8:00 AM ET Numb — that was the first word Atlanta Falcons captain and safety Ricardo Allen used to describe his emotions as he watched the video of a fellow black man, George Floyd, being killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis. Allen’s heart ached as the officer kept his knee on Floyd’s neck
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11:51 AM ET METAIRIE, La. — It seemed almost impossible after the fires that were ignited throughout the New Orleans Saints‘ roster on Wednesday that by 9 a.m. Thursday, coach Sean Payton could be tweeting the words, “This is another example of why I love OUR team. #ChangeIsComing” Payton was applauding team captain and NFL
3:20 PM ET Associated Press More than half of the 32 NFL teams will not have their coaching staffs back at their facilities Friday even though the league has approved such returns where local governments allow them. Clubs with coaches in place at their training complexes were Super Bowl champion Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland,
9:57 AM ET It might not receive the same fanfare as the throwing sessions that Tom Brady organized with his new Tampa Bay Buccaneers teammates, but Brady’s potential successor with the New England Patriots, Jarrett Stidham, has quietly done something similar in recent weeks. On a recent day in Massachusetts, Stidham and a group of
2:48 PM ET Marcel Louis-JacquesESPN Buffalo Bills rookie quarterback Jake Fromm apologized Thursday after screenshots emerged of a text conversation in which he said only “elite white people” should be able to purchase guns. The conversation, which took place in 2019 and was posted to Twitter early Thursday morning, involved Fromm and a friend discussing
5:57 PM ET Former Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Santana Dotson met George Floyd only once, but it was an interaction he never forgot and forged a bond that would never be broken. For the two would always be Yates High School football alums. Dotson, a 1987 Yates graduate, was the reigning 1992 NFL Defensive
11:29 AM ET ESPN News Services The Minnesota Vikings and Arizona Cardinals were given the day off from meetings Thursday, in recognition of George Floyd’s memorial service. The first of three services scheduled for Floyd will take place Thursday afternoon in Minneapolis. The Vikings canceled meetings to allow players in the area to attend the
6:44 PM ET New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees attracted backlash Wednesday across the sports world, including an outspoken teammate, when he reiterated his stance on how he will “never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America” during an interview with Yahoo Finance. An emotional Malcolm Jenkins, in a video
8:09 PM ET Brady HendersonESPN Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson did not want to talk about football during a video conference call with reporters Wednesday, saying, “None of that matters” compared to “life and what the black community is going through right now.” “When you think about the idea of Black Lives Matter, they do
12:50 PM ET On an Instagram post, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has pledged $1 million “to improve police training and address systematic racism through education and advocacy in our country.” It was Prescott’s first comments on social media regarding the death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer last week. “As our communities