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Getty Images Left tackle Trent Williams did the expected on Wednesday when he failed to report to Washington’s training camp. Williams, who also skipped June’s mandatory minicamp, had a growth on his head removed this offseason and is reportedly upset at the way the team handled the situation...

Getty Images Alex Smith, 35, recently shed an external fixator on his right leg that promoted healing in the bones. Still, he faces an arduous journey ever to get back on the field. Washington placed the quarterback on the physically unable to perform list Wednesday. “Our job is to do...

Getty Images When Washington inside linebacker Mason Foster was placed on injured reserve in 2017, he blasted the team’s front office. Last year he came back and started every game, but now the front office has decided to get rid of Foster. The team told Foster today that he is being released...

Getty Images Washington running back Adrian Peterson has made about $100 million in salary, and millions more in endorsements, during his NFL career. But he’s deep in debt after his lawyer says he trusted people who ripped him off. “The truth behind Adrian Peterson’s current financial...

Getty Images Mason Foster‘s agent is unhappy with the timing of the linebacker’s release after Washington cut the linebacker Tuesday. Agent Blake Baratz has a point. The team had weeks to cut Foster. Yet, it waited until the 11th hour before training camp begins to say good-bye. Baratz...

Getty Images The Cowboys haven’t reached the NFC Championship Game since winning their last Super Bowl in 1995. Yet, they remain America’s Team and the World’s Team for that matter. Nine of the 50 highest-rated sports TV broadcasts in 2018 were regular-season games featuring the Cowboys...

Getty Images The fifth-year option is a powerful tool, and teams with 2015 first-round picks who panned out are using it, extensively. Of the 2015 first-rounders whose fifth-year options were exercised, only one of them — Rams running back Todd Gurley — has gotten a second contract. All of...

Getty Images Orleans Darkwa isn’t the only free agent working out for the Browns. The team also is working out a pair of offensive linemen who are brothers. Free agents Arie and Cyrus Kouandjio are in Cleveland, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports. Cyrus Kouandjio, 26, entered the league as a...

Getty Images Washington will have a new a couple of new quarterbacks under center when the team reports to training camp. Neither of them will have his best chance at blind-side protection. According to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network, Washington left tackle Trent Williams isn’t expected to...

Getty Images The Giants opted not to re-sign safety Landon Collins, who joined Washington to remain in the NFC East. And Collins will be playing the Giants twice per year. Apparently, however, Collins won’t be referring to the Giants by name. During an interview with 106.7 The Fan in D.C...

Getty Images New Bears safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix suffered a knee injury late in the offseason program. It’s bad enough to keep him from passing a physical at the start of training camp. Bears G.M. Ryan Pace said Sunday that Clinton-Dix, a first-round pick of the Packers who was traded last year...

Getty Images Washington cornerback Josh Norman recently took bullfighting to a new level, literally. Norman went to Pamplona to run with the bulls and he ended up jumping over them. Predictably, he recently downplayed the inherently risky behavior during a visit with Rich Eisen. “You can just...

Getty Images Former NFL defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth is moving closer to getting the kidney he needs. Via Jim Wyatt of the Titans’ official website, Haynesworth has provided an update regarding his health situation on Facebook. “First and foremost I want to thank each and everyone...

Getty Images An employee of a Tempe, Ariz. hotel was arrested trying to sell stolen Super Bowl rings belonging to Mark May at a pawn shop in Las Vegas, according to Joe Enea and Shane Dale of ABC 15. Gold & Silver Pawn, the store featured on History Channel’s decade-long program Pawn Stars...

Getty Images The NFL and NFLPA gathered for their fourth set of talks about a new Collective Bargaining Agreement on Wednesday and the schedule called for the meetings to last for three days. There was a change in plans, however, and the two sides wrapped things up after several hours of...

Getty Images Watching Alex Smith‘s horrific leg injury brought back nightmares for Joe Theismann, who was in the stadium when it happened last fall. Theismann’s career came to an end in 1985 when Lawrence Taylor snapped his leg. The former Washington quarterback said it took him 20 years to...

Getty Images When Washington finally made a first-round draft pick, three years after the failed trade up for RGIII, the team landed a quality player in guard Brandon Scherff. Scherff is now entering the last year of his contract, and it could be his last year in D.C. Erin Hawksworth of 106.7...

Getty Images We’ve spent plenty of time the past couple of days talking about players being upset with their ratings in the new Madden game, and the motivation they have drawn from it. One player who shouldn’t be upset (and in turn has no basis for extra motiviation) is Rams running back Todd...

Washington is giving rookie Dwayne Haskins a chance to win the starting job over veteran Case Keenum. Running back Adrian Peterson makes it clear who he expects to start opening day. “With Case Keenum, the quarterback runs everything, right?” Peterson said this weekend at SportsCon 2019 in...

Getty Images The Raiders recently learned that guard Richie Incognito will be suspended for the first two games of the 2019 season. Incognito is slated to compete for the left guard job in Oakland and Monday saw the team add a veteran who could find himself in the mix for that spot before...