8:00 AM ET ON AN AFTERNOON in late March, a few weeks ahead of the 2019 NFL draft, 19 football players gather inside the University of Houston’s indoor practice facility, a cavernous white warehouse housing a plush turf field. Scores of family members, friends and media members are here. All 32 NFL teams are represented
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2:56 PM ET Turron DavenportESPN Close Covered Eagles for USA Today Covered the Ravens for Baltimore Times Played college football at Cheyney University NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A bulked up Marcus Mariota addressed the media when the team returned to the Titans facility for the first day of offseason workouts on Monday. Mariota simply said yes
12:48 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Oakland Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown has reached a settlement on a high-publicize lawsuit in South Florida. Brown faced two lawsuits from an April incident during which Brown allegedly yelled at security and threw items from inside an apartment and off a balcony, according to documents obtained by ESPN. Both
12:35 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and veteran defensive end Michael Bennett were not among those in attendance for the start of the team’s voluntary offseason program on Monday, sources tell ESPN’s Field Yates. Brady did not take part in last year’s workouts and the expectation was that such
10:15 AM ET Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson does not intend to sign a contract extension with the team this season if he does not reach an agreement by his self-imposed deadline of midnight Monday, sources tell ESPN’s Adam Schefter. It will be a challenge to get a new deal done by that deadline, though
1:38 AM ET During the early days of Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder’s tenure, cornerback Deion Sanders stood at his locker, oozing the aura of “Prime Time” surrounded by cameras and microphones, and proclaimed the following: “Every owner in the league tries to secure free agents. The difference is, Dan shops at Versace, other owners
7:30 AM ET Kevin SeifertNFL Nation Close ESPN.com national NFL writer ESPN.com NFC North reporter, 2008-2013 Covered Vikings for Minneapolis Star Tribune, 1999-2008 Four years ago, a group of University at Buffalo researchers submitted a paper to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, outlining a mathematical approach by which the NFL could potentially produce a
1:00 AM ET A look at what’s happening around the New York Jets: 1. Swing and a miss: It’s the (gag) gift that keeps on giving (agita). We’re talking about the 2014 NFL draft, arguably the worst in Jets history. When offensive lineman Dakota Dozier signed recently with the Minnesota Vikings, it left the Jets
11:00 PM ET FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Quick-hit thoughts and notes around the New England Patriots and NFL: 1. He’s back and “excited it worked out.” Kicker Stephen Gostkowski returned last Sunday from a NFL-USO tour to South Korea, in which he visited U.S. troops and their families at military bases, and he called it an
1:50 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Police say Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Jalen Mills and Washington Wizards forward Devin Robinson were arrested after a fight outside a nightclub in Washington. Karimah Bilal, program manager for the Metropolitan Police Department’s office of communications, wrote in an email to The Associated Press on Saturday that the Mills