Category : Red Zone Rumors

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

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