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1:10 PM ET Several NFL teams are doing serious homework on Utah State’s Jordan Love, one of the most polarizing quarterbacks in the draft. Texas Tech coach Matt Wells — who recruited and coached Love at Utah State — told ESPN he’s discussed Love with seven NFL head coaches who called him in the past

5:49 PM ET Drew Brees appears to have his second career lined up. The New Orleans Saints quarterback has agreed to join NBC Sports as a football analyst when he is done playing, the New York Post reported Friday. Brees, 41, has not announced when he plans to retire. He plans to play the 2020

6:00 AM ET HOUSTON — In a vacuum, adding a player like wide receiver Brandin Cooks to the Houston Texans‘ offense gives quarterback Deshaun Watson a welcome threat on the outside in Houston’s passing game. Of course, it is important to take into account that last month the Texans traded perennial All-Pro receiver DeAndre Hopkins

7:00 AM ET Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. Tom VanHaaren Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan As Chase Young prepares for the NFL draft, there’s one thing opposing Big Ten players and coaches can

7:12 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 The Los Angeles Rams are in the process of trading wide receiver Brandin Cooks to the Houston Texans, sources told ESPN on Thursday. The Texans will send

6:45 AM ET I love a good NFL mock draft, but there’s one problem with everyone’s favorite April exercise: The vast majority of mock drafts don’t feature trades, and in the modern NFL, trades are a must. Of last year’s 32 first-round picks, only 20 were made by the original team holding the selection. One

10:00 PM ET In the latest battle of Bill O’Brien versus any conceivable or feasible notion of draft pick value, the Texans fired off one of their last remaining selections to not solve their self-created problem, trading for wide receiver Brandin Cooks. Even if Cooks returns to his prior form, the Texans seem to operate

6:30 AM ET For the past three decades, I’ve made thousands of calls to hundreds of scouts, coaches and personnel executives before the NFL draft. I’ve chased down game video on prospects, crunched numbers, made charts and tried to organize handwritten notes. The best part comes after conversations about the best scheme fit and disagreements

11:06 AM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN LACKAWANNA, N.Y. — Stefon Diggs hasn’t yet played a down for the Bills but that hasn’t stopped the Buffalo fanbase from embracing the team’s newest receiver — local restaurants, included. Burger joint Stack Burger introduced its “craziest creation yet” on Facebook last week, a four-patty burger named, “Can you DIGGS

Apr 9, 2020 Almost every day is the same in Kenny Wiggins‘ garage. Get a plan. Get the tools and then get to work in his home woodworking shop. It started in 2015, when the Detroit Lions offensive lineman and his wife, Jennifer, bought their current home in Northern California. She gave approval for part

9:42 AM ET Tom Brady said he went into 2019 thinking it would be his final season with the New England Patriots and delved into his relationship with coach Bill Belichick in an expansive two-hour interview Wednesday on Sirius XM’s “The Howard Stern Show.” Brady was asked about the thought that he wouldn’t have had

8:00 AM ET IT’S THAT TIME again. Time to be told just how damned hard it is to learn to play quarterback in the NFL. You know why it’s hard, right? For starters, it’s hard because NFL offensive concepts are so mind-bendingly difficult to grasp, and just when you, well-meaning but untrained, think you might

4:27 PM ET Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury believes the trade that sent running back David Johnson to the Houston Texans in exchange for wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins will be completed before the NFL draft begins on April 23. “There’s not concern,” Kingsbury said on a video conference call with reporters on Tuesday. “But those

1:29 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — The “alarm clock” uniform numbers are no more for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who are going back to their roots in 2020 with a new uniform that pays homage to their best years and adds a futuristic twist, the team announced Tuesday. Allow us to show you the future

We have taken a look back at how each 2019 first-round pick and second-round pick performed in his rookie season. Today we take a look at the third round and beyond. Which player picked in Rounds 3-7 of the 2019 draft had the biggest impact for each team? With the draft coming up on April

9:01 AM ET Cam Newton is a free agent for the first time of his career and it comes during an unprecedented time when much of the country is shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic. Newton, who was released by the Carolina Panthers earlier this month, talked about his situation in an interview Monday

Apr 8, 2020 Mike ClayESPN Writer Close Fantasy football, NFL analyst for ESPN.com Member of Pro Football Writers of America Founding director of Pro Football Focus Fantasy 2013 FSTA award winner for most accurate preseason rankings The bulk of NFL free agency is in the rearview mirror, which means we have a much better feel

1:21 PM ET Antonio Brown has hired veteran agent Ed Wasielewski of EMG Sports to represent him in his continued desire to return to the NFL this season, the agent told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Monday. Brown, a seven-time Pro Bowl wide receiver, is a free agent who wasn’t on an active roster for most