• Maybe the guy they refer to as the Cowboy will hang around the San Francisco 49ers just a little bit longer. Veteran defensive lineman Justin Smith was poised to enter the final year of his contract but he signed a two-year extension on Tuesday that has him inked through 2015. Smith, who has b...
  • Chicago Tribune football columnist Dan Pompei, who is a contributor to the NFP with his “Sunday Blitz” feature, has been selected as the winner of the prestigious Dick McCann Memorial Award, given out annually for distinguished reporting on the game of professional football. Pompei, 51, will...
  • Dan Pompei, a Chicago Bears/NFL columnist for the Chicago Tribune, has been selected as the 2013 winner of the prestigious Dick McCann Memorial Award for distinguished reporting and will be honored during enshrinement week ceremon...
  • I was searching around the web, just looking for some content for my upcoming Injury Report, which you can listen to on Wednesdays at 10:30pm ET, 7:30pm PT (shameless plug, sorry) and came across an interesting name that sort of perplexed me a little bit: Alshon Jeffery. Why is he perplexing? He’s...
  • Bruce Arians’ offense in Indianapolis last season had plenty of success running the ball with Vick Ballard. He might be able to upgrade in personnel with his choices in Arizona and right now he’s got a familiar player at the top of the depth chart in Rashard Mendenhall, who he teamed with pr...
  • Jason Smith, the second overall pick in the 2009 draft, is in the mix for the left tackle job in New Orleans. But he’s got considerable work to do to shed the draft bust label he’s been wearing since fizzling out with the St. Louis Rams. The Saints lost left tackle Jermon Bushrod via free ag...
  • It’s easier for Steve Weatherford for take a dig at Mike Westhoff now that the longtime special teams coordinator has retired. That is what Weatherford did in a Q & A with Dave Hutchinson of the Newark Star-Ledger. The New York Giants punter, who previously worked under Westhoff with the New Y...
  • Here’s a team-by-team rundown of how the NFC North is shaping up for 2013. Chicago Bears – Very seldom does a team’s identity shift so drastically in so short a time. Gone is defensive whiz and longtime Chicago figurehead Brian Urlacher, and now running the offense is mysterious guru and alleg...
  • It almost seemed like the Chicago Bears made it a point to have a different story every day during the offseason. The team made up for their lack of postseason story lines by having an active and somewhat strange offseason.  New coaches, a retired superstar, some run-ins with the law and a surpris...
  • Each Wednesday, NFP will take a look at how one of the NFL’s eight divisions did in the offseason. Today, the AFC Central. Most improved team: Bengals In terms of incoming talent being overwhelmingly better than outgoing talent, there really is not an AFC North team that stands out. Most of ...
  • According to Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports, it doesn’t look like the Bears and Henry Melton are going to get a long-term contract done anytime soon. Usually, if a deal is going to get done in these circumstances, there has been a fairly steady dialogue between the sides, even if no one is really ...
  • Defensive tackle depth for the Chicago Bears was a concern heading towards training camp in the next five weeks.  The Bears had three legitimate defensive tackles on the roster, but lacked a true fourth defensive tackle.  Had their been any injury the Bears would have been left with Nate Collins l...
  • First, there were rumors this offseason the Minnesota Vikings could be a landing spot for former Chicago Bears middle linebacker Brian Urlacher. Now, the Vikings are at least checking out veteran Desmond Bishop, who was released Monday by the NFC North rival Green Bay Packers. Even if Bishop i...
  • How is Chicago dealing with the retirement of Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher? Stacey Dales has the latest from Soldier Field on "NFL Total Access."
  • Darren Sharper and Heath Evans react to Brian Urlacher's decision to retire after 13 seasons in the NFL.
  • In SB Nation's latest NFL mock draft, Dan Kadar has the Chicago Bears taking middle linebacker Alec Ogletree of the Georgia Bulldogs with the No. 20 overall pick, replacing Brian Urlacher. Ogletree has all the talent in ...
  • The Chicago Bears are likely seeing the departure of one of their franchise's greatest players in linebacker Brian Urlacher. The two sides have been unable to come together on a deal, and the team already signed D.J. Will...
  • Darrelle Revis went to great lengths to get No. 24. According to Paul Lukas of uniwatch.com, Revis has paid new teammate Mark Barron $50,000 to get the jersey number from him. That sounds like a pretty penny to get a number. Barron, the first-round pick by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a year ago, ...
  • The St. Louis Rams can become a free agent after the 2014 season if their stadium situation is not resolved. The St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission just forked over $2 million to cover the team’s legal fees in an arbitration case that was won by the Rams. The CVC and Rams differed on...
  • A day after three Atlanta radio hosts were fired for a skit making fun of Steve Gleason, the former New Orleans Saints safety who suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) said Tuesday he had accepted their apologies and hoped the incident would call attention to his disease.
  • Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports reports that there hasn’t been a “sense of urgency” between the Bears and DT Henry Melton regarding a long-term extension. La Canfora adds that he expected to see more progress towards an agreement given that the Bears defense is aging. Chicago managed to get...
  • Aaron Rodgers cashed in with the biggest contract in Green Bay Packers history this offseason and became the highest-paid player in the NFL and he calls the pay day “humbling.” The former MVP quarterback is facing the challenge of remaining true to who he is and admits it’s just that – a...
  • David Beckham received an invitation from an NFL team to tryout as a placekicker, the London Mirror reported.
  • Bill Callahan has not called offensive plays in the NFL for a decade but he’s excited about the opportunity to take on the assignment this season for the Dallas Cowboys. “I’m really excited. Anxious now,” Callahan said, according to the team’s Web site. “I wish we could continue work...
  • Former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson appeared Tuesday on "Good Morning America" to ask for one more chance to play football.

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