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6:00 AM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The day after Trey Lance became the No. 3 overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft, he arrived at the San Francisco 49ers‘ facility for his first in-person meeting with coach Kyle Shanahan. Shanahan had about 15 minutes to chat with Lance and his family, who were about

6:00 AM ET Brady HendersonESPN SEATTLE — If the Seattle Seahawks are going to land Julio Jones, it would have to look much like their 2019 trade for Jadeveon Clowney. The Seahawks had their eyes on Clowney all summer but were never going to take on the massive salary he was set to make on

12:51 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers still don’t have a solution to the Aaron Rodgers situation, but they know what it has done to their fans. “The situation we face with Aaron Rodgers has divided our fan base,” Packers president Mark Murphy wrote in his monthly column published Saturday on

7:45 AM ET The conversation began in the Atlanta Falcons‘ locker room, undrafted rookie defensive backs Dwayne Johnson and JR Pace discussing finances and how to get themselves started in a league where careers can be short but the money may end up long. A week earlier, veteran linebacker Brandon Copeland had spoken to Falcons

1:41 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots quarterback Cam Newton had his right throwing hand examined by the athletic training and medical staff about halfway through the team’s voluntary organized team activity on Friday and didn’t participate in the rest of practice. Newton was seen flexing his right throwing hand at times. He

5:01 PM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans have signed three-time All-American wrestler Adam Coon to play on the offensive line. Coon compiled a 116-15 record in college while wrestling at Michigan, but never

6:00 AM ET PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger proclaimed the team’s 2021 offense would be like nothing ever seen before. The Steelers would throw everything at everybody. But Roethlisberger, speaking for the first time since throwing four interceptions in a 48-37 first-round playoff loss to the Cleveland Browns, said it with his signature

2:09 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers assistant head coach/run game coordinator Harold Goodwin offered his support to Eugene Chung following Chung’s revelation that he was called “not the right type of minority” during an NFL coaching interview. “Being a minority in this league, there’s ups and downs, and we know the process

6:35 PM ET Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — The federal judge presiding over the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims on Thursday invited lawyers for Black players who call the settlement racially-biased to join court-led mediation over the issue. The lawyers have challenged the settlement’s use of “race-norming” in dementia testing since 2018. The

9:43 AM ET ESPN News Services The USFL is relaunching in 2022, four decades after the spring football league’s short-lived run that featured such stars as Reggie White, Herschel Walker, Steve Young and Jim Kelly, as well as future President Donald Trump as an owner. The new USFL announced Thursday that it will play next

3:56 PM ET MIAMI — Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Marino has spent the past 20 years watching new-era players break his numerous records, but there’s one Miami Dolphins family mark that he wholeheartedly wants to see preserved: Don Shula’s NFL-best 328 wins (347 including playoffs). Shula, who coached Marino for the first 13 years

6:00 AM ET HENDERSON, Nev. — Reasons? Yeah, Richie Incognito has a few reasons as to why he wants to return to play left guard for the Las Vegas Raiders at age 38, a year after suffering a season-ending Achilles injury in Week 2. And they are exactly what you would imagine. “The injury was

4:36 PM ET PITTSBURGH — With the disappointment of a first-round playoff loss to the Cleveland Browns still fresh, Ben Roethlisberger made the immediate decision to return as the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback for at least another season. To do that, though, he recognized that his $41.25 million cap hit was untenable, and he asked the

1:10 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians said Tuesday he’s unsure how much quarterback Tom Brady will do in next week’s mandatory minicamp because of his recovery from offseason knee surgery. Brady has been throwing in private workouts with teammates instead of OTAs, but Arians said he might err on

1:39 PM ET Sarah Barshop HOUSTON — The Texans have signed running back Rex Burkhead, adding another veteran running back to a crowded backfield, a source confirmed to ESPN. Burkhead, 30, is the seventh running back on the Texans’ roster, joining veteran running backs Phillip Lindsay, David Johnson and Mark Ingram. Houston added Lindsay and

11:19 AM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Bills converted more than $11.7 million of wide receiver Stefon Diggs‘ base salary into a signing bonus, a source tells ESPN’s Field Yates, saving the team roughly $8 million of salary-cap space. Diggs was slated to make roughly $12.7 million in base salary in 2021;

6:00 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Quarterback Carson Wentz arrived in Indianapolis earlier this spring with questions surrounding his character as a teammate in Philadelphia. That was only part of the questions when it comes to Wentz, though. There also were physical questions on what he could do on the football field as the Colts’ new

6:00 AM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Turns out, Mike Shanahan was right. The former Denver Broncos coach once stood on a patio behind the team’s suburban practice complex and grumpily lamented another question about another player the Broncos were said to have been interested in and whom Shanahan actually had no interest in. “Everybody says