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The Bears have found another pass rusher. After missing out on Matthew Judon, Chicago has agreed to acquire linebacker Darrell Taylor from Seattle for a 2025 sixth-round pick, NFL Media’s Tom Pelissero reports. Taylor, 27, was a second-round pick in 2020 but did not play that season due to an offseason surgery. He’s since recorded 21.5 sacks in 49 games …

49ers receiver Ricky Pearsall hasn’t been practicing, due to a shoulder injury. It’s apparently a condition about which the 49ers were aware, and that they hoped wouldn’t become a problem. It has. Mike Silver of the San Francisco Chronicle addressed the issue during his recent appearance on KNBR. “The other component of that is Pearsall, who looked amazing the like …

49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan is optimistic that first-round rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall will play in the Week One opener against the Jets on Monday Night Football. Asked after Friday’s preseason finale whether Pearsall can go in Week One, Shanahan indicated that Pearsall’s shoulder injury is getting better and he is trending toward being cleared to play. “I hope …

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Linebacker Andrew Dowell is back with the Saints. Dowell appeared in 34 games for the team between 2020 and 2022, but tore his ACL last summer. He spent the year on injured reserve and the Saints announced his signing to the 90-man roster on Friday. They also signed defensive tackle Camron Peterson. Defensive back Kaleb Ford-Dement and defensive end Trajan …

Colts head coach Shane Steichen said recently that Jelani Woods would miss time with a toe injury and it looks like it will be another extended absence from the lineup for the tight end. According to multiple reports, Woods had surgery on his toe this week. The prognosis is for a four-month recovery, so Woods will be back at the …

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany, have donated $5 million to Texas Tech. His departure from Texas Tech might have been delayed if he’d been able to make, say, $5 million in NIL money while in college. In a recent NFL.com Q&A, Mahomes acknowledged that he might have delayed his arrival to the NFL, if he could have …

The Rams are going to be without their starting left tackle for the first two weeks of the regular season. The NFL announced that Alaric Jackson has been suspended for the first two games of the year. Jackson’s suspension comes under the Personal Conduct Policy, but the nature of the violation is not clear. Jackson started 15 games for the …

Cardinals wide receiver Zay Jones has been suspended for the first five games of the regular season. The NFL suspended Jones for violating the NFL personal conduct policy following an accusation that he abused the mother of his child, injuring her neck. Jones was arrested in November but prosecutors chose not to pursue the case in March. The 29-year-old Jones …

After finishing their final preseason matchup on Thursday night, the Bengals have begun reducing their roster to 53 players — including letting go of one of their top picks from just a few years ago. Cincinnati has waived offensive lineman Jackson Carman, a second-round pick in 2021. Carman, 24, appeared in 17 games with six starts as a rookie. But …

What we learned as Purdy, 49ers stars gel in preseason tie vs. Raiders originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area LAS VEGAS — Although there was no word of a resolution in the whole Brandon Aiyuk saga, the optics certainly suggested he still is very much a member of the 49ers. Aiyuk, taking part in a “hold-in” until he has …

TJ Lateef, Orange Lutheran’s talented senior quarterback who was slowed last season by a shoulder injury, apparently thought he was Superman on Friday night as he went airborne trying to hurdle Wesley Ace Jr. of Gardena Serra in the first half. Lateef made it but officials gave him a 15-yard penalty (you can’t try to hurdle defenders in high school …

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Zay Jones will miss the start of the season after receiving a five-game suspension, the NFL announced Friday. Jones was arrested last November with a misdemeanor domestic battery charge. The charge was later dropped. The NFL ran its own investigation and found that Jones violated the NFL’s personal conduct policy. As a result, Jones will miss …

Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford is 36 years old and entering his 16th season. It doesn’t seem that long ago that he was asking Brett Favre for advice. Now, he’s the mentor, with Caleb Williams and C.J. Stroud among those looking up to him. “It’s humbling,” Stafford said, via Stu Jackson of the team website. “I remember being in their shoes …

Both sides in the Los Angeles Chargers-Dallas Cowboys preseason finale set for Saturday in Texas have gone through quite an ordeal to wrap up their respective preseasons.  On Monday, a Cowboys’ player’s hotel room caught fire out at training camp in Oxnard, CA. On Friday evening around 7:30 p.m. CT, several Chargers players and personnel were trapped in an elevator …