Washington cuts four, must make one more move before deadline

With Tuesday’s deadline to reduce rosters to 80 players upcoming, Washington has moved on from four players. The Football Team announced that cornerback Jordan Brown, offensive tackle Rick Leonard, linebacker Justin Phillips, and defensive tackle Justus Reed have been cut. Brown, Leonard, and Phillips each spent time on Washington’s practice squad last year, though none [more]

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Colts cut Eddy Pineiro as Rodrigo Blankenship wins kicking competition

The Colts have a winner in their preseason kicking competition: Rodrigo Blankenship. Kicker Eddy Pineiro was waived by the Colts today, meaning Blankenship is the only remaining kicker on the roster in Indianapolis. Pineiro kicked well in the preseason, but Blankenship was the incumbent and the favorite to win the job, which he now has. [more]

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Panthers cut Kendall Donnerson, Caraun Reid

The Panthers have reduced their roster to 80 players with a pair of roster moves on Tuesday morning. After waiving three players on Monday, Carolina has waived defensive end Kendall Donnerson and released defensive tackle Caraun Reid. A former Packers seventh-round pick, Donnerson has also spent time with the Raiders, Bengals, and Saints. But he has [more]

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Jameis Winston: Every time the lights go on, Marquez Callaway does an amazing job

The Saints have been without wide receivers Michael Thomas and Tre'Quan Smith this summer due to injuries and that has opened the door for Marquez Callaway to make his case for more time with the first team. Callaway’s done a good job making that case. He had three catches for 61 yards in the preseason [more]

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Tarik Cohen remains without a timeline to return to action

In early August, Bears head coach Matt Nagy said it would be weeks rather than days before running back Tarik Cohen would be ready for activation after going on the physically unable to perform list to continue recovering from last year’s torn ACL. It has been three weeks since Nagy made that comment and it’s [more]

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Mac Jones: I am ready to play any role I need to play

Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said on Monday that someone has to play better than Cam Newton in order to supplant him as New England’s starting quarterback and the leading candidate to pull that off this year is first-round pick Mac Jones. Jones will get an extended opportunity to show he’s capable of that kind [more]

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J.J. Watt “like a dog chasing a tennis ball” in return to practice

The Cardinals got defensive end J.J. Watt on the practice field for the first time this summer on Monday and they wanted him to stick to individual work after nearly a month on the physically unable to perform list with a hamstring injury. Making sure that happened required a close eye on the veteran. Or [more]

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