Month: April 2023

8:13 PM ET Lindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketball COSTA MESA, Calif. — Former TCU quarterback Max Duggan shut off his cell phone quickly after receiving a call from the Los Angeles Chargers, who were selecting

8:48 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Jackson State cornerback and returner Isaiah Bolden became the lone HBCU player to be selected in the 2023 NFL draft when the Patriots tabbed him in the seventh round, 245th overall. “It means a lot to me, carrying the weight of the HBCUs,” Bolden said Saturday. “There are a

8:13 PM ET LOS ANGELES — With the final pick in this year’s draft, No. 259, the Los Angeles Rams selected Toledo defensive lineman Desjuan Johnson, making him this year’s “Mr. Irrelevant” on Saturday. When asked if there was anything unique about being the final pick of the draft, Johnson said, “everything [about being drafted]

10:05 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — For a brief moment, Chris Vaughn did not know what was happening when Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones asked him to turn in the team’s card for its sixth-round pick. After all, the picks are now automated. But when his colleagues stood up around the draft

7:25 PM ET When the Houston Texans made the first trade of the NFL’s draft weekend, it was the start of a record number of swaps of players and picks that took place Thursday, Friday and Saturday. At the conclusion of draft business Saturday night teams had completed 43 trades over the three days. It

8:47 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants had conversations with running back Saquon Barkley‘s representatives last week. They’ll “reconvene” now that the draft is over to see if there is a deal that makes sense for both sides at this point. An unhappy Barkley has not signed his franchise tag and

7:56 PM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — One of the most eventful weeks in New York Jets history began Monday with the trade for quarterback Aaron Rodgers. It ended Saturday with the last of seven draft picks. In a news conference to wrap up the draft, coach Robert Saleh was asked to describe the week,

7:15 PM ET Two things were certain heading into the 2023 NFL draft: Bryce Young would be drafted No. 1 by the Carolina Panthers and everything else would be chaos. Check and check. The other thing that’s certain now that the draft is over: the AFC South is at the dawn of a new era.

5:51 PM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — Talk about a legacy pick. One of the Arizona Cardinals‘ fifth-round 2023 NFL draft selections on Saturday was Houston Cougars quarterback Clayton Tune, whose great-great-uncle was the Cardinals’ first-ever draft pick. The then-Chicago Cardinals took Jim Lawrence fifth overall in the 1936 draft, which was also the NFL’s first