Category : Red Zone Rumors

The Chiefs drafted Utah State wide receiver Jalen Royals in the fourth round thinking he could have a similar role in their offense to Rashee Rice. Chiefs director of player personnel Ryne Nutt said Royals shows a lot of the same traits that Rice showed when the Chiefs made him

The league office wants to send active players to the flag-football competition in the 2028 Olympics. The owners, if focused on the interests of their teams, should not want to do it. The question is whether the interests of the whole will overcome the interests of the individual. And that

When the 2025 NFL schedule came out, Bears coach Ben Johnson find out that his team gets its bye in Week Five, the earliest bye week this year. And Johnson is pleased about that. Johnson said on The Herd that assessing his team for a month and then getting a

The ESPN.com item regarding quarterback Caleb Williams generated the biggest headlines regarding his interest in avoiding the Bears. There’s another headline lurking in one of the later paragraphs of the article regarding his experience with the Bears in 2024. Here’s the relevant paragraph from the story, derived from Seth Wickersham’s

The Titans used the No. 1 overall pick on quarterback Cam Ward. Yet, the Titans are one of only three teams not to have a primetime game. NFL Vice President of Broadcast Planning and Scheduling Mike North explained the league’s reasoning for shutting out the Titans. “We kind of have

The Ravens agreed to terms with veteran nose tackle John Jenkins, the team announced Friday. Jenkins, 35, will replace Michael Pierce, who retired. Jenkins is joining his seventh different team as he enters his 13th NFL season. He spent the past two seasons with the Raiders, starting every game and

The Bills are going away for training camp again this summer. The team announced on Friday that they will be returning to St. John Fisher University in Rochester, New York for this year’s camp. It will be the 25th time that the Bills have held training camp on the campus.

To put a twist on Sam Wyche’s legendary quote, “You don’t work for Cleveland! You work for Cincinnati!” The in-state rivalry has taken an off-field turn, with the Bengals claiming that Hamilton County is using a consultant who is also trying to help the Browns get a new stadium paid

The 49ers said they would bring in competition for their kicking job, and they have. Agent Brett Tessler announced that free agent kicker Greg Joseph has agreed to terms with San Francisco on a one-year deal. The 49ers made Jake Moody a third-round pick in 2023, and he went 21-of-25

The contract song remains the same. The agent supplies a number that puts the deal in the best possible light, with the biggest possible numbers. Reality arrives later. For 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy, his new contract — leaked at 5:00 p.m. ET on a Friday, where bad news usually goes

The Chiefs signed offensive guard Tremayne Anchrum on Friday, according to the NFL’s transactions report. The Texans cut Anchrum on April 21. Anchrum, 26, joined Houston last November, signing with the team’s practice squad. He did not appear in a game for Houston last season but returned on a futures

The Jets brought back one of their former defensive backs this offseason when they hired Aaron Glenn as their head coach and another one is angling for a return to the team as well. Safety Jamal Adams was a 2017 first-round pick of the team and was a first-team All-Pro

The Falcons have added a piece to their offensive line. Atlanta announced on Friday that the club has signed undrafted free agent center Michael Gonzalez. Gonzalez played his college ball at Louisville, appearing in 51 games for the Cardinals. He was a starter at left guard for the last two

At long last, 49ers Brock Purdy is going to be paid a market rate for his services. According to multiple reports, Purdy and San Francisco have agreed to a five-year, $265 million extension, making the final pick of the 2022 draft one of the highest-paid players in league history. NFL

The Seahawks brought in Sam Darnold to be their starter at quarterback for the time being. But the club does see promise in third-round pick Jalen Milroe. General Manager John Schneider just knows that, particularly for a quarterback, it’s not all that easy to come in and play right away.

A social-media dustup (not the Del Rio kind) broke out on Thursday regarding the question of whether the Cowboys and linebacker Micah Parsons have a “handshake deal” on a new contract. Clarence E. Hill, Jr. of All City DLLS reports that a handshake deal exists. However, Parsons disputes it. It

The NFL’s owners will vote next week on a resolution to allow active players to participate in the 2028 Olympics. It’s all part of the broader effort to globalize the game by, as the resolution explains, “increasing fan and public interest in flag football.” The resolution has several interesting components.

