Category : Red Zone Rumors

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

The Colts claimed defensive tackle Eric Johnson II off waivers, the team announced. Indianapolis waived safety Marcel Dabo in a corresponding move, and it designated tight end Maximilian Mang as exempt/international player. Mang will not count against the Colts’ 90-player offseason roster. The Patriots waived Johnson on Wednesday. He returns

The Cowboys will become the first team in NFL history to play four Thursday games in a single-season. They also will become the first team in NFL history to play six consecutive games against teams that won at least 11 games the previous season, per the Elias Sports Bureau. The

There are no full-fledged practice sessions during the offseason, but the Lions have done enough on-field work to convince defensive coordinator Kelvin Sheppard of one important fact. Defensive end Aidan Hutchinson has been taking part in the team’s offseason program after last season’s broken leg and Sheppard said that he’s

The 49ers have inked their first-round pick from this year’s draft. San Francisco announced on Thursday that the club has signed No. 11 overall pick Mykel Williams. A defensive end out of Georgia, Williams was a second-team All-SEC selection in both 2023 and 2024. He recorded 5.0 sacks with 8.5

The Eagles announced the signing of a draft pick on Thursday afternoon. Fourth-round pick Ty Robinson has signed a four-year deal with the team. The defensive lineman was one of five straight defensive selections to open Philly’s draft and he is the seventh of the team’s 10 draft picks to

There is nothing new to report and not much new to say about where talks between the Cowboys and Micah Parsons stand. Parsons wants a long-term extension, and the Cowboys are dragging their feet as they have on signing their big-name players to deals. Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones

Jordan Love is entering his sixth NFL season, and he’s getting his third quarterbacks coach. Former NFL quarterback Sean Mannion was promoted to the job after Tom Clements retired. Luke Getsy was the team’s quarterbacks coach for Love’s first two seasons. Mannion, whose playing career ended in 2023, was a

The agents for offensive tackle D.J. Humphries said in late April that their client had agreed to terms on a contract with the 49ers, but that was never followed by a formal announcement of his signing and it doesn’t look like one is coming. Matt Maiocco of NBCSportsBayArea.com reports that,

Three weeks ago tonight, the Falcons traded back into round one to get pass rusher James Pearce Jr. The price to get the 26th overall selection from the Rams included Atlanta’s 2026 first-round pick. The better the Falcons are, the lower the pick. The worse they are, the higher it

Early in the 2024 pre-draft process, there was plenty of speculation that quarterback Caleb Williams didn’t want to play for the Bears. And he didn’t. Seth Wickersham of ESPN.com has plenty of reporting on the subject in his upcoming book, American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback. On Thursday, ESPN.com

The Raiders are continuing to reshape their front office under new General Manager John Spytek. Per Ryan McFadden of ESPN, Las Vegas is hiring Brandon Hunt to be their vice president of player personnel. Hunt has been with the Eagles over the last three seasons, first serving as director of

The Commanders will play some well-rested opponents this season. The NFL schedule makers gave Washington four games against teams coming off their bye weeks, which is the most of any team in the NFL this season. The Commanders will see the Bears in Week Six, Seahawks in Week Nine, Broncos

When the NFL schedule is released, the league inherently tells us what it thinks about how well a team may do in the coming year based on how many times it gets featured in a primetime window. While each team used to play at least once on Thursday night, that’s

We might soon find out if active NFL players will participate in the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The NFL announced on Thursday that next week at the spring league meeting, owners will consider a resolution allowing for the league’s athletes to play flag football during the event in Los

It’s time to hang a new banner. The Colts abruptly pulled their 2025 schedule-release video on Wednesday night. Initially, we surmised that it had something to do with the depiction of Miami receiver Tyreek Hill as a dolphin that was arrested by the Coast Guard. It then became apparent that

Earlier this week, Fox announced that it will televise a Week 16 Saturday doubleheader featuring the Packers at the Bears and the Eagles at the Commanders. The official schedule contains an odd glitch regarding those games. The NFL.com version of the 2025 schedule currently shows that those games will happen

