12:52 PM ET BEREA, Ohio — Kevin Stefanski declared Wednesday that Myles Garrett‘s basketball career is officially over. “He retired,” the Cleveland Browns coach said when asked if he was OK with his star pass-rusher playing so much pickup basketball this offseason. “So congratulations on a great career for Myles. Really proud of him. But
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3:59 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Packers don’t know whether Aaron Rodgers will show up for next week’s mandatory minicamp but considering he already has missed enough of the offseason program to forfeit his $500,000 workout bonus, what’s another $93,000? That’s what the Packers could fine Rodgers for missing the three-day camp, which
3:56 PM ET MIAMI — Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino has spent the past 20 years watching new-era players break his numerous records, but there’s one Miami Dolphins family mark that he wholeheartedly wants to see preserved: Don Shula’s NFL-best 328 wins (347 including playoffs). Shula, who coached Marino for the first 13 years
2:39 PM ET Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — The NFL on Wednesday pledged to halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive functioning — in the $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims and review past scores for any potential race bias. The practice had made it harder for
1:52 PM ET Almost three years ago, the San Francisco 49ers made Weston Richburg the highest-paid center in NFL history. On Wednesday, Richburg’s time with the Niners came to an end, as he announced his retirement from the NFL. Richburg had an injury-plagued stint with the 49ers that culminated in his missing the entire 2020
12:14 PM ET FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Atlanta Falcons coach Arthur Smith was mum Wednesday about whether Julio Jones will be at the team’s mandatory minicamp next week. “We have conversations all the time with all our players and there’s good communication back and forth, multiple avenues,” Smith said. “So we’ll see what happens next
6:00 AM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN BUFFALO, N.Y. — Prior to the 2021 NFL draft, Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen filmed an open letter to then-North Dakota State quarterback Trey Lance. The message, in essence, was to ignore the critics and focus on himself — just as Allen did when he entered the league in 2018.
6:00 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — When Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller stares into the mirror he still sees his mindset in 2020, his sack total in 2018 and his rare ability to take over the big moment — as he did in Super Bowl 50 — looking back at him. He wants all of
6:00 AM ET HENDERSON, Nev. — Reasons? Yeah, Richie Incognito has a few reasons as to why he wants to return to play left guard for the Las Vegas Raiders at age 38, a year after suffering a season-ending Achilles injury in Week 2. And they are exactly what you would imagine. “The injury was
4:36 PM ET PITTSBURGH — With the disappointment of a first-round playoff loss to the Cleveland Browns still fresh, Ben Roethlisberger made the immediate decision to return as the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback for at least another season. To do that, though, he recognized that his $41.25 million cap hit was untenable, and he asked the
2:36 PM ET Associated Press EDMONTON, Alberta — The Edmonton CFL franchise has changed its team name to Elks. The club made the announcement Tuesday. Edmonton dropped its longtime name, Eskimos, last year after a similar decision by the NFL’s Washington team amid pressure on franchises to eliminate racist or stereotypical names. Alright lets breakdown
1:39 PM ET Sarah Barshop HOUSTON — The Texans have signed running back Rex Burkhead, adding another veteran running back to a crowded backfield, a source confirmed to ESPN. Burkhead, 30, is the seventh running back on the Texans’ roster, joining veteran running backs Phillip Lindsay, David Johnson and Mark Ingram. Houston added Lindsay and
2:23 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars have hired Nick Sorensen as special-teams coordinator to replace Brian Schneider, who stepped away from the team for personal reasons. Sorensen spent the past eight seasons with Seattle, joining the Seahawks in 2013 as a special-teams assistant before moving to coach the secondary beginning in 2017.
2:01 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The expansion of the NFL’s regular season to 17 games has quarterback Patrick Mahomes eyeing a new benchmark for the Kansas City Chiefs. Mahomes told Bleacher Report in an interview from his foundation’s recent fund-raising golf tournament in Hawaii that his goal is for the Chiefs to become
1:10 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians said Tuesday he’s unsure how much quarterback Tom Brady will do in next week’s mandatory minicamp because of his recovery from offseason knee surgery. Brady has been throwing in private workouts with teammates instead of OTAs, but Arians said he might err on
11:19 AM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills converted more than $11.7 million of wide receiver Stefon Diggs‘ base salary into a signing bonus, a source tells ESPN’s Field Yates, saving the team roughly $8 million of salary-cap space. Diggs was slated to make roughly $12.7 million in base salary in 2021;
6:00 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The toughest part of Logan Thomas‘ transition from quarterback to tight end was saying yes. He had been highly recruited in high school, finished his career at Virginia Tech as the school’s all-time leading passer and was good enough to get drafted in the third round by the Arizona
10:43 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Who knew watching film could be so painful? Jacksonville Jaguars coach Urban Meyer and assistant head coach Charlie Strong found that out Sunday night when they assisted in a brutal beating as part of AEW’s Double or Nothing pay-per-view event that was being held at the amphitheater adjacent to