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Getty Images Former Washington coach and one-year Jaguars offensive coordinator Jay Gruden concedes that he won’t be coaching this year. He’d like to try his hand at media work. In a recent interview with Ben Standig of TheAthletic.com, Gruden demonstrated the kind of candor he’d bring to a...

Getty Images Kirk Cousins has plenty of leverage now. He’ll have even more later — and that’s when he apparently intends to use it. In a recent visit to PFT PM, Cousins made two things clear about his future with the Vikings. First, he wants to finish his career in Minnesota. Second, he’s...

Getty Images Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes will face off in Sunday’s Super Bowl to decide the NFL champion for the 2020 season. The champion in merchandising sales already has been declared. The NFLPA released the latest numbers of merchandising sales for NFL players from the period covering...

Getty Images The Washington Football Team is exploring all its options in trying to find a starting quarterback for 2021. Alex Smith, Kyle Allen and Taylor Heinecke all merit consideration. Allen, an exclusive rights free agent, followed Ron Rivera from Carolina in a trade last offseason. He...

Getty Images The Washington Football Team announced a couple of title changes for members of Ron Rivera’s coaching staff. Jim Hostler will be moving from wide receivers coach to senior offensive assistant. Drew Terrell will take over as the wide receivers coach after assisting Hostler with the...

Getty Images The last non-kicker to wear a single-bar facemask was Washington quarterback Joe Theismann. It’s an iconic look of days gone by, giving the player minimal protection from fists, forearms, elbows, knees, and feet. In a recent visit to PFT Live, Chris Simms and I asked Theismann why...

Getty Images The Washington Football Team announced that Doug Williams has a new title. He now will serve as senior adviser to team president Jason Wright. That moves Williams from the football side to the business side as the team works on a new name and a new stadium. He also will help with...

Getty Images Washington Football Team executive vice president of football/player personnel Marty Hurney said on Wednesday that the team has a lot of work to do when it comes to the quarterback position, but he also noted that the team’s offseason can’t focus on one position at the expense of...

Getty Images Former NFL head coach Marty Schottenheimer, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2014, was moved to a hospice facility near his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, his family announced in a statement. Schottenheimer is in stable condition following complications with his disease...

Getty Images Alex Smith‘s future isn’t certain yet. Kyle Allen is an exclusive rights free agent. Taylor Heinicke is a restricted free agent. Dwayne Haskins, once the quarterback of the future, now is with the Steelers. So who is Washington going to have as its starting quarterback next...

Getty Images The Washington Football Team’s brain trust addressed the team’s quarterback situation in depth Wednesday. Ron Rivera, Martin Mayhew and Marty Hurney appear ready to turn over every stone to find their quarterback of the present and/or their quarterback of the future. Near the end...

Getty Images The Washington Football Team held an introductory press conference for their new top personnel executives on Wednesday and the quarterback position was an early topic of conversation. Four different quarterbacks started games during the 2020 season and 2019 first-round pick Dwayne...

Getty Images Several teams tried to get quarterback Matthew Stafford from the Lions. With Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson wanting a trade of his own, it’s easy to look at the teams that didn’t get Stafford as the starting point for those who will chase Watson. The Broncos, Panthers, 49ers...

Getty Images The football team in Washington has been known for a full football season as the Washington Football Team. That could be the permanent name, or maybe some other name will be adopted. Some apparently don’t like the WFT name. In an interview of Washington president Jason Wright...

Getty Images The Packers fired Mike Pettine last week. They have begun the process of finding his replacement. The team has interviewed or will interview their first three candidates for defensive coordinator, Rob Demovsky of ESPN reports. The Packers’ search is beginning with Chargers passing...

Getty Images The Rams got Matthew Stafford. Several other teams wanted him. Peter King of NBC Sports reports that the Panthers were “very interested” in Stafford, and “competed for him.” Other teams, per King, who were interested in Stafford include the Broncos, Colts, and 49ers. Nicki...

Getty Images Kyle Smith became Atlanta’s vice president of player personnel yesterday after previously having that title in Washington, where he spent the last 11 years. Washington’s player personnel hasn’t been great over the last 11 years, but former head coach Jay Gruden said that wasn’t...

USA TODAY Sports The Buccaneers, who lost at home to the Chiefs in Week 12 wearing dark jerseys, have chosen to wear white jerseys for Super Bowl LV. As the home team (the NFC gets that designation in odd-numbered Super Bowls), the Bucs had the privilege of making the choice. The reportedly...

Getty Images The NFL Honors Show on Saturday will reveal the award winners from 2020. The favorites for some of the awards are Aaron Rodgers as MVP, Derrick Henry as offensive player of the year, Chase Young as defensive rookie of the year, Justin Herbert as offensive rookie of the year and...

Getty Images Washington Football Team head coach Ron Rivera underwent his final treatment for squamous cell cancer last October and he went for a checkup with doctors on Thursday. The tests they did came back with positive results. Rivera’s daughter Courtney announced the good news on Twitter...