises since he became the head coach in

Penn State edge rusher Abdul Carter will not need surgery. Carter’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, told Adam Schefter of ESPN that further scans of Carter’s right foot showed surgery is not advisable. Carter was not going to work out at the Scouting Combine even before the stress reaction in his foot

The NFL is indeed looking into the Wednesday afternoon brouhaha in an Indianapolis Starbucks. A league spokesperson said that security personnel are looking into the verbal altercation between Jordan Schultz of Fox and Ian Rapoport of NFL Media. As explained last night, Schultz accosted Rapoport. Accusations were made. Security was

The Chargers have had conversations with the agent for Rashawn Slater in an attempt to extend the left tackle’s contract. Slater is entering the final year of his rookie contract, set to make $19.040 million on the fifth-year option. “We’ve had conversations. I love Rashawn,” General Manager Joe Hortiz said,

Tight end Colston Loveland is thought to have a good chance of being a first-round pick in April and the Michigan star’s right shoulder injury doesn’t look like it will get in the way of that. Loveland had surgery at the end of January after playing through the injury during

Greg Austin is returning to Philadelphia for his second stint on the Eagles’ coaching staff. Austin will join the staff of head coach Nick Sirianni, according to Eliot Shorr-Parks of 94 WIP. This will be Austin’s second stint on the Eagles’ staff. He was previously assistant offensive line coach in

Embedded in the question of whether Raiders minority owner Tom Brady hosted Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford is the more important question of whether the permission that the Rams gave to Stafford’s agent to speak with other teams included blanket permission for Stafford to meet with other teams. The NFL says

Travis Hunter’s ability to impact games in multiple ways while at Colorado helped him win the Heisman and has him set to be one of the first players taken in this year’s draft, but another one of this year’s prospects thinks he has Hunter beat in one area. Will Johnson

Despite some chatter about retirement, tight end Travis Kelce will be returning to the Chiefs in 2025. Pat McAfee said on the Thursday episode of his show that he reached out to Kelce, who said, “I’m coming back, for sure.” “I’m going to try to get to the best shape

The Chiefs are not going to let one of their best players hit the open market next month. Kansas City has informed guard Trey Smith that he will be franchised tagged, according to several Thursday afternoon reports. Smith, 25, was a sixth-round pick in 2021 and has quickly become one

Tennessee edge rusher James Pearce Jr. headed into the NFL Scouting Combine as a first-round prospect, and he made a big statement during on-field workouts. Pearce ran a 4.47-second 40-yard dash, making him the fastest defensive lineman at this year’s Combine. Pearce had 19.5 sacks and 29.5 tackles for loss

Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh has won everywhere he’s been, but there’s one thing about him that players wish they could change: How he uses their time. Harbaugh loves regaling his players with his idea of colorful lectures, and some players are tuning him out. The NFL Players Association’s survey

Since hiring Brian Schottenheiemer as their head coach, he and the Cowboys’ brain trust have mentioned the team’s desire to run the ball. Executive vice president Stephen Jones mentioned the desire “to marry” the run game to the pass game. Schottenheimer has spent 14 years as an offensive coordinator, though

The Titans are looking at all their options with the No. 1 overall pick, and that includes potentially drafting University of Miami’s Cam Ward or Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders. The team currently has only Will Levis under contract at the position for next season. Mason Rudolph, who started five games for

Penn National has been the RC Cola of the sports betting world. No matter what it does, it can’t take market share away from the Coke and Pepsi a/k/a DraftKings and FanDuel of the industry. The massive 10-year, $2 billion deal with ESPN to create ESPN Bet was supposed to

49ers kicker Jake Moody got off to a good start in 2024, but missed time with an ankle injury and was far less effective once he returned to action. Moody missed one field goal and made all his extra point tries in the first five weeks of the season, but

