Month: April 2020

1:20 AM ET HOUSTON — After Bill O’Brien was shown walking off during Friday’s broadcast after making the 90th pick in the 2020 NFL draft, the Houston Texans‘ coach and general manager downplayed the incident. “We were messing on the Zoom, myself and [executive vice president of football operations Jack] Easterby and all the guys,”

1:46 AM ET Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones became emotional in discussing the importance of the NFL draft over the last two days as the country and world battle the effects of COVID-19. “It was able to, at a time when people are hurting, at a time when people are wondering, at

10:57 PM ET GREEN BAY, Wis. — It took less than 24 hours for the Green Bay Packers quarterback of the future to connect with the quarterback of the present. Jordan Love, the Green Bay Packers’ first-round pick in the NFL draft, told ESPN’s Maria Taylor Friday night that he and Aaron Rodgers had a

10:50 PM ET A wide receiver draft class advertised as historic has lived up to its billing. An NFL-record 13 receivers went in the first two rounds of the 2020 draft, surpassing the previous record of 12 set in 2014, a year that included Pro Bowlers Odell Beckham, Mike Evans, Davante Adams and Jarvis Landry,

10:01 PM ET The Chicago Bears must believe in the strength in numbers theory at tight end. On Friday, the Bears made yet another attempt to improve their fortunes at tight end by using the 43rd overall pick of the 2020 NFL draft on Notre Dame’s Cole Kmet, who became the 10th tight end on

9:46 PM ET The Detroit Lions added another player to their SEC-heavy backfield Friday in the 2020 NFL Draft, selecting D’Andre Swift out of Georgia with the No. 35 overall pick. Swift joins Kerryon Johnson from Auburn and Bo Scarbrough from Alabama as the likely top options in the Lions’ run game. “It’s amazing,” Swift

9:40 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — Just how old is Tom Brady? Old enough to have once been intercepted by the father of his new teammate Antoine Winfield Jr., whom the Tampa Bay Buccaneers selected in the second round (No. 45) of the 2020 NFL draft Friday. On Nov. 11, 2001, Winfield Sr., who spent

9:33 PM ET OWINGS MILLS, Md. — A year after setting the NFL’s single-season rushing record, the Baltimore Ravens used a second-round pick in the 2020 NFL draft on Ohio State running back J.K. Dobbins. Ravens general manager Eric DeCosta said he wanted to use the draft to make the offense “undefendable,” and he took

8:52 PM ET With his first pick as New England Patriots coach in the post-Tom Brady era, Bill Belichick had his dog, Nike, nearby and delivered a mild surprise by selecting small-school safety Kyle Dugger of Division II Lenoir-Rhyne University early in the second round (No. 37) of the 2020 NFL draft. Dugger, whose draft