The Rams made a couple of big changes to their receiver room to kick off the offseason. Cooper Kupp was released and quarterback Matthew Stafford said on NFL Network Wednesday that “it’s tough when you’ve played with a guy and had as much success as we’ve had together and then

The Jaguars learned their schedule on Wednesday night, but tight end Patrick Murtagh doesn’t need to worry about where the team will be playing come September. Murtagh was waived off of the team’s roster on Thursday morning. There was no word of a corresponding move. Murtagh initially joined the Jaguars

The Buccaneers are set to add their first player to their Ring of Honor since 2019. Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times reports that edge rusher Simeon Rice will be inducted into the group in 2025. Cornerback Ronde Barber was the last player inducted and the Bucs have added

Steelers owner Art Rooney II lamented the team’s late-season night games after the schedule was released on Wednesday night, but the team will be playing at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday in four of their first five games of the year. That’s related to the ongoing uncertainty about whether quarterback

The Steelers answered one of the two big questions looming over the team on Wednesday when they learned their schedule for the 2025 season. It begins with an immediate reference to the other big question as the Steelers will be in New Jersey to face the Jets in Week One.

The 17th weekend of the 2025 season starts with a trio of Christmas games. It continues with a Saturday tripleheader, capped by an exclusive prime-time game on Peacock. The three games for the Saturday slate will come from a group of five games. The five games earmarked for the Saturday

When the Lions and Rams swapped quarterbacks Matthew Stafford and Jared Goff in 2021, few could have imagined how well it would work out for both teams: Stafford has won a Super Bowl with the Rams, while the Lions have become one of the best teams in the NFL with

NFL fans won’t have to wait long to see the Super Bowl LIX rematch. The Eagles-Chiefs game has been put on the Week Two schedule, for a 4:25 p.m. ET kickoff on Sunday, September 14, on Fox. The game will be played in Kansas City, where the home fans will

The last two NFL MVPs will square off on the first Sunday night of the 2025 season. 2023 MVP Lamar Jackson and the Ravens will pay a visit to Buffalo to take on 2024 MVP Josh Allen and the Bills. That game and the other 17 Sunday night matchups will

Last year, Aaron Rodgers and the Jets had a slew of early-season standalone games, including a pair of Sunday-Thursday short weeks. This year, Aaron Rodgers (maybe) and the Steelers enter the schedule with only four prime-time games. The Steelers will visit the Bengals on Thursday night in Week 7, before

Thursday Night Football will begin its fourth season on Prime Video with a matchup between the Commanders and Packers in Week 2. Both teams reached the postseason in 2024 and feature exciting young quarterbacks in Washington’s Jayden Daniels and Green Bay’s Jordan Love. The Dolphins, Bills, Seahawks, Rams, and Broncos

The NFL revealed one of the three Thanksgiving games during their pre-schedule release leaks this week and the other two became official on Wednesday evening. The Lions will host the Packers in the first game of the annual tripleheader and the Bengals will be in Baltimore to face the Ravens

At a time when the football-following world is digesting the 2025 schedule, the Vikings pulled the spotlight away from their slate of games. The Vikings have signed rookie first-rounder Donovan Jackson to his rookie deal, via NFL Media. Jackson, the 24th overall pick, will likely step right in as a

Get ready to watch plenty of the Commanders in 2025. After quarterback Jayden Daniels’ sensational rookie season that culminated in a deep postseason run, Washington is scheduled for a whopping eight standalone games in the coming season. While the Commanders will start the season with a 1 p.m. Sunday home

The Chiefs and Cowboys are ratings draws. That’s why they play on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day this season. It also is why they both have so many standalone games. The Chiefs will play eight standalone games, including seven primetime games. Five of their primetime games come in the first

The 2025 season will mark the Bills’ final year at the current Highmark Stadium before they move across the street to their new home field next year. Buffalo will begin and end the commemorative season at home, beginning with the 2024 postseason rematch against the Ravens. While there is almost

After the Dolphins lost at Green Bay on a cold Thanksgiving night, Miami linebacker Jordyn Brooks said the elements made them “soft.” Brooks’s comments served only to harden the narrative that the Dolphins don’t do well when weather is a factor. This year, the Dolphins will likely have three opportunities

