Month: December 2018

11:58 AM ET DETROIT — Wide receiver Laquon Treadwell is among the seven Minnesota Vikings inactives for their Week 16 game in Detroit. Treadwell, Minnesota’s 2016 first-round selection, is said to be a healthy scratch. This is the first game he will miss since Week 14 of his rookie season. The Vikings will have five
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11:34 AM ET Charlie Weis, who has not coached in the NFL since he was the Chiefs‘ offensive coordinator in 2010, told ESPN this weekend that he is interested in becoming an offensive coordinator in the league again. Weis said if the right situation came along, he would be interested. He said he has his
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11:33 AM ET Buried beneath the anticipation of Manny Machado’s tour of teams and a continued flurry of trades, The Associated Press published news that was jarring and yet completely unsurprising to some agents and executives: For the first time since 2004, the average salary of major league players declined. Not by much, mind you.
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10:33 AM ET One week after the Oakland Raiders fired general manager Reggie McKenzie, they made another significant coaching change that flew under the radar. Former Giants GM Jerry Reese turned down the Raiders’ request to interview for their vacant GM job, league sources tell ESPN. Raiders head coach Jon Gruden fired his head strength
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10:33 AM ET As the Oakland Raiders begin reaching out to general manager candidates, not everyone has been receptive. Raiders head coach Jon Gruden has fired his head strength and conditioning coach Tom Shaw, whom he brought with him to Oakland shortly after he was hired, league sources tell ESPN. Former New York Giants GM
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11:35 AM ET The Arizona Cardinals are planning to part ways with head coach Steve Wilks, according to sources, the next likely move in what is shaping up to be the most chaotic head-coaching cycle since 2013, when there were eight changes. It now seems like a foregone conclusion that the NFL will see at
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11:41 AM ET If the Denver Broncos part ways with head coach Vance Joseph, he is expected to emerge as a candidate for the Cincinnati Bengals‘ defensive coordinator job and potentially even their head-coaching job when Marvin Lewis decides he has had enough of coaching, a league source told ESPN. Mike McCarthy is the second
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11:07 AM ET Former Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy, who was fired earlier this month, already is receiving overtures from NFL teams considering head-coaching changes, league sources told ESPN. But it is uncertain at this point whether McCarthy will immediately return to the head-coaching ranks, according to sources. He still has one year
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7:11 AM ET Sean Nevin, ESPN UK LONDON — Dillian Whyte insists he has more respect for Dereck Chisora than heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. Whyte (25-1, 18 KOs) called out the onlooking IBF-WBA-WBO champion after knocking out Chisora in the 11th round of their rematch at London’s O2 Arena, with Joshua responding that he will
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