Now that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has received an extremely lucrative long-term contract extension and Joe Flacco has been made the highest-paid player in NFL history, the table has been set for a much better quarterback to eclipse them all.  The six-year, $65 million deal Aaron Rodgers signed with the Green Bay Packers during […]

A lot has changed since we last mocked the draft. In fact, only hours after we went out on a limb and gave Geno Smith to the Kansas City Chiefs, Alex Smith was traded to Andy Reid's new team and our mock draft was already even more flawed than it was in the first place.  […]

Free agency has entered its second wave, with things becoming extremely slow on the open market. Soon, the prices will begin to drop for a group of fairly talented players still lingering. Here are the top 20… 1. Sebastian Vollmer: The market hasn't evolved properly for right tackles.  2. Andre Smith: Vollmer and Smith will […]

On one hand, defensive players have possessed the short straw for quite some time when it comes to the NFL's continued effort to introduce rules that better protect players from their peers. And thus it's nice to see things creep closer toward being balanced with a new rule that will penalize ball carriers for lowering […]

Tom Brady pretty much confirmed earlier this offseason that he'll never be the highest-paid player in NFL history, signing a team-friendly extension in order to ensure that Peyton Manning keeps pulling away in that category.  But maybe Brady was only doing so in order to be completely sure that he'll be able to keep teaming […]

Pandora's box is wide-freakin'-open now. The NFL went and awarded the Giants and Jets for building a new stadium by granting them the Super Bowl in 2014 and now every NFL owner from a cold-weather city is lobbying for the game.  Stop it. Stop it right now. This open-air, cold-weather game in New Jersey is […]

With two full days of NFL free agency now in the books, here's a look at the teams that have gained the most, as well as the teams that have taken the biggest hits. WINNER: Chicago Bears — It would help if they'd keep Nick Roach and Israel Idonije, but they did a good job […]

There might have been other factors at play, but on Wednesday, the New England Patriots essentially decided that they'd rather have Danny Amendola on their roster than Wes Welker. The deal Amendola signed with New England pays him a higher annual salary than the one Welker inked with the Denver Broncos, and is nearly as […]

Five of our guys from yesterday signed contracts, so we've added five newbies to the bottom of the list while updating the statuses of the original 10. 1. Sebastian Vollmer (OT, Patriots): Still little to say here, although it's being reported that the Eagles are interested.  2. Jake Long (OT, Dolphins): It looks as though […]

As per usual, there was quite a lot of action on the first day of free agency. But there are plenty of very talented dudes left unsigned as Day 2 gets underway. Here are the top 15 players still on the market… 1. Sebastian Vollmer (OT, Patriots): New England didn't get much work done with […]

Here's a quick breakdown of the good and the bad from the opening day of free agency in the NFL: Great: Bears sign TE Martellus Bennett to a four-year, $20 million contract — Chicago gets a vastly underrated all-around tight end for a relatively fair deal. As long as Bennett plays the way he did […]

Free agency has yet to get underway, but the frenzy started on Monday with two of the league's top receivers being traded. Contracts were of course factors in both cases, but let's break down what Percy Harvin going from the Minnesota Vikings to the Seattle Seahawks and Anquan Boldin going from the Baltimore Ravens to […]

Roger Goodell takes a lot of heat for being stubborn and autocratic, but nobody considers that the NFL commissioner — named by Sports Illustrated this week as the most powerful person in sports — might actually just have a vision of football's future that is less arrogant than the majority of the game's supporters and […]