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Things are beginning to hop in Indianapolis, with coaches, General Managers and scouts arriving Monday along with the first round of players for the Scouting Combine. Some coaches, though, are choosing to stay home, where they believe they can accomplish more. 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan has a better excuse this week. He is staying home to finish interviews for a …

Getty Images Back-to-back Super Bowl championships are more than enough to warrant a contract extension between Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs. Reid and the Chiefs are in the beginning stages of working out a contract extension that would make Reid the highest-paid head coach in the NFL, per NFL Network. Coaches contracts aren’t publicly announced, but it is …

The NFL Combine is meant to confirm or reject impressions that teams have of players based on film study. Over the course of the week, 321 draft prospects will be poked and prodded as they are put through medical evaluations, interviews and physical testing in an effort to determine where they should be selected in the 2024 NFL Draft, which …

The Super Bowl has concluded, which means the NFL offseason has begun. NFL fans know that the league never sleeps, however. Over the next few months, teams will begin making personnel adjustments through free agency and the 2024 NFL Draft.  The information gathering portion of that calendar continues later this month at the annual NFL Combine. Here is everything you need …

The NFL adopted new rules for fair catches on kickoffs last year and one of the league’s top executives said Monday that there will be another proposed change coming this year. Executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent said that there is “no question” that a proposal is coming this offseason. Last year’s rule change, which gave teams the …

USATSI A year after some of the NFL’s top free agent running backs banded together in an effort to resist a declining market at the position, not a single big-name ball-carrier is expected to receive the franchise tag this offseason, per ESPN. That means Pro Bowlers like Saquon Barkley, Derrick Henry and Josh Jacobs are on track to test the …

Getty Images For almost three decades, Peter King has made Monday an appointment date for reading his national perspectives. This Monday, the longtime NFL columnist announced his retirement, calling it a career after 44 years as a sports writer. King, 66, revealed the decision in his latest “Football Morning in America” piece for NBC Sports. The column, which began as …

This draft cycle, we’ve seen a lot of prospects return to school for a variety of reasons. Prospects at HBCUs were no different. There were a bevy of talented players who returned to their respective programs and some who are just not draft eligible as of yet. While that may be the case, it doesn’t dismiss the fact that there …

Of the big three wide receivers in the 2024 NFL draft, only one will work out at the Scouting Combine. That one is Washington’s Rome Odunze, who will run and test in Indianapolis this week, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. The other top wide receivers, Ohio State’s Marvin Harrison Jr. and LSU’s Malik Nabers, have decided to go …

The Buffalo Bills have been one of the best teams in the NFL over the last four seasons. In that span, Buffalo has won 11 or more games, and is one of just two teams to advance to the divisional round every year (the Kansas City Chiefs being the other).  Making deep playoff runs obviously isn’t enough for Buffalo. It …

NFL teams and players got some unexpected good news on Friday. It was announced that the 2024 salary cap will be $255.4 million. Initial projections in December put the 2024 salary cap in the $240 million to $245 million range. The league’s press release said, “the unprecedented $30 million increase per club in this year’s Salary Cap is the result …

Welcome to the Monday edition of the Pick Six newsletter! If the NFL Scouting Combine is your favorite offseason event on the calendar, then this is going to your favorite week of the newsletter ever, because we’ll be spending some serious time talking about the combine EVERY day this week.  Not only will you be getting combine news today, but …

It’s been over five years since the Los Angeles Chargers’ last playoff win. The franchise hasn’t made it past the divisional round since 2007, and their last division title came in 2009. In recent years, the Chargers’ record has simply not reflected their talent and they have not lived up to the expectations set for them heading into each season. …

The Raiders plan to make free agent running back Josh Jacobs a contract offer, but they won’t put the franchise tag on him, as they did a year ago. Franchising Jacobs would mean offering him a one-year contract worth $14,149,200 guaranteed, and that’s something the Raiders won’t do, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. If Jacobs did get that franchise …

Ralph Vacchiano NFC East Reporter The NFL Draft might be two months away, but draft season gets serious this week as the NFL convenes in Indianapolis for the annual scouting combine. It’ll be the first time NFL teams get a real, up-close look at the top prospects. Of course, by now it’s not hard to figure out which group of …