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Getty Images Defensive lineman Ra’Shede Hageman is trying to find his way back into the NFL, but any return to the playing field will have to wait until he serves a two-game suspension. According to multiple reports, Hageman faces a ban of that length before he’ll be allowed to return to game...

Getty Images NFL teams voted 31-1 in favor of a one-year trial expansion of replay to include challenges for pass interference penalties whether they were called on the field or if coaches think they should have been called. That change came after the end of last year’s NFC Championship Game...

Getty Images Defensive tackle Tyeler Davison has spent the last four years with the Saints, but he’s set to spend some time with another NFC South club. Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Davison will visit with the Falcons. It’s the first reported visit of free agency for Davison...

Getty Images The Raiders added another free agent to their roster on Friday afternoon. The team announced that they have signed safety Jordan Richards. It’s their second addition of the day as they previously added former AAF defensive end Alex Barrett to the defense. Richards was a 2015...

Getty Images The Falcons made an early run at shoring up their interior line, and are circling back for depth now. According to Jordan Raanan of ESPN.com, the Falcons are signing journeyman offensive lineman Adam Gettis. Gettis has spent time with the Giants, Buccaneers, and Washington, and...

Getty Images Kemal Ishmael signed a one-year deal to stay with the Falcons on April 4, 2018. He returned to the fold a day earlier this year. The Falcons announced Ishmael’s return on another one-year deal on Wednesday. Ishmael is listed as a linebacker after being used as a safety earlier in...

Getty Images Offensive lineman Leonard Wester spent the last three seasons in the Buccaneers organization and he’s spent some time with a couple of his former coaches from Tampa this week. Greg Auman of TheAthletic.com reports that Wester met with the Falcons on Wednesday and the Jaguars on...

Getty Images After each episode of PFT Live with Chris Simms, we take a quick break (Chris has to pee) and then we tape a post-show show that we call PFTOT. It’s an effort to address topics we didn’t address during the show, or that we want to address without the realities of a clock that...

Getty Images Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones wants a new contract and has spoken to the team about getting one done at various points over the last couple of years. One of the lead topics of conversation on the contract front is obviously going to be how much Jones is paid and some have...

Getty Images The retirement of Gronk removes a genuinely unique player from the NFL. That sparked Thursday’s PFT Live draft: Who are the most memorable NFL unicorns? Simms, who seems to have adopted Big Cat’s strategy of trying to win these drafts by repeatedly and loudly declaring victory...

Getty Images Falcons owner Arthur Blank must be pretty confident in his negotiators. Because he just offered two of his players something few players enjoy. Via D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Blank said that wide receiver Julio Jones and defensive tackle Grady...

Getty Images Last year the Falcons lost two of their team leaders, defensive backs Keanu Neal and Ricardo Allen, to season-ending injuries in September. Coach Dan Quinn says replacing them in the locker room and the practice field may have been harder than replacing them on Sundays. Quinn said...

Getty Images Defensive tackle Ra’Shede Hageman has not played since 2016, his career derailed by legal problems. But five teams, including the Vikings, have shown interest in giving Hageman a second chance, Chris Tomasson of the Pioneer Press reports. The Falcons cut him in September 2017...

Getty Images Falcons owner Arthur Blank has sold a minority stake in his team. Blank sold 10 percent of the team to three investors, two of whom already owned a small stake in the team, according to D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The deal is believed to be worth...

Getty Images The NFL usually does what it wants, and the Competition Committee doesn’t seem to want any tangible advice from those who aren’t actively employed by a football team to do football things about football. Because football. But that’s never stopped me from offering advice on how to...

Getty Images The NFL continues to fail or to refuse to see how the combination of bad calls and legal gambling can result in serious problems for the game. With the AAF utilizing the “Sky Judge” concept to ensure that certain bad calls or non-calls are fixed in real time, without the use of...

Getty Images Steelers owner Art Rooney II covered a lot of ground on a Friday conference call with reporters. Like many old-guard owners, he seems to be reluctant to embrace change on issues of potential tweaks to the rules. In one very important area, however, Rooney seems to be on board...

Getty Images The question of when Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones will get a new contract has been bandied about for the last year or so and the issue came back onto the radar when Antonio Brown got a new contract after his trade to the Raiders. Brown is now the highest-paid receiver in the...

Getty Images The Falcons have always had a wealth of skill-position talent. But when General Manager Thomas Dimitroff went to work this offseason, he wanted to build from the inside out. Via D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Dimitroff said the signings of guards James...

Getty Images For NFL players coming off surgeries, the rehab isn’t really official until they put a workout on social media. By that measuring stick, Falcons safety Ricardo Allen is on his way back. Via D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Allen ran outside for the first...