12:39 PM ET ESPN.com staff Alex Smith, the 2005 No. 1 overall pick by the San Francisco 49ers as well as the 2020 NFL Comeback Player of the Year as a quarterback with the Washington Football Team, announced his retirement from the league on Monday, and social media was awash in inspiring words for an
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10:12 AM ET The Cincinnati Bengals will have a new look starting in 2021. On Monday, the team unveiled its new uniforms that will be worn starting with the upcoming season. The redesign is the team’s first since 2004. “Our fans have wanted new uniforms for many years, and today represents the start of an
11:32 AM ET CHICAGO — Veteran safety Tashaun Gipson is returning to the Chicago Bears on a one-year deal, a source told ESPN’s Dan Graziano. Gipson, 30, started all 16 games at safety alongside two-time Pro Bowler Eddie Jackson for the Bears last season. Gipson finished the year with 66 tackles, two interceptions and one
11:52 AM ET Veteran quarterback Alex Smith, who made a remarkable comeback from an injury that nearly cost him his leg, announced Monday on Instagram that he is retiring from football. Smith, 36, was the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year in 2020 after helping lead the Washington Football Team to the NFC East title.
6:00 AM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — Running back James Conner has traveled the country for work and pleasure, but his world has been centered around western Pennsylvania for all 25 years of his life. That changed this week. Conner signed a one-year deal with the Arizona Cardinals on Tuesday, which means he’ll be leaving his
Louisiana is famous for its Cajun food, jazz music, Mardi Gras — and quarterbacks. A total of 721 quarterbacks have debuted and played at least one game in the NFL during the Super Bowl era (since 1966), and the Bayou State outperformed expectations the most in a study by ESPN and Pro Football Reference. California
6:00 AM ET The most important position in sports is a tough one to get right, and teams try anything they can to find the right quarterback. We’ll leave the scouting and evaluating to the experts, but with a new crop of quarterbacks about to join the NFL through the draft (April 29-May 1 on
7:30 AM ET THERE WERE NO skulls available, so Trevor Lawrence grabbed a grapefruit instead. In July 2019, just a few months after he led Clemson to the 2018 national championship, Lawrence was cajoled by his older brother, Chase, and sister-in-law, Brooke, to fill in as a model for a series of life-sized oil paintings
8:37 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady said Sunday that his knee is recovering well from offseason surgery and that he’s hopeful he’ll be able to resume his typical training and participate in a mandatory June minicamp, if there is one. “Yeah, I hope so. I hope so. I feel
5:34 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Even Trevor Lawrence thinks he’s likely going to be the Jacksonville Jaguars‘ choice at the top of the NFL draft. The former Clemson standout acknowledged that during a Sunday evening tweet in which he thanked Jaguars fans for purchasing a wedding gift and raising more than $11,000 for him