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Getty Images The list of teams interested in talking to Greg Olsen is getting longer. PFT has learned, via a league source, that Olsen is set to visit with the Seahawks. That news comes a day after we learned that he’s also lined up visits with Buffalo and Washington. Those teams feature...

Getty Images In recent years, football teams that move on from certain employees (usually coaches) couch the decision as mutual. The Panthers recently did it tight end Greg Olsen. Olsen said Tuesday that it wasn’t really mutual. “I told them all along that if they wanted me back . . ...

Getty Images Lamar Jackson‘s odds to win the 2020 MVP award are better than they were before the 2019 season. But the Ravens quarterback is not the favorite. The Westgate Sportsbook lists Patrick Mahomes as the favorite for the 2020 award with 4-1 odds. Mahomes, of course, won the league MVP...

Getty Images With the Super Bowl in the books, the NFL is back in offseason mode today, and open for business. And for the teams at the top, that means the big focus will be the 2020 NFL Draft. After last night’s game, the rest of the order of the first round was filled in. There are still...

Getty Images Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson deserved to be the unanimous MVP. But it’s unexpected that he was. The same 50 voters who determine the MVP award on a one-vote-per-voter basis (with no second-place or third-place ballots) also select the All-Pro team, with all votes due at the...

Getty Images Edgerrin James couldn’t wait for the announcement, so he made his own. The longtime Colts running back just sent out word via social media that he had been chosen to the 2020 class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. “Started With Gold Teeth, Ended With a Gold Jacket,” the...

Getty Images A year ago, Seahawks wide receiver D.K. Metcalf was heading into the 2019 NFL draft expecting to be a first-round pick. Instead he fell all the way to the end of the second round, and he still doesn’t know why. Metcalf said on PFT Live that he doesn’t know why he fell so far in...

Getty Images Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson said last week that he’d like to see the team add a couple more star players to help get them back into the Super Bowl, but any additions to the roster would be mitigated by the loss of key players from the 2019 season. One of those players is...

Getty Images Marshawn Lynch always has been good at taking care of his “chicken.” After encouraging other NFL players to do the same in using the slang term for money, the running back is seeking protection of the phrase. Lynch filed an application to trademark “TAKE CARE OF YO’ CHIKCEN” on...

Richard Sherman‘s been willing to admit he might not the same player he used to be. But Chiefs safety Tyrann Mathieu had ringside seats when he was, and remembers what he meant to the Seahawks. Mathieu said that while he was with the Cardinals, that watching the 49ers cornerback during his...

Getty Images Did the expansion of replay to include pass interference work? It depends on your definition of “work.” Of the 101 interference-related replay reviews during the regular season, only 24 resulted in the on-field call being reversed, according to Mark Maske of The Washington Post...

Getty Images Reche Caldwell and Etric Pruitt are pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in a case involving a dozen former NFL players, according to Bill Estep of the Lexington Herald-Leader. Caldwell pleaded guilty last Thursday while Pruitt was scheduled to enter...

Getty Images Russell Wilson was chosen as the NFC’s Pro Bowl starting quarterback, but he’s stepping aside today. Wilson has asked Drew Brees to start in his place in today’s Pro Bowl. It was a classy move from the 31-year-old Wilson toward the 41-year-old Brees. Perhaps Wilson has some...

As the Seahawks pieced together an unexpectedly solid season in 2018, after performing fairly major surgery to the coaching staff and roster, quarterback Russell Wilson said that it felt like 2012 all over again. Which was an important observation, because the Seahawks won the Super Bowl to cap...

Getty Images The XFL is coming, and the Seattle franchise is poised to thrive. Via NBC Sports Northwest, the Dragons currently lead the eight-team league in season-ticket sales. The Dragons have seen a surge in sales since the NFL’s Seahawks ended their season with a loss at Green Bay in the...

Getty Images After two seasons spent as an assistant with the Seattle Seahawks, Steve Shimko has left the team to take the tight ends coaching job at Boston College. The school announced the addition late last week. Shimko joined Seattle’s staff as an offensive assistant in 2018 after a...

Getty Images Bobby Wagner won’t play in the Pro Bowl, but the Seahawks’ middle linebacker doesn’t need surgery, coach Pete Carroll said Tuesday. Wagner’s exit physical revealed knee and ankle issues. “He’s OK,” Carroll told Omar Ruiz of NFL Media. “He had something really he didn’t even know...

Getty Images Pro Bowl snubs mean little because players who should have been named to the initial team quite often make it. Case in point: Kirk Cousins, who had the best season of his career, should have been a Pro Bowler from the get-go. He now is. Cousins is one of four more Vikings players...

Getty Images It’s possible that not every player invited to the Pro Bowl is thrilled about a trip to Orlando this week. But for Seahawks cornerback Shaquill Griffin, it’s a homecoming. Griffin was named to the all-star game today, according to the University of Central Florida. Griffin...

Getty Images Former Eagles offensive lineman Jon Runyan is not a popular man in Philadelphia right now, after he decided not to fine Seahawks defensive end Jadeveon Clowney for a hit that knocked Carson Wentz out of the playoffs with a concussion. But Runyan is standing by his decision...