C.J. Gardner-Johnson: Lions’ talent is a little bit better than the Eagles’ talent

New Lions defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson says the team he is on now has a little more talent than the team he was on last year. That’s noteworthy because the team he was on last year, the Eagles, was in the Super Bowl. But Gardner-Johnson said at his introductory press conference in Detroit that in [more]

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Scott Fitterer: Lamar Jackson is a great, expensive option, but we’re focused on the draft

The Panthers traded up from No. 9 overall to acquire the No. 1 pick in the 2023 draft to select a quarterback. Carolina General Manager Scott Fitterer admitted as much during his Monday press conference, saying the Panthers “have conviction” about multiple QBs in the incoming rookie class. But before executing the trade with Chicago, [more]

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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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