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From 2004 to 2010, Washington had the largest seating capacity in the NFL, with more than 91,000 seats at FedEx Field. Just as the team has struggled on the field and alienated fans with off-field controversy, FedEx Field renovations have consistently reduced the number of seats, as the team couldn't fill the stadium. And at present the team is planning a new stadium that would be smaller even so.
The Commanders are currently proposing a new stadium in Virginia that would take just 55,000 seats, making it the smallest in the NFL, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Although naught is finalized with the team's new stadium, Commanders President Jason Wright acknowledged that the Commanders are probable to terminate upwards playing in the smallest stadium in the league.
"We are much more likely to build the smallest venue in the NFL than the largest," he told the Virginia Mercury.
A 55,000-seat stadium would be too small to host a Super Bowl and some of the other major events that NFL stadiums attract, but Washington sounds assail going in the opposite direction after in one case leading the league in attendance.
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The contest to buy the Broncos is hearing upwards.
Mike Klis of 9News.com reports that the second circular of bids for the Broncos are due past Monday, June 6.
Four groups are expected to brand bids by the deadline: (1) the Rob Walton grouping, including Greg Penner; (2) the Josh Harris grouping, which includes Magic Johnson; (two) a group led by Jose Feliciano, with Behdad Eghbali and Todd Boehly; and (4) Mat Ishbia, with his blood brother Justin.
Klis notes that media mogul Bryon Allen is considered to be a long shot at this point.
PFT consistently has heard that the final toll is expected to exceed $5 billion.
The Broncos hope to have the transaction finalized by the start of the 2022 regular flavour.
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Bengals receiver Ja'Marr Chase wrote his rookie goals on his mirror, so they would stare him in the confront every day. He won offensive rookie of the twelvemonth honors with 81 receptions, an NFL-rookie record i,455 yards and 13 touchdowns.
He already has ii goals written on his mirror for this flavour.
"I'm not going to say what they are, simply I don't recall they're hard," Chase said, via Jay Morrison of TheAthletic.com. "They're a fiddling more last year, similar catches and yards. I've however got to discover my touchdown minimum.
"I'll requite y'all the list peradventure before preparation camp."
Few standout rookie receivers have improved their numbers their second season, but Hunt's quondam college teammate, Justin Jefferson, did. The Vikings receiver had 20 more catches, 216 more yards and three more than touchdowns last season than he did in his rookie season of 2020.
Chase expects to do the same.
"Last twelvemonth I was just out there running routes, having fun again," Chase said. "Now I've got all the small details down, like learning how to set people upwardly earlier the next road. And I experience more comfortable with the law-breaking. Maybe I can move around a niggling more when we come across different things on film. I feel like all of that's going to make me a lot improve this year."
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When the Broncos added backup quarterback Josh Johnson, it made defensive back Kareem Jackson the 2nd-oldest player on the team'southward roster. Johnson is 36. Jackson is 34.
Jackson heads into his 13th season with no thoughts of it being his last.
"Equally long as my torso allows me to,'' Jackson said, via Mike Klis of 9News. "I feel pretty skilful right now. With that comes a lot of me doing stuff on my own, outside of the facility, fifty-fifty hither. Information technology takes a little while to kind of get going, simply I feel actually good. So I'thou going to go until my trunk tells me information technology's time to hang 'em up."
Jackson, the 20th overall selection in 2010, started 8 seasons every bit a cornerback for the Texans. He played corner and safety in his ninth season in Houston so switched to safety full fourth dimension in 2019 for the Broncos.
"I dearest me some Kareem,'' Broncos coach Nathaniel Hackett, 42, said. "I love his intensity and competitiveness. That'south something that shows upwards every day. This is a guy, heck, he may be as old as me.''
Jackson started 15 games last season and fabricated 88 tackles, an interception and ii laissez passer breakups.
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Chiefs linebacker Leo Chenal posted a photo on social media of him signing his four-year rookie deal.
His signing leaves only second-round receiver Skyy Moore and fourth-circular cornerback Joshua Williams unsigned. The team previously signed seven other draft picks.
