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Getty Images The NFL will hold its supplemental draft on Wednesday and one of the players considered to be a likely selection spent some time with one of the league’s teams on Tuesday. Agent Brad Cicala told Tom Pelissero of NFL Media that his client Jalen Thompson visited with the Packers on...

Getty Images Most football fans assume that all professional football players are multi-millionaires. Plenty are, but more than plenty aren’t. Dolphins defensive tackle Kendrick Norton most definitely isn’t. “Kendrick’s football career has come to an end and his family is asking for any...

Getty Images Former Washington State safety Jalen Thompson worked out for 26 teams in Los Angeles on Monday, Tony Pauline of draftanalyst.com reports. The Texans sent their director of scouting. Thompson and former West Virginia receiver Marcus Simms are expected to be drafted in Wednesday’s...

Getty Images Dolphins defensive tackle Kendrick Norton lost his arm in a car wreck last week, but he hasn’t lost his sense of humor. According to Safid Dean of the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Norton was upgraded from critical to stable condition, after the emergency surgery to remove his left...

Getty Images Bills running back Frank Gore will enter the 2019 season with milestones in his sights and without thoughts of retirement on his mind. As we noted on Saturday, Gore can move up to third place all-time in career carries and career rushing yards if he runs 137 times for 522 yards...

Since Ryan Tannehill arrived in Tennessee, Mike Vrabel repeatedly has had to answer questions about Marcus Mariota‘s hold on the starting job. The Titans coach has never wavered. But the questions aren’t going away. Vrabel again had to address the topic this week during a conference call for...

Ryan Fitzpatrick has played 14 NFL seasons, starting 126 games. The quarterback also is on his eighth team, with every team he’s played for looking to replace him. The Dolphins traded for Josh Rosen after signing Fitzpatrick. “There’s been a lot of shade and disrespect thrown my way for a lot...

Getty Images More details are emerging regarding the serious automobile accident involving Dolphins defensive tackle Kendrick Norton. Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald reports that Norton suffered a “catastrophic” arm injury, and that Norton will not play football in 2019 and “probably”...

Getty Images On the second night of the 2019 draft, the planets fully aligned in a way that likely guarantees yet another New England division title (11th straight) and/or AFC title-game berth (ninth straight), at least for one more year. The other three contenders in the AFC East, none of...

Getty Images The good news is that Dolphins defensive tackle Kendrick Norton survived a car accident last night. But his agent just confirmed that Norton has lost his left arm. “With sadness, I can confirm that Kendrick Norton was in a car accident last night and suffered multiple injuries...

Getty Images Former NFL defensive end Chris McCain is only 27, and if he wanted to continue to play football there’s a chance he could. But he has decided to try a different sport. As explained by Gilbert Manzano of the Southern California News Group, McCain hopes to make it in MMA. McCain...

Getty Images The Dolphins have issued a statement regarding one of the team’s current players. “We were made aware this morning of a serious car accident involving Kendrick Norton,” the team said, via Armando Salguero of the Miami Herald. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Kendrick and his...

Getty Images When then-rookie quarterback Lamar Jackson got a chance to turn cameo appearances into full-time starting, the Ravens threw the NFL a curveball, turning the offense into a run-heavy attack. Jackson’s first start included a whopping 26 rushing attempts. (In contrast, Joe Flacco had...

Getty Images Dolphins outside linebacker Jerome Baker was listed at just 215 pounds as a rookie last season, but with a new coaching staff bringing a new defense, Baker says he’s getting bigger. Baker said he’s lifting weights to bulk up and was at 227 pounds in minicamp. “I feel like a new...

Getty Images With a pair of quarterbacks drafted in 2012 (Andrew Luck and Russell Wilson) landing at No. 4 and No. 3 on the Chris Simms top 40 quarterback countdown, Wednesday’s PFT Live draft featured a question based on that specific class of players. Simms and I redrafted the first eight...

Getty Images The new-look Dolphins will give fans plenty of chances to look at practice. The Dolphins have announced that the team will conduct 10 open practices during training camp, which opens on July 25. Only 2,000 tickets will be available for each session, however. They’re free, but they...

Getty Images Patriots linebacker Jack Rudolph died Sunday, the team announced Thursday. He was 82. The Lions selected Rudolph in the 17th round of the 1959 draft, but the Georgia Tech product chose to join the original Boston Patriots as a second-round choice in 1960. He spent six seasons with...

Getty Images In last Florio-Simms PFT Live until training camps open, we had a hard time coming up with a good idea for a draft. And then we finally came up with something. And then I didn’t post a blurb trying to get you to watch it, perhaps because it wasn’t as good as some of our other...

Getty Images Xavien Howard signed a new five-year deal with the Dolphins this offseason that made him the highest-paid cornerback in the league and residual good feelings from securing that contract can overcome a lot of negatives. Negatives like the popular perception of his team’s chances in...

Getty Images Emory University Goizueta School of Business professor Mike Lewis sought to use statistical analysis to determine the NFL’s “best” fans. The study used the hard-core, religiously devoted fan as well as the casual fan, so those at the top of the list have more of the latter and...