Trevone Boykin, Jake Heaps, Vernon Adams offer intrigue to Seahawks' rookie minicamp - The Seattle Times Draft picks tend to be the star attractions when NFL teams hold their rookie minicamps. But when the newest Seahawks take the field at the VMAC for the team’s annual rookie minicamp Friday-Sunday, three players who weren’t drafted might end up stealing the show. That all are quarterbacks, … [Read more...]

When will rookie QBs start their first NFL games? - NFL.com Remember back in December when the 2016 NFL Draft was supposed to be a mediocre one for quarterbacks? Since then, we saw franchise-defining trades for the top two picks and the defending champs traded up for their first-round quarterback of the future. A record number of quarterbacks were taken in the draft overall and nine quarterbacks … [Read more...]

Who will start first? Ranking nine rookie QBs - NFL.com Remember back in December when the 2016 NFL Draft was supposed to be a mediocre one for quarterbacks? Since then, we saw franchise-defining trades for the top two picks and the defending champs traded up for their first-round quarterback of the future. A record number of quarterbacks were taken in the draft overall and nine quarterbacks were … [Read more...]

Who will start first? Ranking nine NFL rookie QBs - NFL.com Remember back in December when the 2016 NFL Draft was supposed to be a mediocre one for quarterbacks? Since then, we saw franchise-defining trades for the top two picks and the defending champs traded up for their first-round quarterback of the future. A record number of quarterbacks were taken in the draft overall and nine quarterbacks … [Read more...]

Who will start first? Ranking nine NFL rookie quarterbacks - NFL.com Remember back in December when the 2016 NFL Draft was supposed to be a mediocre one for quarterbacks? Since then, we saw franchise-defining trades for the top two picks and the defending champs traded up for their first-round quarterback of the future. A record number of quarterbacks were taken in the draft overall and nine … [Read more...]

Mellinger Minutes: Are the Royals good again? What's behind the Tyreek Hill pick and reaction? - Kansas City Star (blog) Here’s a true story: I started to write this part of our weekly time-suck last night, in the eighth inning, when the Royals trailed by two. “Right now, as we speak,” it began, “the Royals stink.” I wrote about how they’d lost seven of their last eight (which would’ve been … [Read more...]

The Underside of the NFL-Draft Hacking Scandal - The New Yorker Laremy Tunsil with N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell after Tunsil was picked thirteenth over all, by the Miami Dolphins, during the first round of the 2016 N.F.L. Draft, on Thursday. Credit Photograph by Jon Durr / Getty On Thursday night, a twenty-one-year-old named Laremy Tunsil was expected to be the first offensive lineman … [Read more...]

2016 AFC South NFL Betting Preview: Colts, Texans Lead Way on Odds in Offseason - Bleacher Report Michael Conroy/Associated Press No division in the NFL consists of a bigger bunch of Super Bowl long shots than the AFC South. The favorite to win this mediocre mash-up of a division is getting worse than 20-1 odds to win the Super Bowl, and the defending division champion is back at almost … [Read more...]

Meet the Patriots' 2016 NFL Draft class - The Boston Globe Comments Print Photos from Associated Press Malcolm Mitchell, Jacoby Brissett, and Cyrus Jones. Another year, another group of players added to the Patriots’ roster through the draft. The Patriots turned 11 draft picks into nine over the three-day event, adding a cornerback, two offensive lineman, a defensive lineman, two … [Read more...]

2016 NFL Draft, instant reaction: Best and most worrisome picks - NFL.com You can't make this stuff up. As if the Chicago nights weren't frigid enough during the 2016 NFL Draft, nothing was as cold as the apparent attempted social-media takedown of Laremy Tunsil on Day 1, or the freefall of arguably the most talented defensive prospect clear into Day 2, or, as one of my colleagues put it, "the … [Read more...]