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11:42 AM ET Dianna RussiniESPN The Atlanta Falcons are expected to trade Julio Jones to the Tennessee Titans, barring any setbacks, in the next 24 to 48 hours, according to sources. The two sides still are finalizing compensation but, as one source said, “I feel very good about this.” Sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter that

2:32 PM ET It has been four months since quarterback Tom Brady threw his last pass in a game, helping lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV, but that hasn’t stopped him from setting more records. The latest came Friday night when a Brady rookie

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

6:00 AM ET LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Buyer’s remorse is not a phrase the Chicago Bears associate with Justin Fields. A shade under five weeks since the Bears moved up in the first round to nab the Ohio State quarterback, coach Matt Nagy held court after the team’s first open OTA workout and said Fields

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

1:49 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterbacks coach Clyde Christensen on Thursday said he believes Tom Brady‘s knee injury last season was a “nagging nuisance” that affected him all season. “I don’t think he was 100% last year,” Christensen said, relaying a conversation he had with Brady the morning after the Bucs

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

1:52 PM ET Almost three years ago, the San Francisco 49ers made Weston Richburg the highest-paid center in NFL history. On Wednesday, Richburg’s time with the Niners came to an end, as he announced his retirement from the NFL. Richburg had an injury-plagued stint with the 49ers that culminated in his missing the entire 2020

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

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 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The toughest part of Logan Thomas‘ transition from quarterback to tight end was saying yes. He had been highly recruited in high school, finished his career at Virginia Tech as the school’s all-time leading passer and was good enough to get drafted in the third round by the Arizona

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