Category : Red Zone Rumors

Defensive end Brandon Graham said this week that he’s planning on playing in Super Bowl LIX, but the Eagles haven’t ruled him in yet. Graham is officially listed as questionable to play against the Chiefs on Sunday. Graham is returning from a torn triceps he suffered in November and will

Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill said he was “opening the door” to leave Miami after the end of the regular season, but he shut it on Friday. Hill’s comments came after the Dolphins missed the playoffs and he dealt with a wrist injury throughout a season that saw him post

C.J. Gardner-Johnson is happy to be back in Philadelphia. He’s happier to be out of Detroit. The safety did not enjoy his one season with the Lions, saying “everybody” in the organization lied to him about his future there. “It was hell,” Gardner-Johnson told Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free

Broncos cornerback Patrick Surtain II was named the NFL’s defensive player of the year on Thursday night and his play during the 2024 season helped end a long playoff drought in Denver. Surtain was playing at a high level over his first three seasons as well, so it wasn’t just

At each year’s NFL Honors event, the league remembers people in the football world who have died during the previous year. But one Hall of Famer who died last year was kept out of Thursday night’s ceremony. O.J. Simpson, whose great football career was overshadowed by the murders of his

Quarterback Shedeur Sanders is expected to be an early pick in this year’s draft, but the exact spot he goes isn’t of great importance to him. Sanders said last month that he will be thankful if the Titans decide to make him the first overall pick come April and called

Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell has offered a hint that his team will let quarterback Sam Darnold test free agency, rather than franchise tag him. Shortly after winning the NFL’s coach of the year award, O’Connell told reporters that Darnold, who played for the Vikings on a one-year contract last season,

The Cowboys’ decision to hire Brian Schottenheimer as their new head coach hasn’t been met with much praise around the football world. After taking an extended period of time to part ways with Mike McCarthy, the Cowboys conducted a brief search process before promoting their offensive coordinator into the top

The Steelers have long been expected to be part of the NFL’s first regular season game in Ireland and their participation became official on Friday. The NFL announced that the Steelers will be the designated home team for a game in Dublin during the 2025 season. The date and opponent

The Browns have added another coach to Kevin Stefanski’s staff. Mike Garafolo of NFL Media reports that Christian Jones will be the team’s tight ends coach. The Browns created an opening for a tight ends coach when they promoted Tommy Rees to offensive coordinator. Jones spent the last three seasons

Another former Cardinals employee is making allegations against the team and its owner, Michael Bidwill. Bidwill’s former personal assistant, Brittany Neuheisel, has filed a wrongful discharge lawsuit against Bidwill and the Cardinals. Last year, former Cardinals personnel executive Terry McDonough won $3 million in arbitration for the team’s over-the-top P.R.

After the AP voters made the collectively stunning decision to name Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson the first-team All-Pro and Bills quarterback Josh Allen the NFL MVP, I posted my entire ballot for all awards. Unbeknownst to me, and other AP voters, the AP released all ballots, too. Per a source

Gregory Shamus/Getty Images Sunday could also further cement the individual legacies belonging to Mahomes and Reid. At the age of 29, Mahomes is already one of just three players with at least three rings, two regular-season MVPs and two Super Bowl MVPs. It’s him (3, 2, 3) along with Tom

One Hall of Famer has hired another at Colorado. Marshall Faulk has been named the new running backs coach for the Colorado Buffaloes, where his boss will be Deion Sanders. Faulk has no coaching experience, but he was an all-time great college running back at San Diego State and an

Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels capped his record-setting rookie season with offensive rookie of the year. The No. 2 overall pick in 2024 capped his first season Thursday night at NFL Honors, taking home some more hardware. He is the first Washington player to win the award since quarterback Robert Griffin

The Giants allowed Saquon Barkley to walk away in free agency. Their loss was the Eagles’ gain. Barkley became an MVP candidate in his first year with the Eagles. He isn’t likely to win that quarterback, which has become a quarterback award, but Barkley did win offensive player of the

Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow turned in a 2024 season good enough to make him a finalist for a pair of awards at Thursday night’s NFL Honors and he has taken home one of them. Voters selected Burrow as this year’s comeback player of the year. Burrow suffered a season-ending right

Rams linebacker Jared Verse won defensive rookie of the year, collecting his award at NFL Honors on Thursday night. Verse became the team’s first defensive rookie of the year since defensive lineman Aaron Donald in 2014. Rams defensive tackle Kobie Turner finished tied for second for the award last year.

