Category : Red Zone Rumors

Colorado quarterback Dominiq Ponder has died. He was 23. “The entire CU Athletics family is devastated at the tragic passing of Dominiq Ponder,” Colorado Athletic Director Fernando Lovo said in a statement, via Adam Rittenberg of ESPN.com. “He epitomized the values of passion, enthusiasm, leadership, toughness, and intelligence that were

No lead is safe against Lion Messi. The superstar forward scored twice and helped Inter Miami erase a 2-0 deficit, beating Orlando City 4-2 on Sunday. Mateo Silvetti and Telasco Segovia added goals in Inter Miami’s second-half barrage of scoring. This article will be updated soon to provide more information

The Texans surprisingly parted ways with quarterbacks coach Jerrod Johnson last week, but Johnson wasn’t out of work for long. Johnson is joining the Eagles’ coaching staff, according to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network. It’s still unclear why Johnson departed Houston, and why during the Scouting Combine, which is a

While much of the NFL’s attention is on the Scouting Combine, there is no shortage of trade discussion as the offseason gets underway. ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported on a number of trade candidates Sunday, including Las Vegas Raiders star pass-rusher Maxx Crobsy. While Fowler noted a team source previously said

A year ago, the Patriots signed free agent pass rusher K’Lavon Chaisson to a one-year, $3 million contract. That turned out to be a bargain — a bargain the Patriots won’t get again. Chaisson had the best season of his career in 2025, recording 7.5 sacks in the regular season

For most positions, the 40-yard dash doesn’t mean much. Those players will run 40 yards in a straight line during a game only when something very good, or very bad, is happening on the field. For receivers, it’s far more relevant. And Mississippi State receiver Brenan Thompson ran a blazing

Former AEW wrestler Danhausen was revealed to be in WWE’s mystery box on Saturday at Elimination Chamber in Chicago. Shortly after CM Punk beat Finn Balor to retain his WWE World Heavyweight Championship, Raw general manager Adam Pearce and SmackDown GM Nick Aldis opened the box. A host of dancers

Taylen Green had mixed results as the starting quarterback at Arkansas over the last two seasons, but he may have helped his chances of getting drafted at the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis on Saturday. Green broke Anthony Richardson’s vertical leap record by hitting 43.5 inches in Saturday’s testing. Green also

A move for Las Vegas Raiders Pro Bowl pass-rusher Maxx Crosby is reportedly something the reigning AFC champion New England Patriots could consider this offseason. According to Andrew Callahan and Doug Kyed of the Boston Herald, league sources don’t believe the Raiders are “serious” about trading Crosby, but a Patriots

Ohio State’s Arvell Reese was a versatile player in college, lining up just about anywhere a linebacker can line up. In the NFL, he sees himself as an outside linebacker. Although Reese is doing drills at the Scouting Combine at both edge rusher and off-ball linebacker, he said on PFT

Fewer prospects than ever are working out at the Scouting Combine this year. Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love won’t be one of those, though. The draft’s top running back prospect said Friday that he will run the 40-yard dash and participate in the position drills on Saturday. “Just to

The 2026 NFL scouting combine continued on Friday, as prospects looked to boost their draft stock at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Defensive backs and tight ends were in action during the second day of on-field workouts, with several players making a strong impression. This includes Indiana cornerback D’Angelo Ponds,

The Cowboys officially placed the non-exclusive franchise tag on wide receiver George Pickens, which will carry a salary of $27.298 million for the 2026 season. The NFL announced the official franchise tag and transition numbers on Friday. Clarence Hill of All-City DLLS reports that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones called Pickens

Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea are no strangers in the Champions League’s round-of-16. The pair met at that stage in the competition’s 2014-15 and 2015-16 editions, with the Blues knocked out both times. However, the London side did beat the French capital outfit in the 2013-14 quarterfinal, so PSG have not

Warren Sapp is leaving his position as a member of Deion Sanders’ coaching staff at Colorado. Colorado announced that Sapp has decided to leave the program, where he worked for two years, most recently with the title of pass rush coordinator. “Warren Sapp has resigned from the CU football coaching

The NFL’s pivot to streaming isn’t as seamless as the league would hope. Ditching free TV for an ever-expanding array of fee-based platforms has sparked multiple forms of governmental scrutiny. Most recently, the FCC has opened an inquiry regarding the ongoing migration of live sports to streaming. The agency seeks

The mutual interest between the Vikings and Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson should come as no surprise. After the two teams played in Week 9 of the 2024 season, Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell sought out Richardson, who had been benched at the time for Joe Flacco. “Do me a favor and

The NCAA’s Division I Football Rules Subcommittee proposed adopting new rules that would go into effect with the 2026 season, including one lessening the punishment for targeting. A player who commits targeting for the first time would still be ejected but wouldn’t miss any time in his team’s next game.

