NFL Rules Pryor Eligible For Supplemental Draft
Earlier this week, the league postponed the NFL Supplemental Draft, originally scheduled for Wednesday, August 17.
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Earlier this week, the league postponed the NFL Supplemental Draft, originally scheduled for Wednesday, August 17.
The National Football League, in conjunction with college football and the NFL Players Association, is considering a series of actions that would discipline players who are busted in college for violating NCAA rules, then skip to the pros unscathed.
With the new NFL rules stating that kickoffs are to be taken from the 35-yard line instead of the 30
The beginning of the 2011 season looms on the horizon, and for a few as-yet-drafted folks, so does the August 17 NFL supplemental draft.
Will former Detroit Lion Desmond Howard echo Sports Illustrated's Peter King prediction which tags the Lions as a dark horse to reach the Super Bowl?
The NFL is adding game-day testing for performance-enhancing substances -- but not recreational drugs -- this season under the new collective bargaining agreement.
Three biggest issues that need to be resolved before the start of the Lions' season:
The 2011 NFL supplemental draft will be held on Aug. 17, NFLDraftScout.com has learned.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith have signed the new collective bargaining agreement on a makeshift table on the steps of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
It was hot and sticky, but that is OK. Sweat poured down my face and into my eyes, temporarily blinding me. But I did not mind.
After a brief scare Wednesday, when it appeared that the new collective bargaining agreement wouldn't be ratified on time, CBSSports.com's Mike Freeman reports that the players ratified the agreement with the owners as planned Thursday afternoon, which (theoretically) guarantees labor peace for the next decade.
The NFL's owners and players finalized the remaining details of the collective bargaining agreement late Wednesday night, clearing the way -- finally -- to a decade-long labor peace while simultaneously doing something unprecedented in recent NFL history.
Football's been back for more than a week now. Well, kind of -- there's still the whole pesky notion of an actual CBA getting ratified in time for the beginning of the league year on Thursday, August 4.
Washington Redskins cornerback Phillip Buchanon will be suspended for the first four games of the regular season, coach Mike Shanahan said Tuesday.
There were many concerns surrounding Auburn DT Nick Fairley leading up to the 2011 NFL Draft. In fact, such concerns are precisely why he fell to the Lions at No. 13 overall.
Free agent WR Braylon Edwards won't be going to jail after all.
Who will the Lions pick up in free agency?
Now it can be said with certainty: Get ready for some football!
The players and owners have agreed to a 10 year deal, ending a four month lock out.
CBSSports.com has obtained the letter sent to player-agents by the NFLPA that lays out the schedule for the next few days.
The NFLPA Board of Directors has voted to recommend a settlement to the plaintiffs in Brady, et al v. NFL.
How did people celebrate the NFL lockout ending?
So much for what NFL actually reported earlier -- the NFL Network is now reporting that training camps will not open until Friday at the earliest.
Legal teams for NFL owners and players negotiated through the weekend and deep into Monday morning, wrapping up at 3 a.m. with an agreement on basic terms.
