Category : Red Zone Rumors

The Titans have signed five of their 2025 draft picks. Sixth-round running back Kalel Mullings’s agreement on a four-year deal was previously reported. They have also signed third-round safety Kevin Winston Jr., fourth-round wide receiver Elic Ayomanor, fifth-round guard Jackson Slater, and sixth-round cornerback Marcus Harris. Four other picks, including

The Texans signed another of their nine draft picks. Sixth-round quarterback Graham Mertz now is under contract, per Aaron Wilson of KPRC. Mertz receives a four-year, $4.934 million contract, with a $228,484 signing bonus. The Texans previously signed second-round wide receiver Jayden Higgins and third-round cornerback Jaylin Smith. Mertz, who

The Bears have their top draft pick under contract. The team announced that tight end Colston Loveland has signed his rookie deal. It’s a four-year deal with a team option for a fifth season for the 10th overall pick. Loveland’s pact is worth over $26.6 million and is fully guaranteed.

The Jets released three players Thursday, the team announced. Linebacker Jimmy Ciarlo and wide receivers Easop Winston and Marcus Riley were cut. Ciarlo originally signed with the Jets a year ago as an undrafted rookie free agent out of Army. The Jets waived him in August and re-signed him this

The Giants dropped a defensive lineman from their 90-man roster on Thursday. The team announced that they have waived Casey Rogers. His spot will likely be filled by an incoming player during this weekend’s rookie minicamp. Rogers signed with the Giants after going undrafted out of Oregon in 2024. Rogers

Edge rusher Victor Dimukeje’s first season with the Giants is off on the wrong foot. Dimukeje signed with the Giants as a free agent this offseason, but Jordan Raanan of ESPN.com reports that he is set to miss time after tearing his pec in one of his workouts with the

Various things can get a player removed from a team’s draft board. In Tampa Bay, there’s one category of prospect that isn’t automatically excluded. The “d-bags and assholes.” Via JoeBucsFan.com, Buccaneers G.M. Jason Licht recently explained his willingness to tolerate certain antisocial personality traits during an appearance on The JP

The full schedule for the 2025 NFL season will be unveiled at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday, May 14, but some of the dates in the calendar will be filled in ahead of that point. The league announced that the league’s six broadcast partners will each announce select games from

As a time when the federal government is looking for more and more ways to make cuts, one agency will devote millions in search of an important breakthrough. The National Institutes of Health announced on Thursday that it has awarded a $15.3 million grant to fund research for the diagnosis

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Carolina running back Jonathon Brooks will not be on the field for the 2025 season. As part of a bevy of moves on Thursday, the Panthers placed Brooks on the physically unable to perform list. By making the move now, Brooks will not play in the coming season. After recovering

The Panthers are moving on from one of their veteran defenders. According to multiple reports, Carolina is releasing edge rusher Jadeveon Clowney. The No. 1 overall pick of the 2014 draft, Clowney had signed a two-year deal with the Panthers last offseason. He recorded 5.5 sacks with nine tackles for

The Panthers are continuing to trim their roster ahead of this weekend’s rookie minicamp. Mike Kaye of the Charlotte Observer reports that they are waiving center Andrew Raym and wide receiver Dax Milne. Word that they are also parting ways with tight ends Jordan Matthews and Colin Granger came earlier

The Dolphins cleared four spots on their 90-man roster Thursday. They announced that they have released long snapper Blake Ferguson and waived three others. Cornerback Ryan Cooper Jr., defensive tackle Neil Farrell, and offensive lineman Chasen Hines are also out in Miami. Ferguson played in 72 regular-season games and two

The Chargers brought Mike Williams back as a free agent this offseason and they drafted Tre Brown in the second round, but General Manager Joe Hortiz may not be done adding receivers to the roster ahead of the 2025 season. Hortiz, who also drafted KeAndre Lambert-Smith in the fifth round,

Colts defensive lineman DeForest Buckner wasn’t shy about sharing his feelings about the team’s defense at the end of the 2024 season. Buckner said that “everybody needs to check their egos at the door” because the unit played as a “bunch of individuals” rather than a cohesive group. Buckner didn’t

Over the past 10 or 15 years, a clear trend has emerged throughout the nation — don’t use public money to pay for football stadiums. In the nation’s capital, the pendulum is apparently swinging in the opposite direction. In a Washington Post-Schar School poll conducted from April 22 through May

