Category : Red Zone Rumors

The Bengals have struggled with slow starts in recent years. After rattling through questions to reporters regarding the team’s recent early-season issues during a Tuesday press conference, receiver Ja’Marr Chase reached a conclusion. “Sounds like we need to play preseason, huh?” Chase told reporters. “Shit, I mean y’all found y’all

49ers rookie edge rusher Mykel Williams has been an NFL player only a month. Yet, with Nick Bosa taking Williams under his wing, Williams said he’s learned a lot. “Learning from Bosa — Bosa came in and helped me tremendously,” Williams told Kay Adams on Up and Adams on Tuesday,

The Broncos will be honoring the late Demaryius Thomas this season. The team announced on Tuesday that Thomas has been elected to the team’s Ring of Fame. The wide receiver will be the 38th inductee when he enters the group during halftime of a Week Seven game against the Giants.

After NFL owners voted to allow active players to participate in the 2028 Olympics, Justin Jefferson called it “a dream” to potentially win a gold medal in flag football. But one of his LSU college teammates isn’t so sure. On Tuesday, Ja’Marr Chase told reporters that he needs more information

For the first time in his NFL career, Bryce Young has the same offense, the same offensive coordinator and the same head coach. Instead of learning something new, Young is getting better at what he already knows. “I think it’s just being able to build off of the foundation we

The Cardinals made a couple of changes on their defensive line on Tuesday. They announced that they have released defensive lineman Ben Stille. They signed defensive lineman Patrick Jenkins to the 90-man roster in a corresponding move. Stille had three tackles, a sack, and three passes defensed in three games

Pablo Torre of Pablo Torre Finds Out has been finding out plenty about North Carolina coach Bill Belichick and his 24-year-old girlfriend/handler/publicist/idea mill/creative muse Jordon Hudson. And Torre’s effort to find out even more could, in theory, result in him getting sued. But it also could result in Torre doing

The Jaguars have someone new in charge for the coming season, and one of the club’s best defensive players is excited about him. Edge rusher Travon Walker shared his excitement about head coach Liam Coen after the club’s OTA practice on Tuesday. “I love him. He brings great energy,” Walker

The top two picks of the 2023 NFL Draft will get a chance to catch up this summer. Panthers head coach Dave Canales said that his team will practice with the Texans ahead of their August preseason game in Houston. The Panthers selected quarterback Bryce Young to open the first

The Pro Football Writers of America announced Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow as the winner of the 2025 George Halas Award. The award is given annually to an NFL player, coach or staff member who overcomes the most adversity to succeed. Burrow injured his wrist in 2023, missing the final seven

After a 2024 season marred by an extended holdout following a trade from the Eagles to the Jets, defensive end Haason Reddick joined the Buccaneers as a free agent. Reddick wasn’t present for the first OTA of the 2025 offseason program. Yes, it’s voluntary. No, the Bucs didn’t add a

The Panthers will not have tight end Tommy Tremble on the field for the final phase of their offseason work. Head coach Dave Canales told reporters after Tuesday’s practice that Tremble had back surgery recently. He will miss the rest of the spring, but is expected to return to action

Former Colts quarterback Peyton Manning recently credited the late Jim Irsay as making Indianapolis a football town. Manning’s comment gave us an idea. On Tuesday’s PFT Live, we did a draft of the best football towns. It’s a subjective analysis, based on a variety of quantitative and qualitative factors. It’s

Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins has participated in aspects of the team’s voluntary offseason program. But as the club begins its OTA practices on Tuesday, Cousins is not in the building. “I did not see him today,” head coach Raheem Morris said during his Tuesday press conference. “[H]e did not show

The Colts will honor the late Jim Irsay on their uniforms this season. The team announced on Tuesday that they will be putting a patch on their jerseys to honor Irsay, who died on May 21. Irsay’s initials and signature will appear on the black patch. The signature will include

In 2011, the lockout ended with the NFL Players Association getting, roughly speaking, a 50-50 share of all revenue. Many critics crapped on the deal the players did, ignoring among other things the fact that the owners were willing to skip an entire season of football and the players were

