Новости за 18.04.2022

One of the ugliest football injuries in recent memory took place in December, when Chargers tight end Donald Parham was knocked unconscious as he attempted to make a diving catch in the end zone and remained motionless for several minutes before being stretchered off the field and taken directly to the hospital. Players on both [more]

Liverpool vs Manchester United is one of the biggest games in the world and it takes center stage on Tuesday, as all eyes will be on the starting lineups.

Matt Corral is set to wrap up his pre-draft visits by meeting with a pair of NFC South teams this week. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that the former Ole Miss quarterback will be spending time with the Falcons and Saints. He was set to meet with the Saints earlier this month, but weather [more]

When the Chiefs traded Tyreek Hill to the Dolphins last month, the club created a significant void within its receiving corps. With his speed and catching ability, Hill had averaged 1,207 yards and 10 touchdowns over his last five seasons. In 2021, he set a career-high with 111 receptions while tallying 1,239 yards and nine [more]

Many mock drafts predict the Jets will take a wide receiver with one of their two first-round picks later this month and one of the reasons that’s a need is that Denzel Mims has not panned out. The Jets took Mims in the second round of the 2020 draft, but he’s only played in 20 [more]

The Lions have one of the top players in next week’s draft in their building today. NFL Media’s Tom Pelissero reports defensive end Aidan Hutchinson is taking an official visit with Detroit on Monday. The defensive end also posted a picture to his Instagram story from inside the team’s facility. Hutchinson is widely expected to [more]

The only glitz and glamor in the first 10 picks of this year’s draft may come from its location. For the first ever draft to be held in Las Vegas, and as noted by Peter King in the latest edition of Football Morning in America, the NFL could see its first ever draft have the [more]

The Raptors got outscored by 10 with Scottie Barnes on the floor in their 20-point Game 1 loss to the 76ers.

As the draft approaches, a sense is building that quarterbacks may be shut out of the top 10. A team with two picks in the second 10 could be paying close attention. Jeff Duncan of the New Orleans Times-Picayune believes that, if the Saints go with a quarterback in round one, the guy they take [more]

The two are taking small stakes in the franchise but bringing big ideas about community engagement and outreach to go along with their financial commitment.

The Washington Commanders needed a new head trainer after placing Ryan Vermillion on administrative leave last year and they found one in a former member of the team’s training staff. Al Bellamy was named the team’s head trainer on Monday. Bellamy has spent the last nine years at Temple, but worked for Washington for 13 [more]

The Jaguars were busy early in free agency and one of the first players they went after was tight end Evan Engram. Engram was a 2017 first-round pick by the Giants and he signed a one-year, $9 million deal to join wide receivers Christian Kirk and Zay Jones as new additions to the passing game [more]

San Diego State’s Matt Araiza set a new NCAA record by averaging 51.2 yards per punt last season, and that will almost certainly get him drafted next week. But Araiza was also San Diego State’s field goal kicker, and he wants to do more than just punt in the NFL. However, Araiza says NFL teams [more]

Word emerged on Monday morning that Titans receiver A.J. Brown was one of a few receivers who would not participate in on-field work during the offseason program as they await second contracts from their respective teams. But according to Turron Davenport of ESPN, Brown also does not intend to report for the start of Tennessee’s [more]

Another year, another spring football league. Although the two most recent efforts had very different reasons for their rapid demises (the AAF spent much more money than it made, and XFL 2.0 was taken down by the pandemic), the past four decades are littered with periodic spring-football failures. Enter the USFL. Not the original USFL, [more]

Tight end James O'Shaughnessy kicked off last week by visiting the Bears and he’s kicking off this one by joining the team. The Bears announced that they have signed O’Shaughnessy. It’s a one-year deal with no other terms announced. O’Shaughnessy was a Chiefs fifth-round pick in 2015 and moved on to the Jaguars in 2017 [more]

Quarterback Malik Willis has been making the pre-draft rounds with visits to several teams and that will continue this week. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, Willis is set to have a visit with the Lions on Tuesday and the Steelers on Wednesday. The Lions have the No. 2 and No. 32 picks in [more]

Free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick continues to try to get back in the NFL. Toward that end, he recently sat down for a very rare interview with Brandon Marshall, Chad Johnson, and Pacman Jones of the I Am Athlete podcast. The full episode debuts at 12:00 p.m. ET on Monday on the I Am Athlete YouTube channel. [more]

Of course the Lakers don't want a player with a lengthy injury history back, but their options may be limited.

Notre Dame safety Kyle Hamilton is regarded by some as the top player in this year’s draft. He’s had several visits with teams in the top 10, including the Lions — who hold the No. 2 overall selection — last week. But there’s a team just outside the first 10 selections that isn’t throwing away [more]

The Panthers will reportedly continue doing their research on this year’s quarterback prospects on Monday. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that North Carolina quarterback Sam Howell will be visiting the team to kick off the week. Howell was listed as an expected visitor along with five other quarterbacks last week, but it appears that [more]

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The Lions are among several teams with a returning head coach that will begin their offseason program on Monday. After going 3-13-1 in Dan Campbell’s first year at the helm in 2021, Campbell is looking forward to the team taking a further step in developing its schemes. “We lost out on [the extra minicamp last [more]

The Eagles ran for the most yards of any team in the NFL on their way to a playoff berth last season and four running backs had a hand in helping them put up 2,715 yards. Fifth-round pick Kenneth Gainwell was fourth among those backs in carries as a rookie, but he added 33 catches [more]