Training-camp rosters stand at 80, not 90, as part of the effort to keep COVID-19 under control. The challenges associated with having 10 fewer players are starting to emerge. Now that teams are practicing, players are getting injured. When players...
The NBA and National Basketball Players Association funded the development by Yale University of a saliva-based COVID-19 test. On Saturday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued emergency authorization for public use of the test, known as...
The NHL’s hardened Canadian bubble has helped hockey skate circles around the coronavirus. But it requires a major sacrifice from the players, one that some of them may not be able to make indefinitely. Case in point: Bruins goalie Tukka Rask has...
Raiders coach Jon Gruden made some waves on Friday by making some strong comments about new backup quarterback Marcis Mariota. Bits and pieces of the remarks from Gruden made their way to Twitter. In the interests of completeness and clarity, we...
Las Vegas Raiders
... USA TODAY Sports Raiders coach Jon Gruden made some waves on Friday by making some strong comments ab ...
Former NFL linebacker Chip Banks was shot this week in Atlanta and seriously injured. Police say Banks was one of three people shot by a group of five or six men with masks, according to TMZ.com. One of the other shooting victims died. “Detectives...
Cleveland Browns
... nd a first-team All-Pro in his second season. He spent five seasons with the Browns, one with the Chargers and four with the Colts. ...
Indianapolis Colts
... spent five seasons with the Browns, one with the Chargers and four with the Colts. ...
Los Angeles Chargers
... ro in his second season. He spent five seasons with the Browns, one with the Chargers and four with the Colts. ...
Packers defensive tackle Kenny Clark is heading into the fifth and final year of his rookie contract, but he won’t become a free agent next year. Instead, Clark and the Packers have agreed to a four-year contract extension. A league source tells PFT...
Green Bay Packers
... lion this season in the fifth-year option season on his rookie contract. The Packers took Clark out of UCLA with the 27th overall pick in the 2016 NFL draft. He ...
Jaguars quarterback Gardner Minshew was a starter at Northwest Mississippi Community College, at East Carolina and at Washington State. But in all three places, he had to compete in training camp to win the job. Not this year. Minshew had a strong...
Jacksonville Jaguars
... it, since I guess my senior of high school; it’s awesome,” Minshew said. New Jaguars offensive coordinator Jay Gruden said Minshew is making the most of his stat ...
The Big Ten has spoken. The parents of some Big Ten student-athletes are speaking out about it. Via Heather Dinich of ESPN.com, parents of football players at Iowa and Ohio State want the conference’s decision to be reconsidered. Corey Teague, the...
The Raiders have a history of embracing really fast receivers. They made the fastest receiver (and player) in the 2020 draft the first receiver picked. Alabama’s Henry Ruggs, taken twelfth overall, becomes the latest speedster in a tradition dating...
Las Vegas Raiders
... USA TODAY Sports The Raiders have a history of embracing really fast receivers. They made the fastest rec ...
Four weeks from tomorrow, 13 teams will be traveling or preparing to travel to the site of games for the first Sunday of the regular season. It will be the first major test of the mobile aspects of the NFL’s COVID-19 protocols. With no preseason...
Seahawks receiver Tyler Lockett chose not to opt out. But he almost did. Via Brady Henderson of ESPN.com, Lockett told reporters on Friday that he “definitely had a lot of hesitation” about playing pro football in a pandemic. As Henderson explains it,
Seattle Seahawks
... me up here, I’m gonna just play.” Lockett found inspiration in the fact that Seahawks coach Pete Carroll is 68, and that other Seahawks coaches in closer to the a ...
Less than 1 percent of NFL players are currently on the league’s reserve/COVID-19 list. Right now there are 22 players on the list (and about 2,500 players in NFL training camps). Via Mike Garafolo of NFL Network, that’s the fewest players on the...
When Travis Kelce signed a four-year, $57 million contract extension with the Chiefs this week, he decided that his first purchase would be something more meaningful than a new car. Kelce announced that he will be buying a building for his Eighty-Seve
Kansas City Chiefs
... hen Travis Kelce signed a four-year, $57 million contract extension with the Chiefs this week, he decided that his first purchase would be something more meanin ...
Seahawks starting defensive tackle Jarran Reed left practice Friday. The injury appeared to be a lower-leg injury, Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times reports. Reporters had no availability with coaches or players after practice, so Reed’s condition...
Seattle Seahawks
... t appeared to be a calf issue. Ford dealt with a calf issue last season. The Seahawks have little experience behind Reed and Ford, with Bryan Mone, Cedrick Lattim ...