Defensive end Joey Bosa’s time with the Chargers featured plenty of injury issues and his run with the Bills is starting on familiar ground. Head coach Sean McDermott told reporters on Tuesday that Bosa is dealing with a calf injury. McDermott said that the veteran will likely be out until

The Chiefs’ defense totaled just 39 sacks last season, a big drop-off from the 57 they had in 2023. They turned to the draft to address that. Kansas City took defensive tackle Omarr Norman-Lott late in the second round, then three spots later took defensive end Ashton Gillotte early in

The unofficial start of summer has officially come and gone. You likely spent much of the past three days not visiting the websites you only frequent while you’re working. Sure, you could scroll through the Rumor Mill to see what you missed. Or you could read this item and click

Veteran linebacker Zach Cunningham is headed to Detroit. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the Lions are signing Cunningham to their 90-man offseason roster. No terms of the deal are included in the report. Cunningham appeared in seven games for the Broncos last season and recorded four tackles. He

As the Steelers launch their OTA sessions without quarterback Aaron Rodgers on the team and with no clear indication as to when he’ll sign, it’s fair to ask the obvious question. When will Rodgers show up? The answer is equally obvious: Whenever he wants. With the Steelers dropping to a

Eagles linebacker Nakobe Dean’s bid to return from a torn patellar tendon is taking him to a place that’s unfamiliar to most football players. Dean suffered the injury to his knee during the team’s victory over the Packers in their playoff opener and he’s hoping that stepping onto the dance

By tomorrow, every NFL team will have kicked off its Organized Team Activities. The seven teams with new head coaches started their OTAs early, as they are permitted to do under NFL rules. The remaining 25 teams are starting this week, with 20 going today and the other five going

The Jaguars have a new head coach in Liam Coen, a new star player in Travis Hunter and a new No. 1 tight end in Brenton Strange. Strange got bumped up the depth chart after Evan Engram was released this offseason and the 2022 second-round pick feels ready to make

Wide receiver Matthew Golden has made a good early impression on Packers quarterback Jordan Love. The Packers snapped a streak of more than two decades when they selected Golden in the first round in April and Love said he was “glad to be wrong” about the direction the team would

More than three-fourths of the players picked in the 2025 NFL draft have signed their rookie contracts. But only two of the 32 second-round picks have signed, likely because of disputes between teams and agents about fully guaranteed contracts. On May 8, the Texans gave Jayden Higgins, the second pick

Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe had planned a summer tour of his popular Nightcap podcast with former NFL receiver Chad Johnson. Via Brendon Kleen of AwfulAnnouncing.com, Sharpe has delayed the tour for a year. “We’ve decided to postpone the Nightcap tour,” Sharpe said in a recent episode of

The Raiders have agreed to terms on an extension that will make A.J. Cole the NFL’s highest-paid punter, Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports reports. Cole will receive a four-year, $15.8 million extension that includes $11 million guaranteed. He had one year remaining on his current deal due to make $3.333

As the UFL sputters through a second season that hasn’t matched the first year of the XFL-USFL merger, there’s reason to think the league is thinking about the possibility of expanding. A recent item from UFLNewsHub.com indicates that USFL Enterprises LLC (which apparently owns the USFL half of the league)

Earlier this year, North Carolina G.M./Bill Belichick consigliere Michael Lombardi was saying plenty. In the past four weeks, Lombardi been quieter than Marcel Marceau with laryngitis. (Google it, kids.) Well, Lombardi hasn’t gone totally silent, after making repeated appearances with Pat McAfee and elsewhere in the early months of the

On Tuesday, the Steelers will conduct the first of only six 2025 OTA practices. Barring a sudden and unexpected turn, quarterback Aaron Rodgers won’t be there. It would be very fitting for Rodgers to try to show up quietly, with a low-key signing that doesn’t include any pomp and/or circumstance.

