6:32 PM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — New York Giants wide receiver Sterling Shepard is returning on a reworked one-year deal, a source told ESPN on Thursday. The team’s longest-tenured player wanted to return. He was previously signed through 2023. Shepard, 29, was set to make $8.5 million in the 2022 season coming off a
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6:21 PM ET ESPN News Services A Dallas jury found former Minnesota Vikings cornerback Jeff Gladney not guilty on a felony assault charge Thursday. The verdict was unanimous, according to online court records. “This has been a challenging time for Jeff mentally, spiritually and athletically,” Gladney’s agents, Brian E. Overstreet and Rodney Williams, said in
6:00 PM ET Lawyers for the 25-year-old Congressional aide who is suing Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones released a statement Thursday saying their client isn’t motivated by money but instead wants a judge to toss out an agreement “that attempts to prohibit her from stating who her real father is.” The woman, Alexandra Davis, who
4:54 PM ET The Chicago Bears are finalizing a trade that will send six-time Pro Bowl defensive end Khalil Mack to the Los Angeles Chargers, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Thursday. The Chargers are expected to send a 2022 second-round pick and a 2023 sixth-rounder to the Bears in return for the 31-year-old Mack,
2:56 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN DETROIT — The Lions have informed outside linebacker Trey Flowers that he will be released next week when the league year starts Wednesday, a source told ESPN. The Detroit Free Press was the first to report the news. In 2019, the Lions made the two-time Super Bowl champion one of
3:01 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers have 176,160 new owners and an extra $65.8 million in their coffers. That was the result of the stock sale that the franchise announced in November and recently concluded. The Packers revealed Thursday that they sold more than 198,000 new shares of stock. It
1:21 PM ET A Las Vegas judge on Thursday granted a continuance request for a hearing to determine whether former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III will stand trial in state court on felony and misdemeanor charges related to his involvement in a fiery car crash that left a 23-year-old woman and her
11:21 AM ET The Washington Commanders are expected to released veteran safety Landon Collins, creating more salary-cap space but costing them a valuable defender, a source told ESPN on Thursday. Collins, who had three years left on his contract, was scheduled to count $16.2 million against the salary cap this season. His release will save
10:58 AM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans have informed Pro Bowl guard Rodger Saffold that they are releasing him, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Saffold signed a four-year, $44 million contract with
6:00 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos, with an NFL high 11 starting quarterbacks since the start of 2016, have wandered in the quarterback desert for so long and tried so many different solutions that they now hope the 12th time is the charm. Welcome Russell Wilson to perhaps the biggest pile of
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff NFL free agency is approaching, and several teams will look to improve a great deal by signing some of the biggest names on the 2022 open market. Who will sign where? Who are the top free agents? Which teams should be watched closely over the next few weeks? And where
6:30 PM ET NFL NationESPN Without the trade of running back Herschel Walker to the Minnesota Vikings in 1989, the Dallas Cowboys‘ Super Bowl drought could be in its fifth decade, who knows? Instead it is at 26 years and counting because the Walker deal propelled the Cowboys from 1-15 in coach Jimmy Johnson’s first
7:17 PM ET A 25-year-old woman is suing Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, alleging that the billionaire paid her mother hundreds of thousands of dollars in 1996 to conceal that he was the girl’s biological father, a secret that the lawsuit says she has carried her entire life. At the age of 1, the girl
3:57 PM ET The Arizona Cardinals released veteran linebacker Jordan Hicks on Wednesday. Hicks, 29, played at a high level last season, registering 116 tackles and four sacks, but the Cardinals are making the move to give fellow inside linebacker Zaven Collins, drafted in the first round last year, more playing time. The Cardinals had
4:32 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Offensive tackle Alejandro Villanueva announced his retirement Wednesday after seven NFL seasons, which followed his time serving in the U.S. Army. Villanueva, 33, reached two Pro Bowls as a left tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers, protecting Ben Roethlisberger‘s blind side for six years. But Villanueva decided to call
3:45 PM ET Associated Press Brian Flores wants the NFL to reject the Miami Dolphins‘ request for an arbitration hearing regarding his class-action lawsuit against the team and the league alleging racist hiring practices. Flores’ lawyer sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Wednesday, urging him to turn down Miami’s request and have
1:52 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — The Colts are trading quarterback Carson Wentz to the Washington Commanders for a package of picks, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The Colts will receive the Commanders’ third-round picks in 2022 and 2023, sources told Schefter. The 2023 third-rounder can become a second-round pick if Wentz plays 70% of Washington’s
1:29 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The text had more exclamation points than words. In response to a message asking how happy he was on Tuesday afternoon, after Aaron Rodgers had announced his return to the Green Bay Packers and receiver Davante Adams had been retained on the franchise tag (for now), a member