FMIA: The First-Week Free-Agency Files

Thirty-two teams, 32 thoughts on the opening week of the league year. 1. Chicago. The Bears traded ownership of the draft to Carolina, then owned the first week of free agency. After a conversation with Bears GM Ryan Poles the other night, it sounds like the trade was almost THE TRADE. Poles told me he [more]

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Anthony Walker to visit Commanders on Monday

Washington is taking a look at a free-agent linebacker. Anthony Walker is visiting with the Commanders on Monday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports. Walker spent the last two seasons with the Browns after playing out his rookie contract with the Colts. But Walker missed nearly all of the 2022 season after suffering a torn quad during [more]

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Eagles propose requiring game clocks to display tenths of seconds

Decades ago, the NFL replaced analog scoreboard clocks that displayed the time remaining in games on clock hands and dials with digital scoreboard clocks that counted down the seconds with numerals. Now the Eagles would like another scoreboard advancement. One of the proposed changes to NFL playing rules brought forward last week was a proposal [more]

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D’Onta Foreman glad to show he’s more than Derrick Henry’s or Christian McCaffrey’s backup

Over the last two years, D'Onta Foreman has started 12 games, but only in the absence of two of the best running backs in the NFL: He started three games in Tennessee in 2021 when Derrick Henry was injured, and he started nine games in Carolina in 2022 after Christian McCaffrey was traded. Now Foreman [more]

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After working with him at the Combine, Brandon Beane thinks Von Miller will be a G.M.

Bills pass rusher Von Miller attended this year’s Scouting Combine to advance his goal of becoming an NFL General Manager, and he impressed Bills G.M. Brandon Beane with his commitment to doing the hard work of scouting players. Beane told Katherine Fitzgerald of the Buffalo News that when he talks to people who show interest [more]

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SoFi Stadium may be unable to host the World Cup Final

SoFi Stadium is the perfect place for people to watch big-time sporting events. As long as it doesn’t rain. And as long as the event isn’t the World Cup Final. According to the Times of London, via USA Today, SoFi Stadium may be unable to host the ultimate soccer match in 2026 because the field [more]

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Report: Texans will pay $6 million to make Brandin Cooks trade happen

Receiver Brandon Cooks was due to make $18 million this year, fully guaranteed. He still is. And the Texans will be paying a third of the amount, even though he won’t be playing for them. PFT has confirmed that the Texans have agreed to pay $6 million of the Cooks salary in order to make [more]

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