Category : Red Zone Rumors

It’s been a strange few weeks for the Rams and quarterback Matthew Stafford. And it got stranger than it has been on Saturday. That’s the day Stafford was expected to work out again, a week after throwing 60-plus passes sparked a setback in his recovery from a back problem. Before

Raiders rookie running back Ashton Jeanty gave the team a scare early in Saturday’s game against the 49ers and then he gave them a reminder of why they made him a first round pick. Jeanty went to the sideline medical tent after taking a hard hit on the first Raiders

Broncos coach Sean Payton and Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon agreed before Saturday’s game that they wouldn’t play their starters. But Broncos tight end Evan Engram was an exception. Payton said before the game that he might put in a few No. 1s for about eight plays, but of all the

Giants first-round rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart turned in his second straight strong preseason game on Saturday, but he won’t be given the opportunity to earn the starting job for the regular season. Asked after the game whether Dart could be in the starting quarterback conversation, Giants head coach Brian Daboll

Browns rookie quarterback Dillon Gabriel opened his first preseason start by leading the team on a touchdown drive, but the rest of his afternoon wasn’t quite as positive. Gabriel had an interception returned for a touchdown by Eagles rookie safety Andrew Mukuba and turned the ball over again on a

Panthers quarterback Andy Dalton was on the field for less time than he expected to play on Saturday. Dalton had to leave Carolina’s game against the Texans with an elbow injury. Head coach Dave Canales it is believed to be a sprain and that Dalton said he feels fine, but

Kyle Allen is pulling away from Hendon Hooker in the competition to be the No. 2 quarterback in Detroit. Allen started today’s game against the Dolphins and completed 14 of 17 passes for 124 yards and two touchdowns, with no interceptions. Hooker then came in and went 6-for-13 for 61

Running back De’Von Achane was one of 28 players who were inactive for the Dolphins in their 24-17 victory over the Lions on Saturday. Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel told reporters after that game that Achane has a soft-tissue lower-body injury that will keep him out between “days and weeks.” McDaniel,

Packers running back MarShawn Lloyd has yet another hamstring injury, Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Lloyd, who returned to practice from a groin injury Monday, left Saturday’s game early in the second quarter. He finished with six carries for 15 yards and one catch for 33 yards.

Chargers receiver Quentin Johnston was transported to a local hospital for precautionary reasons after suffering a concussion during Saturday’s preseason matchup with the Rams, head coach Jim Harbaugh told reporters after the game. With the Chargers’ starters playing, Johnston exited the contest after the third play of the game when

Dak Prescott has missed 26 games the past five seasons. For most of the games he missed, the Cowboys turned to Cooper Rush and felt pretty good about their chances. Rush went 9-5 as the team’s starter, including 4-4 last season in Prescott’s stead. On Saturday night, the Cowboys saw

Cowboys wide receiver Jonathan Mingo injured his right knee the play after a 49-yard reception. He left the game and did not return, with the team ruling him out. After the game, Mingo walked to the locker room without a noticeable limp and without anything on his knee. But Todd

Kyle Allen and Hendon Hooker are competing to be the backup to Jared Goff. While it’s not over, one of them is leading. Asked if it’s Allen’s job to lose, coach Dan Campbell said, “He’s playing better,” via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press. “He’s playing better,” Campbell added.

The NFL and the Chargers officially had no comment on the NCAA’s 10-year “show cause” order on head coach Jim Harbaugh when both parties were reached on Friday. Harbaugh himself reflected that same sentiment during his press conference after Saturday’s preseason matchup with the Rams. “Like I told you last

It’s a good thing for the Jets that the annual preseason game against the Giants no longer has the Snoopy trophy up for grabs. On Saturday night, the Giants won easily, 31-12. The word of the night for first-year head coach Aaron Glenn was “sloppy.” That’s what he said at

Chargers wide receiver Quentin Johnston’s head bounced off the turf after he took a big hit on an incomplete pass. On the third offensive play of the game against the Rams, quarterback Justin Herbert threw deep toward Johnston, who was covered by A.J. Green. Rams safety Tanner Ingle then arrived

