National Football League News and Rumors
Chargers, veteran OL Hadnot have 1-year dealAssociated Press, ESPN.com The San Diego Chargers have agreed to a one-year contract with offensive lineman Rex Hadnot and to three-year contracts with 21 undrafted rookies. |
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Judge declines to dismiss Favre texting lawsuitApr 30, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com He’s gone, but he’s not forgotten. Quarterback Brett Favre’s alleged activities during his single season in New York gave rise to a lawsuit that has survived a threshold effort to have the case thrown out of court. Barbara Ross of the New York Daily… |
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Taking a closer looks at the Jets’ draftApr 30, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com There’s always something interesting to discuss when it comes to the Jets, and the Jets gave us plenty more interesting things to discuss via the 2012 draft. So our good friend Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News joined PFT Live on Monday to discuss… |
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Judge won't nix suit vs. Jets, Favre over textsApr 30, 2012
Associated Press, ESPN.com Brett Favre will have to testify in court about sexually suggestive text messages. |
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Sources: Falcons got $3M cap credit for VickApr 30, 2012
Adam Schefter, ESPN.com The NFL recently granted the Falcons $3 million worth of salary-cap credits due to the money Michel Vick owed the franchise after the quarterback declared bankruptcy following a conviction on dogfighting charges, according to league sources. |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com A week ago, the Twitterverse got better acquainted with the marital troubles of Hall of Fame cornerback Deion Sanders, thanks to the fact that he decided to tweet about it. Since then, his estranged wife, Pilar, has been arrested and charged with misdem… |
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Status unsure, McCoy working out with BrownsApr 30, 2012
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Colt McCoy returned to work with the Cleveland Browns not knowing how much longer he'll have a job. |
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So why did the Redskins want Kirk Cousins?Apr 30, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com One of the strangest decisions of draft weekend came early in round four, when the Redskins selected former Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins. With three first-round picks and a second-round pick shipped to St. Louis for the ability to take Robert… |
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Falcons’ undrafted free agents include James RodgersApr 30, 2012
Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com The Atlanta Falcons’ new crop of undrafted free agents includes the older brother and former college teammate of one of their current players. Oregon State receiver James Rodgers, whose kid brother Jacquizz was drafted by the Falcons out of Oregon State… |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com The Sports Emmys currently are being handed out in New York City, and one of our Sunday Night Football colleagues already is hoisting the hardware. Michele Tafoya of Sunday Night Football has won the first-ever Emmy for Sports Personality-Sports Reporte… |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Last week, the Vikings signed receiver Jerome Simpson, who’ll be suspended for three games after pleading guilty to a felony drug charge earlier this year. Simpson will be fairly well compensated. Per a league source, Simpson will receive a $950,000 r… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Twenty-one linebackers were selected in the 2012 NFL draft before the Green Bay Packers took North Carolina State’s Terrell Manning in the fifth round. But Manning doesn’t think any of them are better than him. “I feel like I was as good as any line… |
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Redskins add ex-Giant Goff to linebacker corpsApr 30, 2012
Associated Press, ESPN.com The Washington Redskins have signed free agent linebacker Jonathan Goff, who played three seasons with the New York Giants before missing last year with a knee injury. |
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Browns could become relevant againApr 30, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com The Cleveland Browns have been to the playoffs once since returning to the league in 1999. That was 10 years ago. In 2007, they almost made it to the postseason. Since then, nothing. But they’ve found a way to get some attention this offseason, vi… |
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Free-agent QB Keenum says Texans will sign himApr 30, 2012
HOUSTON (AP) -- Record-setting Houston quarterback Case Keenum says he plans to sign with the Texans. |
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Phil Simms’ son, Matt, gets a tryout with the JetsApr 30, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Former Tennessee quarterback Matt Simms, one of Phil Simms’ football-playing sons, wasn’t drafted. But he’ll get a chance to win an NFL job this week, as he participates in the Jets’ minicamp on a tryout basis. Matt Simms is one of 23 tryout pla… |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Earlier in the day, we reported that NFL director of investigations Joe Hummel submitted a letter of resignation on Friday, the second day of the 2012 draft. We characterized Hummel as the person leading the ongoing investigation regarding the Saints’… |
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All rise … the honorable Judge Warren Sapp presidingApr 30, 2012
Mjd, yahoo.com Are you having trouble deciding whether or not Janine, who failed out of beauty school, owes money to Stephen, who's never worn long pants before today, for not paying back money she borrowed from his Aunt Dotty for a really good deal on cigarettes? Wel… |
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Ahmad Bradshaw: I’ll make David Wilson my projectApr 30, 2012
Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Veteran players aren’t always happy when their teams spend a first-round draft pick on another guy at the same position, but Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw is looking forward to playing with David Wilson, the Virginia Tech running back drafted by th… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com A couple of weeks ago, 49ers General Manager Trent Baalke said that he was okay with Randy Moss missing the start of the teams’ workouts because he knew Moss would be there long before anything mandatory got underway. Baalke was proven correct on Monday… |
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Cowboys add 21 free agentsApr 30, 2012
IRVING, Texas (AP) -- Six offensive linemen headlined by Memphis guard Ronald Leary and North Texas rushing leader Lance Dunbar are among 21 undrafted free agents signed by the Dallas Cowboys. |
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Ex-Vike's wife: Deleted texts not to hide wreckApr 30, 2012
Associated Press, ESPN.com The wife of a former Minnesota Viking tearfully told jurors Monday at her fatal hit-and-run trial that she thought she hit a construction barrel or a pothole, not a person, the night of the accident. |
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Count on plenty of busts from the 2012 first roundApr 30, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Though the folks breaking down the draft this weekend kept telling us that nearly every player picked has been and will continue to be a great football player, the truth is that plenty of them won’t be. So who will the busts be? The truth is that no o… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com The Colts added a bunch of players to their roster on Monday. The team announced that they claimed running back Deji Karim off of waivers from the Jaguars. Karim struggled as a running back behind Maurice Jones-Drew last season and was waived on Friday.… |
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Titans call Taylor Thompson an “uncanny” receiverApr 30, 2012
Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com Before the draft, MDS told you about SMU defensive end Taylor Thompson’s attempt to transition to tight end as an NFL draft pick. The Titans are believers in what Thompson is doing. They took him with the 145th overall pick on Saturday and then started … |
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Saints lean toward small-school undrafted rookiesApr 30, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com The Saints were missing some draft picks this year, thanks to the trade that brought the Mark Ingram and the bounty punishment. They compensated in part by signing a whopping 18 undrafted free agents. They are: LB Kadarron Anderson (Furman), LB Stephen … |
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Bills WR Johnson to undergo minor groin surgeryApr 30, 2012
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Buffalo Bills receiver Stevie Johnson is scheduled to have what his agent described as "very minor" surgery to repair a groin injury that nagged the player for most of last season. |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Packers receiver Donald Driver is willing to take a pay cut to stay in Green Bay, but that doesn’t mean the Packers will bring him back, at any salary. Packers coach Mike McCarthy and General Manager Ted Thompson both declined to say this weekend whethe… |
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Ex-Colts QB Sorgi to try out for Raiders spotApr 30, 2012
ESPN.com news services, ESPN.com The Oakland Raiders are bringing in quarterback Jim Sorgi for a tryout. |
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Undrafted Boise St. QB Moore signs with LionsApr 30, 2012
Associated Press, ESPN.com Boise State standout Kellen Moore has agreed to a free-agent deal with Detroit, giving the Lions someone to develop behind starter Matthew Stafford and backup Shaun Hill. |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com As the football-following world continues to wait for the league office to levy discipline against the Saints players involved in the three-year bounty system, the story that has had more than a few twists and turns now has yet another. Per multiple lea… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com The Seahawks had two of the most-discussed picks in this year’s NFL draft, taking pass rusher Bruce Irvin 15th overall and quarterback Russell Wilson 75th overall. Unsurprisingly, they disagree with those who call both picks reaches. Seahawks General Ma… |
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Dom Cosentino, deadspin.com That's according to Roethlisberger, who said as much during what the Altoona Mirror called his "first-ever speaking engagement" Saturday night. Roethlisberger said when he called David DeCastro shortly after Pittsburgh took the Stanford guard … |
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49ers lead the way with four extra 2013 draft picksApr 30, 2012
Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com It may seem too early to start thinking about the 2013 NFL draft, but the San Francisco 49ers were thinking ahead during this year’s draft, and that will pay off a year from now. Thanks to three trades made during last week’s draft as well as last yea… |
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The best undrafted players of 2012: The defenseApr 30, 2012
Doug Farrar, yahoo.com You may remember that Doug Baldwin and Victor Cruz had pretty good seasons in 2011. And that Wes Welker guy? He's pretty good, too. Arian Foster is nobody to sneeze at, and London Fletcher is one of the most durable and productive linebackers we've seen… |
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Umenyiora scoffs at Giants' contract offersApr 30, 2012
Ohm Youngmisuk, ESPN.com The situation between Osi Umenyiora and the New York Giants is starting to get contentious again. |
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Patriots expected to re-sign Gerard WarrenApr 30, 2012
Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com The draft came and went without the Patriots picking up any interior defensive linemen. That seems to have pushed them back in the direction of Gerard Warren. Mary Paoletti of CSNNewEngland.com is reporting that the Patriots will re-sign the veteran def… |
