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Getty Images The Raiders may trade backup quarterback Marcus Mariota, and New England has been mentioned as a possible destination. Mike Reiss of ESPN sees the Patriots as a potential trading partner for the Raiders, noting that Mariota’s $10.6 million salary would easily fit under the...

Getty Images Some have wondered whether Urban Meyer’s arrival in the NFL could prompt a return by Tim Tebow to pro football. Instead, the 33-year-old former quarterback is still pursuing his baseball dreams. The New York Mets have announced the Tebow has been invited to spring training. Tebow...

Getty Images During his career as an NFL wide receiver, fans watching games on TV were often reminded that Chris Hogan had been a lacrosse player — not a football player — at Penn State. Now Hogan is becoming a lacrosse player again. Hogan has declared for the Premier Lacrosse League draft...

Getty Images The Jets have hired Steve Scarnecchia as Robert Saleh’s chief of staff, Brian Costello of the New York Post reports. It’s a new position on the team’s staff. Scarnecchia spent the past six seasons as the Falcons’ assistant head coach. There, according to the Falcons’ media guide...

Getty Images He won’t play for the Texans. So where will J.J. Watt play in 2021? The folks at PointsBet already have compiled odds. The strong favorite, at +140, is Pittsburgh. The Packers and Buccaneers come in next at +400 each, with the Ravens at +600, and the Bears at +700. Four teams...

Getty Images Tom Brady 1, Bill Belichick 0. Fair or not, that’s the perception. Brady left the Patriots, landed with the Buccaneers, helped put together a Superteam, and and won the Super Bowl. The Patriots failed to even make the playoffs. Sure, they may not have made the playoffs if Brady...

Getty Images Former Patriots tight end Willie Scott died Monday, the team announced. Scott was 61. Scott originally entered the NFL as a first-round choice of the Chiefs in 1981. He was the 14th overall pick out of South Carolina. Scott played in 97 NFL games with 42 starts and caught 89...

Getty Images LeBron James tweeted several times after the Buccaneers’ 31-9 victory over the Chiefs that gave Tom Brady his seventh Super Bowl ring. “IF YOU KNOW YOU KNOW!! GOAT TALK,” was the last of James’ tweets. Brady is 43 and just completed his 21st NFL season. James, 36, is in his 18th...

Getty Images As soon as Sunday’s game ended, the Patriots’ official twitter account congratulated “the greatest of all time.” That, of course, was meant for Tom Brady. The Patriots followed that with a warning: “And Gronk, be careful with that trophy…” Rob Gronkowski dented the Patriots’ most...

Getty Images Plenty of Patriots fans still love to watch Tom Brady. Via John Ourand of Sports Business Daily, the TV rating in Boston actually surpassed the TV rating in Tampa. According to Ourand, Boston generated a rating of 57.6, which means that 57.6 percent of all TVs in the market were...

Getty Images Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice has sometimes been called the best player in NFL history, but Rice says he’ll hand that status to Tom Brady. Rice said today on 95.7 The Game that he believes he played football during a tougher time than Brady, but he’ll still defer to those...

Getty Images Tom Brady already owned a slew of Super Bowl records, and he set even more in Super Bowl LV, when he won for the first time with the Buccaneers. Here’s a list of all of Brady’s Super Bowl records: Games played: Super Bowl LV was Brady’s 10th Super Bowl, by far the most in NFL...

Getty Images Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady won his seventh Super Bowl on Sunday, giving him more Super Bowls than any of the NFL’s 32 franchises. Brady won six Super Bowls with the Patriots, and has now won his first with the Buccaneers. The Patriots’ six Super Bowls with Brady are their...

Getty Images Tom Brady will get most of the attention, but Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski is the other player who cemented a special Super Bowl legacy tonight. Gronkowski had six catches for 67 yards and two touchdowns in the Bucs’ Super Bowl LV win over the Chiefs. This was Gronk’s fifth...

Getty Images Rob Gronkowski was retired. And then Tom Brady decided to sign with the Buccaneers. Gronkowski is now a champion for the fourth time following Tampa Bay’s 31-9 victory over Kansas City. And while the man better known as “Gronk” may be predisposed to hyperbole, he wasn’t mincing...

Getty Images Rob Gronkowski came out of retirement to join Tom Brady in Tampa Bay. Now he’s earned a fourth Super Bowl ring for his efforts. Gronkowski is scheduled to become a free agent in March. Asked whether he’ll return in 2021, Gronkowski didn’t firmly commit to playing. But after...

Getty Images Three first-time eligible players made the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday. Peyton Manning was joined by Charles Woodson and Calvin Johnson in earning a bust in the first year of eligibility. Alan Faneca, John Lynch, Drew Pearson, Bill Nunn and Tom Flores also are in the...

Getty Images With all the talk of Tom Brady reaching his 10th Super Bowl, there’s been less discussion of Rob Gronkowski reaching his fifth. But a fifth Super Bowl, which Gronkowski will play in on Sunday, is an impressive achievement in its own right. Gronkowski will become the 22nd player in...

Getty Images Yes, the Chiefs beat the Buccaneers in Week 12, in Tampa. On the surface, that gives Kansas City the edge in the rematch on Sunday. History tells a different story. Via the Washington Post, Super Bowl LV entails the 14th rematch of a regular-season meeting. The team that won the...

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...