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Getty Images Louis Nix, a third-round pick of the Texans in 2014 who also spent time with the Giants, Washington, and Jaguars, has gone missing in Florida. Ben Becker of ActionNewsJax.com posted the plea from Nix’s mother, who explained that she has heard nothing from her son in several days...

Getty Images Seven teams, nearly a full fourth of the league, changed coaches during or after the 2020 season. Those seven teams requested a total of 58 interviews. Rob Maaddi of the Associated Press has obtained the internal NFL football operations list of 2021 head coach interview requests...

Getty Images Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick has played for 25 percent of the NFL’s teams. He’ll likely be joining a ninth team in 2021. Via Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald, Fitzpatrick “believes he’s played well enough the past couple of years to get a chance to at least compete for a...

Getty Images The Cowboys twice have appeared on Hard Knocks, NFL Films’ reality TV series that appears on HBO. Both were hits. In 2002, the Cowboys acquired Chad Hutchinson to compete with Quincy Carter, and Emmitt Smith was closing in on the NFL’s all-time rushing title. In 2008, the Cowboys...

Getty Images The Texans and Janice McNair gave $500,000 to the Houston/Harris County 2021 Winter Storm Relief Fund. Their rivals have made a contribution, too. The Jaguars, Titans, and Colts have announced that they have jointly contributed $100,000 to the effort. The NFL Foundation has added...

Getty Images The Jaguars named Dan Edwards as senior vice president of Jacksonville tradition and alumni on Wednesday. Edwards was an original Jaguars’ executive, joining the team in 1994 and exclusively leading the Jaguars’ communications department throughout the existence of the franchise...

Getty Images Soon-to-be-free-agent quarterback Cam Newton recently declared that there aren’t 32 quarterbacks better than him. He’s right. On Tuesday’s PFT Live, Simms and I went through all 32 teams and identified several starting (for now) quarterbacks who aren’t as good, in our view, as...

Getty Images Tight end Tyler Eifert is about to become an unrestricted free agent. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports the Jaguars are declining the 2021 team option on Eifert’s contract. It will save the team $5.2 million in cap space. The move is not a surprise despite the league-leading cap...

Getty Images The Texans fired Amy Palcic as vice president of communications in November, creating something of a firestorm at least among national media. The Jaguars now have hired Palcic to lead their communications team. New coach Urban Meyer announced the hiring Monday night, writing on...

USA TODAY Sports Last year, the Dolphins tried to move from No. 5 to No. 1, in order to draft quarterback Joe Burrow. Whatever the Dolphins offered (the specifics still aren’t known), the Bengals said no. This year, someone likely will make the Jaguars an offer for the first pick in the draft...

Getty Images The Jaguars announced Friday they have hired Karim Kassam as senior vice president of football operations strategy. Kassam will oversee the team’s football technology and analytics departments in addition to salary cap administration in consultation with coach Urban Meyer and...

Getty Images There were 22 quarterbacks drafted in the first round between the 2009 and 2016 seasons and all of them came with hopes that they’d lead their teams for years to come. Some of those players had extended runs with their original teams, but, as Field Yates of ESPN notes, none of...

Getty Images Tim Tebow has now retired from two different professional sports. The 2010 first-round pick of the Broncos has announced that his second career in baseball is over. “It has been a pleasure to have Tim in our organization as he’s been a consummate professional during his four...

Getty Images The Jaguars have a new head coach, they’re set to add a new quarterback with the first overall pick of the draft, and they’ve decided to go with a new look on the uniform front as well. On Tuesday, the team sent out a series of tweets that spelled out “teal is primary” before...

USA TODAY Sports Presumptive No. 1 overall pick Trevor Lawrence is regarded as the best prospect since Andrew Luck in 2012. In 2015, Lawrence definitely wasn’t on that track. Rivals.com recently posted video of Lawrence in 2015, throwing footballs at a net. He missed badly. Three times...

Getty Images Quarterback Trevor Lawrence’s left shoulder surgery is in the books. Lawrence was scheduled to have the labrum in his non-throwing shoulder operated on by Dr. Neal ElAttrache on Tuesday and Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports that the operation has come to an end. He quotes a...

Getty Images Jaguars coach Urban Meyer says he reached out to Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence upon learning that Lawrence needs surgery on his non-throwing shoulder, and the two of them discussed the timing of the Pro Day-style workout Lawrence did last week, prior to his surgery. Meyer...

Getty Images The Jaguars have added one more to their revamped front office. NFL Media’s Tom Pelissero reports Jacksonville has hired Trip MacCracken as director of roster management. MacCracken was the Browns’ salary cap manager from their first season back int he league in 1999 through the...

Getty Images News dropped earlier on Tuesday morning that the Jaguars had brought in Trip MacCracken as director of roster management. Jacksonville has now confirmed that hiring, along with two others for General Manager Trent Baalke’s front office. Michael Davis has joined the organization as...

Getty Images The Jaguars officially announced a couple of additions to their personnel department on Monday. One of those announcements was confirmation of previous word that longtime personnel executive Tom Gamble would be joining the team. He has the title of senior personnel executive while...