Throughout the offseason, several members of the Colts have said that the QB competition between 2023 No. 4 overall pick Anthony Richardson and recent free-agent signee Daniel Jones should bring the best out of everyone. While the Colts have not formalized a timeline for when they’ll decide on a starter,

Tom Brady isn’t afraid to admit that he feared certain opponents. Asked on Logan Paul’s podcast which players he feared hitting him most, Brady named a few. “Ray Lewis was at the top,” Brady said, via Boston.com. “Ndamukong Suh, I didn’t like getting hit by him. J.J. [Watt] wasn’t very

The Falcons defense has finished at or near the bottom of the league in sacks in three of the last four years and there are a couple of fronts to their plan to generate more pass rush in 2025. They signed Leonard Floyd as a free agent and drafted Jalon

Whether the Ravens made a football decision with Justin Tucker or not, the end result is the same in Baltimore. Tucker is gone and sixth-round pick Tyler Loop has the inside track on the kicking job for the AFC North team. Ravens General Manager Eric DeCosta said that the team

The NFL may soon ban the Eagles’ tush push with a broad rule that makes it illegal for any ball carrier to be pushed by a teammate. Saquon Barkley doesn’t like it. Barkley, the Eagles running back whose job is to push quarterback Jalen Hurts forward on the tush push,

The Texans have brought back one of their key defensive players. Per Jonathan M Alexander of the Houston Chronicle, defensive tackle Foley Fatukasi has re-signed with Houston. Fatukasi, 30, started 11 games for the Texans last season. He registered 24 total tackles with four tackles for loss, 1.0 sacks, and

The Jets declared Justin Fields their starter shortly after signing him, and backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor says he can live with that. Taylor declined to say whether he expected to get a chance to compete for the starting job but told Rich Cimini of ESPN that whether he is in

After much talk this offseason that Eagles tight end Dallas Goedert could be on the way out of Philadelphia, he’s now set to stay put. The Eagles and Goedert are close to an agreement on a new contract that will keep him in Philadelphia, according to Jeff McLane of the

The one-helmet rule was scrapped in 2022. Teams may now have up to three helmets. This year, five teams reportedly will be debuting alternate helmets. Per Andrew Lind of SportsLogos.net (via CBSSports.com), new headgear will be unveiled this summer for the Steelers, Commanders, Browns, Chargers, and Saints. Per the report,

A veteran corner may be on his way back to the Pacific Northwest. According to a report from ESPN, the Seahawks are in discussions with free-agent cornerback Shaquill Griffin about re-signing with the club. Griffin, 29, was a Seattle third-round pick in 2017. He played his first four seasons with

When receiver Tyreek Hill arrived in Miami three years ago, he made some over the top claims about quarterback Tua Tagovailoa. Hill claimed, for instance, that Tua is the most accurate quarterback in all of football. Recently, Hill was asked to list his top five quarterbacks in the NFL. Tua

If you were surprised by this one, we’d like to sell you the NIL rights to the Brooklyn Bridge. Confirming the report that President Trump will be forming a commission on college sports, TheAthletic.com reports that former Alabama (and Michigan State and LSU and Miami Dolphins) coach Nick Saban will

The Titans announced a handful of roster moves on Wednesday afternoon. They confirmed the previously reported signing of defensive lineman James Lynch along with announcing that they have waived wide receiver Tay Martin and linebacker Kyron Johnson. Both players were waived with injury designations. Martin had one catch for 49

College sports needs to clean up the mess it has made for itself. The White House apparently is prepared to supply the mop and the bucket. Via Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports, President Trump plans to create a presidential commission on college athletics. The forthcoming group, per the report, is

With Washington, D.C., hosting the 2027 NFL draft, Baltimore wants to get in on the act, too. Via Todd Karpovich of the Baltimore Sun, the Maryland Stadium Authority is exploring the possibility of hosting the draft in 2029, 2030, or 2031. Ravens president Sashi Brown has said the team will

The Texans have agreed to terms with rookie cornerback Jaylin Smith, Aaron Wilson of KPRC reports. Smith is the first of the team’s nine draft picks to come to agreement. The Texans made Smith a third-round pick, taking him with the 97th overall choice. Smith will sign a four-year, $6.16

