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Getty Images The Jets signed tight end Daniel Brown to a one-year contract extension, the team announced Thursday. Brown, 27, was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent next month. He played 16 games for the Jets last season, starting five. Brown made seven catches for 72 yards and a...

Getty Images Hall of Fame safety Ed Reed says he felt lied to by the Houston Texans in his short stay with the team during the 2013 season. In a lengthy conversation with Master Tesfatsion of Bleacher Report, Reed said he was recruited to Houston with a pitch to be a respected veteran voice...

Getty Images Nineteen years after Packers quarterback Brett Favre gifted Giants defensive end Michael Strahan the single-season sack record, the guy who previously held it wants it back. “It’s my record, and I want it to be known that it’s my record,” former Jets pass rusher Mark Gastineau...

Getty Images The Jets added to their coaching staff, hiring a former NFL defensive back. According to Brian Costello of the New York Post, the Jets have hired Leigh Torrence as their assistant defensive backs coach. Torrence’s coaching career began with the Saints as an intern, and he has...

Getty Images All four of the Week One XFL games drew between 17,000 and 18,000 fans. But only one of the four games created the impression that the stadium was nearly full. In D.C., the Dragons-Defenders game seemed like a big deal because it was a played in a small stadium. Indeed...

A San Diego prosecutor is seeking the maximum 18-year sentence to be imposed on former NFL tight end Kellen Winslow II following a plea agreement reached in November ended the case. According to Brent Schrotenboer of USA Today, San Diego County Deputy District Attorney Dan Owens is seeking...

Getty Images Football fans like the idea of more football. But do they really want more football? The next experiment begins in only two days. The XFL is back, after a 19-year absence. Fueled by the reality that people who will be placing legal sports wagers will need more sports on which to...

Getty Images Le'Veon Bell‘s first season with the Jets was unsuccessful on the field and it played out with a narrative that head coach Adam Gase didn’t particularly want him on the roster. Bell signed with the Jets when Mike Maccagnan was still the team’s General Manager, but Maccagnan was...

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 So much for the suspense of the NFL Honors Show. Later Saturday night, the Pro Football Hall of Fame will announce the five newest members who were elected as part of the Class of 2020. But Steve Atwater’s supporters shared their good news, announcing the safety has earned...

Getty Images The NFLPA announces a Community MVP during every week of the regular season to recognize the charitable work being done by players around the league and each winner is eligible to be named the recipient of the Alan Page Community Award at the end of the season. At a press...

Getty Images Soon-to-be free agent wide receiver Robby Anderson is willing to hear the Jets out, but he also sounds like a man who wants to hear from others as well. Anderson told Bob Glauber of Newsday that the Jets have made it clear they want to keep him. “I know they’ve communicated that...

Getty Images Chiefs running back Damien Williams may not have the kind of motivation as his friend Raheem Mostert, as he hasn’t been cut six times in his career. But Williams does have a bit of a grudge he carries around, in case he ever gets complacent. Williams told Jim Trotter of NFL...

Getty Images Jamal Adams wants a contract extension, and his representatives and the Jets have begun talks, the All-Pro safety said. “They’ve talked about it, no numbers yet,” Adams said Wednesday, via Brian Costello of the New York Post. “I’d be lying if I said I don’t expect to be extended...

Getty Images The Jets only had linebacker C.J. Mosley in the lineup for two games in his first season with the team, but Mosley said he’s on track to start his second year on better footing. Mosley suffered a groin injury in the season opener, returned for Week Seven and then went right back...

Getty Images When Tom Brady met Robert Kraft in 2000, the sixth-round rookie said to the billionaire owner of the Patriots, “I’m the best decision this organization has ever made.” That’s debatable, and the debate could be settled, starting this year. Three months before using a sixth-round...

Getty Images Joe Namath is so associated with the New York Jets that most fans under the age of 45 probably don’t know that he ended his career in 1977 with the Los Angeles Rams. Namath looks back on his forgettable final season with regret, and he urges Tom Brady not to follow in his...

Getty Images Over the next two weeks, you’ll hear plenty about the way Raheem Mostert was cut by six teams in an 18-month span. It’s not just an easy storyline, but a very real motivation for the 49ers running back himself. Stepping in for an injured Tevin Coleman, Mostert ran for 220 yards...

Getty Images The Pro Football Hall of Fame is announcing the members of their special Centennial Class on Wednesday morning and a couple of offensive linemen were among the first names announced. Former Bears tackle Jim Covert and former Jets tackle Winston Hill have been elected to the Hall...

Getty Images The Philadelphia Eagles are in search of a new wide receivers coach after releasing Carson Walch and offensive coordinator Mike Groh a week ago after their playoff exit to the Seattle Seahawks. As it turns out, a former Seahawk wide receiver and a Hall of Famer wide out that made...