Texas A&M edge rusher Cashius Howell had 27 sacks in his five-year college career, with 25 of those coming in his final three seasons. In 2025, Howell won SEC Defensive Player of the Year honors with 11.5 sacks. Shemar Stewart, who Howell played behind in 2024, had only 11 sacks

College football players who are good enough to turn pro are increasingly choosing to stay in college, where their NIL paychecks can rival what they’d be making in the NFL. Chiefs General Manager Brett Veach said now that the NCAA allows players to make money off their names, images and

Will the Raiders trade defensive end Maxx Crosby? Yes, if they get what they want for him. Per a league source, the Raiders are looking for two first-round picks and a player for the 28-year-old edge rusher. That’s what the Cowboys got for Micah Parsons in August, with the player

For many NFL players, especially proven veterans, OTAs are an afterthought and they instead wait until later in the offseason to report to the team’s facility. But new Baltimore Ravens head coach Jesse Minter hopes to change players’ attitudes toward OTAs. He said on Chris Simms Unbuttoned on Wednesday that

The Broncos dipped into the college ranks to find a replacement for Jim Leonhard as their defensive pass game coordinator. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the Broncos will hire University of Colorado defensive coordinator Robert Livingston to fill that spot on Sean Payton’s coaching staff. Leonhard left the Broncos

As decision-makers from all 32 NFL teams have descended on Indianapolis for the scouting combine, the offseason trade market is starting to pick up steam heading into the beginning of the new league year in March. The state of Florida is the current home for many potential trade targets given

The Week 14 Ravens-Steelers game featured multiple mistakes by the officials. At the time, the NFL admitted one. Today, the league admitted another. The third was apparently admitted, until it wasn’t. For starters, the league admitted after the game that an unnecessary roughness penalty called on defensive tackle Travis Jones

The Bears are moving closer to a move to Indiana. Via NBC 5 in Chicago, the Indiana House of Representatives based a bill that would devote up to $1 billion in public funding for a stadium in Indiana by the overwhelming vote of 95-4. That doesn’t mean Illinois is giving

Anthony Richardson’s first three pro seasons have not gone as he or the Colts would have planned. But it sounds like Richardson, the No. 4 overall pick of the 2023 draft, should be ready for the start of the offseason program in April after missing most of 2025 due to

Kansas City Chiefs general manager Brett Veach didn’t provide much insight when addressing the playing status of tight end Travis Kelce in 2026. “Travis is the best. He’s an icon,” the GM said Tuesday. “… We’ll just let that process play out.” Veach told reporters the team has “kind of

The NFL won’t be discussing a proposal to ban the tush push this offseason, but there could be further conversations about other ways that offensive players aid ball carriers. NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent said on Monday that the deadline for a team to propose a

The WWE’s tribute to the retiring AJ Styles was interrupted by a surprise guest on at Monday Night Raw. The Undertaker showed up in the ring to inform Styles that he will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2026: It was the culmination of quite the tribute

The Scouting Combine is mostly for players who are draft eligible, but this year at least one quarterback who has already been on an NFL roster will have scouts checking him out in Indianapolis. Free agent quarterback Taylor Elgersma, who spent three months on the Packers’ 90-player roster last summer,

The Cowboys have a predicament. They want to keep receiver George Pickens, but they don’t want to pay him fair market value. And so they plan to use the collectively-bargained device that gives each team the power to keep one free agent per year from becoming a free agent. They

The Bills will be moving into a new stadium for the 2026 season and they’ll commemorate the moment with a patch on their jerseys. The team unveiled the design for a patch that they’ll wear for their first home game at the new Highmark Stadium. The date for that game

