Archives for May 2022

The NFL announced the hiring of 10 new on-field officials on Tuesday and the group includes former NFL linebacker Mike Morton. Morton, who has been hired as an umpire, was a Raiders fourth-round pick in 1995 and spent four years with the team before making stops with the Rams, Packers, and Colts. Morton won a [more] … [Read more...] about Former NFL LB Mike Morton one of 10 new on-field officials

When the offseason started, it looked like Matt Ryan was poised to stay the Falcons quarterback for at least 2022 — if not longer. But then Atlanta elected to pursue Deshaun Watson. That changed things for Ryan with the organization, as he detailed on the most recent episode of the Ryen Russillo podcast. While things [more] … [Read more...] about Matt Ryan: If Falcons hadn’t pursued Deshaun Watson, “pretty good chance” I’d still be there

The USFL played a pair of games on Saturday, the third day of the NFL draft. Both were broadcast on the main Fox network. And both did pretty well in the ratings. The late-afternoon Bandits-Gamblers game, which went up against the draft directly, generated an average audience of 825,000 viewers, via the Sports TV Ratings [more] … [Read more...] about USFL televised two games on the third day of the draft, and they both performed well in the ratings

Washington signed wide receiver Curtis Samuel to a three-year, $34.5 million contract last season, and his first season was an injury-plagued disappointment in which he managed just six catches for 27 yards. Samuel says that’s not going to happen again. The groin injury that limited Samuel to five games last year is now healed, and [more] … [Read more...] about Curtis Samuel has big goals for second year in Washington after injury-plagued first year