6:36 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Safety Devin McCourty is returning to the New England Patriots for his 13th season, and he announced the news Sunday in a unique way. The deal is for one year and will pay McCourty $9 million, a source told ESPN. McCourty’s prior contract had void years and was set
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5:42 PM ET ESPN News Services Colin Kaepernick is seeking receivers to catch his passes and a team to sign him. Kaepernick, who led the San Francisco 49ers to a Super Bowl appearance following the 2012 season, last played in the NFL in 2016, the same year he started kneeling during the national anthem to
1:15 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — The ball from the last career touchdown pass quarterback Tom Brady threw as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers has sold for $518,000, according to the auction site Lelands. With 3:20 to go in the fourth quarter of the NFC divisional playoff game against the Los Angeles Rams,
9:41 AM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com Patrick Mahomes and his longtime girlfriend, Brittany Matthews, have tied the knot. The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback married Matthews in Hawai’i on Saturday. Mahomes and Matthews have been dating since they met as students at Whitehouse (Texas) High School. The couple stayed together while Mahomes went to play college football
7:00 AM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Quick-hit thoughts and notes around the New England Patriots and NFL: 1. Culture first: Last year at this time, it was all about the cash for the Patriots. They guaranteed more money in free agency than any team in history. This year, the primary theme of the team’s free-agent
5:17 PM ET FRISCO, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys gave CeeDee Lamb the No. 88 for a reason. They better be right. With the Cowboys agreeing to trade wide receiver Amari Cooper to the Cleveland Browns, Lamb, their first-round pick in 2020, ascends to the clear-cut No. 1 receiver role. By trading Cooper, the Cowboys
5:41 PM ET BEREA, Ohio — Three years ago to the month, the Cleveland Browns made a blockbuster trade for the player they believed would be their long-term No. 1 wide receiver for budding quarterback Baker Mayfield. Odell Beckham Jr., however, never materialized into the Pro Bowl performer in Cleveland he had been for the
2:13 PM ET ESPN News Services The Dallas Cowboys have agreed to trade wide receiver Amari Cooper and a sixth-round pick to the Cleveland Browns for a 2022 fifth-round pick and a sixth-round pick, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Saturday. Cooper, 27, is a proven wideout, something Cleveland desperately needs to add to its
10:41 AM ET The largest cap hit in the NFL is coming down. The Atlanta Falcons are restructuring quarterback Matt Ryan‘s contract, lowering the $48,662,500 cap hit he was initially going to be at for the 2022 season by $12 million, according to Roster Management System. The team converted $7.5 million of his base salary
10:00 AM ET FRISCO, Texas — Believing Terence Steele is their right tackle of the present and future, La’el Collins‘ agents, Deryk Gilmore and Peter Schaffer, have been given permission by the Dallas Cowboys to seek a trade for their client, Schaffer told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Steele, an undrafted free agent signed in 2020, has