NFL, NFLPA meeting at 5:00 p.m. ET tomorrow

Don’t expect a morning or an early afternoon filled with updates regarding the meeting between the NFL and the NFL Players Association’s leadership. The meeting doesn’t even begin until 5:00 p.m. ET, per a league source. How long it lasts remains to be seen, as does the question of whether any real progress will be [more]

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Byron Jones likely to hit free agency with Cowboys focused on Prescott, Cooper

The Cowboys have plenty of salary cap room, but most will go to two players. Dak Prescott and Amari Cooper aren’t going to leave the team with much leftover money. That’s the reality. “We’re going to have some challenges with our [salary] cap,” Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said, via Michael Gehlken of the [more]

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Mahomes tells Burrow not to worry about small hands

Former LSU quarterback Joe Burrow, the favorite to be the first overall pick in this year’s NFL draft, had a good laugh today about his small hands. Then Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the reigning Super Bowl MVP, joined in. Burrow, whose hands measured at only nine inches today at the Scouting Combine, jokingly tweeted that [more]

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Matt Nagy, Vic Fangio plan Bears-Broncos joint practices

Before he was head coach of the Broncos, Vic Fangio was defensive coordinator of the Bears. And Fangio and Bears head coach Matt Nagy are confident they’ll be on the same page for some joint practices this summer. The Bears and Broncos have been discussing getting together for joint practices in Denver in August, Mike [more]

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Justin Herbert, Jordan Love, Jacob Eason plan to throw at Combine

Joe Burrow has more to lose than gain by throwing at the Combine. While there’s no official word on whether the LSU quarterback will workout this week, it would come as a surprise if he did. Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa still is rehabbing from hip surgery and isn’t ready to throw yet. He hopes to do [more]

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Signs point toward interconference matchups for 17th game

The NFL hasn’t provided the NFL Players Association with many/any details regarding how a 17th regular-season game would be implemented. On Monday, Packers CEO Mark Murphy shared one very important aspect of the extra game with Mark Maske of the Washington Post. Via Maske, Murphy said that all teams in one conference would have nine [more]

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Greg Olsen couldn’t pass up opportunity to play with Russell Wilson

Greg Olsen had ties in Washington with Ron Rivera. He had ties in Buffalo with Greg McDermott and Brandon Beane. So why did he choose Seattle? The Seahawks have made the postseason seven of the past eight seasons, and they were 9-7 in 2017 when they didn’t. They have Russell Wilson, who has won a [more]

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