Former tight end Mark Campbell: COVID-19 “kicked my ass”

Former NFL tight end Mark Campbell’s among the still-growing lists of Americans testing positive for COVID-19, but he thought he was going to be able to push through it as he had so many things in his career. He quickly found out that was not the case. Campbell told Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free [more]

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Spurs boss Mourinho and a number of players flout social distancing rules

Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho and a number of his star players have been pictured flouting the social distancing regulations training in a local north London park.

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Ron Rivera: Kyle Allen would have “leg up” in shortened training camp

When Washington traded for quarterback Kyle Allen, head coach Ron Rivera said that the team would head into training camp with the belief that Dwayne Haskins is their starting quarterback. At this point, though, no one can be sure that training camp will be starting on time or that it will unfold in the usual [more]

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Falcons have to “hone in” on cornerbacks

Falcons General Manager Thomas Dimitroff didn’t draw a diagram showing what the team will be doing in the draft later this month, but he did provide a pretty good hint about one area that they’ll be looking to address. The Falcons released cornerback Desmond Trufant last month and their only other move at the position [more]

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Mike Gundy pushes for return to college football preparations by May 1

Oklahoma University has banned all in-person events on campus through July 31. The head coach of the Oklahoma State University program nevertheless believes that preparations for a college football season that may not happen at all should commence on May 1. “We have to have a plan, and the plan right now is for them [more]

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Kliff Kingsbury: Remote drafting could actually help teams

Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury’s just 40 years old, so he might be more comfortable than many of his brethren with the remote technology required to do football business during the coronavirus outbreak. He’d still prefer to be able to work with players because that’s what coaches do, but he knows that his burden is relative, [more]

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Bengals chaplain has COVID-19: “I thought I was going to die”

At a time when far too many NFL players are still getting together to work out, oblivious to the dangers of COVID-19, perhaps it will help for them to hear from someone they might come in contact with who had the disease. “I thought I was going to die,” Bengals team chaplain LaMorris Crawford told [more]

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