Teddy Bridgewater would rather be coaching high-school football. He still has a little something to give to pro football. Despite being listed as “other” on the team’s depth chart, behind Baker Mayfield, Kyle Trask, and Connor Bazelak, Bridgewater got the start at quarterback for the Buccaneers in their Saturday night

ESPN Films had commissioned Spike Lee to create an eight-part documentary regarding former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The series, however, will not be released. Via Reuters.com, both ESPN and Lee said on Saturday that the docuseries is dead. “ESPN, Colin Kaepernick and Spike Lee have collectively decided to no longer

49ers right guard Dominick Puni is believed to have injured his posterior cruciate ligament and could miss a few weeks, coach Kyle Shanahan said after Saturday’s preseason game. Puni was injured on the starters’ lone drive. Left guard Ben Bartsch not not play against the Raiders because of an elbow

A week after throwing 68 passes and five days after not practicing because he wasn’t feeling great, Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford was due to work out again on Saturday. Did he? Via Adam Grosbard of the Los Angeles Daily News, a Rams spokesman declined to comment on whether the workout

Steelers outside linebacker Nick Herbig played only three snaps in Saturday’s preseason game against the Buccaneers. Herbig was in and out of the sideline medical tent, getting examined by Dr. James Bradley, Mark Kaboly of The Pat McAfee Show reports. Herbig went to the bench and pointed to his leg

This year’s collection of hold-ins included kicker Chris Boswell. His hold-in has ended as quietly as it began. Boswell is playing on Saturday night for the Steelers, in their preseason game againt the Buccaneers. He handled the opening kickoff. Under contract through 2026, the 34-year-old Boswell is due to make

Packers safety Omar Brown won’t be traveling back to Green Bay with the team on Saturday. Brown left the field during Saturday’s game against the Colts wearing an oxygen mask and head coach Matt LaFleur gave an update on his condition after the game. LaFleur said that Brown will remain

A comment Browns quarterback Dillon Gabriel made during a halftime interview at Saturday’s game against the Eagles became fodder for questions at his postgame interview. Gabriel was asked by Browns sideline reporter Aditi Kinkhabwala about handling outside noise and Gabriel said that “there are entertainers and there are competitors and

CeeDee Lamb drew a penalty, but he will not receive a fine for interfering with an official last week. Lamb was not playing and dressed in street clothes when he went out to the white part of the sideline reserved for officials during game action. He was hit from behind

Colts head coach Shane Steichen said this week that he wants to make a decision about the team’s starting quarterback sooner rather than later and it looks like that has a good chance of happening. Daniel Jones and Anthony Richardson both saw action in Saturday’s game against the Packers and

The 49ers played their starters to open Saturday’s game against the Raiders, but one member of the group had to leave with an injury. Right guard Dominick Puni exited the game and the 49ers announced that he was ruled out with a knee injury. More information about Puni’s outlook should

When Panthers rookie edge rusher Nic Scourton left a joint practice with the Texans this week, heat-related symptoms were given as the reason for his exit. Scourton did display those symptoms, but his actual issue turned out to be different. Panthers head coach Dave Canales said after Saturday’s game that

The Colts saw a pair of offensive tackles leave Saturday’s game against the Packers with injuries. Right tackle Braden Smith suffered a groin injury and the Colts announced that he would not return to the contest. The Colts opened the game without left tackle Bernhard Raimann as he is out

Second-round pick Tyler Shough will be the first man up at quarterback for the Saints on Sunday. The team announced that Shough will be the starter for their home game against the Jaguars. The rest of the plan at quarterback has not been revealed at this point. Spencer Rattler started

After a couple of joint-practice days in which the Vikings seemed to get the better of the Patriots, the Patriots sent their starting offense out for the first two drives of Saturday’s preseason game in Minnesota. The No. 1 unit punted once and then scored a touchdown. The first drive

Regardless of whether the NFL should have immediately set a hearing in the Rashee Rice disciplinary case the instant he pleaded guilty to two felonies on July 17, the league and Rice haven’t been able to strike a deal on suspension. The league, as recently noted by Tom Pelissero of

Commanders offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury said on Friday that the team needs to get wide receiver Terry McLaurin on the field in order for the offense to be ready for the start of the regular season and they took a step toward making that happen on Saturday. McLaurin has been

