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Getty Images Cornerback Ken Crawley is returning to New Orleans. The Saints re-signed Crawley on Monday. Crawley, 28, played six games for the Saints last season, seeing action on 11 defensive snaps and 56 on special teams. He has appeared in 45 games with 23 starts the past five seasons with...

Getty Images Saints rookie offensive lineman Alex Hoffman has retired, Nick Underhill of NewOrleans.Football reports. Hoffman signed as a college free agent after the draft. He was a four-year letterwinner at Carroll College, twice earning Frontier Conference first-team all-conference...

Getty Images In 1993 the Saints drafted fullback Lorenzo Neal, who became a four-time Pro Bowler. Now they’ve signed his son as an undrafted rookie. Lorenzo Neal Jr., a defensive lineman from Purdue, has signed with the Saints as an undrafted free agent. During the 2018 college football...

Getty Images The Saints signed two other players, along with defensive lineman Lorenzo Neal, on Sunday. The team announced the signings of Neal, offensive lineman Kyle Murphy and linebacker Quentin Poling. Murphy is a three-year NFL veteran who originally was selected by the Packers in the...

Getty Images The Saints signed three players and waived two others Friday. The team announced it signed defensive back Deuce Wallace, linebacker Sutton Smith and wide receiver Easop Winston Jr. and waived defensive backs Eric Burrell and Trill Williams with failed physicals. Wallace, 24...

Getty Images The Chiefs fell short in Super Bowl LV, but they’re still in demand when it comes to Sunday Night Football appearances. The NFL released the schedule for the 2021 season on Wednesday night and Kansas City is set for three appearances on NBC this season. They’ll face the Ravens in...

Getty Images The NFL announced its 2021 schedule on Wednesday night. The includes 17 games on ESPN’s Monday Night Football. It does not feature a doubleheader on the first Monday night of the season. ESPN also will air a Week 18 Saturday doubleheader. Those games, which will kickoff at 4:15...

Getty Images The Buccaneers and Cowboys will begin the 2021 the season on Thursday, Sept. 9. But Thursday Night Football will technically begin the next week with a divisional contest between the Giants and Washington on NFL Network. After Carolina visits Houston in Week Three, the Week Four...

Getty Images Ten teams each received five primetime games. The Packers, Saints, Cowboys, Seahawks, Steelers, Ravens, Rams, 49ers, Chiefs and Bucs are scheduled for five night games each. The Saints and Cowboys also have Thanksgiving Day games, and the Packers a Christmas Day game. The Bears...

Getty Images The FOX late Sunday afternoon game in Week One is always one of the premiere games of the NFL schedule. Last year, that’s where the league put Tom Brady vs. Drew Brees in their first matchup as NFC South rivals. This year, that’s where the league is putting Aaron Rodgers — whether...

USA TODAY Sports Whether Aaron Rodgers is still with the Packers or makes his way to the Broncos, he’ll be playing at 4:25 p.m. on FOX in Week One. But there will be at least one familiar quarterback in a new place in the network’s early slate to open the season. The Seahawks will travel to...

Getty Images The full NFL schedule will officially get released on Wednesday night, but the first week’s games were announced on Wednesday morning and reports of other notable games are leaking out. One of those leaks involves the Thanksgiving slate of games. Master Tesfatsion of Bleacher...

Getty Images The release of the schedule for the first weekend of the 2021 NFL season has led to sportsbooks releasing point spreads for the first 16 games of the year. A pair of NFC West teams have been installed as the biggest early favorites. William Hill has the 49ers favored by seven...

Getty Images The first month of the Deshaun Watson legal controversy featured numerous social-media posts, written statements, and press conferences. For nearly three weeks, silence has prevailed in the Watson situation. It’s obvious, given the sharp shift in efforts by the lawyers away from...

Getty Images Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan will finance expansion of the New Orleans Police Department’s racial sensitivity training program. The goal over the next two years is to help 80 officers confront and overcome biases. Jordan announced the $120,000 donation to the effort on...

Getty Images Last month, the NFL revolutionized the rules regarding jersey numbers. Since then, 16 players have taken advantage of the shift. Peter King lists them in his latest edition of Football Morning in America. King arranged them by number. We’ll list them by player in alphabetical...

Getty Images The Panthers shifted gears at the last minute while they were on the clock in the second round of the draft, taking LSU wide receiver Terrace Marshall with the 59th overall pick because they believed that the Saints, who had the 60th pick, were about to take him. The Panthers had...

Getty Images Fifteen years after the fact, former Dolphins coach Nick Saban remains miffed that Dolphins doctors deemed the shoulder of quarterback Drew Brees unfit for NFL competition. (We probably could have ended that sentence after the word “miffed.”) Those same doctors nevertheless...

Getty Images The Saints are signing a pair of free agents. Fullback Sutton Smith and receiver Easop Winston have agreed to terms, Mike Triplett of ESPN reports. The Steelers made Smith a sixth-round draft choice in 2019. He began his career as a linebacker but switched positions after...

Getty Images The Saints are adding some depth to their defensive line. Per his agent, Casey Muir, defensive tackle Albert Huggins is headed to New Orleans. Huggins has bounced around since entering the league as an undrafted free agent out of Clemson in 2019. He initially signed with the...