Owners of the No. 1 NFL draft pick the last two years, the Chicago Bears will have to wait until No. 10 for their first selection this year.

General manager Ryan Poles traded away the first pick in 2023, and after winding up at No. 10 following another trade, he selected right tackle Darnell Wright. The Bears kept the top pick last year and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — However murky the Vikings' messaging about their quarterbacks has been this month, it has grown substantially clearer in the past 24 hours.

Did they want to keep Sam Darnold? Maybe, sort of, but only for the right price and terms (and not the ones he ended up getting from Seattle).

Were they interested in 41-year-old free agent...Read more

Let’s establish a fair and logical baseline expectation for the 2025 Miami Dolphins.

The Dolphins should be a playoff team in 2025.

In the big picture, you can’t have this much talent and miss the playoffs in back-to-back years.

In the smaller picture, the Dolphins will have enough talent in 2025 to make the playoffs.

Given reasonable ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jameis Winston is a Giant.

After Matthew Stafford chose the Rams over a trade to New York and with Aaron Rodgers visiting the Pittsburgh Steelers, Joe Schoen is signing the gunslinger former No. 1 overall pick Winston to finally add a veteran quarterback to the NFL’s 31st ranked offense.

Winston’s contract reportedly is a two-...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Aaron Rodgers visited the Steelers' facility on Friday and left without a deal after meeting with coach Mike Tomlin, general manager Omar Khan and offensive coordinator Arthur Smith, sources have told the Post-Gazette.

However, his departure does not preclude the possibility the four-time league MVP could still reach agreement ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Travis Long was a few minutes from making the Eagles as the fourth quarter of the final preseason game ticked away. He signed with the Birds in 2013 as an undrafted free agent, spent a season on the practice squad while recovering from an injury that cut his college career short, and then impressed everyone during training camp ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Sarah Palin, after The New York Times wrongly linked her to a mass shooting.

Dominion Voting Systems, after Fox News aired false claims that the company rigged the 2020 election.

Members of the Sackler family, who owned Purdue Pharma, as the Oxycontin scandal unfolded.

Harvard’s president amid accusations of plagiarism.

And ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — As recruiting pitches go, I probably wouldn't recommend the following as your deal clincher: "If you want to be part of it, so be it. If you don't, no skin off my back."

That was Cam Heyward — the most prominent voice in the Steelers' locker room — on whether he'd help recruit Aaron Rodgers here.

Heyward was speaking on his ...Read more

SEATTLE — Cooper Kupp is no DK ... and that's OK.

Cut the comparisons.

Of course, I understand the temptation, considering the circumstances. After DK Metcalf requested a trade and was subsequently shipped to Pittsburgh for a second-round pick, Kupp — who was recently released by the Los Angeles Rams — filled his roster spot. They were ...Read more

MIAMI — Terron Armstead hasn’t decided if he’ll play another season or will end his career after 12 seasons.

The man who has anchored the Miami Dolphins’ offensive line for the past three seasons, starting 38 regular-season games, could easily go either way with the decision, and the team knows this, and is supposed to be planning ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Vikings closed another deal with a free-agent visitor on Wednesday, agreeing to sign receiver Rondale Moore.

Moore, who turns 25 in June, adds a different element to the Vikings receiving corps if he’s healthy. The dynamic, catch-and-run threat sat out last season with the Atlanta Falcons due to a knee injury suffered in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Third time’s the charm? The Green Bay Packers hope so.

For the third consecutive offseason, the Philadelphia Eagles’ famed Tush Push is under scrutiny, and the NFL on Wednesday announced rule change proposals coming from individual teams. The Packers are officially proposing an amendment to Rule 12, Section 1, marking the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon first joined the Rams in 2023, when he signed a one-year, veteran-minimum contract about a month before training camp.

One game into last season, Witherspoon was a free agent when the Rams signed him to another one-year deal.

On Wednesday the Rams and Witherspoon once again agreed to a one-year ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Matt Ryan was one of “those quarterbacks,” and he’s well acquainted with the rhetoric that hounds passers who have been slapped with the label of “Good, Not Good Enough.”

It’s the same tag Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has been unceremoniously given by irrational fans, and a lot of the talking heads ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Steelers have not been told they are out of the running for quarterback Aaron Rodgers and continue to wait on the four-time league MVP with no specific time set for a decision, sources have told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The Steelers are offering Rodgers, 41, a one-year deal to be their starter, but they are preparing to ...Read more

DETROIT — Although the Detroit Lions haven't been very active in free agency this offseason, the franchise still has been quite busy.

According to an announcement from the NFL, the Lions were responsible for proposing two amendments to league bylaws and one playing rule change, all of which will be voted on in two weeks at the NFL's league ...Read more

SEATTLE — There are currently no odds in the sports books for NFL team win totals next season. It’s not quite right to post those numbers when free agency is still going and the draft awaits.

But I imagine when it’s time to do so, the oddsmakers are going to be baffled when it comes to the Seahawks. Next season’s squad is one of the ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mecole Hardman Jr., who spent all but five of his 80 NFL games with the Chiefs, is off to the Green Bay Packers.

ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler was first to report that Hardman is signing a one-year deal with Green Bay.

Hardman has had an eventful career with the Chiefs, who made him a second-round pick from Georgia in 2019.

He ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Rams are loath to invest in high-priced players at inside linebacker.

They have not used a high or midlevel draft pick at the position since selecting Ernest Jones IV in the third round in 2021, preferring instead to man the position with undrafted free agents of varying experience.

On Tuesday, the Rams stayed on script, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — No more banana pudding and blanket coverage on the outside. No more handmade computers and edge pressure on opposing quarterbacks. No more tears of gratitude after 60 snaps of pass-protection and pancake blocks. Since the NFL’s free-agency period began last week, the Eagles have lost several players from their Super Bowl team....Read more