The San Francisco 49ers’ offseason has been a dizzying effort to both get worse and not sign their so-called franchise quarterback.

And all the while, general manager John Lynch has presented the 2025 NFL draft as a panacea for the team’s problems.

“We’ve got this thing called the draft and we’ve got a lot of picks,” Lynch told ...Read more

SEATTLE — As far as entertainment goes, this was one of the more compelling Seahawks offseasons we've ever seen.

Quarterback Geno Smith demanded a trade, and Sam Darnold came in to replace him. Receiver DK Metcalf also wanted out, and then Seattle signed former Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp.

Gone is fellow receiver Tyler Lockett after 10 years ...Read more

NEW YORK — During his four seasons in the NFL, Justin Fields hasn’t been in the best of situations.

That includes last season when he started six games with the Steelers and was later benched after Russell Wilson (calf) was fully healthy.

In his first media availability after signing a two-year, $40 million contract with the Jets, Fields ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Officers were called to the luxury apartment of Miami Dolphins star wide receiver Tyreek Hill earlier this week after an argument between him and his wife, according to a police report.

Just before 2 p.m. Monday, officers met with Hill; his wife, Keeta; and her mother in their 35th-floor apartment in Sunny Isles Beach ...Read more

CHICAGO — The information feed was both obligatory and routine Monday at Halas Hall as new Chicago Bears coach Ben Johnson started to supply his quarterbacks with vital details to aid their orientation into his offense.

By Tuesday morning? Recall time.

“Ben walked in, flung open the door and made a grand entrance,” quarterback Caleb ...Read more

SEATTLE — Geno Smith didn’t write back.

Or, in this case: he didn’t counter.

That’s despite a substantial extension offer from the Seahawks this offseason, which The Seattle Times previously reported was worth two years and up to $40-45 million annually. Instead, a series of dramatic dominoes dropped, as the Seahawks dealt their ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — It could be about a month from beginning to end, from the time reports emerged regarding real Steelers interest in Aaron Rodgers to ... for the love of all things holy, please let this saga end this week.

Yeah, it's felt much, much longer.

One way or another, this needs to be done — and a potentially important inflection point...Read more

MIAMI — A young, talented rookie was losing confidence when two aged veterans stepped in to help save his season.

Chop Robinson was pressing as a sackless rookie edge rusher. The 2024 first-round pick was struggling to get snaps and set the edge for a pass rush-starved Miami Dolphins team that was playing without Jaelan Phillips and Bradley ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The chance to work with coach Pete Carroll again was more than enough for Geno Smith to uproot his life and accept a trade from the Seahawks to the Raiders.

Throw in a conversation with minority owner Tom Brady and general manager John Spytek, and the quarterback was happy to move to Las Vegas and sign a contract extension that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Pete Carroll's syllabus is as lively and star-studded as his sideline.

The legendary football coach, a guest professor at USC, has brought in a parade of celebrities to speak to his "The Game is Life" class of 56 students, chosen from a field of more than 300 applicants.

One week it's Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Raiders and cornerback Jack Jones are parting ways, one way or another.

The team is attempting to trade the veteran cornerback, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. But the Raiders will waive Jones if they can’t make a deal by Monday, saving the club $3.4 million in cap space.

If the Raiders cut Jones, he ...Read more

BOULDER, Colo. — The Giants had 13 men on the field. Cleveland rushed seven for dinner and Deion. The Titans dropped six.

If that’s what a depressed market for Shedeur Sanders looks like, I doubt the Colorado's Indoor Practice Facility would’ve had the space for a happy one.

“I feel like I’m the No. 1 quarterback (in this draft),” ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — I hear these things about where the Steelers fit in the NFL and how much they are still the envy of the rest of the league. I hear about their way, their aura, their stability and how they are the model franchise, and then I read these stories about how everyone wants to play for them and Mike Tomlin.

Are some of you people out ...Read more

MIAMI — Terron Armstead will always be known for doing everything in his power to make it to NFL game day Sundays through injury.

But the Miami Dolphins left tackle has decided he has seen the last of those grueling playing days.

Armstead, 33, called it a career Saturday night, announcing his retirement from professional football at a ...Read more

BOULDER, Colo. — Deion did Indy better than Indy does Indy. Sean Payton held court, smiling at everybody but the scribes. A radio row loomed behind one end zone, while a DJ spun tunes behind another.

Crowds cheered players who grunted through the bench press. NFL Network talking heads broke down Shedeur Sanders’ warm-up tosses like they ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — You wouldn’t know it from his videos, but Jimmy King actually only has two Eagles Lego minifigures.

King went viral for his stop-motion Lego reenactments of big moments from the Eagles' season. First, a Lego Saquon Barkley hurdle, then a viral Cooper DeJean hit on Derrick Henry, and finally the DeVonta Smith touchdown that ...Read more

MIAMI — Twenty-five years is a quarter of a century.

That time period covers most of our adolescent and college years. It takes everyone to the entry point of adulthood.

It’s no secret that 25 years is how long it has been since the Miami Dolphins last won a playoff game.

That drought is the quarter-sized wart that sits on the face of ...Read more

FLOWERY BRANCH – Julio Jones, perhaps the greatest wide receiver in Atlanta Falcons history, has elected to retire from the NFL.

Jones, a seven-time Pro Bowler who helped the Falcons nearly win Super Bowl 51, played 13 seasons in the league after the team traded up to select him with the sixth overall pick in the 2011 NFL draft.

Jones ...Read more

Giants coach Brian Daboll attended Colorado’s pro day on Friday, three days after saying he wasn’t going — and four days after GM Joe Schoen said Daboll “doesn’t go to any pro days.”

The about-face added an unusual chapter to a tense offseason for a regime on the hot seat entering Year 4.

Schoen was asked at the NFL owners meetings...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Fear is at the heart of the campaign to ban the Tush Push, and most of those fears — at least the ones that executives, officials, and coaches around the NFL have expressed publicly — don’t have much merit.

Fear that the Eagles, who have pioneered and mastered the play, will ride their tushes to another Super Bowl. (Sorry...Read more