2:39 PM ET Aaron Rodgers took a holistic approach to a very tumultuous offseason. During a news conference Monday, the Green Bay Packers quarterback spoke at length about the steps taken to improve and preserve his mental health amid questions about his long-term future with the NFL franchise. The comments came ahead of Tuesday’s charity
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11:43 AM ET ESPN News Services JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jaguars quarterback and No. 1 overall pick Trevor Lawrence signed his four-year rookie contract Monday, clearing the way for him to attend the start of training camp in three weeks. Under the NFL’s rookie slotting system, Lawrence’s deal was projected to be worth $36.8 million and
6:00 AM ET METAIRIE, La. — Defensive end Cameron Jordan quickly rejected the premise when asked if the New Orleans Saints‘ roster departures might usher in a new phase. “Who’s starting over?” said Jordan, who started rattling off the defensive leaders he expects to help guide New Orleans through life after Drew Brees. The first
7:00 AM ET MIAMI LAKES, Fla. — It’s a humid, 88-degree day and the line outside at La Traila Barbeque is more than a hundred people deep an hour after doors opened for the first time on the Saturday before Memorial Day. People happily waited (roughly two hours) with anticipation of something many had not
7:00 AM ET Last year at this time, the question was if the Buffalo Bills were primed to snap the New England Patriots‘ hold on the AFC East. The Bills answered that decisively. In fact, the Bills didn’t just prove to be the new kings of the division the Patriots had dominated for nearly two
6:00 AM ET ASHBURN, Va. — When fellow actors are introduced to former NFL tight end Vernon Davis, the greeting ends with the same three words: “… the football player.” He gets peppered with questions about the NFL, then they move on. It’s understandable, considering he played more than a decade in the league and
6:00 AM ET EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants have a glut of receiving options. Not that quarterback Daniel Jones or offensive coordinator Jason Garrett is going to complain. After signing one of the top wide receivers on the market in Kenny Golladay and drafting Kadarius Toney in the first round of the
5:00 AM ET CINCINNATI — Nobody realized it at the start of the 2019 season, but a reckoning was coming for the Cincinnati Bengals. As they dropped 11 straight games under new coach Zac Taylor, it was painfully clear the franchise was in the depths of rebuilding. And the front office and coaching staff took
10:04 PM ET Ashton Edmunds Former Cincinnati Bengals receiever Chad “OchoCinco” Johnson left another $1,000 tip on his $33.53 restaurant tab, this time at an IHOP in Portland, Oregon. Last month, Johnson left a $1,300 tip on a $107.17 tab at James Harden’s Houston restaurant, Thirteen Houston. In May, Johnson left another $1,000 tip on
4:23 PM ET Veteran wide receiver Josh Gordon has submitted his reinstatement letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and hopes to be with a team for training camp, a league source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The NFL has been randomly drug testing Gordon for the past three months and is said to have passed all