Eli Manning might earn election into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but it won’t be this year. Manning was not elected on the first ballot, with the Hall of Fame announcing the Class of 2025 on Thursday night at NFL Honors. Jared Allen, Eric Allen, Sterling Sharpe and Antonio

The Pro Football Hall of Fame has made it harder to earn induction into Canton. The change in the bylaws, which this year changed the way the 49 selectors vote, resulted in only a four-player class. Defensive back Eric Allen, defensive end Jared Allen, tight end Antonio Gates and wide

Lamar Jackson won first-team All-Pro. He did not win a third MVP award. In one of the most stunning results in the history of the award, Josh Allen beat out Jackson for the 2024 MVP. He received 27 first-place votes and 383 points, while Jackson had 23 first-place votes and

The same 50 people who voted for the MVP award also voted for the All-Pro team. The votes were due only two days apart, in the immediate aftermath of Week 18. And, somehow, the tabulation of the ballots resulted in Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson being named the first-team All-Pro quarterback

We’re big on transparency in these parts, because the lack of it causes people to wonder what’s really going on behind the curtain. Last year, I posted my full AP awards ballot, which went five deep at MVP and three for all other awards. My 2024 ballot, which now has

Jaguars defensive end Arik Armstead was named the 2024 Walter Payton NFL Man of The Year on Thursday night at NFL Honors. Armstead is the second Jaguars player to win the award, joining Calais Campbell, who won the award in 2019. He was a nominee for the award for a

The Vikings began the season with an over-under win total of 6.5 after losing quarterback Kirk Cousins in free agency. They drafted J.J. McCarthy and signed veteran Sam Darnold, but McCarthy was lost for the season in August with a full meniscus tear in his knee. Still, the Vikings went

It started as a one-year thing. And it will now continue. Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal reports that Prime Video will continue to televise a Wild Card game for the balance of its current broadcast deal. While reported a seven-year commitment, the NFL has an early out under all

Broncos cornerback Pat Surtain II became the second player in team history to win defensive player of the year. He joined Hall of Fame linebacker Randy Gradishar (1978) in earning the award. Von Miller finished second in voting for the award in 2012 and 2016 when he was with the

It all comes down to this. For history. And, more importantly, for the Florio and Simms full-season competition. After 272 regular-season games and 12 postseason games, we’re one game apart in the straight-up picks contest. I’m 195-89, and he’s 194-90. And we disagree on who will win Super Bowl LIX.

Eagles defensive tackle Jalen Carter (illness) returned to full participation in Thursday’s practice. He was limited Wednesday. He was the only player on the practice report with an illness, though Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio told NBC Sports Philadelphia that an illness is going around through some of the team.

The Chiefs added punter Matt Araiza to their injury report on Thursday. Araiza also handles the holding duties for kicker Harrison Butker, so his absence would affect them in multiple areas, but it doesn’t look like they’ll need to scramble for someone to fill his role. Araiza was able to

Boise State running back Ashton Jeanty is expected to hear his name in the first round of the NFL draft. Jeanty’s dream is not to go as high as possible but to go to the Cowboys, who have the 12th overall pick. Jeanty grew up in Frisco, Texas, home of

The Eagles have been so effective gaining first downs with the “tush push” quarterback sneak that some teams have tried to get the NFL to ban it. But Eagles coach Nick Sirianni says it’s not about the play, it’s about the players who run it. “You don’t run the play

Cooper Kupp is on the trade block with all indications being that his time with the Rams has come to an end. Quarterback Matthew Stafford, whose future in Los Angeles is also a bit in flux, said in an interview this week that it will be tough to see Kupp

