6:55 AM ET We’ve spent a lot of time discussing the logistics of getting an NFL season off the ground in the pandemic era, but one of the most important discussions between the league and its players hasn’t happened yet. It revolves around (surprise!) money, because even if there is a 2020 season, owners are
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7:38 AM ET NFL players are not expected to return to their team facilities until training camp, multiple sources told ESPN. Most teams already have reopened their facilities on a limited basis for essential employees amid the coronavirus pandemic, but healthy players still are not allowed to return. Discussions about when to allow players to
7:00 AM ET Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow is reliving his childhood before he officially joins the real world. The top overall pick in April’s NFL draft is back home in Athens County, Ohio, living with his parents and looking for empty fields so he can throw passes to his friends. The Heisman Trophy he
10:19 PM ET HOUSTON — Defensive tackle Tim Jernigan will not be signing with the Houston Texans after agreeing to a deal in principle with the team earlier in the offseason, he announced on Instagram. “Guess I’m not goin to Houston..but the show not ova,” he wrote. On April 1, Jernigan’s agent said the defensive
8:57 PM ET ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Denver Broncos coach Vic Fangio called George Floyd’s death a “societal issue that we all have to join in to correct,” but said he doesn’t see discrimination or racism as problems overall in the NFL. “I think our problems in the NFL along those lines are minimal, we’re a
4:55 PM ET The NFL has decide that teams must hold training camps this summer at their main practice facilities due to the coronavirus pandemic, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. The NFL plans to announce that plan, along with a tentative start to camps in late July. Among teams that would have held camp away
2:55 PM ET Chicago Bears head coach Matt Nagy canceled team and player meetings in support of Blackout Tuesday, sources confirmed to ESPN. Celebrities, organizations and activists posted blank, black boxes on social media and refrained from further posting Tuesday in support of protests against police brutality. The demonstrations arose after George Floyd died in
3:56 PM ET PITTSBURGH — People with compromised immune systems are at greater risk for infection and complications from COVID-19, but Pittsburgh Steelers running back and cancer survivor James Conner isn’t worried about the coronavirus when he eventually returns to the field. “I’m 100%,” Conner said. “I had a weak immune system four years ago.
2:53 PM ET The Los Angeles Chargers‘ Anthony Lynn wants to do more than make a statement. Lynn — one of four non-white coaches in the NFL — is feeling frozen by last week’s death of George Floyd in Minneapolis while in police custody and the ensuing protests that have swept across the United States,
2:20 PM ET MINNEAPOLIS — A week after George Floyd died while in custody of the Minneapolis Police Department, an incident which sparked mass protests in the Twin Cities and across the nation, two Minnesota Vikings linebackers are speaking out in response to a statement issued by the National Football League. The league’s statement expressed