Category : Red Zone Rumors

Shannon Sharpe will not be returning to ESPN. According to Andrew Marchand of TheAthletic.com, ESPN has cut ties with Sharpe after the Hall of Famer settled a lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault. The settlement was announced by the accuser’s attorney, Tony Buzbee, earlier in July. Sharpe had strongly denied

The Dolphins have started three quarterbacks in two of head coach Mike McDaniel’s seasons with the club. So while Quinn Ewers may have been drafted in the seventh round this year out of Texas, the odds of him starting a game as a rookie are much higher than zero as

The good news for Bills first-round pick Maxwell Hairston is that he avoided an ACL injury when he went down at Tuesday’s practice without being contacted. The bad news for the rookie cornerback is that he will miss a big chunk of his first NFL training camp. NFL Media reports

Defensive end Trey Hendrickson reported to Bengals training camp on Wednesday, but that’s not a sign that there’s been a breakthrough in talks about a contract extension. Hendrickson is in the final year of his current deal and has been looking for a new one for a long time. Bengals

Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez is going to be off the practice field for a little while. Gonzalez left Monday’s practice with an undisclosed injury and he remained off the field on Tuesday and Wednesday. Head coach Mike Vrabel did not offer any details about Gonzalez’s issue at his Wednesday press

Receiver Hunter Renfrow’s comeback took a brief pause on Wednesday. Renfrow did not practice due to a hamstring issue, Panthers head coach Dave Canales told reporters in his press conference after the session. However, Canales noted that Renfrow said he could have played in a game if it were necessary.

Browns offensive tackle Dawand Jones exited Wednesday’s practice early, but there isn’t major reason for concern. Via multiple reporters, Jones left practice due to issues with the heat. It’s been hot in Northeast Ohio this week, with today’s high expected to reach 87 degrees and a heat index of 92.

Tiki Barber is leaving the CBS broadcast booth and returning to the only team he played for in the NFL. The Giants announced that Barber will join their broadcast crew as a pre- and post-game host on the radio. The Giants’ flagship radio station is WFAN and Barber co-hosts a

Cam Ward was the No. 1 overall pick in this year’s draft and is set to be the Titans’ starter from Day 1. But he doesn’t seem like a player who has lost the chip on his shoulder from being a zero-star recruit. “I don’t care about the hype,” Ward

Defensive end Trey Hendrickson is officially back with the Bengals. Tuesday night brought word that Hendrickson would report to the team’s training camp and pictures from Wednesday’s practice show that Hendrickson has made it to Cincinnati. Hendrickson is not taking part in that practice, but is on the field in

Falcons running back Bijan Robinson finished last season with 365 touches — No. 2 in the league behind Saquon Barkley’s 378. With Michael Penix Jr. now set to start the season at quarterback, Robinson should be plenty involved in every aspect of the offense once again — particularly the pass

With the Raiders moving on from defensive tackle Christian Wilkins, many questions linger. Especially with the report that a teammate made a report to the team’s human resources department after Wilkins allegedly kissed him on the forehead. On Tuesday, coach Pete Carroll declined to comment on that report. Defensive tackle

At a time when they should be making progress, the Cowboys and linebacker Micah Parsons are not. Adam Schefter of ESPN.com said Tuesday that the two sides are moving in the wrong direction. Via Leocciano Callao of Yahoo Sports, Schefter said the player and team are “further away from a

Bears head coach Ben Johnson was lauded for his creativity while running the offense for the Lions for the last few seasons and he’s working on putting some twists on the Bears offense during training camp practices. Reporters at Bears practices this summer have noted that wide receiver DJ Moore

Ravens tight end Isaiah Likely suffered an injury in Tuesday’s practice that will keep him off the field for a while, but a return for Week 1 is reportedly still in play. ESPN reports that Likely fractured his foot during the session. Head coach John Harbaugh said that Likely will

Broncos wide receiver Courtland Sutton said that he was thinking about more than himself when it came time to sign a contract extension with the team this week. Sutton signed a four-year deal worth $92 million that provides a significant boost to his average annual salary. It falls behind the

When Jimmy Garoppolo was benched as the Raiders’ starting quarterback in 2023, the team’s No. 1 receiver, Davante Adams, endorsed the move. Now Adams and Garoppolo are teammates again on the Rams, and Adams says anyone who thinks he has a problem with Garoppolo doesn’t understand what the situation was

Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson says he’s preparing himself as if he’ll be under center when the season opens against the Dolphins on September 7. Richardson is competing with Daniel Jones for the starting job in Indianapolis, and Richardson said he has lofty goals for himself and his team. “I’ve just

Justin Fields returned to team drills Monday, four days after dislocating a toe on his right foot. He is wearing a plastic covering on the toe of his right shoe to protect the injured toe. “Almost like a steel toe,” Fields told reporters after Tuesday’s practice. Fields was “relieved” the

Chiefs wide receiver Hollywood Brown said last month that his “No. 1 goal” is to stay healthy this season after missing most of last season. It didn’t look good Tuesday when he exited practice on a cart with an ankle injury. Jordan Schultz, though, reports that Brown avoided a serious

The Browns have four quarterbacks on the active roster, and a fifth on the Physically Unable to Perform list. The curveball came in round five of the draft, when Cleveland added rookie Shedeur Sanders with the 144th overall pick. Just two rounds after the Browns selected quarterback Dillon Gabriel in

The Panthers made a change at wide receiver on Tuesday. The team announced that they have signed Ja’Seem Reed to their 90-man roster. Wide receiver Dan Chisena was released in a corresponding move. Reed worked out for the team earlier this week and spent time with the Browns after going

Bears rookie wide receiver Luther Burden practiced for the first time in training camp on Monday and the second-round pick has some catching up to do. Head coach Ben Johnson was asked at about the impact of the time Burden has missed because of the hamstring injury that also limited

Browns cornerback Martin Emerson had to be carted off the field after an injury in Tuesday’s practice. Reporters at the practice said that Emerson injured his left leg during a 7-on-7 drill. The injury was a non-contact one and multiple reports noted Emerson’s distraught appearance as he rode off the

Kurt Warner will be in the booth for the second game of the 2025 NFL season. Warner will be the commentator on YouTube’s broadcast of the Friday night Week One Chargers-Chiefs game in Brazil, according to TheAthletic.com. YouTube has not yet hired a play-by-play broadcaster. A Hall of Fame quarterback,

Ravens tight end Isaiah Likely was carted off the practice field Tuesday. “We’ll know more tomorrow,” coach John Harbaugh said, via video from the team. “It’s going to be a few weeks, though. He rolled his ankle, foot area. We’ll get an MRI tomorrow and see exactly what needs to

Veteran linebacker Devin White is off to a good start at Raiders camp. White was a second-team All-Pro and a Pro Bowler early in his career with the Buccaneers, but his play tailed off in 2023 after he requested a trade in response to the lack of movement toward a

The Patriots announced a couple of transactions on Tuesday afternoon. They have signed linebacker R.J. Moten to the 90-man roster. The spot for Moten opened up when the Patriots put fullback Brock Lampe on injured reserve. Moten went undrafted out of Florida this year and he spent time with the

After years of doing practically anything and everything else, the Packers finally selected a receiver in the first round of the draft a few months ago. Now, Matthew Golden is establishing chemistry with quarterback Jordan Love in training camp. After Tuesday’s practice, Love complimented Golden on his ability to track

Broncos linebacker Dre Greenlaw has had a difficult journey to NFL stardom, and that made it personal to him when he hit free agency in March and had the opportunity to decide for himself where he’d play. Greenlaw spent much of his childhood in shelters, group homes and the foster

Vikings star receiver Justin Jefferson has been sidelined by a hamstring strain for the last few days. While head coach Kevin O’Connell still feels like Jefferson will be able to play Week 1 when Minnesota opens the season against Chicago, he would like to see Jefferson on the field in

Bills rookie cornerback Maxwell Hairston was forced out of Tuesday’s practice with an injury. Cornerback Dane Jackson said, via Matt Parrino of NewYorkUpstate.com, that Hairston suffered a non-contact injury on a ““freak trip up” during positional drills. The first-round pick left the field to be examined by the team’s medical

The gunman who killed four people in a Midtown Manhattan office building Monday was targeting the NFL offices but took the wrong elevator bank in the tower. An NFL employee was seriously injured in the shooting. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addressed employees in the league office in a Tuesday evening

