That chipping noise across the NFL is star quarterbacks tearing down the wall of feudal power. Aaron Rodgers demands out of Green Bay.

Russell Wilson says he’s not happy in Seattle. Chip.

Deshaun Watson tells Houston he’s played his last down there (before falling into a quagmire of legal problems from sexual assault allegations). Chip. ...Read more

CHICAGO — If the Chicago Bears are headed for a charmed existence with Justin Fields, the moment the Seattle Seahawks said no thanks to a massive trade offer for Russell Wilson could be the best thing that happened to Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy.

We won’t know for some time, maybe multiple years, if Fields is the long-sought answer to the Bears...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Most every day growing up I asked my mother: "What are we eating tonight?" Same answer, every time, was: "What I put on the table, you eat."

She never asked me what I would like.

So, because I'm the son of a fisherman's wife, married for a long time to a fisherman's daughter, and doing what I've done, it means I've never played ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — You've no doubt seen the video from last October. Arizona Cardinals cornerback Budda Baker intercepts a pass on the goal line and heads toward the opposite end zone, nothing but green artificial turf in front of him. Seattle Seahawks receiver DK Metcalf, a good 10 yards behind, takes off after him.

Catches him at the 8-yard line. ...Read more

Myles Gaskin is the type of player I respect the most in the NFL because nothing he’s acquired has been gifted to him.

Everything the Miami Dolphins’ third-year tailback has, he’s earned, and that is rare in the NFL because a player’s draft status, the contract given, or who drafted or signed them has influence far too often on where a ...Read more

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The two critical leaders in the Jaguars’ hierarchy didn’t really get to know each other until four months ago. For years, as with many relationships in the football world, they were nothing more than two ships who once passed in the night.

Urban Meyer vaguely remembers meeting Jaguars’ GM Trent Baalke when he began ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Nobody may have a bigger platform among NFL players than Tom Brady, the league’s elder statesman after more than two decades and seven Super Bowl victories.

When he speaks, in the huddle or elsewhere, players listen.

Perhaps that’s why Brady joined an NFLPA conference call Friday and delivered “an impassioned speech” ...Read more

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — If Tim Tebow wants to pursue helping the Jaguars bolster their painfully thin tight end position, the team and coach Urban Meyer have nothing to lose by granting him the opportunity.

Would another washed-up, 33-year-old NFL quarterback (he turns 34 in August) get that same chance for the Jaguars or any other team? Almost ...Read more

DETROIT — It didn't take long for Kerryon Johnson to find a new home.

The running back, waived by the Detroit Lions on Thursday, was claimed off waivers by the Philadelphia Eagles.

Johnson, a second-round pick in 2018, appeared in 34 games during this three seasons with the Lions, rushing for 1,225 yards (4.3 yards per carry) and eight ...Read more

MIAMI — Alabama head coach Nick Saban has won seven national championships and restored the Crimson Tide into an annual national powerhouse program upon his arrival in 2007.

It came after a two-season stint in the NFL as the Miami Dolphins head coach.

But had the franchise signed future Hall of Fame quarterback Drew Brees, who was injured at...Read more

TAMP, Fla. — If you wondered how Tom Brady would react to the Bucs drafting Florida quarterback Kyle Trask, his eventual successor, well, let’s just say he’s not giving him the cold shoulder pad.

Trask received a phone call from Brady a couple of days after he was drafted by the Bucs. He asked when Trask would arrive in Tampa and invited ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Back in November 2016, back when Jalen Hurts was 18 years old and the first true freshman to start at quarterback for Alabama in more than three decades, back when nobody had to monitor Jeopardy! each night for tells and insights into what the NFL's most valuable player might be thinking, Aaron Rodgers said some interesting ...Read more

One of Tyler Lockett’s favorite current projects with his “Light It Up” Foundation is to help youngsters from his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, learn about the business world by job shadowing.

Wide receiver D’Wayne Eskridge, the Seahawks’ second-round draft pick last week, won’t exactly be job shadowing with Lockett when the Seahawks...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Simple question: Was this wrong?

Albert Pujols, one of the greatest baseball players the world has ever seen, was just unceremoniously dumped by the Angels a few hours before their game against the Rays on Thursday night.

Do you know how many kids in middle America grew up with a Pujols poster on their wall and a No. 5 St. ...Read more

The Miami Dolphins have released the leader of their top performing unit from the 2020 season.

Veteran safety Bobby McCain, a team captain for the past two seasons, was informed he’ll be released Thursday morning in a roster move that clears $5.66 million in cap space, but removes the leader of the unit that propped up last year’s top-10 ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — It's been well-documented that embattled general manager Howie Roseman slayed the 2021 NFL draft for the Eagles. What's gone unnoticed is how badly he bettered the rest of the NFC East.

When your division finishes a season as the worst in NFL history, every team enters the next season rebuilding. It's sort of a slow-build arms ...Read more

A completist is defined as "an obsessive, typically indiscriminate, collector or fan of something."

I feel seen.

I couldn't possibly leave you without a preview of college football's best players and next year's top draft prospects before I close the book on the 2020-2021 draft season.

Obviously, a way-too-early mock draft isn't about ...Read more