PITTSBURGH — Mock the New York Giants all you like. They deserve it. But they have won a playoff game more recently than the Steelers — who haven’t even been competitive in one in nearly a decade — and they made the pick the Steelers needed to make Thursday night.

The Giants got Jaxson Dart. The Steelers did not.

The Giants now have a ...Read more

DENVER — Man, it Shoughed to be Shedeur Sanders Friday night.

Wait. You haven’t heard of Tyler Shough? Welcome to the party.

The last name is pronounced “Shuck,” by the way. He’s 25 years old, a strapping 6-foot-4 dude from Chandler, Ariz. Shough played college ball for seven seasons and three schools, a road that weaved through ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — The Chicago Bears selected Missouri wide receiver Luther Burden III with the 39th pick in the 2025 NFL draft on Friday after the local star slid out of the event's first round.

After going undrafted in the first round, Burden had to wait until the seventh pick of the second round to hear his name called from Green Bay, Wisc. ...Read more

SEATTLE — With their third selection in the NFL draft Friday, the Seahawks selected Alabama quarterback Jalen Milroe with the 92nd overall pick — a pick they got from the Raiders for quarterback Geno Smith.

Milroe was expected by some as a potential first-round pick and had attended the draft in Green Bay, Wis.

He fell to the mid-third ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the second consecutive season, the Chargers picked a wide receiver in the second round of the NFL draft, selecting Mississippi's Tre Harris at No. 55 overall Friday.

The pick doubled down on offensive firepower after the team took running back Omarion Hampton in the first round with the 22nd pick Thursday.

Harris, a 6-foot-...Read more

DETROIT — Speculation about former Michigan cornerback Will Johnson’s NFL draft stock certainly had picked up in the last several weeks because he was coming off an injury and did not run a 40 for scouts, but it mostly involved how much he might fall in the first round.

Johnson, however, was not selected in the opening round Thursday night ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Raiders have selected TCU wide receiver Jack Bech with the 58th overall pick in the second round of the NFL draft Friday.

Bech started his college career at LSU before transferring to TCU for his final two years. With the Horned Frogs, he caught 74 passes for 1,180 yards and nine touchdowns. He projects as a starter alongside ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — New Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty already might be adjusting to the 24-hour nature of his new town, though he wasn’t exactly partying.

“I was up pretty much the whole night,” the Raiders’ first-round pick said Friday at his introductory news conference at the team facility. “Just thinking about what an honor it is ...Read more

SEATTLE — With their third selection in the 2025 NFL draft the Seahawks turned back to their offense, taking tight end Elijah Arroyo of Miami on Friday.

Arroyo joins guard Grey Zabel of North Dakota State, who was taken at 18 on Thursday, and safety Nick Emmanwori of South Carolina, taken at 35 earlier Friday.

The Seahawks are scheduled for ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Two draft picks in and the San Francisco 49ers have two defensive linemen on board.

Texas defensive tackle Alfred Collins arrived via their second-round pick Friday, a day after Georgia defensive end Mykel Williams was selected at No. 11 overall.

Defensive tackle became the 49ers’ thinnest position and greatest need ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After trading their first-round pick the previous night, the Rams on Friday selected Oregon tight end Terrance Ferguson in the second round with the 46th overall pick.

The Rams drafted Ferguson to bolster a position group that includes veteran Tyler Higbee, Colby Parkinson and Davis Allen.

The Rams went into the draft without a...Read more

There was a time when Carson Schwesinger had zero stars, zero college scholarship offers, seemingly zero hope to amount to much in football.

His high school coach pitched UCLA counterpart Chip Kelly on taking Schwesinger as a consolation prize after the Bruins lost out on fellow Oaks Christian linebacker Ethan Calvert, who was headed to Utah.

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PITTSBURGH — Derrick Harmon has a tattoo on his left arm that reads "ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE."

Tiffany Saine’s left arm gave her trouble ever since her first stroke in 2022. She was paralyzed on that side of her body, needing help from her mother and her partner to do just about anything. Still, she’d call her son Derrick to ask him how ...Read more

The Seattle Seahawks began day two of the NFL draft with a splash Friday, pulling off a trade with the Tennessee Titans to move up to No. 35 and take South Carolina safety Nick Emmanwori.

The Seahawks dealt picks 52 and 82 to the Titans to move up.

Emmanwori, who turned 21 in February, was a popular player to mock to the Seahawks at 18 in the ...Read more

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots added a playmaker with their first pick of Day 2 of the 2025 NFL draft.

The Patriots selected Ohio State running back TreVeyon Henderson 38th overall in the second round.

Henderson is a speedy, undersized running back out of head coach Mike Vrabel’s alma mater. The 5-foot-10, 202-pound ball ...Read more

Things simply could not have gone any better for the San Francisco 49ers in Thursday’s first round of the NFL draft.

The best player in the NFL draft — Georgia defensive end Mykel Williams — fell to San Francisco at pick No. 11.

They didn’t hesitate to take them and pick up a huge win to start a make-or-break draft for general manager ...Read more

RENTON, Wash. — For the second consecutive draft, the Seattle Seahawks made sense.

That’s a refreshing shift for a franchise with a reputation for confounding its fans, via first-round reaches for running back Rashaad Penny in 2018 and defensive end L.J. Collier in 2019. The Seahawks have also routinely traded out of the first round, ...Read more

GREEN BAY, Wis. — In a first round when nine defensive linemen were drafted, NFL teams found a different way Thursday night to disrupt the quarterback.

They ignored him.

Colorado's Shedeur Sanders, once widely predicted to go first overall, instead was bypassed 32 times, even as his college teammate was selected almost immediately.

Two-way ...Read more

DENVER — NFL scouts are worried Shedeur Sanders is gonna get killed. If not by opposing linebackers, then by his own teammates.

“His dad being his coach (for so long) … love it or hate it, everything he’s done has been under a microscope,” Ourlads.com analyst Dave Syvertsen told me earlier in the week. “The postgames where you’re ...Read more