With the NFL’s full 2025 schedule release on Wednesday, we now know where this year’s No. 1 overall pick will begin his pro career. Quarterback Cam Ward and the Titans will play the Broncos on the road in Week 1 with a 4:05 p.m. ET start time on FOX. Ward’s

It was inevitable. As the various social-media teams of the various NFL franchises try to one-up each other with funny and entertaining schedule release videos, one of them was bound to post something that gave someone within the organization cold feet and/or a nervous stomach. That apparently happened with the

A flurry of reports from last week resulted in two clear tidbits: (1) a presidential college sports commission is coming; and (2) former Alabama (and Michigan State and LSU and Miami Dolphins) coach Nick Saban will likely serve as a co-chair. Saban addressed the subject for the first time on

The Cowboys have played back-to-back Thursday games several times in team history, following their Thanksgiving Day game with Thursday Night Football the following week. They do that again this season and also have two other Thursday games, becoming the first team in NFL history with four Thursday games in a

ESPN has five doubleheaders on its 2025 slate. The NFL released the schedule on Wednesday night, and the Monday Night Football schedule features several teams who each have two appearances. Here is the entire Monday Night Football schedule: Sept. 8 Vikings at Bears, 8:15 p.m. ET Sept. 15 Bucs at

What was reported about the Chargers’ Week 1 opponent is now official. Just before the full schedule was slated to be released on Wednesday night, the league announced Kansas City will be in São Paulo, Brazil on Sept. 5 to take on Los Angeles in the season opener for both

For years, the NFL had a handful of broadcast partners that exclusively televised all games. A new trend has begun, and it likely will continue. And expand. It’s the exclusive “one-off” arrangement, with a game being taken away from a traditional partner (usually, CBS or Fox) and dropped into a

The full NFL schedule for Christmas Day has been released. The NFL and Netflix announced that the Cowboys will visit the Commanders at 1 p.m. ET and that the Lions will be in Minnesota at 4:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, December 25. The league announced that that the Broncos will

Before the Packers took Matthew Golden and Savion Williams in the NFL draft last month, running back Josh Jacobs was outspoken about the team’s need for a No. 1 receiver. None of that sat well with Jayden Reed, who led the team in receptions and receiving yards in each of

Last year, the Lions and the rest of the NFC North had an easy schedule, thanks to a rotation that had them playing the four teams of the NFC West and the four teams of the AFC South. This year, the rotation takes them to the AFC North and NFC

The Jaguars are signing free agent tight end Quintin Morris to a one-year deal, Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports reports. Morris, 26, spent the past four seasons with the Bills. In 2024, he played 16 games with three starts, used mostly as a blocker on his 214 offensive snaps. Morris

The Titans have a new linebacker on their 90-man roster. They announced that they executed a waiver claim on linebacker Anfernee Orji on Wednesday. Orji was waived by the Saints on Tuesday. It’s a return to Nashville for Orji, who played at Vanderbilt in college. He signed with the Saints

The Patriots announced the signing of running back Trayveon Williams on Wednesday afternoon. Williams spent the last six seasons with the Bengals after being drafted by Cincinnati in the sixth round in 2019. He played in 68 regular season games and ran 62 times for 307 yards in those appearances.

The Packers are set to make another addition to their wide receiving group. Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com reports that they will sign Jadon Janke. There’s no word of any corresponding moves. Janke caught 170 passes for 2,800 yards and 30 touchdowns in 67 games at South Dakota State before going

The Seahawks have warned their season-ticket holders about “excessive reselling.” The Buccaneers have done something more creative to try to prevent it. The Buccaneers are introducing a “Ticket Buyback” program for season-ticket members, Greg Auman of Fox Sports reports. It allows season-ticket holders to return tickets back to the team

The 12th Man ain’t what he used to be. With the Seahawks losing a previously crippling home-field advantage (they were 3-6 at Lumen Field in 2024), they’re trying to ensure that those who buy season-tickets are actually showing up for the games. Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times reports that