For most teams, withholding services via a holdout eventually creates the pressure needed to get a deal done. The Bengals are not most teams. They don’t care if a player stays away. For them, it’s about power and precedent. And since they weren’t going to blink over defensive end Trey

The Cowboys hurt Trevon Diggs’ feelings for exercising the salary de-escalator in the cornerback’s contract. Team officials said they expected Diggs to be a better leader by participating in 84.375 percent of the offseason program at the team facility, which was stipulated in his contract. Diggs credited his rehab team

The Cowboys have a well-earned reputation for dragging their feet on doing deals for key players. That doesn’t stop them from claiming they don’t. “We don’t drag deals out,” Cowboys COO and co-owner Stephen Jones told 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, via Nick Harris of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “We

Bengals defensive end Trey Hendrickson is ending his holdout. According to multiple reports, Hendrickson will report to Bengals training camp on Wednesday. Hendrickson also skipped the team’s mandatory minicamp as he looks for a new deal and he will be subject to fines of $50,000 a day for the time

Dolphins offensive lineman Bayron Matos has been released from the hospital. Matos was helicoptered to the hospital after suffering an injury during the first practice of training camp and a team official confirmed to the Miami Herald that Matos is out after a multiple-day stay. There’s no further update on

The Browns swapped out centers Tuesday, the team announced. They signed Bucky Williams and waived Brady Latham. Williams is entering his second NFL season out of Appalachian State. He originally signed with the Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2024 but spent his rookie season on injured reserve. The

The Falcons removed cornerback Cobee Bryant and defensive lineman LaCale London from the non-football injury list, the team announced Wednesday. Both were active in the fourth open practice. London spent last season on the Falcons’ practice squad and signed a futures contract at the end of the season. He was

Browns cornerback Martin Emerson Jr. injured his left Achilles during Tuesday’s practice, the team announced. He will undergo an MRI to confirm the severity. Reports from practice indicated it was serious by the reaction of Emerson and teammates. He rode off on the back of a cart with a towel

After a lackluster 2024 with the 49ers, receiver Deebo Samuel was traded from San Francisco to Washington during the offseason. Samuel told reporters on Monday that he felt fully recovered from the pneumonia he came down with toward the end of last season. Now healthy, he wants to show how

Believe it or not, the 2025 preseason begins in just two days when the Chargers take on the Lions. While this extra preseason matchup is not going to feature starters, Los Angeles head coach Jim Harbaugh has provided at least one reason to tune into the action. Via multiple reporters,

The Broncos reached an agreement with Courtland Sutton on a contract extension this week, as the receiver is now under contract with the club through 2029. On Tuesday, head coach Sean Payton spoke highly of Sutton in his press conference. “No. 1, I mean, he epitomizes what we’re looking for,

In the wake of defensive tackle Christian Wilkins’ release from the Raiders, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Monday that Wilkins “playfully went to kiss a teammate on top of his head.” The teammate then objected to that and filed a report with the club’s H.R. department. Las Vegas head coach

The 49ers have placed defensive end Tarron Jackson on injured reserve, the team announced on Tuesday. Jackson, 27, had to be taken off the field on a stretcher over the weekend after sustaining a neck injury. He was taken to Stanford Hospital, where he was conscious and had feeling in

The Seahawks have swapped out one defensive lineman for another. Seattle announced on Tuesday that the club has signed rookie defensive tackle Thor Griffith. Griffith, an undrafted player out of Louisville, had previously been with Seattle during rookie minicamp on a tryout basis. He recorded 21 total tackles with 3.0

Last year, Jets owner Woody Johnson seemed to be overly involved in the management of his football team. This year, he’s apparently taking a back seat. Tom Rock of Newsday explains that Johnson is trusting new G.M. Darren Mougey and new coach Aaron Glenn to take care of the football

Veteran running back Cordarrelle Patterson broke the news of his release by the Steelers on Monday and the team made it official on Tuesday. Patterson was formally cut loose as part of a string of roster moves included in the team’s announcement. Patterson is now free to sign with another

The Giants got a scare from wide receiver Malik Nabers at practice on Tuesday, but it looks like it will be a minor one. Nabers had to leave practice after hurting his shoulder. He left with members of the training staff to be evaluated away from the field. NFL Media