Tight end Greg Olsen will sign a one-day contract with the Carolina Panthers on March 11 before officially retiring.

Olsen wrapped up his a 14-year NFL career, announcing the news of his retirement on the FOX pregame show prior to the NFC Championship game in January. His career ranks among of the top tight ends in NFL history.

He will join ...Read more

Chicago Bears tight end Jimmy Graham said he walked away “unscathed” from a car crash Thursday morning in Miami.

Graham said he crashed while trying to avoid a disabled vehicle in the center lane.

“Just wanted to get ahead of this and tell everybody I’m fine,” Graham tweeted Thursday afternoon.

According to Andy Slater, a host on ...Read more

KANSAS CITY — Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium has a new name effective for the 2021 NFL season.

Lee’s Summit-based Government Employees Health Association (GEHA) will have its name highlighted at 1 Arrowhead Drive as the stadium’s first sponsor, the team announced Thursday.

The stadium’s full name will now be GEHA Field at Arrowhead ...Read more

The countdown clock is ticking on the contract negotiations between the Dallas Cowboys and quarterback Dak Prescott.

It is now T-minus five days for the Cowboys to come to terms on a long-term deal or be forced to place the franchise tag on the face of the franchise for a second straight year, thus putting into motion a potential doomsday ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Bucs’ seven-time Super Bowl champion is set to give a fan the chance to try on one of his rings — and a few of his spirals — for size.

Omaze, a global online fundraising platform benefiting nonprofits, announced Thursday that 43-year-old Tom Brady will spend an afternoon playing catch — and having lunch — with one ...Read more

The offseason swirl of NFL quarterback movement has been both real and rumored in the last month.

On Wednesday, Vikings GM Rick Spielman said Kirk Cousins' name falls into the latter category and that there is nothing to any reports that keep linking Cousins' name to a potential trade.

"Kirk Cousins is our quarterback," Spielman told reporters...Read more

Count Baker Mayfield among those who "want to believe."

The Cleveland Browns quarterback decided to go to the one place all people seemingly go to after an encounter with the third kind — Twitter — to let the world know he is "almost" certain he saw a UFO on Wednesday night. The supposed aerial phenomena was spotted by the former No. 1 ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Steelers and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger agreed on a new contract for the 2021 season that will pay him $14 million, the Post-Gazette has learned.

The new agreement will bring Roethlisberger’s cap hit down from the $41.2 million hit that was on the books for 2021 to $26.2 million. In essence, Roethlisberger agreed to a $...Read more

DETROIT — The Detroit Lions began to get their books in order ahead of the start of the new league year, informing veteran cornerback Desmond Trufant he will be released later this month, according to an ESPN report.

Text messages to Trufant's representation and the team weren't immediately returned.

The Lions signed Trufant last offseason. ...Read more

BALTIMORE — From past draft failures to the drawbacks of a one-dimensional offense, the Ravens’ path to finding a No. 1 receiver is filled with obstacles.

Finding a top-notch receiver is one of the team’s priorities this offseason, along with improving the interior of the offensive line and securing an edge rusher or outside linebacker.

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A few months ago, as the Dolphins made a playoff push that failed, Kyle Van Noy made a bottom-line comment that, “It’s all about taking care of your business in this league.”

In a novel, that’s called “foreshadowing.”

Unfortunately for Van Noy, this isn’t some grand, sweeping novel with him as protagonist. He became a bit player ...Read more

It’s hard to imagine that anybody less connected than former Kansas City Chiefs assistant linebackers coach Britt Reid could have admitted to having a few drinks — two or three, he said — before a crash that paralyzed a 5-year-old and yet would not have been arrested at the scene.

Reid still has not been charged, of course, nearly a month...Read more

NEW YORK — The Giants began their cost-cutting on Wednesday night by releasing two veterans: wide receiver Golden Tate and linebacker David Mayo, according to sources.

Tate, 32, is gone two years into a four-year, $37.5 million contract that included $23 million fully guaranteed at signing in 2019. GM Dave Gettleman traded Odell Beckham Jr. ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Tom Brady finally revealed what his wife, Gisele Bundchen, asked him when they embraced right after the Bucs won Super Bowl 55.

“It’s a big moment, obviously, it’s the culmination of a lot of months of everyone working hard,” Brady told James Corden on The Late Late Show. “There’s so many people around us to support ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Rick Spielman has been known to say he's not looking to trade a guy right before ends up trading said guy.

Percy Harvin and Stefon Diggs come to mind.

But in those cases, the Vikings' general manager had carefully crafted his words with room to wiggle free from what he had said to what he later did.

He left no such wiggle room...Read more