Quarterback Tanner McKee played well for the Eagles against the Bengals in the preseason opener and it looks like the team has seen enough to know they want to keep him healthy for the regular season. Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that McKee is not expected to play

Wide receiver Terry McLaurin’s activation from the physically unable to perform list on Saturday doesn’t signal a change in his contract impasse with the team. McLaurin went on the PUP list due to an ankle injury, but the move came after a multi-day holdout to kick off training camp so

It’s out in only three days. And it’s been a long road. I started writing Big Shield three years ago. Like the 10 or so other novels I’ve hunt-and-pecked to completion in the past five years, I started it, finished it, set it aside, and started on the next one.

For the second consecutive preseason game, the Browns will start a rookie quarterback. But this time it’s a different quarterback. Third-round pick Dillon Gabriel gets the start today against the Eagles, the Browns have announced. Last week, fifth-round pick Shedeur Sanders was the starter. Gabriel and Sanders are part of

Commanders offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury essentially said it on Friday. And it apparently worked. At some point, players who are holding in need to get to work. It’s the biggest flaw in the half measure between holding out and caving in. If a player reports for camp but declines to

The vast majority of college football coaches carve out a little time during each week of the season for a radio show. Bill Belichick is not among the vast majority of college football coaches. Via Reuters, North Carolina explained in a release on Friday that the program, previously known as

From time to time, a stray report emerges regarding the possibility of the Super Bowl being played in London. (Usually, the time for that is when the NFL is promoting its annual London games.) Most recently, the British ambassador to the U.S. made a public case to host the game.

Falcons rookie running back Nathan Carter’s attempt to leap over Lions safety Morice Norris in Atlanta’s first preseason game went awry when his knee collided with Norris’s helmet on a run early in the fourth quarter. Norris remained down and left the field in an ambulance, which led to the

Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald was pleased with his team’s performance in Friday night’s win over the Chiefs, at least on one side of the ball. “Offensively it’s about how you script it. Defensively I thought we would have played a little better,” Macdonald said. Macdonald was impressed with how

Titans head coach Brian Callahan says first overall pick Cam Ward is showing everything a franchise quarterback needs to show in his first two preseason games. Callahan said after the Titans played the Falcons Friday night that Ward played well, although Callahan wished the offense would have played better around

Current and former pro athletes continue to be targeted by thieves. Via Michael Shapiro of the Houston Chronicle, Hall of Fame receiver Andre Johnson recently was victimized by burglars. Among other things, his Hall of Fame ring was stolen. “Andre Johnson is my brother,” rapper and Houston native Lil Keke

Bears second-round pick Shemar Turner is back on the field. Turner injured his ankle in the first practice of training camp in July and the defensive tackle has missed the last few weeks of on-field work while recovering. Reporters at Friday’s joint practice with the Bills shared that Turner is

As it relates to college football, Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh will be attacking no days with an enthusiasm known to mankind. At least for a decade. The NCAA has imposed a 10-year “show cause” order on Harbaugh as part of the final punishment issued in connection with the Connor Stalions

On Friday morning, the NCAA imposed a 10-year “show cause” order against former Michigan coach, and current Chargers coach, Jim Harbaugh. Neither the league nor the Chargers have any comment on the matter. Both declined comment in response to requests from PFT. That doesn’t necessarily mean the league will do

Sam Darnold got his feet wet, playing 10 plays on one possession in the Seahawks’ second preseason game. The quarterback, who signed with the Seahawks in the offseason, did not throw the ball down the field with air yards of minus-5, minus-1, 1 and 4 yards on his four attempts.

Falcons rookie edge rusher Jalon Walker didn’t play in the team’s second preseason game Friday night. His absence was a surprise. Coach Raheem Morris said after the 23-20 loss to the Titans that Walker tweaked his groin near the end of Wednesday’s joint practice with the Titans. The Falcons expect

The Broncos have made a pair of moves at defensive back. According to multiple reports, Denver is signing cornerback Micah Abraham. A Colts sixth-round pick in 2024, Abraham did not make the team and was cut in late August. He landed on Cincinnati’s practice squad in October and remained with