MIAMI — For one minute, or however long it takes to read this, let’s forget about the perception that the 2025 Miami Dolphins are a finesse team, or needed to beef up the trenches, becoming tougher, more physical.

There’s plenty of truth to that accusation, and evidence of it can be found in how the team’s decision-makers altered their ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Drafting receivers with troubled backgrounds is nothing new to the Steelers. They've done it for decades now and for years managed to maximize their talents before jettisoning them when there was a point of diminishing return. Santonio Holmes is the perfect example of that.

The Steelers traded up in the first round of the 2006 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a brutal bit of irony, in-custody deaths in Los Angeles were brought to the forefront by a 2023 case in which neither the County Sheriff's Department or county hospitals would acknowledge that an inmate was in their custody when he died.

Stanley Wilson Jr., a Stanford graduate and former NFL defensive back with the Detroit ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A football fan is suing the NFL for $100 million over the "severe emotional distress and trauma" that he suffered when former Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders unexpectedly dropped to the fifth round of last month's draft.

In a lawsuit filed May 1 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Buffaloes fan ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jadeveon Clowney will be looking for work elsewhere in 2025.

The Carolina Panthers released Clowney on Thursday, a league source confirmed. ESPN was the first to report the move.

The move will open up $7.78 million in salary cap space, according to Over The Cap. However, because the Panthers couldn’t trade Clowney, they�...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Rams coach Sean McVay typically rewards players for their dedicated voluntary offseason work by not holding a mandatory minicamp.

This year, players are apt to welcome one.

The Rams and the Hawaii Tourism Authority announced on Wednesday that the Rams will hold a minicamp and other events on Maui from June 16-18.

Rams ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The most amazing part of the George Pickens story is that so many people thought Pickens was going to grow up on a moment's notice and make it work with the Steelers for one final season.

What have they been watching for the past three years?

They thought Pickens, who is headed to the Dallas Cowboys for essentially a third-round...Read more

PITTSBURGH — It very well might be addition by subtraction.

The Steelers' value proposition also includes essentially taking a third-round pick now versus potentially getting production while also risking a potential George Pickens crash out.

Where the equation doesn't balance for me involves the idea of timing.

In other words, why did the ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Steelers are planning to trade truculent receiver George Pickens to the Dallas Cowboys for a third-round pick in the 2026 draft, a move they believe has no bearing or impact on quarterback Aaron Rodgers signing with the team, sources have told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The trade, which developed in just the past couple ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Justin Tucker spent the past 13 years with the Ravens, making him what had been the longest-tenured player on the team. That tenure in Baltimore came to an unceremonious and extraordinary end with his release Monday.

Now the question is: Is his NFL career over, too?

While general manager Eric DeCosta’s statement announcing the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Although it felt at times there was only one quarterback in last weekend's NFL draft — the slip-sliding Shedeur Sanders who tumbled to the fifth round — there were actually 14 selected over the three days. That's tied for the most taken in a draft since 2016.

Considering the impact of last year's class, which included Caleb ...Read more

The 2027 NFL draft has its official location: it will be held in Washington D.C. The announcement was made in the Oval Office on Monday by President Donald Trump, who was joined by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Washington Commanders and Sixers owner Josh Harris and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

The draft will be held on the National Mall across ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Justin Tucker’s career as a Baltimore Raven has come to a stunning end.

Baltimore released its longtime kicker on Monday, more than three months after more than a dozen female massage therapists accused Tucker of acting inappropriately at several Baltimore-area spas and wellness centers. The NFL’s investigation into the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Ravens kicker Justin Tucker has continued to work out at the team’s facility in Owings Mills the past couple of weeks, coach John Harbaugh said Sunday at rookie minicamp. Whether that continues remains to be seen.

While the NFL’s investigation into the voluminous sexual misconduct allegations by several massage therapists ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Mike Tomlin is not afraid to put up a smokescreen or two during the pre-draft process to keep the other 31 teams guessing. Remember his flirtation with Malik Willis a few years ago, when he had the football world convinced the Steelers were going to take the quarterback out of Liberty University? Or his willingness last Tuesday to...Read more

MIAMI — Shedeur Sanders showed up to the “2Legendary” draft day party he was hosting in a white Bentley, but not the one he purchased/leased and was being driven around in during college, and had a diamond-encrusted dollar sign necklace the size of a paper plate around his neck.

The Colorado quarterback had a musical artist, dancehall’s...Read more

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Kirk Cousins would rather be playing elsewhere so he has a realistic chance to start at quarterback. The Falcons are open to trading Cousins if they could get some value for their backup.

Neither party can get what they want right now — they are stuck together unless the trade market changes.

It doesn’t look strong ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Remember Adrian Klemm?

He got the chance of a lifetime back in 2021 when he was promoted to offensive line coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Then, suddenly, 15 games into the season, he left. In the middle of a playoff run.

The Steelers and their apologists told us there was nothing to see here. Hey, the guy was offered an ...Read more

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The sigh was audible.

Before Falcons defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich read a statement and answered questions Wednesday in the media room of team headquarters, he let out a weighty sigh that said as much about his state of mind as anything he said in the roughly four minutes after it. It seemed to speak of contrition, ...Read more