The Broncos have agreements with two more draft picks ahead of their rookie minicamp this weekend. The team has reached agreement with third-round defensive lineman Sai’vion Jones and fourth-round outside linebacker Que Robinson, Luca Evans and Parker Gabriel of The Denver Post report. The Broncos previously agreed to terms with

Bill Belichick’s second significant book-tour event apparently was uneventful. The conversation with Suzy Welch at NYU has received no significant media coverage (it seems as if no media was even present). On Wednesday, LinkedIn distributed quotes from the portion of the session that featured an interview with Jessi Hempel, a

Sam Darnold is gone, and J.J. McCarthy is healthy. The Vikings will be McCarthy’s team this season, even if Kevin O’Connell doesn’t come right out and say it. In an interview with Rich Eisen on Wednesday, O’Connell danced around whether the Vikings would have a competition for the job. “J.J.

University of Wilfred Laurier quarterback Taylor Elgersma went undrafted last month, but the Canadian had a successful tryout at the Packers’ rookie minicamp last weekend. The Packers are expected to sign Elgersma, Dave Naylor of TSN reports. Elgersma had an invite to the Bills’ rookie minicamp this weekend but now

The Texans have added a young player to their defense. Via the NFL’s daily transaction wire, Houston has claimed linebacker Jackson Woodard off of waivers. Woodard, 22, had signed with the Seahawks as an undrafted free agent. But he was waived from the club this week. After starting his college

Abdul Carter couldn’t get No. 11 with the Giants as the team retired it for Phil Simms, who said no to the third overall pick’s request to don it anyway. Some will argue the Falcons should have retired No. 11, or at least not given it out quite so quickly.

The Broncos have locked up more draft picks ahead of the start of their three-day rookie minicamp Friday. They agreed to terms with wide receiver Pat Bryant and punter Jeremy Crawshaw after getting an agreement with tight end Caleb Lohner on Tuesday, Chris Tomasson of the Denver Gazette reports. Bryant

The Rams trimmed their roster on Wednesday. The team announced that they have waived defensive tackle David Olajiga. There was no corresponding move. Olajiga signed with the Rams’ practice squad last August and remained with the team on a future contract in January. Olajiga was born in England and became

Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill made his second visit to the operating room of the offseason. Hill had wrist surgery in February to repair an injury that he played through during the 2024 season and he posted pictures, via David Furones of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, from a surgical bed

Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs is not yet fully cleared for all football activities as he continues to recover from last year’s torn ACL. But he’s doing plenty to impress his new teammates in New England. Diggs, who tore his ACL while playing for the Texans on October 27, is

The Rams will be taking their June minicamp on the road. The team announced that they will be traveling to Maui from Monday, June 16 to Thursday, June 19. The team will hold two days of workouts at War Memorial Stadium in Wailuku, take part in a variety of other

One of the Colts’ key defenders is set to make his return. Via multiple reporters, edge rusher Samson Ebukam said on Wednesday that he will be cleared for training camp after suffering a torn Achilles last year. Ebukam, 29, signed with Indianapolis in 2023 and registered a team-leading 9.5 sacks

The Cowboys completed a trade for George Pickens on Wednesday morning and they opened up a spot for him on the wide receiver depth chart later in the day. The team announced that they have waived Seth Williams off of their 90-man roster. Pickens was acquired from the Steelers in

Wide receiver George Pickens is on his way to Dallas for the final year of his rookie contract and it doesn’t sound like extension talks are on his mind ahead of his fresh start with the Cowboys. Clarence Hill of All City DLLS reports that Pickens is not “looking to

Steelers coach Mike Tomlin usually does a very good job of keeping problems quiet and contained. That approach didn’t work with receiver George Pickens. The signs had been there, for a while, that it wasn’t going to end with Pickens signing a second (or third) contract and becoming one of

The Titans have brought back one of their defensive contributors. Per Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, Tennessee is re-signing defensive tackle James Lynch to a one-year deal. Lynch, 26, spent last season with Tennessee, appearing in all 17 games. He was on the field for 23 percent of the club’s

As the Steelers wait for Aaron Rodgers to accept the open-ended invitation to become the team’s starting quarterback for 2025, it has become more and more clear that the Steelers expect it to occur. Eventually. Less than two weeks after principal owner Art Rooney II provided the clearest indication yet