The Bears are once again shifting their focus for where they’d like to build their next stadium. According to a new report from the Chicago Tribune, the franchise is once again planning to build a stadium complex in Arlington Heights after a project at the current downtown site of Soldier

Derek Carr retired from the NFL last week but apparently not before he looked for an exit out of New Orleans to continue his career. Katherine Terrell and Jeremy Fowler of ESPN report that a Carr “representative” spoke to at least two teams about potential interest in the veteran quarterback.

The Jets released punter Thomas Morstead earlier this month and they parted ways with another veteran kicking specialist on Friday. The team announced that they have released kicker Greg Zuerlein. They also signed defensive end Michael Fletcher. Zuerlein was limited to eight games by a knee injury last season and

The Jaguars announced the addition of three coaching fellows to their staff on Friday. Ari Confesor, Anthony Gaitor, and Dawson Odoms have joined the team under the NFL’s Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship program. They will work with the team for the remainder of the offseason program. Gaitor played 12

The Broncos are promoting from within to fill a vacancy and bringing back someone to the front office who previously worked for the club. Per Albert Breer of SI.com, Denver’s Reed Burckhardt is moving up from director of player personnel to assistant General Manager. Mike Klis of 9News Denver also

Buccaneers rookie safety Shilo Sanders has often been overshadowed by his brother and teammate Shedeur, and his father and coach Deion. But as he competes to make a roster spot in Tampa Bay, Shilo Sanders is saying he’s confident he’ll show he belongs in the NFL. Shilo Sanders was not

Raiders minority owner Tom Brady is having a significant impact on the team’s football operations, even as he operates from afar. Head coach Pete Carroll said he is in “pretty regular” touch with Brady but that Brady does not work at the team facility. “We’re phone buddies. He hasn’t been

It’s one thing for the Falcons to potentially piss off an eight-figure sponsor by mentioning a competitor’s product when explaining (unconvincingly) the chain of events that resulted in an in-draft prank phone call to Shedeur Sanders. It’s another for the Colts to clumsily infringe on that same sponsor’s IP rights

The Browns have signed another member of their 2025 draft class. The team announced the signing of tight end Harold Fannin Jr. on Friday. The tight end is the third of their seven picks to agree to a four-year rookie deal. Fannin is coming off a record-setting final season at

The Bill Belichick book tour continued on Friday with an appearance on Good Morning America. In the days since it was announced, the exclusive sit-down lost plenty of its luster, given that Belichick has been doing a bunch of interviews. Typically with folks who weren’t going to pry into the

Drafting quarterbacks can be a delicate science, particularly when you’ve recently acquired someone else at the position. The Seahawks have had significant turnover at QB this offseason, starting with trading Geno Smith and signing Sam Darnold. But then the club also drafted Jalen Milroe out of Alabama in the third

The Giants passed on a quarterback at the top of the draft, but they wound up nabbing one before the end of the first half when they traded up with the Texans in order to add Jaxson Dart to the roster. In a behind the scenes video of draft night

Raiders head coach Pete Carroll talked about his departure from the Seahawks in a recent Seattle Sports interview, and he said it ultimately came down to General Manager John Schneider being given an opportunity to run the team. Carroll said that he had final say as head coach of the

The Chiefs trimmed a couple of players from their 90-man roster on Thursday. The NFL’s daily transaction report shows that they waived running back Keaontay Ingram and wide receiver Justin Lockhart. Ingram was waived with an injury designation while Lockhart was waived off of injured reserve after being placed on

Linebacker Alex Anzalone missed a big chunk of the 2024 season because of injury and the Lions defense had a hard time without him, but no one in Detroit is sweating Anzalone’s absence from the team’s offseason program. Anzalone is heading into the final year of his contract and has

The 49ers are reportedly set to sell a chunk of the team to three families. Sportico reports that the team will be selling about six percent of the franchise to the Khosla, Griffith and Deeter families. The amounts of the investments made by each family are not known, but they

