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Getty Images The Lions signed Damon Harrison to a one-year, $11.25 million extension during training camp last summer. It had him scheduled to earn $8.5 million in 2020 salary, with $3.5 million of that set to become fully guaranteed in March. Thus, the Lions have decided to move on from the...

Getty Images The XFL had very strong ratings in Week One of the return from its 19-year hiatus. The Week Two ratios were strong to quite strong. According to Jake Russell of the Washington Post, the Week Two ABC games drew an average audience of 2.127 million on Saturday (New York Guardians at...

Getty Images John Elway did it to the Colts in 1983. Bo Jackson did it to the Bucs in 1986. Eli Manning did it to the Chargers in 2004. And Joe Burrow may be thinking about doing it in 2020. That’s only four guys making draft-day power plays in all the years the NFL has drafted players...

Getty Images Monday’s PFT Live spent plenty of time addressing the report that the Raiders plan to make Patriots quarterback Tom Brady an offer in free agency. We also spent time trying to come up with ideal Brady matches. And we tried to be more specific than just putting Brady on a specific...

Getty Images The trial of the man accused of shooting Giants cornerback Corey Ballentine and his college teammate Dwane Simmons in Kansas last year was set to begin on Tuesday, but it has been postponed. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Shawnee County District Court Cheryl Rios scrapped the...

Getty Images Leonard Williams came into the NFL with high expectations when the Jets made him the sixth overall pick in 2015 and Williams moved right into their starting lineup as a rookie. While Williams was a fixture in the lineup, he never became the kind of disruptive force that the Jets...

Getty Images The XFL had net attendance growth for its second week, thanks in large part of more than 29,000 Seattle fans who came out to see the Dragons defeat the Tampa Bay Vipers, 17-9. Via Ben Fischer of Sports Business Daily, the XFL attracted 76,285 fans in Week Two, a 9.5-percent bump...

Getty Images Giants assistant coach Bret Bielema might have been interested in the Michigan State job, but he’s interviewing for the vacancy created by the guy who actually got it. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network, Bielema is interviewing for the Colorado head coaching job. That’s the...

Getty Images Since the floodgates opened in May 2018 for legalized sports betting, the floodgates really haven’t opened. Based on the experiences of the state whose challenge to federal law resulted in the Supreme Court ruling that authorized the state-by-state of wagering on sports, other...

Getty Images Demarcus Robinson finished fourth on the Chiefs in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns last season. But the receiver can expect to find a healthy free agent market in March. That means his price could be too rich for the Chiefs to keep. Jeff McLane of the...

Getty Images Michigan State couldn’t get Robert Saleh, and Pat Shurmur also is unavailable to replace Mark Dantonio. The Spartans had interest in Shurmur, Nicki Jhabvala of TheAthletic.com reports. Shurmur is not pursuing the job, fully focused on his new job as the Broncos’ offensive...

Getty Images In 1993, the first year of close-to-real NFL free agency, Reggie White embarked on an extended tour that ended in God (and/or an offer of the most negotiable notes bearing the phrase “In God We Trust”) telling him to sign with the Packers. As Peter King and I pondered the...

Getty Images Ben McAdoo is back in the NFL. The Jaguars are hiring McAdoo as their quarterbacks coach, Jordan Raanan of ESPN reports. McAdoo, 42, hasn’t coached since the Giants fired him as their head coach after the 2017 season. He has worked with Aaron Rodgers and Eli Manning. McAdoo...

Getty Images Nineteen years after Packers quarterback Brett Favre gifted Giants defensive end Michael Strahan the single-season sack record, the guy who previously held it wants it back. “It’s my record, and I want it to be known that it’s my record,” former Jets pass rusher Mark Gastineau...

Getty Images 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh didn’t take an interview with Michigan State about their head coaching vacancy, but another NFL assistant is reportedly interested in the opportunity to succeed Mark Dantonio with the Spartans. Rainer Sabin of the Detroit Free Press reports...

Getty Images All four of the Week One XFL games drew between 17,000 and 18,000 fans. But only one of the four games created the impression that the stadium was nearly full. In D.C., the Dragons-Defenders game seemed like a big deal because it was a played in a small stadium. Indeed...

Getty Images In the weeks since hiring Joe Judge as their new head coach, the Giants have worked to put together a coaching staff and they announced that they’ve completed that process on Wednesday. The names of many of the coaches who will be working under Judge this season have been...

Getty Images Odell Beckham finished his first drama-filled season in Cleveland with 74 receptions for 1,035 yards and four touchdowns. It was not what he or the Browns expected. Beckham, who had core muscle surgery last month, recently said he has a “good feeling” about where the offense is...

Getty Images Since winning their last Super Bowl, the Giants have been in a steady decline. But the man in charge maintains that he has the ability to reverse the course he charted, as the team enters an overdue rebuilding phase with a new coach and a new quarterback. As the face of the...

Getty Images Daniel Jones picked Dak Prescott‘s brain at the Super Bowl, trying to get a read on the offense of his new offensive coordinator, Jason Garrett. Jones won’t get a playbook until April, but he already has returned to work. Jones and some of his receivers are at Duke for workouts...