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Getty Images The XFL held its eighth and final showcase for players interested in jobs with team’s during the league’s reboot in 2020 in St. Louis this weekend. The first seven combine-style workouts were attended by handfuls of former NFL players and that remained the case this weekend...

Getty Images Former NFL standout Albert Haynesworth has asked the fans for a kidney, and the fans are responding. Via the Knoxville News Sentinel, Vanderbilt University Medical Center chief communications officer John Howser said in a statement that the facility has received “hundreds of calls...

Getty Images Rob Gronkowski said he’s not sure how he’ll feel once games get underway in September, but he’s retired for now and that takes one of the most entertaining figures in recent NFL history off the board. One of Gronkowski’s former teammates thinks there’s another tight end who can...

A clip is making the rounds in the aftermath of last night’s ESPYs that, even without context, will do nothing to kill the growing belief that retired Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski is destined to emerge from retirement this year. Talking with Saints quarterback Drew Brees on the red carpet...

Getty Images Former NFL defensive lineman Richard Seymour turned in a solid showing at the World Series of Poker. Seymour was eliminated last night, but not before earning $59,295 for finishing 131st in the event. Seymour has now made $638,293 in his professional poker career. That is a far...

Getty Images Jeremy Hill expects to play this season. He just doesn’t know where. The running back remains a free agent as he rehabs from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. Hill sounds optimistic he will receive medical clearance soon. “I think for me coming off a big ACL...

Getty Images Albert Haynesworth retired after the 2011 season. He has had a couple of serious medical issues since. The two-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle announced on social media this week that he needs a kidney transplant and is seeking a donor. “Well, this is hard for me to say, but my...

Getty Images Former NFL defensive end Chris Long has been honored many times for his off-field work and he received another honor on Tuesday night. Long was named this year’s recipient of the Muhammad Ali Sports Humanitarian Award in recognition of “his commitment to giving back through...

Getty Images Richard Seymour was once among the NFL’s elite defensive linemen. Now he’s among the world’s elite poker players. Seymour is competing in the World Series of Poker and is currently in 35th place in the event, which drew 8,569 competitors. This isn’t Seymour’s first go-round in...

Getty Images After being held out of offseason practices following arthroscopic knee surgery this spring, Patriots running back Sony Michel is aiming to be ready to go for the start of training camp in two weeks. “It’s a process and it’s just something that I’m just kind of working towards,”...

Getty Images Derrick Johnson played 13 seasons in Kansas City. He never made the Super Bowl. Three times, the Chiefs lost in the divisional round of the postseason, including 2003 when they were 13-3 but lost to Indianapolis 38-31 at home in the playoffs. Johnson, though, never had Patrick...

Jimmy Garoppolo went on a media tour Tuesday, promoting Men’s Wearhouse’s annual Suit Drive, which provides gently used professional attire to those re-entering the workplace. “It allows men and women to make a good first impression,” Garoppolo said in a phone interview. “I think it applies to...

Getty Images The NFL will hold its supplemental draft on Wednesday and one of the players considered to be a likely selection spent some time with one of the league’s teams on Tuesday. Agent Brad Cicala told Tom Pelissero of NFL Media that his client Jalen Thompson visited with the Packers on...

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 Former Washington State safety Jalen Thompson worked out for 26 teams in Los Angeles on Monday, Tony Pauline of draftanalyst.com reports. The Texans sent their director of scouting. Thompson and former West Virginia receiver Marcus Simms are expected to be drafted in Wednesday’s...

Getty Images Rob Gronkowski insisted last week he is enjoying retirement and does not miss football. On Monday, he reportedly returned to football . . . at least for a day. The tight end caught passes from Tom Brady in a private workout on the UCLA campus on Monday, Andrew Callahan of...

The Patriots apparently won’t be visiting the White House this summer, but the owner of the team was in D.C. on Monday night for a dinner with the President. The event, held at the Treasury Department, honored the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani. Robert Kraft sat two spots from...

Getty Images Former Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi suffered a stroke last week and he returned to social media on Monday to give an update on how he’s feeling. Bruschi returned to Instagram with a post outlining the warning signs of a stroke while recounting his own experience last Thursday...

Getty Images Recently, NFL.com flagged Tom Brady as the greatest quarterback of all time. The defensive back who ended Brady’s 2008 season in Week One disagrees. “Y’all crazy!” Bernard Pollard said on social media, via CBSSports.com. “Peyton is #1 no doubt! Can’t go by rings. The things he did...

Getty Images With Patriots quarterback Tom Brady winning Super Bowls and running fast (for him) 40-yard dashes at age 41, it might seem that the quarterback position can be played well into a player’s 40s. But not every player ages like Brady, and it’s fair to raise questions about the NFL’s...