7:05 AM ET Let’s break down some of the winners and losers from this NFL offseason. Some of the stories in the short term were obvious — you don’t need me to tell you again who won the DeAndre Hopkins trade — but I’m going to try to take a look at the bigger picture
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7:22 PM ET Tracy Walker says he still can’t make sense of it. He has tried, for months now, to understand why his cousin Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed while jogging in broad daylight in their hometown of Brunswick, Georgia. The Detroit Lions‘ safety says he has questions he has been trying to answer.
8:20 PM ET TEMPE, Ariz. — The Arizona Cardinals were impressed with Isaiah Simmons‘ ability to learn and play five positions at Clemson. But now Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury wants to see how his first-round pick will fare at one position. Kingsbury doubled down on limiting Simmons, whom Arizona took eighth overall in last month’s
7:05 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Former NFL defensive line coaching great John Teerlinck, who coached with the Indianapolis Colts from 2002-12, has died at the age of 69. “Rest In Peace, John Teerlinck,” Colts owner Jim Irsay wrote on Twitter. “One of our sport’s all-time greatest assistant coaches. And a Horseshoe guy, through-and-through.” Rest In
4:55 PM ET Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is the consensus favorite to win the NFL MVP Award, with Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson on his heels. At Caesars Sportsbook, Mahomes is 4-1 to win what would be his second regular-season MVP award in the past three years. Jackson, last season’s MVP, is 13-2
3:46 PM ET The match is set, the trash-talking has begun and the odds are on the board for a star-studded, 18-hole event to raise money for coronavirus relief efforts on Memorial Day weekend. Caesars Sportsbook on Monday opened Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning as the favorites over Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady in “The
1:35 PM ET ESPN News Services Former NFL player Anquan Boldin, co-founder of the Players Coalition, says the fact that more prominent white athletes like Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady are now choosing to stand up and support the black community on matters of social injustice shows that “people are tired of this happening.”
12:26 PM ET New York Jets coach Adam Gase, who presided over the league’s 31st-ranked rushing offense in 2019, can’t wait to unleash his new one-two punch in the backfield — Le’Veon Bell and the newly signed Frank Gore. “Those two guys can really do some damage together,” Gase said in an interview with the
1:46 PM ET Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has the NFL’s two highest-selling jerseys since the NFL draft, an NFL spokesman said, topping new Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Tom Brady and Cincinnati Bengals rookie QB Joe Burrow. The initial jersey sales show the demand for Tagovailoa, who immediately becomes one of the NFL’s most marketable
10:37 AM ET Football can be the “perfect setup” to spread the coronavirus, so diligent testing and how the nation responds to a second wave of the virus in the fall will help determine what the 2020 NFL season could look like, Dr. Anthony Fauci told NBCSports.com. “The virus will make the decision for us,”