Ronyell Whitaker, a cornerback who spent six years playing pro football, has died at the age of 46. “The Whitaker family is heartbroken to share the passing of our beloved son, brother and friend, Ronyell Deshawn Whitaker, who departed this life on Feb. 22, 2026,” Whitaker’s family said in a

Claressa Shields reigned supreme as the undisputed heavyweight champion with a unanimous decision win over Franchon Crews-Dezum at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. Shields and her rival wasted no time in throwing heavy leather at one another. They exchanged wild punches in the opening moments of the bout.  Crews-Dezurn did

Who wears short shorts? Not NFL players. And the league hopes to keep it that way. Via Judy Battista of NFL Media, the Competition Committee talked about uniforms on Sunday. Specifically, they discussed the fact that the college football cutoffs won’t be coming to the NFL. It’s sort of strange

Sunday was an emotional day for freestyle skier Eileen Gu, who ended her 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics by winning the gold in the women’s freeski halfpipe but also learned her grandmother, Guozhen Feng, had died. “She inspired me so much,” Gu said, per Pat Graham and Eddie Pells of the

Running back Javonte Williams bet on himself last year, signing a one-year, $3 million deal. He delivered, with a career-high 1,200 rushing yards. His reward was a three-year, $24 million deal to remain with the Cowboys. Since the Williams deal was the first significant contract signed by a looming free

NFL wide receiver Rondale Moore, who died on Saturday at the age of 25, was drafted by the Cardinals in 2021 and spent his first three NFL seasons in Arizona. The news of his death hit the Cardinals organization hard. “We are devastated and heartbroken by today’s news concerning Rondale

The Vikings have issued a statement following the sudden passing of receiver Rondale Moore, who died Saturday at age 25. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of Rondale Moore,” the Vikings said. “While we are working to understand the facts, we have spoken with Rondale’s family to offer our

After the Week 16 Thursday night overtime thriller between the Rams and Seahawks, L.A. coach Sean McVay was apoplectic about the manner in which replay review changed an incomplete pass into a successful two-point conversion. The Rams plan to try to do something about it. Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports

Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield added some spice to his team’s rivalry with the Falcons when Kevin Stefanski became Atlanta’s head coach, making clear that he still has hard feelings about the way his time with Stefanski in Cleveland ended. But now Mayfield is downplaying any issue with Stefanski. “There’s stuff

The NFL isn’t the only entity that has a P.R. problem arising from the not-so-brief association between Giants co-owner Steve Tisch and Jeffrey Epstein. In 2012, Tufts University opened the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center, a 42,000-square-foot athletic facility. Asked by Front Office Sports whether Tufts is considering renaming

The Cardinals previously introduced the coordinators on Mike LaFleur’s staff, announcing the hires of special teams coordinator Michael Ghobrial and offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett and the return of defensive coordinator Nick Rallis. On Friday, the Cardinals announced the rest of the staff, which includes 10 holdovers from the previous season.

The restaurant started by Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce is getting some free publicity, via an apparent effort by a largely unknown sneaker company to generate some free publicity. Via Michael Rothstein of ESPN.com, 1587 Sneakers has sued Mahomes, Kelces, and their business partners over the

Polish speedskater Kamila Sellier was stretchered out of Milano Ice Skating Arena after another skater’s blade slashed her face near her left eye during the women’s 1,500 meter quarterfinal on Friday at the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. Sellier was injured in a crash also involving Italy’s Ariana Fontana and the

Thursday’s groundbreaking ceremony for a new Cardinals practice facility likely wasn’t supposed to be contentious. It got that way, a little. Via Theo Mackie of the Arizona Republic, owner Michael Bidwill faced several questions about the fact that his franchise doesn’t have a team president. Asked why the team doesn’t

The official start to the 2026 NFL offseason is nearly upon us. The coaching carousel has slowed, the franchise-tag window opened on Tuesday, and the new league year will begin at 4 p.m. ET on March 11. March 11 will also mark the official start of free agency, while the

Buccaneers quarterback Teddy Bridgewater saw his career as a high-school coach in Miami end after other coaches complained that he was spending his own money to help his players. An effort is now underway to allow high-school coaches in Florida to do that. Via Andy Villamarzo of Rivals.com, the Florida

Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker exited the team’s clash with the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday due to right hip soreness and was later ruled out for the remainder of the game. Booker checked out of the contest in the first quarter and wasn’t visible on Phoenix’s bench. He eventually