Jon Gruden will be among those in Tampa Bay’s Ring of Honor once again. After he was removed in 2021, Gruden will now be reinstated, the Buccaneers announced on Thursday. “Jon Gruden was initially inducted into the Buccaneers Ring of Honor based on his many accomplishments during his seven seasons

Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence missed most of last season with a Lisfranc injury, but he has no doubts about his plans for the 2025 season. Lawrence’s agent David Canter said on 105.3 The Fan on Thursday that Lawrence is definitely planning to return for a 12th season in the

Marshall edge rusher Mike Green will not work out at the Scouting Combine. Dane Brugler of TheAthletic.com reports that Green experienced tightness in his hamstring Wednesday, and thus Green will wait until his Pro Day to do positional drills and run. Green, who led the nation with 17 sacks last

Browns edge rusher Myles Garrett has made his wishes known: He wants a trade out of Cleveland. It is not an attempt to get more money out of the team. Mary Kay Cabot said Garrett is “not open” to a contract extension from the Browns. The Scouting Combine is where

The day after the Thrilla in Vanilla (Latte), NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport has addressed the incident that happened between him and Jordan Schultz of Fox at an Indianapolis Starbucks. Appearing with Pat McAfee, Rapoport was asked about the situation. “So, last night when it all broke, everyone in the world

The salary cap for the 2025 NFL season is set. The NFL announced on Wednesday that the cap will be $279.2 million. The news comes a week after the league sent teams a memo saying the final number would be somewhere between $277.5-281.5 million. It’s the highest salary cap in

The UFL is experiencing growing pains. In the form of labor pains. Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal reports that the spring league’s 24 quarterbacks skipped a recent camp in advance of the launch of training camp on Monday, March 3. As two sides negotiate, the players’ union contends the

Former Penn State tight end Tyler Warren was one of the most dominant forces in college football in 2024, winning the John Mackey Award as the nation’s best at his position. Warren will now enter the 2025 NFL Draft with a chance to be one of the top players off

Some teams see Travis Hunter as a cornerback. Others see him as a wide receiver. Hunter sees himself as both. “They say nobody has ever done it, for real, the way I do it, but I tell them I’m just different. I’m a different person,” Hunter said Thursday from the

Mason Graham won’t be the only Michigan defensive lineman passing on doing on-field drills during the Scouting Combine this week. NFL Media reports that Kenneth Grant will also be holding off until Michigan’s pro day. Grant was diagnosed with a hamstring strain during his medical check in Indianapolis and pushed

The Browns have the second overall pick in the draft and a need for a quarterback, so there’s been plenty of discussion about whether they will take Cam Ward or Shedeur Sanders early in the first round. On Wednesday, Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski said that the team has met

Defensive lineman Mason Graham will be skipping most drills at the Scouting Combine this week. Graham’s agent Ryan Matha told Ian Rapoport of NFL Media that his client will only do the bench press while in Indianapolis. Graham will do the rest of his drills at Michigan’s pro day workout.

Just after the end of the season, 49ers General Manager John Lynch told reporters that he thought left tackle Trent Williams still had a lot left in the tank. That has not changed in late February, as Lynch said on Wednesday that Williams is playing in 2025 “and he’s ready.”

A year ago at the scouting combine, the Patriots got a chance to see Drake Maye up close and in person. Now they have a quarterback to build around, with Maye displaying plenty of flashes during his rookie season. Patriots executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf said on

The Saints are adding another coach from the college ranks to new head coach Kellen Moore’s first staff. Luke Johnson of the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that they are going to hire Bo Davis as their defensive line coach. Davis had the same post at LSU during the 2024 season.

A year ago, the Bengals were widely expected to cut running back Joe Mixon before the Texans traded a seventh-round draft pick for him. At the time, some wondered why the Texans would trade anything at all for a player who was about to be available without having to give

One of the reasons why Mike Vrabel is the head coach of the Patriots in 2025 is because the team’s 2024 offseason failed to turn up enough productive players and Vrabel signaled his desire to move things the other way earlier this week. Vrabel said that he expects the Patriots