BALTIMORE — If the Ravens want to be classified as serious postseason contenders, start by stringing together more than one playoff win.

That’s pretty much been the franchise’s record since winning the Super Bowl title in 2012. Even back in 2023, when the team had the league’s best regular-season record at 13-4, the Ravens beat the ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Trent Williams isn’t being weird about retirement, so why should you?

He knows the end is near, and, deep down, you know the end is near, too. The San Francisco 49ers certainly know it.

We’re operating from a place of honesty these days. Let’s stop projecting insecurities or trying to re-write the rulebook.

It’...Read more

CHICAGO — It’s past time to use football analogies to describe the Chicago Bears’ long-running quest for a new stadium.

Fourth down. One-yard line. Precious few seconds remaining on the clock.

All of that has been used repeatedly.

What became salient Friday morning was the Bears moved a step closer to leaving Illinois for an ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Bears will proceed with plans for a new stadium in Hammond, Ind., the organization announced Friday.

“Yesterday, the Chicago Bears Board of Directors met and voted to advance our stadium development project in Hammond, Indiana, with the exact site to be selected,” the team said in a joint statement from Chairman ...Read more

DENVER — Broncos outside linebacker Jonathon Cooper and his girlfriend were each arrested late Thursday night on suspicion of misdemeanor domestic violence and misdemeanor criminal mischief.

Cooper, 28, was arrested by Parker police at 11:16 p.m. and booked into Douglas County Jail at 2:38 a.m., according to jail records. Cooper’s attorney,...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Quarterback Baker Mayfield says talks on a contract extension with the Bucs are ongoing but “not close to what we were thinking.” He has set a deadline for the start of training camp to reach an agreement or plans to play out the final season of his three-year, $100 million deal.

Mayfield, who joined the Bucs on a one-year, ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — He is an obscure part to the last dynasty of the Dallas Cowboys, a fact that unless you were there you may not know what Steve Beuerlein meant for the ascent of the franchise when it was actually winning playoff games rather than hoping to just make one.

In December of 1991, Beuerlein came off the bench to fill in for ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — For months, Howie Roseman slow-played the inevitable trade of A.J. Brown as much to maximize draft capital in return as to minimize Brown’s immediate salary-cap hit.

He got a first-rounder from the Patriots.

Well done.

As usual: Well done.

It’s not a 2026 first-rounder, which is what Roseman wanted before the draft, or ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Russell Wilson announced his retirement from the NFL earlier this week. He chose to take an analyst role with CBS over an offer to back up Geno Smith for the New York Jets.

The move came at the end of several years of disappointments that brought him through Pittsburgh for a star-crossed season in 2024 — one that showed promise...Read more

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Jahmyr Gibbs, the floor is yours.

One season after the Detroit Lions increased his role in the offense, the team doubled down on making him a focal point by trading David Montgomery to the Houston Texans this offseason.

The addition of Isiah Pacheco, who had some good seasons earlier in his career, left many wondering how...Read more

CHICAGO — The transformation of Rome Odunze into joyful painter Bob Ross for the Chicago Bears schedule release video was a clever production, sharp in details.

Odunze, with his hair all the way out in an afro and a blue button-down shirt tucked into blue jeans, didn’t just look the part. He provided a spot-on re-creation of the late PBS ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Rams' trade for Myles Garrett and subsequent intrigue about whether Aaron Donald would unretire to place two future first-ballot Hall of Famers on the same defensive line has served as an unmistakable reminder that some folks don't change.

Rams castaway Cooper Kupp still boasts an unexpected wry sense of humor.

Donald's ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The most prominent plays of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes’ career have a striking commonality — or at least nearly all of them do — and that commonality is something he couldn’t mirror today.

He’s on the move.

It’s the left-handed pass while running from Von Miller; the 27-yard touchdown scramble down the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — It was all right there for anyone who cared to see and read and understand. You can accuse A.J. Brown of a lot of things. You can accuse him of taking a few plays off last season out of longtime frustration and moments of immaturity. Of being passive-aggressive in public. Of failing to keep his true feelings about Jalen Hurts, ...Read more

FOXBORO, Mass. — A.J. Brown wasn’t cheap to acquire via trade with the Eagles, but now that he’s on the roster, his contract is a bargain for the Patriots.

The Patriots gave up a 2028 first-round pick and a 2027 fifth-rounder to acquire the Pro Bowl wide receiver from the Eagles. He now carries an unconventionally structured four-year, $...Read more

BALTIMORE — Zay Flowers has made himself pretty easy to spot around Baltimore this offseason.

The Ravens’ No. 1 wide receiver has attended all three voluntary organized team activity practices open to the media. Flowers made an on-field appearance at Orioles opening day at Camden Yards. He also surprised a local wedding full of Ravens fans ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Steelers have signed tight end Darnell Washington to a new five-year deal worth $45.674 million, sources told the Post-Gazette on Wednesday.

It is the second significant move in as many days for the Steelers, coming one day after they signed outside linebacker Nick Herbig to a five-year, $103.65 million deal.

Herbig and ...Read more

SEATTLE — Former Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson made it official Wednesday that he is joining CBS Sports to serve as an analyst on the NFL Today.

He did so in a three minute and 15-second video posted to social media that also served as a goodbye to his NFL career and an apparent announcement of his retirement after 14 seasons, 10 with ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A warrant for the arrest of 49ers player Brandon Aiyuk was issued in February, alleging that he committed a misdemeanor speeding violation last year in Santa Clara County, officials said Wednesday.

The warrant, which was first reported by the California Post, is connected to a Dec. 20, 2025 incident in which Aiyuk allegedly...Read more

NEW YORK — John Harbaugh told Odell Beckham Jr. during their extended spring courtship that he dreaded possibly having to cut OBJ if a return to New York didn’t work out.

But Beckham told Harbaugh the coach didn’t have to carry that burden. He is here to earn his place, whatever the consequences.

“I like it this way,” Beckham said ...Read more