The Daily Briefing

AROUND THE NFL Mike Florio on the known and unknown of the schedule and its release date: Now that the NFL draft has come and gone, there’s one key date left on the league’s offseason schedule. Even if we don’t know what that date will be. The schedule release is coming. In May. When in May, we…

AROUND THE NFL NFC EAST  PHILADELPHIAThe Eagles exercise a pair of fifth year options.  Charean Williams of ProFootballTalk.com: The Eagles are exercising the fifth-year options on the contracts of defensive tackle Jalen Carter and edge rusher Nolan Smith, the team announced. Carter’s will pay him around $27 million for 2027 and Smith’s is worth around $13.7 million for…

AROUND THE NFL When you take players the collective does not approve of, you get bad draft grades and in 2026 those teams were San Francisco and Jacksonville.  The consensus also says the New York teams took advantage of having lots of early picks.   We have Mel Kiper, Jr.’s grades for all 32 teams below and…

AROUND THE NFL Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com with a good recap of what went on in Thursday’s first round: Half of the picks in the first round of the 2026 NFL draft changed hands before the selection was made. Of the 32 picks, 16 of them were traded, resulting in eight teams having no first-round pick, six teams…

AROUND THE NFL As we head to the draft tonight, this from Jay Glazer, who may have trained with his source: NFL_DovKleimanFireworks: NFL insider Jay Glazer says a source told him something extremely “juicy” will happen on draft night in the first round. “I know something is happening, I just can’t say it yet. I was told…

AROUND THE NFL A draft note about the Steelers-Ravens rivalry.  Michael David Smith ofProFootballTalk.com: Steelers owner Art Rooney II persuaded the NFL to move Ravens fans behind Steelers fans at the 2026 NFL draft in Pittsburgh. Rooney said on WDVE that when he saw the initial layout for where each of the 32 teams’ fans would be…

AROUND THE NFL The NFL has tightened up the timing of the first round, even though they often wait a few minutes to actually announce the selection.  Some GMs are feeling rushed.  Michael David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com: The NFL changed the rules for this year’s draft, limiting teams to eight minutes between first-round picks. Some NFL general…

AROUND THE NFL Somehow a fatal accident involving draft prospect DL RUEBEN BAIN, Jr. of the U. of Miami flew under the radar until this reporting by The Athletic: University of Miami defensive lineman Rueben Bain Jr. was the driver during a traffic collision in the early hours of March 17, 2024, that resulted in one of…

AROUND THE NFL A panel seemed to say that NFL owners did not collude on quarterback contracts.  Mike Florio tries to explain. In two different rulings issued less than 15 months apart, the internal grievance system created by the NFL and the NFL Players Association found that, essentially, the NFL invited its teams to collude on…

AROUND THE NFL Jordan Rodrigue of The Athletic on how players and teams are both finding advantage to deals of three years and shorter: A quiet trend that has continued for a few years drew additional interest this offseason: three-year deals for players. The Athletic’s Daniel Popper noted a slight uptick in three-year deals among his top-150 free…