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Buccaneers announce 14 undrafted rookie dealsApr 30, 2012
Evan Silva, profootballtalk.com The Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday announced that they have finalized contract agreements with 14 undrafted rookies. The players signed are as follows: Louisiana-Monroe receiver Luther Ambrose, LSU linebacker Ryan Baker, Cincinnati quarterback Zach Coll… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com The draft is done and we’ll talk with a couple of writers about what it meant for the teams they cover on Monday’s PFT Live. Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News will join Mike Florio to talk about how the Jets fared during the draft. Their first t… |
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Chris Chase, yahoo.com Tony Romo and his wife Candice Crawford attended the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend, marking their first public appearance since the birth of their first child three weeks ago. Hawkins Crawford Romo was born April 8 and weighed 8 lbs. 8… |
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Rams will check in with Janoris Jenkins dailyApr 30, 2012
Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com The Rams were able to take a chance on drafting cornerback Janoris Jenkins because of the amount of picks they gained by trading down twice in the first round of the 2012 Draft. Those deals left them with four picks in the first two rounds and a little … |
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Rams reportedly envision Pead as Jackson’s successorApr 30, 2012
Evan Silva, profootballtalk.com Rams second-round pick Isaiah Pead looks more like a change-of-pace or third-down back than a feature NFL runner. Pead goes 5-foot-10, 197. Most draftniks characterize Pead as a slashing scatback with punt return value. The Rams used the 50th overall pi… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com Now that the Dolphins have drafted Ryan Tannehill, a lot of people are expecting Joe Philbin to help turn him into the franchise quarterback that the Dolphins have been missing since Dan Marino retired. That expectation comes from the fact that Philbin … |
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Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com In the team-by-team draft needs, we suggested that the win-now Vikings may try to move back into the first round to beef up the cornerback position. They did it, but they emerged with a safety. And the decision to trade up resulted in large part from t… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Browns President Mike Holmgren is standing by the decision to give up three third-day draft picks to move up one spot in the first round of the NFL draft, saying his team had to be absolutely sure it would get Trent Richardson. But the Browns may have b… |
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Barry Petchesky, deadspin.com Yesterday's "Dear Abby" column featured "Good dad in Cleveland," who's seeking advice on what to do with his eight-year-old son, understandably driven to animal abuse by the frustrations of being a Cleveland sports fan. Little Junior… |
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Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com The NCAA’s all-time leader in receptions wasn’t drafted and wasn’t even offered a contract as an undrafted free agent, but he will be given an opportunity to show he belongs in the NFL. Michael Zweifel of the University of Dubuque, who caught an all… |
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Eagles may reduce LeSean McCoy’s repsApr 30, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com Chris Polk may have made the right decision, after all. The undrafted running back from Washington joined an Eagles team that has one of the NFL’s few workhorse tailbacks, with LeSean McCoy getting 325 total touches in 2011. That could be changing in … |
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Monday morning one-linersApr 30, 2012
Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com Bills CB Stephon Gilmore has his family tree tattooed on his upper arm. The Dolphins drafted players from the University of Miami for the first time in eight years. Analyzing the Patriots roster after the draft. The Jets sent more signals about where th… |
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Tebow on, Sanchez off NFL players’ Top 100 listApr 30, 2012
Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Tim Tebow is better than Mark Sanchez, at least if you believe the ballots submitted by NFL players for NFL Network’s Top 100 show. Tebow came in at No. 95 on the Top 100 list, as revealed by NFL Network over the weekend. Only players 91-100 have been r… |
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George Bretherton, nytimes.com Three of the Jets' draftees played in option offenses in college. The Jets are planning to use Tim Tebow in Wildcat and read-option packages. Can that be a coincidence? |
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Packers will keep Bulaga on right sideApr 30, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com With left tackle Chad Clifton gone and with no 2012 draft pick devoted to the tackle position until a compensatory selection in round seven (Andrew Datko), the vacancy won’t be filled via the flipping of a first-rounder whom many believed was picked to … |
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Donovan McNabb unsure about retirementApr 30, 2012
Michael David Smith, profootballtalk.com Donovan McNabb attended the Eagles’ retirement ceremony for Brian Dawkins over the weekend, but he said he’s unsure if he will have a retirement ceremony of his own this year. “I don’t know. At this point it’s nothing that I need to think about,… |
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2012 NFL Draft: Did the Browns Blow It?Apr 30, 2012
The Cleveland Browns had an interesting first day of the 2012 NFL draft. On the one hand, Cleveland got two of the draft's most productive players: Br... |
