NEW YORK — After a draft day deal, the Jets added an offensive weapon with the 11th overall pick

Minnesota traded pick No. 11, along with the 129th and 157th picks, in exchange for the Jets’ 10th overall pick and a sixth-rounder (203rd) overall.

After moving back one spot, the Jets got Aaron Rodgers an added boost of protection.

Gang ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Raiders have a new tight end.

The club selected Georgia tight end Brock Bowers with the 13th overall pick in the 2024 NFL draft on Thursday. Tight end was not a huge need for the Raiders after selecting Notre Dame tight end Michael Mayer in the second round last year. But the club felt Bowers was too good of a talent to pass ...Read more

DENVER — Sean Payton has found his quarterback.

The Broncos selected former Oregon star Bo Nix with the 12th overall pick in the first round of the NFL draft on Thursday night. Nix is Denver’s first selection in the first round since they took Pat Surtain II at No. 9 in 2021.

Nix is one of the most experienced quarterbacks in this year’s...Read more

SEATTLE — There was no trade for the Seahawks on Thursday night.

Instead, the Seahawks saw a player regarded as the best defensive lineman in the draft fall into their lap — Texas’ Byron Murphy II — and decided to take him with their first pick in 2024 draft at No. 16 overall.

Murphy was just the second defensive player taken after the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Rams opened the 2024 NFL draft by addressing their defensive line, selecting Florida State’s Jared Verse with the 19th pick of the first round.

Jared Verse — Edge

— 6 feet 4, 254 pounds, Florida State, Round 1, Pick 19

— Notable: Verse played two seasons at Albany before transferring to Florida State. He amassed 31...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Former St. Joseph’s Prep star and Philadelphia native Marvin Harrison Jr. is headed to Arizona.

Harrison, the first non-quarterback off the board, went No. 4 overall to the Cardinals in the first round of the NFL draft Thursday night. The 6-foot-3, 209-pound wideout starred at Ohio State after a decorated career with the ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Steelers went back to the offensive line for the second year in a row when they used their No. 1 pick on Washington tackle Troy Fautanu.

It is the first time in franchise history the Steelers have drafted an offensive lineman in the first round in back-to-back years.

Fautanu (6-foot-4, 317 pounds) gives them a player who ...Read more

MIAMI — Dallas Turner is officially the latest in a long line of great St. Thomas Aquinas edge rushers to go in the first round of the NFL draft.

Turner, who was the Miami Herald’s Broward County Defensive Player of the Year for Classes 8A-6A in his lone season as a Raider in 2020, is heading to the Minnesota Vikings as the No. 17 pick in ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Giants passed on J.J. McCarthy and other top quarterbacks at No. 6 overall on Thursday night and drafted LSU wide receiver Malik Nabers.

Both the Giants and Minnesota Vikings tried to trade up to No. 3 overall when the New England Patriots were on the clock, according to NFL Network.

But the Patriots stuck and selected North ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Chargers opened the 2024 NFL draft by addressing their offensive line, taking Notre Dame tackle Joe Alt with the fifth pick of the first round.

Joe Alt — offensive tackle

— 6 feet 9, 321 pounds, Notre Dame, Round 1, Pick 5

— Notable: His father, John, was an offensive lineman at Iowa and a first-round pick of Kansas ...Read more

SEATTLE — Michael Penix Jr.’s wait is complete. The 2023 Maxwell Award winner and former Washington quarterback finally knows where he’s going to begin his NFL career.

The 2023 Heisman runner-up, Penix went to Atlanta Falcons with the eighth pick of the first round, becoming the fourth quarterback off the board in the 2024 NFL draft on ...Read more

SEATTLE — On April 27, 2017, John Ross was selected in the first round of the NFL draft. He was picked ninth overall by the Cincinnati Bengals, becoming the third wide receiver in Washington program history to be taken in the first round.

Now, the Huskies have a fourth.

Wide receiver Rome Odunze was drafted by the Bears with the No. 9 pick ...Read more

DETROIT — Former Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy, so often described by analysts the last few months as the most polarizing at his position in this year’s NFL draft, finally knows his NFL destination.

McCarthy, who helped lead Michigan to the 2023 national championship and was 27-1 as a two-year starter, was selected by the Minnesota ...Read more

DETROIT — It’s official: Caleb Williams is a Chicago Bear as the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft.

Football’s worst-kept secret became public a few minutes after 7 p.m. CDT Thursday when the Bears, from their draft room at team headquarters in Lake Forest, sent an electronic message to Hart Plaza 326 miles away. Once that alert was received ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A few days away from the two-year anniversary of trading for A.J. Brown, the Eagles reached an agreement to extend the star wide receiver once again Thursday night.

The extension will run through 2029, and reportedly worth up to $96 million with $84 million guaranteed. Brown, 26, was previously under contract through 2026 on an...Read more

FOXBORO, Mass. — The pick is in, and the Patriots have chosen UNC quarterback Drake Maye with the third pick in the 2024 NFL draft.

After months of speculation that the Patriots could trade down from No. 3 overall, de facto general manager Eliot Wolf, head coach Jerod Mayo and the rest of the team’s top decision-makers stood pat to select a...Read more

Chicago Bears history is intertwined with so much that is great about the tapestry of professional football.

The evolution of the middle linebacker position can be traced back more than seven decades through some of the greatest to play it: from Bill George to Dick Butkus to Mike Singletary to Brian Urlacher. Three of the game’s most electric...Read more

DETROIT — When you look around, be sure to look everywhere. When you listen, be sure to hear everything.

You’ll see fans from all cities, celebrities from all corners. Outside of the Super Bowl, the draft is the NFL’s most-celebrated event, and the impact is witnessed in the streets and written on the walls. Look up and you’ll see ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Fifty years ago, the Steelers embarked on a franchise-changing season that still reverberates to this day. In 1974, they put together a draft class that has produced four Pro Football Hall of Famers and then went on to win the first of four Super Bowl titles — kick-starting a dynasty. Throughout this season, we will look back at...Read more