Los Angeles Chargers defensive tackle Brandon Mebane, a belly-rolling, lineman-battling 311-pounder, felt good about his team after its first day of organized team activities last week.

He saw Joey Bosa, the league's reigning rookie of the year, position himself down the line. Denzel Perryman, Jatavis Brown and Kyle Emanuel, the team's trio of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Aaron Donald deserves a raise, Los Angeles Rams general manager Les Snead said a few months ago.

Now Donald, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle, apparently is taking a stand until he gets one.

Donald was absent from the first day of organized team activities Monday because of his contract situation.

"We were aware he wasn't...Read more

Raven safety and first-round draft bust Matt Elam has been arrested for the second time in less than three months.

According to Palm Beach (Fla.) County records, Elam was booked at 8:48 a.m. Monday at the county's main detention center and charged with grand theft and battery.

He's being held on $4,500 bond.

TMZ Sports reported that he was ...Read more

Organized team activities don't get many football fans excited. OTAs basically consist of players running around without pads and without contact during the spring.

But Dolphins coach Adam Gase will view things differently when his team takes the field Tuesday.

"I think every time we get out there it's important," he said. "We only get so many...Read more

Derek Carr hasn't signed the contract extension with the Oakland Raiders the quarterback has been talking about most of the offseason.

Time to panic? Not according to Carr, who disputes a recent report that he's grown frustrated by the pace of the negotiations.

"I have an agent who is in charge of that and I am confident that he and Mr. (...Read more

This could be one of the more intriguing springs for the Steelers as they begin practices Tuesday, the first of 10 permitted voluntary sessions followed by a three-day minicamp.

While few starting jobs would seem to be seriously contested, there are important questions begging for answers, or at least clarifications, which can start to be ...Read more

Coach Mike Zimmer, who last Wednesday had yet another surgery on his right eye, "will be taking time away from the team to dedicate to recovering from eye surgery and restoring his health," general manager Rick Spielman announced in a statement Monday morning.

"We all agree Mike's health is the priority and we believe rest and recovery are in ...Read more

When the Panthers begin the third phase of organized team activities Tuesday -- the phase that starts to resemble real football -- they are expected to do so without offensive tackle Michael Oher.

Oher's status has been a mystery since the last week of September when he entered the concussion protocol and -- other than firing off an occasional ...Read more

Here was a man who they aspired to be. Here was a millionaire. A local legend. An NFL star. A man who'd sat in their same seats and made it out.

And so they watched as this man wearing a T-shirt and a diamond-studded Egyptian cross sauntered to the forefront of the Carol City (Fla.) Senior High gymnasium to speak on Saturday morning. It didn't ...Read more

If Tom Brady played through a brain injury last season like his wife, Giselle Bundchen, suggested, he wouldn't be the first NFL player to do so.

In fact, former Detroit Lions receiver Calvin Johnson said that's a regular practice in the NFL

"Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches," Johnson said after his "Catching Dreams" football ...Read more

Mike Zimmer had surgery No. 8 on his right eye this week.

The Vikings head coach, speaking at his foundation's first youth football camp, told reporters Saturday at Winter Park, Minn., that he had "another little surgery" on Wednesday.

"It's so complicated. But they took the silicone oil out, put the gas bubble in," said Zimmer, his eyeball ...Read more

As the sixth round gave way to the seventh round and it became increasingly apparent Bryan Cox Jr. wouldn't be drafted last month, the food at his draft party started getting cold but none of the attendees got too hot -- including the host.

Considering Bryan Cox Sr. racked up fines totaling roughly $150,000 during his 12-year NFL career for ...Read more

There's workout music. There's pregame music. There's walk-up music.

Apparently there's signing music, too.

Moments after the Browns announced No. 1 overall draft pick Myles Garrett signed his rookie contract on Friday, the team tweeted a video clip of the former Texas A&M defensive end sitting in an office as he handled the paperwork.

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The Browns signed defensive tackle Caleb Brantley to his four-year rookie contract Friday.

Brantley joined the team April 29 as a controversial sixth-round draft pick because he had been accused of punching a woman in the face 16 days earlier, but the state attorney's office in Gainesville, Fla., announced Wednesday a misdemeanor battery ...Read more

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Kenny Stills hasn't been afraid to speak his mind on social issues, considering the Dolphins wide receiver chose to kneel during the national anthem last season.

Recently, he reached out to quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the pioneer of the anthem kneeling movement, who has been unable to find a job in the league this ...Read more

The Steelers had high hopes that adding veteran tight end Ladarius Green would bring a new dimension to an already potent offense.

Instead, he brought them real headaches, and those led to him playing just six games. He caught 18 passes for 304 yards and one touchdown in a brief Steelers career that ended on Thursday when they released him.

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Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie strongly disputed a recent report that there are any communication issues regarding the pending contract extension of quarterback Derek Carr.

"I see Derek every day," McKenzie said Thursday in an interview on 95.7 The Game. "We have a great relationship, communicate very well. Now, that's not going to be ...Read more

Michael Floyd's sentence in Arizona has been transferred to Minnesota, clearing the way for him to attend Vikings offseason workouts next week, according to a league source.

Floyd, who signed a one-year deal with the Vikings last week, was arrested in Arizona last December after he fell asleep in the driver's seat of his vehicle while stopped ...Read more

Alex Smith knew the Chiefs were drafting a quarterback. He said as much a few weeks before the draft, so when the Chiefs moved up to select Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes II in the first round, he was hardly surprised.

That's one of the reasons he felt compelled to call Mahomes shortly after his selection and welcome him to Kansas City....Read more