The Buccaneers blocked a pair of assistant coaches from interviewing with the Jaguars in the wake of Liam Coen’s move to Jacksonville as their new head coach and both of those coaches will have new titles for the 2025 season. Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times reports that they

The Bears announced that team owner Virginia Halas McCaskey died at the age of 102. McCaskey took control of the team after the death of her father George Halas in 1983. She was on hand for the team’s only Super Bowl title after the 1985 season and was alive for

Bears wide receiver Rome Odunze is excited to play for new head coach Ben Johnson — and excited about showing off some skills he hasn’t previously displayed, thanks to Johnson’s penchant for trick plays. Odunze said on the PFT Live set at Super Bowl LIX that he’s already thinking about

49ers tight end George Kittle said before the 2023 season that he and the rest of the team were “very aware” that their Super Bowl window might be closing because of the difficulty of keeping a winning team together for many seasons. The 49ers went to the Super Bowl that

Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby liked the energy in the room when Pete Carroll was introduced as the team’s new head coach last month and his good feelings about the direction of the organization haven’t gone away. Crosby was a guest on PFT Live in New Orleans on Thursday and

Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce says no one has meant more to him than head coach Andy Reid. Kelce was drafted by the Chiefs just two months after Reid became their head coach, and the first person Kelce heard from was his brother, former Eagles center Jason Kelce, who had

Former Bears offensive coordinator Shane Waldron has found a landing spot for 2025. According to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, Waldron is joining the Jaguars’ coaching staff, likely as pass-game coordinator. Waldron, 45, coached with Coen on the Rams from 2018-2020. The Bears hired Waldron last year after he’d spent 2021-2023

The Lions are remaking their coaching staff after a number of departures following their playoff loss to the Commanders and a former NFL quarterback will be among the new faces. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Bruce Gradkowski has agreed to join the team as an offensive assistant. Gradkowski spent

The non-Pro Bowl Pro Bowl isn’t doing very well with the customers. Via Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal, the NFL’s All-Star event attracted 4.7 million viewers on ABC, ESPN, and DisneyXD. The number reflects an 18-percent drop from last year. It’s also the lowers live audience for the Sunday

After word that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones spoke to Deion Sanders early in the team’s coaching search, Sanders said that it was intriguing to hear from Jones but that he loves being the coach at the University of Colorado. Sanders never had a formal interview for the job before the

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When the Fox crew attended Wednesday’s Chiefs practice to prepare for its Super Bowl LIX broadcast, all the announcers were there — except Tom Brady. According to the Pro Football Writers Association’s pool report from Wednesday, those in attendance at the practice included Kevin Burkhardt, Erin Andrews, Tom Rinaldi, Jimmy

The Chiefs aren’t carrying any major injury concerns into Super Bowl LIX and the Eagles’ biggest question mark on that front is defensive end Brandon Graham. Graham is trying to return from the torn triceps he suffered in Week 12 of the regular season and he returned to practice last

Former Panthers and Commanders coach Ron Rivera is taking a new job at the college level. Rivera confirmed to multiple reporters that he’s heading back to his Alma Mater Cal to help the program in a front-office role. “Coach Belichick has made going back to school, cool,” Rivera said in

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has talked about expanding the NFL regular season to 18 games on multiple occasions recently and the NFL Players Association had a chance to respond from New Orleans on Wednesday. In his opening comments at a press conference, NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell referenced comments Goodell

Tom Brady is easily the greatest postseason quarterback in NFL history. But Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has put himself into a position where he could be the clear No. 2 with a win over the Eagles on Super Bowl Sunday. Here’s where Mahomes stands in some of the NFL’s most

The Chiefs are the favorites in Super Bowl LIX, but bettors like the odds they’re getting on the Eagles. The most popular Super Bowl bet is on the Eagles moneyline, according to BetMGM. The Eagles opened as +110 underdogs, which means a $100 bet will pay $110 if they win.