Search results

USA TODAY Sports The Colts added a veteran linebacker to the roster on Wednesday. The team announced the signing of Malik Jefferson. No terms of the deal were announced. Jefferson was a Bengals third-round pick in 2018 and he played 12 games for them as a rookie before being waived ahead of...

USA TODAY Sports With unrestricted free agents no longer factoring into the compensatory draft pick formula, the Browns announced they’ve signed Damion Square on Tuesday. Square spent the last seven seasons with the Chargers, playing 81 games for the club with 24 starts. While mainly used in a...

Getty Images The Raiders are signing free agent cornerback Casey Hayward to a one-year deal worth up to $4 million, NFL reporter Josina Anderson reports. It reunites Hayward with defensive coordinator Gus Bradley and defensive backs coach Ron Milus. The Chargers cut Hayward on March 13...

Getty Images When the Ravens brought in tackle Alejandro Villanueva for a visit last month, word from Baltimore reporters was that the team was not expected to make a move until after the draft. Compensatory draft picks were central to that approach. The Ravens and other teams have prized the...

Getty Images The deadline for NFL teams to exercise their fifth-year contract options on 2018 first-round picks passed on Monday afternoon and 21 players had those options picked up. Panthers quarterback Sam Darnold is part of that group. Carolina traded for Darnold last month and announced...

Getty Images The Chargers opened their draft by taking tackle Rashawn Slater, added another tackle when they picked Brenden Jaimes in the fifth round, and included two more players at the position in a 10-player undrafted free agent class. Darius Harper started 18 games at Cincinnati over the...

Getty Images The Chargers added a second-generation prospect with the 47th overall pick of the 2021 NFL Draft. Cornerback Asante Samuel Jr. is headed to Los Angeles. His father was a 2003 fourth-round pick by the Patriots who won two Super Bowls and made two All-Pro teams over his 10-plus...

Getty Images The Chargers picked a player at a clear position of need, selecting offensive tackle Rashawn Slater at No. 13 overall. Though General Manager Tom Telesco said last week that the Chargers are “bullish” on Trey Pipkins, Slater has a good chance to be a Day 1 starter with Los Angeles...

Getty Images The Chargers have provided Justin Herbert with some pass protection. Northwestern offensive tackle Rashawn Slater went to Los Angeles with the 13th overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft. The offensive tackle position was the one that most mock drafts had the Chargers addressing in...

Getty Images Safety Derwin James has been missing for most of the last two seasons, but that didn’t stop the Chargers from picking up their option on his contract for the 2022 season. Albert Breer of SI.com reported the move on Thursday afternoon. The move guarantees his $9.052 million salary...

Getty Images Some players hope to be drafted by a certain team. Others simply want to hear their names called as early as possible. Former Oregon tackle Penei Sewell is among the latter. Sewell, who visited Tuesday’s PFT PM, explained that he wants to be drafted sooner than later, if only to...

Getty Images Following a 7-9 season under Anthony Lynn, the Chargers will head into 2021 with a new head coach in Brandon Staley. Staley served as the defensive coordinator for the Rams in 2020 after three seasons as an outside linebackers coach for Chicago and Denver. Earlier this year, the...

Getty Images NFL teams will be adding first-round picks to their roster this week and some of them will then turn their attention to first-round picks from 2018. Fifth-year contract options for players selected in the first round that year need to be exercised by May 3 and some teams have...

Getty Images The Chargers need a left tackle. After Sam Tevi departed in free agency, head coach Brandon Staley admitted there’s a “hole” that the club had yet to fill. Quarterback Justin Herbert recently said he’s lobbying for the team to draft his former Oregon teammate Penei Sewell, which...

Getty Images Seventeen years ago, a very real first-round trade happened between the Chargers and Giants, with quarterbacks Eli Manning and Philip Rivers swapping cities after being selected. On Monday morning, a fake tweet from the Chargers’ Twitter account showed the Chargers packaging a...

Getty Images Justin Herbert won offensive rookie of the year. He threw 31 touchdowns, 10 interceptions, had a passer rating of 98.3 and left no doubt he is a franchise quarterback. But after going 6-9 in his 15 starts, Herbert was left wanting. “It’s been a blur,” the Chargers quarterback...

Getty Images Mike Davis, who had a nine-year NFL career, has died, the Raiders announced Sunday. He was 65. “The Raiders Family is deeply saddened by the passing of Mike Davis,” the team said in a statement. “Mike made one of the most famous plays in franchise history, the ‘Red Right 88′...

Getty Images Joe Burrow said publicly he isn’t lobbying for former LSU teammate Ja’Marr Chase. The question is: Why not? Kyler Murray had a draft suggestion for Cardinals General Manager Steve Keim last year and admitted publicly he would be “very fond of that pick” if Arizona selected CeeDee...

Getty Images Plenty of mock drafts have the Chargers using their first-round pick, and perhaps some later picks as well, on improving the offensive line in front of franchise quarterback Justin Herbert. But Chargers General Manager Tom Telesco says it may not be so simple. Telesco says he sees...

Getty Images There was one smokescreen that Chargers General Manager Tom Telesco didn’t bother throwing up during Friday’s press conference. Telesco hit a home run when he drafted Justin Herbert in the first round of last year’s draft and he said on Friday that the team won’t be picking...