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Getty Images Super Bowl LIV is in the books and that means that the teams trying to supplant the Chiefs as champions can resume shaping their roster. Teams can resume cutting players, signing free agents and claiming players off of waivers on Monday. Trades will have to wait for the start of...

Getty Images The Bengals are poised to use the first pick in the 2020 NFL Draft on a quarterback. And the last one they used the top pick on had a warning for Joe Burrow. Former Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer, the first pick in the 2003 NFL Draft, didn’t have kind things to say about the...

Getty Images Carson Palmer had some words of warning for Joe Burrow. Now, his brother is going to have a chance to work with the presumed top pick in the 2020 NFL Draft. According to Albert Breer of SI.com, the LSU quarterback is going to do his pre-draft training with Jordan Palmer. Jordan...

Getty Images The plot thickens. Yesterday, former Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer said the Bengals aren’t serious about trying to win Super Bowls. Today, word arrived that his brother Jordan Palmer would be handling the pre-draft training of presumptive top overall pick Joe Burrow. Now...

Getty Images The Browns have hired Alex Van Pelt as their offensive coordinator, Zac Jackson of TheAthletic.com reports. They also have hired Jeff Howard as defensive backs coach and defensive passing game coordinator, Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com reports. Van Pelt, 49, is leaving...

Getty Images The Bengals found themselves in need of a quarterbacks coach this week when Alex Van Pelt took the offensive coordinator job with the Browns and they filled it from within the organization. The team announced on Thursday that Dan Pitcher has been promoted from assistant...

Getty Images The father of presumptive top pick in the 2020 NFL Draft Joe Burrow has become a bit of a family spokesman. But he said in his latest interview that his son is tired of the interview circuit and the moment, and so is he. Via Dave Clark of the Cincinnati Enquirer, Jimmy Burrow...

Getty Images Some say wins aren’t a quarterback statistic. Bengals coach Zac Taylor apparently isn’t one of the some. Taylor, embarking on his second season with the Bengals, has fairly simple criteria for what he’s looking for in a quarterback. “A guy that elevates his teammates, accurate...

Getty Images Several quarterbacks have gone from having strong performances at the Senior Bowl to being drafted early in the first round and Justin Herbert might be the player following that path this season. Herbert went into the week saying he hoped to show NFL teams leadership ability that...

Getty Images The Bengals weren’t particularly good on either side of the ball during the 2019 season, which explains why they own the first overall pick in April’s draft. Assuming they keep the pick, the expectation is that they are going to use it on quarterback Joe Burrow and leave defensive...

Getty Images The Bengals seem adamant about A.J. Green being back with them next year, even though he’s a pending free agent. Which means they’re thinking strongly about using the franchise tag on him. While Green’s not pitching a fit about it, he knows it’s not ideal — or permanent. “The...

Getty Images The Dolphins made their own lives harder last season, by exceeding expectations to win five games. That means that instead of having the top pick and their choice of any quarterback, they’re in the fifth spot. For now. Via Adam Beasley of the Miami Herald, Dolphins General...

Getty Images The Bengals played the entire 2019 season without A.J. Green and he doesn’t have a contract for the 2020 season, but head coach Zac Taylor isn’t writing him out of the team’s plans. Taylor spoke to the media from the Senior Bowl on Tuesday and addressed the team’s thoughts about...

Getty Images The Lions could be sitting in the fabled catbird seat when the 2020 NFL Draft gets here, but coach Matt Patricia wasn’t ready to get into that while he’s coaching the Senior Bowl. With the Bengals having their hearts set on LSU quarterback Joe Burrow (unless they don’t), and with...

Getty Images The Bengals have been answering questions about their plans for the first overall pick of this year’s draft at the Senior Bowl this week and most people expect they’ll be taking a quarterback who will displace Andy Dalton as the team’s starter. Dalton remains under contract for...

Getty Images The Dolphins didn’t make the playoffs at 5-11. They wouldn’t have made the playoffs if they’d gone 1-15, obviously. But they would have been in position to get the guy they covet most at the top of the draft. Per a league source, the Dolphins covet LSU quarterback Joe Burrow, the...

Getty Images Quarterback Joe Burrow is not taking part in the Senior Bowl this week, which means that he won’t have an extended chance to work with the coaching staff of the team that is expected to select him with the top pick in the draft. The Bengals are coaching one of the teams this week...

Getty Images Duke Tobin, the Bengals’ director of player personnel, said ESPN’s report that Cincinnati won’t trade the No. 1 pick no matter what is “news to me.” “I don’t know that any decision has been made for what we’re going to do in April,” Tobin said Monday, via Geoff Hobson of the team...

Getty Images The compulsory Conference Championship Sunday Splash! reports included some news-about-nothing about Cincinnati’s plans for their hard-earned first overall pick in the draft. Adam Schefter of ESPN reported that the Bengals “have no intention of trading the No. 1 overall draft pick...

Getty Images The Bengals announced a couple of additions to their coaching staff on Monday, including the previously reported move to add Al Golden to Zac Taylor’s staff as their linebackers coach. In addition to Golden, the Bengals have also hired Steve Jackson as their cornerbacks coach...