Few expected cornerback Trey Amos to be available at the end of the second round of the 2025 NFL draft, but that’s where the Commanders took him with the 61st overall pick. And a back injury may explain why. Multiple teams discovered a back injury in the pre-draft process, according

The Colts dumped their schedule-release video not long after unveiling it, due to a Tyreek Hill joke and a Microsoft IP issue. For Hill’s part, he had no problem with it. Said Hill on Twitter: “Should’ve left it up Colts, this was funny.” Hill’s agent, Drew Rosenhaus, separately told PFT

Dave Canales will have at least one new experience during his second season as the head coach of the Panthers. The NFL’s schedule reveal on Wednesday night included a Monday night game for the Panthers in Week 12. Barring a flex earlier in the season, that visit to Santa Clara

If you don’t have Chiefs fatigue, give it a year. Despite being blown out in Super Bowl LIX, the Chiefs continue to be the hottest property in the NFL. And the Chiefs seemingly have no qualms about getting so many big-platform games. The schedule has them playing only four of

Defensive tackle Christian Barmore is well on his way back to the Patriots lineup. Barmore was sidelined by blood clots last offseason and he was shut down after returning to play four games when they recurred during the regular season. Barmore has been taking part in the team’s offseason program

Linebacker Roquan Smith was pleased to see what the NFL had up their sleeve for the Ravens in Week One. The Ravens’ 2024 season came to an end against the Bills in a 27-25 road loss in the divisional round of the playoffs and they will be back in Buffalo

Another former player is buying into a team’s ownership group. Per Dianna Russini of TheAthletic.com, Hall of Famer Charles Woodson is buying 0.1 percent of the Browns from the Haslam family. Jimmy and Dee Haslam are the Browns’ majority owners. The sale to Woodson is contingent on him removing his

Beyond attempting to devise a strategy for avoiding the Bears in the draft, quarterback Caleb Williams explored a strategy for avoiding the draft altogether. In the ESPN.com article based on reporting from Seth Wickersham’s upcoming book, American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback, Wickersham explains that Carl Williams, Caleb’s father,

Excerpts of a new book by Seth Wickersham published on ESPN.com on Thursday focused on Bears quarterback Caleb Williams’s misgivings about going to the organization as the top pick of the 2024 draft. The book quotes Williams as telling his father that he wanted to find a way to go

The NFL’s two Sunday afternoon TV packages have long been divided up with Fox primarily getting NFC games and CBS primarily getting AFC games, but in recent years the league has had more flexibility to move games across networks. And Fox hasn’t always been happy with that. Fox executive Mike

Earlier on Thursday, the league announced that owners will consider a resolution for active players to participate in the 2028 Olympics at next week’s spring meeting. The NFLPA has now formally endorsed the idea. “We fully support our player members participating in the Olympics and taking this opportunity to represent

The NFL says there is no glitch. Even if there’s still a glitch. Earlier today, we pointed out that the official NFL.com schedule says that the two games announced for Saturday, December 20 (Eagles-Commanders and Packers-Bears) will actually be played on Friday, December 19. Each of the four teams’ websites

The Panthers have one set of joint practices scheduled for this summer and they’d like to add more to the schedule. Head coach Dave Canales said at a Thursday press conference that the team has reached out to the Steelers and Texans about working out together in August. They will

The schedule release makes for strange bedfellows. For the NFL and Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, they’ve apparently found common ground after more than a decade of hostility. Only two days after the 10-year anniversary of Portnoy’s arrest for staging a sit-in at the lobby of the league office in

Once upon a time, every team played at least once in prime time. More recently, every team played one — and only one — Thursday game after playing on Sunday. While it forced fans to hold their noses and watch (or not watch) games like Titans-Jaguars on a Thursday night

Dolphins running back De’Von Achane set an NFL record for yards per carry (7.8) as a rookie in 2023, and last season, his 1,499 scrimmage yards ranked third in team history. Achane wants more, though, feeling he has left meat on the bone. “Me watching film, I feel like I

When it comes to the tush push, the clock is ticking. Owners meet in Minneapolis next week, with a revised proposal regarding the play expected to be on the docket. During a Thursday conference call with reporters, NFL executive V.P. of communications, public affairs, and policy Jeff Miller did not