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After the Jets agreed to trade for Davante Adams on Tuesday, they found themselves with a logjam at the top of the wide receiver depth chart. Garrett Wilson, Allen Lazard, and Mike Williams have been the top three wideouts so far this season and the Jets appear to have decided that Williams is the odd man out. PFT reported on …

The Saints look like they’re going to be thin at wide receiver on Thursday night. Rashid Shaheed and Chris Olave were listed as non-participants in practice for the second straight day on Tuesday. Shaheed has a knee injury and Olave suffered a concussion in Sunday’s loss to the Buccaneers. Quarterback Derek Carr (oblique), guard Cesar Ruiz (knee), and linebacker Pete …

49ers sign veteran safety Amos amid injuries, agency confirms originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The 49ers added depth to a depleted safety position. San Francisco has signed veteran safety Adrian Amos, his agency Equity Sports, confirmed Tuesday. Amos, a nine-year NFL veteran, was a fifth-round draft pick by the Chicago Bears in 2015, where he played four seasons …

Giants left tackle Andrew Thomas has a serious foot injury that could require season-ending surgery, Jordan Schultz of Fox Sports reports. Thomas is seeking multiple opinions, including from Dr. Robert Anderson, the Packers team physician who is an expert in sports foot and ankle orthopedic surgery. Thomas hurt his foot on the Giants’ 16-play touchdown drive in the third quarter …

During his regularly scheduled Tuesday radio interview, Jerry Jones lost his temper and criticized the station hosts. But the short fuse that left the Dallas Cowboys team owner telling his interrogators that tough questions were “not your job” and he could “get somebody else to ask these questions” arguably overshadowed Jones’ biggest logical fallacy of the morning. Less than 48 …

The Raiders shopped the contract of receiver Davante Adams for two weeks. On Tuesday, the Jets finalized a deal that sends him from the 2-4 Raiders to the 2-4 Jets. At the quarterly league meetings in Atlanta, owner Mark Davis discussed the decision to move on from Adams, 37 games into his tenure with the team. “It’s part of this …

A staggering array of rude statements can be justified with comments like “I was just answering a question” or “I was just being honest” or “I was just trying to help” or whatever the person who said the rude thing says after the fact to justify their rudeness. On Monday night, Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers was wrong to publicly criticize …

Oct 16, 2024, 12:22 AM ET ST. LOUIS — Minnesota Wild goalie Filip Gustavsson saw an opportunity, and he cashed in. Gustavsson capped the Wild’s 4-1 win over the St. Louis Blues with the rare goalie goal. The 26-year-old gloved a Pavel Buchnevich shot from the blue line, dropped it to his stick and lifted a shot high into the …

The Raiders gave up first- and second-round picks to get Davante Adams from the Packers in 2022. In less than three seasons, the team paid him $62.78 million and in return got 37 games, one Pro Bowl, 221 catches for 2,869 yards and 23 touchdowns with no playoff appearances. The Raiders sent him to the Jets for a 2025 conditional …

The NFL has made clear that any violent gestures, including finger guns, are not allowed. In the first five weeks, the league cracked down on the violent depictions with penalty flags and fines. Eight players were penalized and fined the first four weeks of the season for depicting violence, with two more penalties and three more fines in Week 5. …

The Packers are signing veteran kicker Brandon McManus to a one-year deal, NFL Media reports. McManus worked out for the Packers earlier Tuesday. They are cutting Brayden Narveson in a corresponding move. Narveson, who they signed just before the start of the season, missed five of his 17 field goal attempts. He replaced Anders Carlson, who made only 27-of-33 field …

Oct 15, 2024, 11:09 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Lightning won their hurricane-delayed home opener over the Vancouver Canucks but the impact of two recent major hurricanes overshadowed it. Debris, malfunctioning stop lights and power outages remain around the Tampa Bay area a week after Hurricane Milton devastated parts of Florida. Milton came on the heels of …

The NFL has fined seven players for hip-drop tackles this season. None came the past two weeks, league executive vice president Troy Vincent told reporters at the NFL owners meetings in Atlanta. “Coaches and the players have been outstanding with sending in video, whether it’s their own club without the player making the tackle or something in another game,” Vincent …

Oct 15, 2024, 10:51 PM ET WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin is the 60th player in NHL history to record 700 career assists, reaching the milestone with his second point Tuesday night in the Washington Capitals’ 4-2 victory against the Vegas Golden Knights. Ovechkin had a secondary assist on Tom Wilson’s power-play goal early in the second period, then set up …

Crosby to 49ers? Five landing spots if Raiders trade star originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The Las Vegas Raiders might be on the brink of imploding. Despite it being Antonio Pierce’s first full season as coach, Las Vegas didn’t have high expectations to compete, especially with well-traveled veteran Gardner Minshew and second-year pro Aidan O’Connell the primary options …