Category : Red Zone Rumors

Panthers wide receiver Xavier Legette had 49 catches last year, but the most memorable moment of the first-round pick’s rookie season was not a positive one. Legette dropped a Bryce Young pass that would have given the Panthers a lead over the Eagles in the final minute of a Week

The Chargers have started talks about a new contract with left tackle Rashawn Slater, but it doesn’t look like things are progressing as quickly as Slater would like them to move. Daniel Popper of TheAthletic.com noted that Slater was not in attendance for the first OTA of the offseason on

The Bills’ training camp will be featured on this summer’s Hard Knocks, and head coach Sean McDermott says that will provide his team with some additional challenges. McDermott said a big part of training camp is building relationships among teammates and coaches, and that the kinds of honest conversations necessary

The Bills will open their new stadium next year. They’re currently in the process of filling it up. Via Ryan O’Halloran of the Buffalo News, the Bills have sold more than 25,000 Personal Seat Licenses for the new venue. Bills COO Pete Guelli told O’Halloran that the Bills are “on

The Packers are hoping to get cornerback Jaire Alexander to take a pay cut, and they’ve presented him and his agent with the framework of such a deal. Green Bay proposed a restructured contract to Alexander that Alexander and his agent have not yet agreed to, according to Matt Schneidman

Kirk Cousins is not the only player absent from Atlanta’s first OTA practice on Tuesday. Per Terrin Waack of the team’s website, tight end Kyle Pitts is another player who is not in attendance. Pitts, 24, is entering the last year of his rookie contract after the Falcons picked up

Panthers defensive tackle Derrick Brown said last month that he doesn’t want to rush anything in his return from a torn meniscus and it appears he’s making good progress without pushing any faster than necessary. Reporters at Carolina’s first OTA practice on Tuesday shared word that Brown was in uniform

Things between the Bengals and their 2025 first-round pick remain at a standstill. Via Kelsey Conway of the Cincinnati Enquirer, defensive end Shemar Stewart is not participating in the team’s first OTA practice on Tuesday as he remains unsigned. While Stewart is attending the session, he’s on the sideline. Stewart,

The Steelers moved quickly to sign quarterback Mason Rudolph in free agency and Rudolph said on Tuesday that he’s happy to be back in a “special place” after spending the 2024 season with the Titans. Rudolph’s signing is not the one that people in Pittsburgh have been talking about for

Jake Moody will have competition to keep his job this offseason. Moody struggled after returning from an ankle injury, prompting the 49ers to sign veteran Greg Joseph. Moody was only 11-of-20 on field goals in his final nine appearances of 2024. “It’s unacceptable to be kicking the way I was

The Saints are thin at tight end during Organized Team Activities. Saints coach Kellen Moore confirmed that neither Taysom Hill nor Foster Moreau will participate in OTAs as they both continue to recover from knee injuries suffered late last season. Although he’s listed as a tight end, Hill is actually

The Lions made linebacker Zach Cunningham’s signing official, announcing the move Tuesday. They waived linebacker Abraham Beauplan in a corresponding move. Beauplan originally joined the Lions on Aug. 11, 2024, and he signed a futures contract after the 2024 season. Beauplan appeared in three games last season, seeing action on

Falcons linebacker Bralen Trice missed his rookie season with a torn ACL and head coach Raheem Morris gave an update on his condition when he spoke to reporters at the team’s facility on Tuesday. Morris said that Trice, who was injured last August, is continuing to do rehab work with

Quinshon Judkins arrived in Columbus a year ago and promptly helped Ohio State win a national championship. He landed in Cleveland last month, a second-round pick of the Browns, and has plans to have as big an impact with his NFL team. The Browns, though, won only three games last

Younghoe Koo is the Falcons’ returning kicker, but he is not the favorite for the job. The team signed German kicker Lenny Krieg to a three-year, $2.975 million contract, an indication they plan on him competing to be the kicker in 2025. Koo embraces the competition. “It’s not my first

It’s safe to say Terry Bradshaw won’t be offering to allow Aaron Rodgers to wear No. 12 with the Steelers. It’s even safer to say Rodgers wouldn’t accept. Bradshaw was blunt, as he often is, regarding the Steelers’ decision to wait indefinitely on Rodgers. “That’s a joke,” Bradshaw said on

On one level, there’s no pressure on Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. He’s won, via a second contract that fully guaranteed $93.71 million at signing and that saw another $54 million in 2026 injury guarantees convert to full guarantees earlier this year. That’s $147.71 that Tua will definitely make through 2026.

The Eagles signed sixth-round offensive tackle Cameron Williams to his four-year deal, the team announced Tuesday. Williams became the eighth of the Eagles’ 10 draft picks to sign. Only first-round linebacker Jihaad Campbell and second-round safety Andrew Mukuba remain unsigned. Fourth-round defensive tackle Ty Robinson, fifth-round cornerback Mac McWilliams, fifth-round

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

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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