12:31 PM ET The Atlanta Falcons have discussed several offers for wide receiver Julio Jones, including an offer of a future first-round draft pick, sources told ESPN’s Dianna Russini. Atlanta has asked teams that have inquired about Jones for a first-round draft pick in return, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Monday. While Atlanta has
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11:30 AM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jaguars senior vice president of football operations and strategy Karim Kassam is out, sources tell ESPN’s Seth Walder. The reason that Kassam is no longer with the team was not immediately known. Kassam was hired Feb. 19 to oversee the team’s football technology and analytics department in addition to
6:45 AM ET NFL NationESPN Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones — considered one of the best receiving talents in the NFL — is on the trade market. Right before the 2021 draft, Falcons GM Terry Fontenot said that the team would listen to trade offers on the 32-year-old veteran as Atlanta attempts to solve
6:00 AM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Running back Aaron Jones noticed the difference in the huddle. Anyone watching practice saw it when the ball left his hand. What they heard and what they saw was Jordan Love 2.0, and as QB1. Love might not be the Green Bay Packers‘ ideal choice to start when
3:40 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Lamar Jackson isn’t sure when he will sign a contract extension with the Baltimore Ravens. All the former NFL MVP knows is he wants to remain long term with the organization that drafted him. “I would love to be here forever,” Jackson said after Wednesday’s offseason practice. “I
5:49 PM ET Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — J.D. Roberts, the second coach of the New Orleans Saints and the man who made Archie Manning his quarterback, has died. He was 88. Roberts died Monday, according to the Memorial Park Funeral Home in Oklahoma City. The former Marine lieutenant had a long stint as an
4:48 PM ET DAVIE, Fla. — Rocking a new offseason beard and a much louder line-of-scrimmage cadence, Tua Tagovailoa looked and sounded like a different quarterback leading the Miami Dolphins offense during Wednesday’s organized team activities. He also showed up without many of the constraints that followed him a year ago. Tagovailoa said his surgically
4:35 PM ET NFL owners agreed Wednesday to relax COVID-19 protocols almost entirely for fully vaccinated players and staff, an additional incentive to seek shots before training camp opens this summer. The NFL Players Association also signed off on the new policy. The league has told staff members that it expects them to get vaccinated
2:49 PM ET The NFL and the NFLPA have agreed to a salary cap ceiling of $208.2 million per team for the 2022 season, a source told ESPN on Wednesday, as part of the league’s continued effort to project the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its short-term business. That doesn’t mean the 2022 salary
3:26 PM ET Kicker Adam Vinatieri, the NFL’s all-time scoring leader, announced Wednesday on the “Pat McAfee Show” that he is retiring after 24 seasons. “By Friday, if paperwork goes in, you heard it here first,” Vinatieri told McAfee, his friend and former teammate with the Indianapolis Colts. Vinatieri, 48, a three-time Pro Bowl selection
12:16 PM ET MIAMI — Former star NFL receiver Chad Johnson is used to using his sweet footwork to dice up cornerbacks on the football field, but in two weeks he’s preparing to use his physical skills to put on an entertaining show in his first boxing match. On the opening fight in the PPV
11:05 AM ET Fresh off his victory at the PGA Championship, Phil Mickelson didn’t wait long to get involved in another high-profile golf match involving celebrity quarterbacks — and Bryson DeChambeau. Mickelson, who captured his sixth major title on Sunday to became the oldest major champion at age 50, will be part of a July
11:25 AM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers is having a dramatic offseason, if you haven’t heard. That isn’t stopping him from enjoying a vacation in Hawaii with actress Shailene Woodley, his fiancée, the actor Miles Teller and his wife, Keleigh. So that’s a vacation with an Academy Award nominee, an Emmy
11:18 AM ET Associated Press Trevor Lawrence is excited to have Tim Tebow as a teammate. The Jacksonville Jaguars signed Tebow last week, giving the former Florida star and 2007 Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback an opportunity to revive his pro career as a tight end catching passes from their rookie No. 1 overall pick. “He looks
8:00 AM ET Don Van Natta Jr. Close ESPN Senior Writer Host and co-executive producer of the new ESPN series, “Backstory” Member of three Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national, explanatory and public service journalism Author of three books, including New York Times best-selling “First Off the Tee: Presidential Hackers, Duffers, and Cheaters from Taft to
6:00 AM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Saquon Barkley‘s rehabilitation from a serious knee injury has taken the running back from Arizona to Los Angeles this offseason. Most recently, he has been in New Jersey, working out at the New York Giants facility. It has been almost seven months of grueling work to get Barkley’s
8:14 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — More than 80 of the players on the San Francisco 49ers‘ 90-man roster participated in Tuesday’s organized team activity — but the most encouraging news of the day might have been about one of the few players who wasn’t there. Defensive end Nick Bosa was not in attendance
2:21 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Cam Heyward is tired of the Ben Roethlisberger naysayers — so much so that he passionately defended his quarterback after the Pittsburgh Steelers‘ first on-field OTA practice Tuesday. “When I hear the badmouthing about him being a not great quarterback and everybody is ready to elevate other quarterbacks, I’m like,