SEATTLE — After signing an extension earlier this week, Seahawks general manager John Schneider is under contract through 2031, giving him a chance to oversee the team for two full decades.

But no matter how much longer he runs the football side of the Seahawks, he is unlikely to make a bigger move than he did on March 8, 2022.

That’s the ...Read more

DENVER — Zach Allen is a human Rice Krispie.

On the snap, he crackles and pops offensive linemen.

Wednesday, a single play explained his brilliance. Quarterback Bo Nix caught the ball in the shotgun and center Luke Wattenberg and left guard Ben Powers slid the protection over to Allen. With four hands and 610 pounds locked on his chest, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Hot as it was Thursday morning at the NovaCare Complex, the sight of the Eagles holding a training-camp practice at their own headquarters, with select fans and sponsors ringing the fields, with a Rita’s Italian Ice truck dishing out cups of mango and green apple, would have been a welcome vision for Jeffrey Lurie.

When Lurie...Read more

MIAMI — It’s the worst insult one can say about a football player, or a football team on any level of the sport.

In a sport where the goal is to overpower another man snap-after-snap, dominate him to the point you’ve extinguished his desire to fight, the worst thing someone — or some team — can be labeled is soft.

However, that’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — More than a week after the start of training camp, the Jets are dealing with an injury to a key player.

Defensive tackle Quinnen Williams will miss one to two weeks after suffering a calf injury.

Williams tweaked his left calf during positional drills on Thursday. He left the practice field and walked under his own power to be ...Read more

RENTON, Wash. — During a news conference Wednesday to talk about a new contract that keeps him in Seattle through 2031, Seahawks general manager John Schneider was asked about this being one of the more drama-free training camps in recent history.

The Seahawks don’t have any urgent contract situations looming, with no one holding out or ...Read more

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — When Miami Dolphins training camp started last week, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa took a hard stance on star wide receiver Tyreek Hill’s standing with the rest of the team after Hill took himself out of last season’s finale and then said he wanted out from the club.

Tagovailoa called Hill’s relationship with ...Read more

CANTON, Ohio — Trey Lance welcomes any opportunity that comes his way — a vexing four NFL seasons have only made him more eager — so Thursday night felt especially good.

Lance, the onetime third overall pick of the San Francisco 49ers, is battling for the Chargers' backup quarterback job, and he made a compelling case in the Hall of Fame ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Walt Disney Co. is expected to announce the NFL is taking an equity stake in its sports media property ESPN, according to people familiar with the plan.

Disney may reveal the deal during its earnings call Wednesday. Representatives at the NFL and ESPN declined comment Friday.

In return for the equity stake, ESPN is expected at ...Read more

DENVER — The topic is awkward, and maybe even embarrassing. It’s difficult to bring up in a conversation with someone you don’t know. But we are on a bench a few feet from the Broncos practice field, and the question comes out:

What did you learn from your yearlong suspension for gambling?

Eyioma Uwazurike, or Enyi as he is known to ...Read more

SEATTLE — Okay.

Or maybe better put — Ooooookay?

My guess is that was the reaction from many a Seahawks fan in response to news Wednesday that the contract of the team's general manager, John Schneider, was going to be extended through 2031.

Because for the past few years — or even the rougher part of the past decade — the Seahawks ...Read more

MIAMI — It’s time to scrap any kind of plans we might have had, and start all over because in seven practices the Miami Dolphins’ secondary has gone from a problem area, a troublesome unit, to a group in crisis.

That’s what happens when a unit that was already perceived as one of the team’s thinnest suffered its third serious injury ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The lion's amber gaze fixes forward on Nate Landman's left bicep, its mane fanning across the curve of his arm. Above Landman's wrist, a zebra bends to graze, while a giraffe behind steps through a stand of wind-bent acacia trees.

Together, they form a tattooed sleeve of Zimbabwe — an inked landscape of home carried by the ...Read more

CANTON, Ohio — This town is deeply meaningful to the Harbaugh family, and not just because Jim Harbaugh will coach the Los Angeles Chargers in the Hall of Fame game on Thursday night, seven years after brother John Harbaugh did the same with the Baltimore Ravens.

But the Harbaugh legacy in Canton predates the Pro Football Hall of Fame, which ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A newly unsealed court document alleges that Richard Tillman admitted to police officers that he drove a vehicle into a Northern California post office and set the building on fire, "trying to make a statement to the United States Government."

It's unclear what the statement was intended to be. According to the document, Tillman...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The gorgeous mountains off in the distance looked the same. The pristine fields, the spires, the black-and-gold excitement palpable around Saint Vincent College, yeah, all still there, although rain Tuesday literally dampened that last part.

However, there's been a decidedly different feel to this Steelers training camp, a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — What Antonio Gates did as a Chargers tight end was remarkable.

But what he didn't do was just as impressive.

Gates, who will be enshrined Saturday in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, is the only player to reach that pinnacle without a single snap of college football. He was a basketball star at Kent State, a half-hour up the road...Read more

LOS ANGELES — NFL careers typically do not last long.

For most players, getting to a second contract is challenging. And careers that extend well beyond that milestone are uncommon in a business that churns through talent.

So when Ahkello Witherspoon began his career in 2017, he could not envision that he would be preparing for his ninth ...Read more