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Getty Images Longtime NFL offensive line coach Howard Mudd has died as a result of injuries he suffered in a motorcycle accident two weeks ago. Wednesday brought word that Mudd remained in intensive care and in need of more surgery, but his condition took a turn for the worse and his death was...

Getty Images Andrew Vollert became something of a “star” in the season premiere of Hard Knocks: Los Angeles on Tuesday night. The tight end did not take kindly to his release from the Chargers in a scene during the show. “You’ve got to be —-ing kidding me,” Vollert tells Anthony Lynn when the...

Getty Images Raiders wide receiver Tyrell Williams is glad not to be on Hard Knocks again this year. Williams said he didn’t really grasp how big a distraction the reality TV cameras were last training camp until this year, when he has realized it’s a lot easier to focus on the task at hand...

Getty Images HBO didn’t draw much of an audience for the season premiere of Hard Knocks. The first episode of this year’s NFL training camp reality show drew just 273,000 viewers, according to Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal. That’s a huge decline from the 705,000 who watched the first...

The 15th edition of Hard Knocks opened with a bang with Chargers coach Anthony Lynn speaking to his team on a Zoom call. “I can’t promise you you’re not going to get infected,” Lynn said in the opening scene. “I got infected.” Chargers pass rusher Joey Bosa had a look of surprise after the...

Getty Images The total number of cases of COVID-19 seen at the SoFi Stadium construction site has reached 75, according to Nathan Fenno of the Los Angeles Times. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported an additional 15 cases over the last week as the project progresses...

Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports The disclosure by Chargers coach Anthony Lynn in the season premiere of Hard Knocks that he has had COVID-19 invites speculation as to how many other players and coaches and staff had it in the offseason but didn’t let it be known publicly. In turn, that invites...

Getty Images Melvin Gordon left the Chargers as a free agent this offseason and the team didn’t bring in any veteran running backs this offseason, so Austin Ekeler is set to be the clear lead back on the roster for the first time in his NFL career. Ekeler showed how effective he can be while...

Getty Images NFL teams are taking extraordinary measures, and administering loads of tests, in an effort to keep football going. And six of them are fortunate enough to not have a positive test yet. Peter King of NBC’s Football Morning in America detailed the steps the Texans have taken to...

Getty Images Before Thursday’s deadline for players to opt out of taking part in the 2020 season, PFT noted that any player who decided not to play amid the COVID-19 pandemic after the deadline would have the option of retiring. Panthers tackle Russell Okung is reportedly considering that...

Getty Images Panthers tackle Russell Okung didn’t opt out, but he may eventually retire. It’s a smart way to manage an opt-out deadline that arrived way too early for NFL players to make an informed decision about whether to be all in or all out of the 2020 season five weeks before the first...

Getty Images After Philip Rivers left for Indianapolis, everyone expected the Chargers to draft a quarterback. Even Tyrod Taylor. “I figured that the Chargers would take a quarterback,” Taylor said Friday, via Lindsey Thiry of ESPN. “But that never necessarily changed my mindset or my attack...

Getty Images When the Bosa brothers were working out and hanging out all offseason, they had plenty of time to talk. So naturally, the thoughts of eventually being teammates crossed their minds. “Yeah, we spent every waking hour together the past six months, so obviously we have conversations...

Getty Images The deadline for players to opt out for 2020 passed at 4 p.m. ET Thursday. A total of 67 players took the option to sit out the season. (Offensive lineman Larry Warford is not on the list since he is a free agent.) The 67 players will see their contracts toll, whether the opt out...

Getty Images The Cardinals made the signing of safety Kentrell Brice official, announcing the deal Wednesday afternoon. The team also signed receiver Andre Patton. The Bears waived Brice on July 26. He did not play last season. Patton, 26, played 13 games with five starts with the Chargers...

Getty Images The family of Juan Becerra, a SoFi Stadium construction worker who fell to his death in June while working on the project, is suing the developers over alleged unsafe working conditions that led to his death. According to Nathan Fenno of the Los Angeles Times, the suit was filed...

Getty Images Long-time Packers assistant Winston Moss had served as the head coach of the XFL 2.0’s Los Angeles franchise. Moss hopes to keep working for XFL 3.0, which subject to bankruptcy court approval will be owned in part by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. “I was excited to hear the news,”...

Getty Images As the positive COVID-19 test for Eagles coach Doug Pederson shows, any NFL head coach can be rendered unavailable at a moment’s notice in 2020. So which teams are in the best shape to withstand the sudden availability of their head coach? That was the subject of Tuesday’s PFT...

Getty Images Joey Bosa‘s first NFL contract didn’t get done until training camp was over and his camp and the Chargers engaged in one of the most contentious negotiations a rookie has had in recent NFL history. His second NFL contract was very different. Bosa and the Chargers agreed to a...

Getty Images The re-resurrected XFL will move forward under the management of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, his ex-wife and current business manager Dany Garcia, and RedBird Capital. Garcia spoke to Daniel Kaplan of TheAthletic.com regarding the vision for XFL 3.0, if/when the bankruptcy court...