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Getty Images The Colts announced the death of longtime defensive line coach John Teerlinck on Sunday night. Teerlinck, who was 69 at the time of his death, finished his time as an NFL assistant by coaching the defensive line in Indianapolis from 2002 to 2012. Teerlinck coached stars like...

Getty Images Falcons running back Todd Gurley isn’t thrilled that his former team is taking its time paying him the remainder of the money still owed on the contract he signed in 2018. The Rams still owe Gurley $5.05 million from that contract, and he says he’s upset enough with the team that...

Getty Images With California governor Gavin Newsom throwing water on the idea of throwing football fans into a stadium before herd immunity is achieved and/or a coronavirus vaccine is developed, the NFL may need to be ready to stage Rams, Chargers, and 49ers home games in front of no fans. Or...

Getty Images Prior to the release of the 2020 NFL schedule, there were reports and rumors that the NFL planned to fill the early portions of the schedule with games that could easily be canceled. That didn’t happen. Instead, the NFL put together a strong slate of Week One games, showing that...

Getty Images The Cowboys have opened the season with the Giants for four of the past five seasons. In 2018, the Cowboys opened at Carolina before hosting the Giants in Week Two. But the Cowboys have to wait until Oct. 11 to host the Giants in Week Five this season. They instead will open SoFi...

Getty Images The 49ers and Seahawks aren’t set to face each other in a Sunday night game this season, but they’ll both be making multiple appearances at home early in the season. Both NFC West teams are scheduled to host Sunday Night Football games twice in the first six weeks of the regular...

Getty Images It looks like the Patriots will be spending extended time in Los Angeles if the 2020 NFL season plays out as scheduled. The Patriots will kick off a run of three straight road games against the Chargers on Sunday in Week 13. They’ll be back in SoFi Stadium — assuming all goes as...

Getty Images The Cowboys were expected to have five primetime games. As America’s Team, they traditionally play five night games. But they’re joined by seven other teams with five primetime appearances. The Ravens, Packers, Chiefs, Rams, Patriots, 49ers and Buccaneers also play five night...

Getty Images First overall pick Joe Burrow will be making his first Thursday night appearance in Week Two of the regular season if all goes according to plan. The Bengals are set to be in Cleveland as the Thursday Night Football slate gets underway. Baker Mayfield got his first NFL win on a...

Getty Images Over the previous eight offseasons, since they drafted Greg Zuerlein in the sixth round, the Rams never had to worry about their kicker. But Zuerlein is in Dallas, leaving the Rams to prepare for a kicking competition. Sam Sloman, a seventh-round draft choice out of Miami of Ohio...

Getty Images When the schedule is released on Thursday night, the specific configuration of 256 regular-season games will be scoured for clues regarding contingency plans that the league surely has formulated, given the pandemic. Some will be obvious. Some may not be. A sense has been...

Getty Images After a largely unsuccessful one-year experiment, replay review of pass interference will not return to the NFL in 2020. Competition Committee Chairman Rich McKay said on SiriusXM NFL Radio that the rule allowing the league office to use replay to review pass interference was...

Getty Images Teams have until 11:59:59 p.m. ET to decide on fifth-year options for the first-round picks from 2017. Some teams already publicly have committed. Based on media reports, others have made their decisions, too. Running back Christian McCaffrey, the eighth overall choice in 2017, is...

Getty Images During the draft, someone pointed out on social media that the Hall of Fame has more undrafted players than No. 1 overall draft picks. Which is obvious, given that there is only one No. 1 overall pick per year, but hundreds of UDFAs. So we decided on Friday’s PFT Live to look at...

Getty Images Wide receiver Brandin Cooks is no stranger to fresh starts and he’s making another one this year. Cooks was traded for the third time in his career when the Rams dealt him to the Texans for a second-round pick last month, but the prelude to this deal was a bit different than the...

Getty Images The Texans traded DeAndre Hopkins. They traded for Brandin Cooks. Cooks isn’t Hopkins, even as he attempts to replace him. Hopkins has made four Pro Bowls and three times has earned All-Pro. In seven seasons, he has 632 catches for 8,602 yards and 54 touchdowns. In six seasons...

Getty Images Clay Matthews wants his money. Venting his frustration on social media didn’t work, so the edge rusher is filing a grievance over $2 million in unpaid guarantees from the Rams, Jeremy Fowler of ESPN reports. Matthews has submitted the paperwork to the NFLPA, who will handle the...

Getty Images A third construction worker at SoFi Stadium, the future home of the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers, has tested positive for COVID-19, according to Nathan Fenno of the Los Angeles Times. The positive case was communicated via an internal email from the joint Turner-AECOM...

Getty Images Saints coach Sean Payton said over the weekend that the NFL has only 10 or 11 relevant teams at any given time. If he’s right (and he is), the challenge becomes identifying the 10 or 11 relevant teams. It’s easy to peg six or seven of them. It’s harder to identify the last few, at...

Getty Images Former Giants linebacker Harland Svare died April 4 at a nursing home in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, the New York Times reports. Svare was 89. The Rams selected Svare in the 17th round of the 1953 draft out of Washington State. He played two seasons for the Rams before joining...