Kansas City made Chenal a third-round draft pick. He is expected to footstep in at strongside linebacker, joining Willie Gay Jr. and Nick Bolton in the starting lineup at the position.
In 25 games at Wisconsin, Chenal made 178 tackles, 25.5 tackles for loss, 11 sacks, an interception and 3 forced fumbles.
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DeMarcus Lawrence had 35 sacks, 49 quarterback hits and 29 tackles for loss combined in his Pro Basin seasons of 2017 and 2018. In 39 games since, he has a full of 14.5 sacks, 33 quarterback hits, 26 tackles for loss and no Pro Bowls.
Lawrence, 30, has led the squad in sacks merely one time the past three seasons. Micah Parsons had 13 as a rookie last flavor when Lawrence played but vii games because of a cleaved foot.
"Go the sack leader again," Lawrence said of his goals, via David Moore of the Dallas Morn News. "I let a rookie show me upward terminal yr. . . . Shoutout to my boy, Micah, but recapitulate my dominance. Permit everybody know that I'm coming, how I experience, and the type of respect I'1000 going to need when I stride on that field."
For the first time in five years, Lawrence is fully participating in the offseason plan instead of rehabbing. He expects that to help him in 2022.
"Yeah, I experience like I'k in improve shape," Lawrence said. "I feel like this offseason has been i of the most serious ones for me, just all well-nigh beingness healthy and taking intendance of the body and doing rigorous trainings and stuff and different workouts."
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On Tuesday, a 23rd woman filed a lawsuit confronting Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson. On Tuesday dark, lawyer Rusty Hardin issued a statement that aggressively challenges the validity of the new merits.
"Deshaun Watson vehemently denies the allegations, simply as he has since she first discussed them with members of our firm in March of last twelvemonth," Hardin said. "She repeated the allegations on social media in August and he denied them so. The only thing new about her contentions is the embellishment making them more extreme than prior versions. Deshaun's denial remains the same."
The 23rd plaintiff plainly contends that two of Hardin'due south colleagues tried to talk her out of making claims against Watson. (Nosotros take not still seen the new complaint.)
"The two highly respected lawyers from our house, Letitia Quinones and Rachel Lewis, also vehemently deny there was any compulsion or intimidation involved in the very cordial meeting at Vic and Anthony's," Hardin said. "They met her to see if she was one of Mr. Buzbee's and then still bearding plaintiffs. At that time Mr. Buzbee refused to place his clients. The suggestion that either of these two accomplished lawyers would have said 'us blackness women must stick together' is cool. The interview was and so congenial, she joined the lawyers for dinner after."
The new plaintiff, like the other 22, is represented past Tony Buzbee. Hardin's team has tried to make Buzbee the focal point of their attack, accusing him of pushing these cases to raise his social-media following and to score interviews on shows like Existent Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
"We are enlightened that more a year ago she had other lawyers representing her and they ultimately terminated the representation," Hardin said. "This plaintiff has long had a vendetta against Deshaun since she jealously and angrily published Deshaun'southward personal data on social media in November 2020. In filing her lawsuit at present she was evidently not influenced by recent developments. We are not surprised Mr. Buzbee was willing to say just about anything to go more than publicity. He knows the NFL continues to investigate these cases, and this is a transparent try to further punish the man he sees equally a potential payday."
Watson consistently has denied the accusations made by those who are suing him. Regardless, there are now 23 different women suing him. Barring settlement or dismissal, there volition be 23 trials, eventually. The fact that the 23rd suit has been filed now near guarantees that this legal odyssey will last through 2023 and likely into 2024.
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The Vikings accept agreed to terms costless agent receiver Albert Wilson on a 1-twelvemonth contract, according to his agent, Drew Rosenhaus.
Wilson and Dede Westbrook worked out for the team Tuesday.
Wilson, 29, spent the by three seasons with the Dolphins. He played 14 games last flavour, seeing activity on 361 offensive snaps (38 percent of the squad's snaps for the season).
He caught 25 passes for 213 yards in 2021.
