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Getty Images Ryan Leaf is taking another step in an impressive comeback story. The former No. 2 overall pick, who has battled addiction and spent time in prison, has been hired by ESPN as a college football analyst. “Ryan has experienced the highs and lows in the game of football, putting him...

Getty Images The full Madden ratings have been released, and a certain player with a reputation for being a tad sensitive may not be happy with the number he received. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who last year was one of seven players to get a game-high 99, has fallen all the way to 90...

Getty Images Remember not long ago when no one knew what a catch was? The debate about what pass interference is (or isn’t) is about to begin. Although NFL referees Tony Corrente and Ron Torbert said nothing changes for officials with pass interference now reviewable, it could have a huge...

Getty Images Melvin Gordon isn’t in the same position that Le'Veon Bell was. Gordon is under contract. Bell wasn’t, refusing to sign the franchise tag. So while Bell could afford to sit out all season, Gordon can’t. He has to show up by the Tuesday after Week 10 to get credit for the year...

Getty Images Last year, Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell won his freedom from Pittsburgh by sitting out the entire season. This year, with Chargers running back Melvin Gordon threatening to do the same thing, some think that, like Bell, Gordon could end up forcing his way to free agency by...

Getty Images The XFL held its eighth and final showcase for players interested in jobs with team’s during the league’s reboot in 2020 in St. Louis this weekend. The first seven combine-style workouts were attended by handfuls of former NFL players and that remained the case this weekend...

Getty Images Melvin Gordon wants to be a Charger for life. The running back also wants to get paid. Thus, Gordon said Saturday he has no idea what’s going to happen. “I want to end up with the Chargers. That’s my home,” Gordon said at SportsCon 2019 in Dallas. “I’m not going to sit here and...

Getty Images Chargers running back Melvin Gordon, who is making noises about holding out into the start of the season if he doesn’t get a new contract, is well aware that he plays a position whose value has declined. Gordon said in June that running backs are not valued in the NFL the way they...

Getty Images Running back Melvin Gordon has informed the Chargers he won’t show up without a new deal. One of Gordon’s agents, Damarius Bilbo, said earlier Thursday “a strong possibility” exists that Gordon could sit into the regular season in the absence of a new contract agreement. Another...

Getty Images Chargers running back Melvin Gordon has been saying plenty, through his agents. The Chargers are saying nothing. “We don’t publicly discuss contract negotiations,” a team spokesman told PFT via text message in response to the multiple on-the-record comment from Gordon’s...

Getty Images Melvin Gordon is taking a stand. The Chargers running back, entering the fifth year of his first-round rookie deal, has informed the Chargers that he won’t report for training camp without a new contract, and that he’ll demand a trade. Gordon’s agent, Fletcher Smith, informed ESPN...

Getty Images Chargers running back Melvin Gordon wants the team to know he means business about demanding a new contract. Gordon’s agent, Damarius Bilbo, told Tom Pelissero of NFL Network that there is a “strong possibility” Gordon could sit out into the regular season if the Chargers don’t...

Getty Images Chargers left tackle Russell Okung is lending his voice to efforts to compensate college athletes. According to Gilbert Manzano of the Los Angeles Daily News, Okung testified Tuesday at the California assembly in support of legislation that would allow college athletes to make...

Getty Images If Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray will indeed be the NFL’s next big thing, we’ll all get our first big glimpse of him on the NFL’s in-house TV channel. The league announced on Tuesday that 13 preseason games will be broadcast live on NFL Network. The process begins on...

Getty Images Like Greg Hardy, Chris McCain has traded rushing quarterbacks for fighting in cages. Unlike Hardy, McCain made the decision even though the NFL hasn’t shunned him the way it has shunned Hardy. McCain made his MMA debut over the weekend, as an amateur fighter at Shawne Merriman’s...

Getty Images Tony Romo hasn’t made a PGA Tour cut, but the fact that he has played in two PGA Tour events this year makes him the favorite to repeat in the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe this week. Caesars Sportsbook lists Romo with 5-2 odds with former...

Getty Images When the Chargers’ offseason program came to an end, head coach Anthony Lynn hosted a fundraiser for his family’s foundation and then flew a long way to see what some of the foundation’s money has helped to build. Lynn and his family traveled to rural Lenjani, Tanzania to attend...

Getty Images Corey Liuget and Darius Philon departed the Chargers this offseason. That leaves the team in need of someone to step up and fill the void left by two defensive tackles who combined for 813 snaps last season. The Chargers selected Justin Jones in the third round of the 2018 draft...

Getty Images Bob Fouts, who spent much of his broadcasting career calling 49ers games, died Sunday in San Francisco, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. He was 97. Fouts is the father of Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts, who now is a CBS analyst and a member of the Hall of Fame...

Getty Images During last year’s 8-7-1 season, the Vikings lost prime-time games against the Rams, the Saints, the Bears, and the Seahawks. This year, the Vikings have five more night games on the schedule. So why do they suddenly struggle under the lights? “I think it’s just because when you...