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Getty Images The NFL has set the salary cap at $182.5 million for the 2021 season on Wednesday and they’ve also set the amount that teams will have to pay if they exercise their fifth-year option on 2018 first-round picks. The Collective Bargaining Agreement that the NFL and NFLPA agreed to...

Getty Images The NFL announced its 2021 compensatory draft picks, which now include special compensatory picks rewarding teams for developing minority coaches and executives. The selections this year are from the third to sixth rounds. With the CBA limiting the number of compensatory...

Getty Images Until Russell Wilson takes the first snaps of the season for the Seattle Seahawks, the question of whether he will be playing for someone else instead next season will continue to persist. Wilson has used the offseason to express some level of frustration with the team regarding...

Getty Images It was obvious that the Raiders were done with tackle Trent Brown. So why did he agree to re-do his contract when he simply could have dug in and waited to be cut? He wanted to return to the Patriots, and the Patriots wanted him back. Given that the Raiders could have squatted on...

Getty Images Trent Brown is on the move, from Las Vegas to New England. Brown, the Pro Bowl offensive tackle, is being traded from the Raiders to the Patriots, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. The deal includes Brown agreeing to rework his contract, which previously had two years and...

Getty Images The Patriots didn’t have to give up much to get offensive tackle Trent Brown from the Raiders. The trade is Brown and a 2022 seventh-round pick for a 2022 fifth-round pick. Patriots coach Bill Belichick loves these late-round pick swaps and has used them several times. Belichick...

Getty Images The Raiders have made plenty of moves with Jon Gruden back at the helm. They haven’t gone so well. From receiver Antonio Brown (a total disaster) to a trio of players who will be gone after two years (tackle Trent Brown, safety Lamarcus Joyner, receiver Tyrell Williams), these...

Getty Images Raiders running back Josh Jacobs completed community service and paid a fine to close a traffic case stemming from a single-vehicle crash in Las Vegas in January, Josh Dubow of the Associated Press reports. Jones, 23, mentored at a Boys & Girls Club and paid a $500 fine to resolve...

Getty Images Well, Russell Wilson won’t be traded to the Cowboys, not with Dak Prescott doing a four-year deal. But that doesn’t mean the situation in Seattle is under contract. Case in point: Via NBC Sports Northwest, the Seahawks recently sent a letter to second-ticket holders. The letter...

USA TODAY Sports With a new coordinator, the Raiders are continuing to make changes on defense. Las Vegas will release defensive back Lamarcus Joyner, NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport reported on Monday. Joyner had two years remaining on the contract he signed with the Raiders in 2019 and was set to...

Getty Images The Raiders have re-signed another one of their exclusive rights free agents. The team announced that safety Dallin Leavitt has agreed to a one-year deal with the team. Defensive lineman Kendal Vickers did the same earlier this offseason. Leavitt signed with the Raiders as an...

USA TODAY Sports As a sense of unease and dysfunction hovers over the relationship between Russell Wilson and the Seahawks, a persistent question emerges regarding the aftermath of a potential trade. If Wilson goes, who replaces him at quarterback? The Seahawks don’t keep a highly-competent...

Getty Images The Bears need to upgrade the quarterback position. They’re reportedly planning to make a run for the ultimate potential upgrade: Russell Wilson. The mutual interest makes plenty of sense. The Bears haven’t had a true franchise quarterback since Sid Luckman. Wilson, in turn, wants...

Getty Images Richie Incognito will soon be a free agent. The Raiders will release Incognito, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reports. The move will take Incognito’s $5.475 million cap hit off the Raiders’ salary cap. He will have no dead cap hit. Incognito had season-ending ankle injury last...

Getty Images The Raiders changed defensive coordinators after fielding a unit that General Manager Mike Mayock said in January had no dynamic players during the 2020 season. Mayock has expended a fair amount of draft capital in trying to find those players. He’s picked nine defensive players...

Getty Images Shortly before Raiders General Manager Mike Mayock held a press conference on Wednesday, there was a report that the team was considering a trade involving right tackle Trent Brown. The timing all but guaranteed Mayock would be asked about Brown’s future with the club and he faced...

Getty Images After what finished as a rocky tenure with the Eagles, Nelson Agholor found a home in 2020 with the Raiders. Agholor caught 48 passes for a career-high 896 yards with eight touchdowns. He averaged 11.2 yards per reception in five seasons with the Eagles, and that mark went up to...

Getty Images The Raiders signed one of their exclusive rights free agents on Tuesday when they agreed to a deal with defensive lineman Kendal Vickers and they moved on to an impending restricted free agent on Wednesday. Agent Paul Sheehy announced that his client Trent Sieg has signed a...

Getty Images Veteran cuts in advance of the new league year are continuing to occur across the league, and they’ve apparently hit one in Las Vegas. Josina Anderson reports offensive guard Gabe Jackson has been informed that he will be released. The Raiders drafted Jackson in the third round...

Getty Images The Raiders are reportedly releasing Gabe Jackson and another offensive lineman could be on the move. Per NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport, Las Vegas has discussed trading right tackle Trent Brown. The Raiders made Brown the league’s highest-paid offensive lineman as a free agent back in...