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Getty Images A handful of players from the top 100 free agent list we compiled before the start of the new league year remain unattached and one potential obstacle to signing them was removed on Monday afternoon. As of 4 p.m. ET, unrestricted free agent signings no longer factor into the...

Getty Images It was natural to wonder whether the technological challenges of the stay-at-home 2020 NFL Draft might preclude trades, the actual reason there were fewer at the top was the old fashioned kind. Teams kept wanting to take players they wanted. Buccaneers General Manager Jason Licht...

Getty Images Leonard Fournette‘s contract remains for sale. But no one wants it. Via John Reid of the Florida Times-Union, Jaguars G.M. Dave Caldwell said that he was trying to trade the fourth overall pick in the 2017 draft during the second day of the 2020 draft. However, Caldwell could find...

Getty Images Jameis Winston is preparing to accept a job where he’ll have no chance of starting. Winston is finalizing a one-year contract with the Saints, according to Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports. In New Orleans, Winston would compete with Taysom Hill to back up Drew Brees. Last year’s...

Getty Images From the moment the Starting Quarterback Quarterback Carousel stopped spinning without Jameis Winston having a seat on a horse or one of those lame benches, one place made the most sense for him: New Orleans. Now that the draft has come and gone without Winston finding a landing...

Getty Images Washington tackle Trent Williams specifically has said that he didn’t object to a trade to the Vikings. His agent has provided a more general denial regarding the notion that the player has put the kibosh on potential trades. “On behalf of my client Trent Williams and with the...

Getty Images Like father, not like son. In 1999, cornerback Antoine Winfield entered the league as the 23rd pick in the draft. On Thursday night, Antoine Winfield Jr. was not selected in round one. Some believe he should have been. Naysayers would say that the Big 10 defensive back of the...

Getty Images When the Buccaneers moved up from No. 14 to No. 13 to get tackle Tristan Wirfs, Washington lost a potential suitor for tackle Trent Williams. Per a league source, the Buccaneers would have made a play for Williams if they hadn’t landed Wirfs in round one. And so Williams...

Getty Images The Buccaneers were one of the players that Minnesota safety Antoine Winfield Jr. had been hearing from in the runup to the draft. He’s now heard from them, officially. The Bucs have made the Big 10 defensive back of the year the 45th overall pick in the 2020 draft. The son of...

Getty Images With Rob Gronkowski in, O.J. Howard likely will be out. At a minimum, he apparently wants out. JoeBucsFan.com reports that the 2017 first-round pick would like a change of scenery. Howard has never developed into the weapon that the Bucs thought he’d be in 2017, and if the Bucs...

Getty Images There was chatter about the Buccaneers potentially trading tight end O.J. Howard before they acquired Rob Gronkowski and the move to add the former Patriot did little to cool speculation that they could move Howard at some point in the draft. A report on Thursday indicated Howard...

Getty Images Now that the Buccaneers have quarterback Tom Brady, they need to protect him. They’ll do that in part with Iowa tackle Tristan Wirfs. Tampa Bay jumped up one spot, moving from 14 to 13 selecting Wirfs. A versatile blocker who can play either side, he ran the 40-yard dash in 4.8...

Getty Images The 49ers traded defensive lineman DeForest Buckner for a first-round pick, and found a direct replacement. The 49ers took South Carolina defensive tackle Javon Kinlaw with the 14th pick, after a move down one spot. Kinlaw’s powerful interior player, keeping the strength of their...

Getty Images There were a group of four offensive tackles seen as likely top picks heading into the first round of the draft and three of them came off the board in the first 11 selections on Thursday night. Former Iowa right tackle Tristan Wirfs was the last of the quartet on the board and...

Getty Images Rob Gronkowski got a desire to return after taking a season off. Wherever he was going, it was going to be with Tom Brady. The two worked together about two months ago, Gronkowski said, and the Pro Bowl tight end told Brady he might have interest in returning. “We have a great...

Getty Images Tom Brady’s idol, who left the team with which he won four Super Bowls, thought Brady should stay in New England. Another Hall of Fame quarterback who changed teams late in his career told Brady to embrace the opportunity to start over. “I spoke to Tom briefly at the Super Bowl,”...

Getty Images Rob Gronkowski has a reminder of the last game he ever played. It’s not the Super Bowl ring he never wears. It’s the indentation in his quadriceps that he always wears. During a conference call Wednesday, the tight end shared the pain he played through in his nine-year career...

Getty Images Tom Brady and Peyton Manning will join Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson for a charity golf match next month. The event, called “The Match: Champions for Charity,” is expected to take place May 15 or May 24 and air on TNT, with proceeds going to COVID-19 relief efforts, according to...

Getty Images Peyton Manning left Indianapolis after 13 seasons and won a Super Bowl in Denver. Tom Brady now is trying to do what Manning did. Brady has left New England after 20 seasons to try to win a title in Tampa Bay. Manning, though, wasn’t willing to offer Brady any advice during...

Getty Images Rob Gronkowski can wear No. 87 on the Buccaneers. Tampa Bay tight end Jordan Leggett wore No. 87 last year, but his number has already been changed to 81 on the Buccaneers’ online roster. So it appears safe to say Gronk will get 87, the number he wore in New England. Leggett...