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Getty Images Defensive end Robert Ayers won’t be playing any more NFL games. Ayers announced his retirement in a post to his Facebook account on Tuesday. Ayers called the last 10 years a “helluva run” while dropping the curtain on his career. Ayers was a first-round pick by the Broncos in...

Getty Images The full Madden ratings have been released, and a certain player with a reputation for being a tad sensitive may not be happy with the number he received. Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who last year was one of seven players to get a game-high 99, has fallen all the way to 90...

Getty Images Golden Tate has caught passes from both Russell Wilson in Seattle and Matthew Stafford in Detroit, and he has a strongly held opinion of which one of them is better. Tate told WDIV in Detroit that Stafford is the best quarterback he’s played with during his 10-year NFL career...

Getty Images Veteran safety Glover Quin announced his retirement last week, but he doesn’t need to find another job if he doesn’t want to. Quin told Peter King for this week’s Football Morning in America that he has saved 70 percent of his after-tax income. Quin made about $33 million in his...

Getty Images Dolphins assistant Jim Caldwell is stepping away from the team for health reasons. Caldwell, the Dolphins’ assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach, is taking a leave of absence to address health issues. He will still serve as a consultant to head coach Brian Flores. “I will...

Getty Images The Lions started having training camp at their team practice facility 13 years ago, and ever since they’ve been at the low end of the league in the number of practices that are open to fans. This year the Lions will have eight practices open to the general public, and another...

Getty Images The Lions released veteran safety Glover Quin this offseason, and he’s decided to not look for another team. According to Michael Rothstein of ESPN.com, Quin has chosen to retire after 10 seasons. “Playing professional sports was always a dream of mine. Football was the route I...

Getty Images The Lions went into the offseason with plans to address the tight end position and they followed through on those plans in multiple ways. They signed Jesse James and Logan Thomas as free agents before drafting T.J. Hockenson in the first round and Isaac Nauta in the seventh round...

Getty Images Former Lions scout Jim Owens died Thursday. He was 84. “Our organization joins the NFL scouting community in mourning the loss of Jim Owens, who worked for the Lions as a pro scout for more than 20 years and enjoyed a distinguished life within the game of football,” the Lions said...

Getty Images Pro Football Hall of Fame president and CEO David Baker announced earlier this week that plans are in the works for a special Centennial Class of 20 inductees for 2020. Pending approval from the Hall’s board of directors Aug. 2, seniors candidates will take 10 spots on the ballot...

Michael Irvin set the Cowboys’ single-season receiving yards record with 1,603 in 1995. Amari Cooper‘s goal is 400 yards higher than that, he told #PFTPM on Monday. Cooper has never had more than 1,153 yards in a single season, but his 725 yards in nine games in Dallas last season after the...

Getty Images Wide receiver Calvin Johnson and the Lions have been on bad terms since the team required him to return a portion of his signing bonus when he retired after the 2015 season, but Lions president Rod Wood recently said that repairing that relationship is a “top priority.” Johnson...

Getty Images Former NFL quarterback Charlie Batch recently had a health scare that put him in the hospital. Via the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Batch suffered from a bacterial infection and severe dehydration. “I’m doing a little better,” Batch told the Tribune-Review via text on Sunday. “At...

Getty Images Emory University Goizueta School of Business professor Mike Lewis sought to use statistical analysis to determine the NFL’s “best” fans. The study used the hard-core, religiously devoted fan as well as the casual fan, so those at the top of the list have more of the latter and...

Domata Peko might prefer Los Angeles, but he might have to settle for Detroit. Since the Lions have, you know, shown interest in him and the Chargers and the Rams have not so far. Via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press, Peko said in a TMZ.com video that he “had a nice visit” with the...

Getty Images Kerry Hyder has been limited to seven games over the last two seasons because of injuries, but memories of his eight sacks in 2016 as a rotational player on the Lions defensive line led the Cowboys to bring him to town this offseason. If Hyder is able to return to that 2016 form...

Getty Images Tight end Michael Roberts obviously isn’t healthy. He failed his second physical in a week, Dov Kleiman reports, and the Packers waived Roberts with the failed physical designation Wednesday. The Lions traded Roberts to the Patriots, but the deal was rescinded last Friday after...

Getty Images Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford made the injury report late last season, with a designation of a back injury for the last month of the year. Perhaps because it never kept him off the field, nothing was made of it. But team website writer Mike O’Hara said on a WJR podcast that...

Getty Images Tuesday’s PFT Live unveiled a couple of tough quarterbacks on the Chris Simms top 40 countdown (Matthew Stafford and Dak Prescott), and the process sparked this question: Who are the toughest quarterbacks in the NFL? Simms and I threw out a few names and made a few cases for guys...

Getty Images Lions coach Matt Patricia calls Rashaan Melvin a natural fit for his scheme. He knows first hand, having had Melvin in 2015 when Patricia was the Patriots’ defensive coordinator. It’s the reason the Lions signed Melvin in free agency after releasing Nevin Lawson. “I’m a long...