Are you sitting down for this? Tom Brady made an appearance at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday. The crowd booed him. Of course they did. It’s Tom Brady. It would be no different if Patrick Mahomes were doing a public appearance in Buffalo, if Saquon Barkley would return to Madison

Trading down wasn’t the only option the Patriots thought they’d have with the 38th pick in the 2025 draft. As the sixth pick on the second day approached, the Patriots were considering running back TreVeyon Henderson and another player. An article from Mike Reiss of ESPN.com regarding the current state

Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow had two bones to pick about the 2025 schedule: (1) he wanted to play a game overseas; and (2) he didn’t want another night game near the Inner Harbor. Burrow’s wish list came up empty. The Bengals don’t play in one of the seven international games,

The new-look Jets aren’t shying away from players who are newer to pro football. Via Rich Cimini of ESPN.com, coach Aaron Glenn explained this week that the Jets have no qualms about embracing players with less experience. It’s something he learned while with the Saints, and working with former Dolphins

Pablo Torre isn’t afraid to eff around and find out. After the latest episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out landed, Bill Belichick’s 24-year-old girlfriend/handler/publicist/ideal mill/creative muse Jordon Hudson posted, then deleted, an attack on Torre’s reported that included a couple of litigation buzzwords: “Pablo Torre’s ‘findings’ have been nothing short

He’s five feet, seven inches. He weighs 140 pounds. Darrell “Housh” Doucette nevertheless performed a cannonball into the deep end of the pro football pool last year, when he declared he’d be a better flag football player than Patrick Mahomes, given Doucette’s knowledge of the game. Doucette and other flag

Caleb Williams considered it. Ultimately, he didn’t do it. The real question moving forward is whether any player will push back against the sacred sorting-hat process known as the NFL draft. Two quarterbacks have done it since 1983: John Elway and, 21 years later, Eli Manning. Both happened before the

The Jets were among the 10 teams that voted to keep the tush push, defying the league’s desire to kill the play. Could it be a sign that the Jets are planning to incorporate the technique into their offense, given that quarterback Justin Fields is on track to be the

It’s one thing for a bozo like me to say it. It’s quite another when it comes from the guy who will be calling the game. Appearing this week on Rich Eisen’s show, lead CBS play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz expressed a belief that the Thanksgiving game between the Chiefs and

The NFL has cleared the way for active players to participate in the 2028 Olympic flag football tournament. Many questions remain, culminating in the determination of the names of the players who will be loaned to the effort. On that point, Commissioner Roger Goodell made it clear in a session

New Patriots tackle Morgan Moses has yet to participate in full-team drills during the offseason program. He has a very good reason for it. Via Mike Reiss of ESPN.com, Moses said he’s recovering from offseason surgery to repair a knee injury. “Just pacing things out,” Moses said. While playing for

When free-agent quarterback Aaron Rodgers recently said he could be joining a team that “might play in Chicago this year,” the obvious inference was that Rodgers was referring to the Steelers. But another team to which Rodgers has been linked also has a 2025 regular-season game at Soldier Field. The

The second season of the UFL is not going nearly as well as the first. In Memphis, it’s a downright disaster. Via Mike Mitchell, who religiously tracks UFL attendance on Twitter, Saturday’s game between the Arlington Renegades and Memphis Showboats at Simmons Liberty Bank Stadium was a paltry 2,044. (The

More than two thirds of the NFL voted in favor this week of banning the tush push, including 13 of the NFC’s 16 teams. One NFC team that voted to end the play despite the fact that its two most significant football employees have said they don’t mind the play.

With the tush push here to stay (at least for another year), every team other than the Eagles has two potential objectives: (1) come up with a way to do it; and/or (2) come up with a way to stop it. Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles recently explained that one of

On Eagles player who would potentially benefit from a tush-push ban is running back Saquon Barkley. He lost plenty of potential touchdowns to his team’s signature play. But Barkley wants to the Eagles to keep it. And he had some fairly strong comments for those who want to kill it.

It’s Memorial Day weekend. Beyond it being the unofficial start of summer, these three das are the annual occasion to honor those who gave their lives in defense of our nation. As we remember our fallen veterans, we also remember others we have lost. My own father, who had a

Superyachts ain’t free. During Commissioner Roger Goodell’s press conference to cap this week’s ownership meetings, he was asked about potential discussions on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. With the NFL intent on expanding to 18 regular-season games (the current CBA allows 17) and 16 annual international games (the current CBA

Bengals first-round defensive end Shemar Stewart continues to refuse to participate in the offseason program until he signs his rookie contract. It’s a stance that pushes back against the widespread fan and media assumption that new players will submit to the way things are done. Earlier this week, for example,