Wilson spent his kickoff four seasons with the Chiefs before landing in Miami. In his career, Wilson has 218 receptions for two,499 yards and 12 touchdowns.
He joins Justin Jefferson, Adam Thielen, Grand.J. Osborn, Bisi Johnson, Ihmir Smith-Marsette, Dan Chisena, Trishton Jackson, Myron Mitchell, Thomas Hennigan, Jalen Nailor and Blake Proehl in the Vikings' receivers room.
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Alabama coach Nick Saban may be on the wrong side of lxx, but he can backpedal like an All-Pro defensive back.
In a session with reporters on Tuesday, Saban was asked about the contempo brouhaha betwixt him and Texas A&Thousand motorbus Jimbo Fisher regarding the name, image, and likeness dynamic.
It started fewer than two weeks ago, when Saban said that Texas A&Chiliad "bought" its entire recruiting class. Fisher angrily responded, essentially accusing Saban of chronic cheating and inviting reporters to dig into Saban'southward background.
"I didn't really say that everyone did anything incorrect," Saban said Tuesday, via SI.com. "I've said everything I'thousand going to say near this. I should have never mentioned whatever private institutions, as I've said earlier."
Saban repeatedly insisted on Tuesday that he accused no 1 of wrongdoing. However, it remains a violation for programs to exist directly involved in arranging Naught payments, or to make payments directly to players. By proverb Texas A&Thou "bought" its recruiting form, a reasonable person hands could conclude that Saban was defendant Texas A&1000 and Fisher of crossing the line.
Amazingly, Saban doesn't seem to recollect Fisher crossed the line in the things he said virtually Saban. He said Tuesday that he "has no trouble with Jimbo at all."
Either Saban has far thicker skin than he's e'er before displayed, or he's lying. Possibly, he doesn't want to appoint Fisher on the issue of whatever it is he's accusing Saban of doing in the by in order to keep the question from escalating to the betoken at which someone will accept Fisher'due south invitation to start poking around into Saban'due south by practices.
Regardless, Saban badly wants to move on. We'll encounter if Fisher is willing to do the same. Their teams meet on October 8.
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Running back Darrel Williams is headed to Arizona.
The Cardinals appear Williams' signing on Tuesday. He visited the team in April and there was discussion last week that a deal was in the works.
Williams spent the last four seasons with the Chiefs after going undrafted out of LSU in 2018. He is coming off his biggest workload as he ran the brawl 144 times for 558 yards and vi touchdowns while also catching 47 passes out of the backfield.
The Cardinals released running dorsum Jaylen Samuels in a corresponding motion. He played in iii games for the Texans final yr and 42 games over three seasons with the Steelers.
Williams joins James Conner, Eno Benjamin, and sixth-round draft pick Keaontay Ingram in Arizona's backfield.
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Expectations weren't likewise high when cornerback Rasul Douglas joined the Packers concluding flavor, only he wound upward being a very welcome addition to the defense.
Douglas was signed off the Cardinals practice team with the Packers thin at corner with Jaire Alexander out and he intercepted five passes in 12 games afterwards joining the team. He returned 2 of those picks for touchdowns and made a stiff enough impression on his new squad that the Packers re-signed him to a iii-year, $21 million deal.
"Information technology feels good, but I mean, nothing'south ever . . . you know what I'grand proverb?" Douglas said, via the team's website. "A contract means a contract, but at whatever fourth dimension, if you're non doing what you're supposed to be doing, they can let you go. Yous've merely got to go on working."
Douglas simply had 5 interceptions in his first 60 NFL games with the Eagles and Panthers, and then final year's performance was a surprising one. The Packers are banking on it being the start of a stiff run.
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Marker Rypien's former longtime partner has filed a personal injury lawsuit against the Super Bowl XXVI MVP, The Spokesman-Review reports. Danielle Wade accuses Rypien of years of physical and emotional abuse in the suit she filed in Spokane County Superior Court.
The couple previously spoke of violence in their home they believed to be a upshot of head trauma Rypien experienced while playing 4 years at Washington State and 14 seasons in the NFL. In the lawsuit, Wade alleges violence in the relationship starting equally early as 2008 and continuing until September 2020.
