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9:54 PM ET The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are hoping they have found the heir to Tom Brady, selecting Florida quarterback Kyle Trask in the second round of the NFL draft Friday with the 64th overall pick. Trask, the sixth quarterback drafted this year and the first taken after Thursday’s first round, will have to venture

10:29 AM ET NFL NationESPN The 2021 NFL draft began Thursday and continues through Saturday (ABC/ESPN/ESPN App). With quarterbacks going 1-2-3 — Trevor Lawrence to the Jacksonville Jaguars, Zach Wilson to the New York Jets and Trey Lance to the San Francisco 49ers — the rest of the draft promises to be just as exciting.

3:10 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Joe Horn was disappointed Friday morning, not as a former Pro Bowl wide receiver who once was fined for hiding a cellphone in a goalpost pad, but as the parent of one of the 32 players selected in the first round of the 2021 NFL draft. Horn had wanted

9:52 PM ET The Chicago Bears traded up nine spots with the New York Giants to select QB Justin Fields with the No. 11 overall pick in the NFL draft on Thursday. The Giants received Chicago’s first-round pick this year (No. 20), the Bears’ first-rounder next year, a fifth-round pick this year and a fourth-round

2:03 AM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — The Green Bay Packers still believe Aaron Rodgers will play for them in 2021, and perhaps beyond, and they have no plans to trade him. That was general manager Brian Gutekunst’s message late Thursday night following the first round of the NFL draft, which came after sources told

3:13 PM ET Reigning MVP Aaron Rodgers is so disgruntled with the Green Bay Packers that he has told some within the organization that he does not want to return to the team, league and team sources told ESPN on Thursday. The Packers are aware of his feelings, concerned about them and have had team

8:49 PM ET For most of his NFL career, Lamar Jackson has made people pay for thinking he wasn’t a quarterback. But on Wednesday, Jackson actually paid one lucky passerby $100 after the man thought Jackson was a wide receiver and then an offensive lineman. Lamar Jackson offered a man $100 if he could tell

5:32 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN SEATTLE — General manager John Schneider says that he never “actively negotiated” with any teams that called the Seattle Seahawks about a possible trade for Russell Wilson. Coach Pete Carroll says the organization and Wilson are in a “fantastic place” and that the Seahawks were never going to trade their

1:58 PM ET The Carolina Panthers have traded quarterback Teddy Bridgewater to the Denver Broncos in exchange for a sixth-round draft pick, it was announced Wednesday. The Panthers will pay $7 million to Bridgewater, while the Broncos will pay him $3 million, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The trade will not take the Broncos

8:12 AM ET Wide receiver Antonio Brown is re-signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a one-year contract, his agent told NFL Network on Wednesday. Brown’s deal could be worth up to $6.25 million, his agent said. He is guaranteed $3.1 million, including a $2 million signing bonus. The re-signing means the Buccaneers are bringing

9:30 PM ET ESPN NFL Nation You’ve read the latest mock drafts from draft gurus Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay. Now it’s time for our NFL Nation reporters to share their expertise on the 2021 NFL draft as we close in on Round 1 (Thursday, 8 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN/ESPN App). NFL Nation reporters played

3:38 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott “is right on track or maybe a little ahead of schedule” as he returns from a compound fracture and dislocation of his right ankle suffered last season, coach Mike McCarthy said Tuesday. McCarthy said he attended Prescott’s workout on Saturday, calling it the most

6:31 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — Just because the Green Bay Packers haven’t restructured or extended Aaron Rodgers‘ contract does not mean they won’t in the coming days either before this week’s draft or in the coming months before the season starts. That’s where general manager Brian Gutekunst left things on Monday. Gutekunst and

11:03 PM ET The Atlanta Falcons are open to hearing trade offers for wide receiver Julio Jones, general manager Terry Fontenot told FOX 5 in Atlanta on Monday night. Fontenot answered the question about possibly moving Jones broadly, but the question asked was a direct one about the team’s star receiver for a decade. “That’s

5:46 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Three weeks after the San Francisco 49ers‘ bold trade up to the No. 3 pick in the NFL draft, coach Kyle Shanahan said the team was already comfortable enough to draft three of the top five quarterbacks but the team could “get there” with Nos. 4 and 5.

4:44 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN With the 2021 NFL draft less than a week away, new Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes says the franchise is open to trading its No. 7 overall pick. “Yeah, there has been discussion with other teams,” Holmes said during Friday’s pre-draft news conference. “I will keep those in-house, but

8:07 PM ET Associated Press HENDERSON, Nev. — Mike Davis, the former Raiders defensive back who made one of the most memorable interceptions in team history, has died. He was 65. The Raiders announced Davis’ death Sunday. The team gave no details on the cause of death. The former Colorado star was a second-round pick

1:15 PM ET Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski has won four Super Bowls, been to five Pro Bowls and even won a WWE title. Now he has a new honor to add to his unique résumé: world-record holder. The 10-year NFL veteran is now in the Guinness Book of World Records after successfully