The lawsuit acknowledges Rypien'due south diagnosis of traumatic brain injury, merely Wade's attorney, Mary Schultz, said, "That does not requite him license to assault his wife."
Rypien's attorney released a statement in response to the allegations in the lawsuit.
"Mr. Rypien categorically and unequivocally condemns domestic violence," the statement reads. "He had a relationship with Danielle Wade that ended recently.
"During this relationship, Mr. Rypien best-selling and apologized for actions that were harmful to Ms. Wade for which he is truly sorry," the statement said. "He has total organized religion in the judicial arrangement and hopes the parties can achieve a only resolution and so that they tin motility forward living their separate lives."
Rypien, now 59, was arrested in June 2019 for suspicion of domestic violence, but a judge dismissed the charge.
Washington made Rypien a sixth-circular choice in 1986, and he played half-dozen seasons there before bouncing around the league. He spent fourth dimension with the Rams, Browns, Colts and Eagles, finishing his career later on the 2001 flavor.
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Every bit Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson and his legal team await word from the NFL as potential discipline arising from 22 lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct during massage therapy sessions, in that location's now a 23rd.
Via Sarah Barshop of ESPN.com, a new lawsuit has been filed against Watson. Per the complaint, the plaintiff "changed her heed near filing a lawsuit later watching the HBO Real Sports piece."
Information technology makes an already staggering number of claimants against Watson merely a fiddling more staggering. And it gives the NFL a new claim to evaluate as information technology decides what to do with Watson.
Meanwhile, the clock is ticking toward the question of whether the disciplinary process can be completed before the opening of training army camp or, at the latest, when Week One rolls around. With Commissioner Roger Goodell taking paid leave off the table in late March, Watson is eligible to exercise and to play until the league says otherwise.
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Earlier this month, Lovie Smith wasn't ready to say where Tytus Howard would play this season. Instead, the Texans passenger vehicle said Howard would do well at either position.
The Texans apparently accept decided where Howard volition play in 2022.
In a recent interview on The Cris Collinsworth podcast, Smith was asked about the position for 15th overall choice Kenyon Green. Smith said Green will play at left guard and Howard at right tackle.
"We'll go on Tytus and Laremy (Tunsil) out at the tackle position," Smith told Collinsworth, via Brandon Scott of Sports 610 Radio. "And yes, Kenyon will exist playing guard for us this year."
Howard started vii games at correct tackle and one at left guard every bit a rookie in 2019. He started fourteen games at correct tackle in 2020. Last season, Howard started the starting time 10 games at left guard just moved to left tackle Nov. 28 against the Jets once guard Lane Taylor recovered from offseason knee joint surgery.
Howard was amend at right tackle than left baby-sit, and that's where he volition get a chance to play this flavor.
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The Dallas County Sheriff's Office confirmed Tuesday that Cardinals cornerback Jeff Gladney and his girlfriend, Andrea Mercedes Palacios, were the two people killed in an early Monday forenoon wreck. Palacios was 26. Gladney was 25.
The sheriff'southward report, via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, indicates Gladney and Palacios were in a vehicle that was "speeding and clipped the 2d vehicle from behind" on the service road of a Dallas freeway. The speeding vehicle lost control and struck a pier axle merely before 2:xxx a.m. Monday, overturning into a grassy expanse.
Neither occupant in the 2nd vehicle was injured.
The Cardinals and Vikings released statements Monday after learning of Gladney's death.
The Cardinals signed Gladney on March 17.
"We are devastated to larn of Jeff Gladney'due south passing," the Cardinals said in their argument. "Our hearts get out to his family, friends and all who are mourning this tremendous loss."
The Vikings, who made Gladney a first-round choice in 2020, shared similar condolences.
"Nosotros are saddened by the tragic decease of one-time Viking Jeff Gladney," the team wrote on social media. "Our hearts go out to his family and friends, too as the Arizona Cardinals organization and Jeff's current and former teammates and coaches who are mourning his life lost much also soon."
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