NFL’s quarterback chaos got a little more clear with start of scouting combine
NY Post
INDIANAPOLIS — If this, then that. If that, then this. If this and that, then what?
The NFL free agent quarterback picture crystallized ever so slightly Tuesday — if you believe that head coaches and general managers weren’t selling smokescreens at the scouting combine — but that only removed a few seats and drove up competition for others in the inevitable game of musical chairs that will start March 10.
Which starting-caliber quarterbacks will be available? Which teams will be shopping hungry?
The Steelers “ideally would like to keep one of” Justin Fields or Russell Wilson, and have had conversations with representatives for both free agents. But neither has re-signed yet and both could want to find out their market price.
“Until that happens,” general manager Omar Khan said, “all options are on the table.”
The Vikings still are considering placing a franchise tag on Sam Darnold, who is the only free agent quarterback expected to command in the neighborhood of $40 million per year on his new deal, league sources believe. But, with 2024 first-round pick J.J. McCarthy ready to participate in the offseason program after missing all last season due to injury, Darnold could become expendable.
INDIANAPOLIS — The only way that the Jets could’ve fared better than drafting Sauce Gardner and Garrett Wilson in 2022 is if it only cost one top 10 pick to secure two foundational cornerstones.
The Knicks will get three more chances in April to be more competitive against the two teams above them in the Eastern Conference standings.
INDIANAPOLIS — The Jets have left Mr. Rodgers’ Neighborhood. Now, their search for a new identity begins.
Chris Kreider may end up missing more than just Sunday’s game in Pittsburgh with his upper-body injury, as the Rangers recalled Brennan Othmann on Monday from their AHL Hartford affiliate in advance of Tuesday’s game against the Islanders.
PORT ST. LUCIE — This is how a Swiftie sounds about their favorite pop singer. How an art aficionado might feel seeing the Mona Lisa for the first time at The Louvre. That moment when all the Wright Brothers theories were rewarded with flight.
Matthew Stafford wants to be paid an arm and a leg this offseason.
The Tush Push is under the microscope again.
TAMPA — Now playing at third base for the Yankees: Wishful thinking.
The NFL will take a look at a number of kickoff rule changes this offseason after the league was happy with the way the new kickoff rule worked in its first season in 2024.
PITTSBURGH — The cliché “a win is a win” almost always applies, but it doesn’t feel right for the Rangers.
There have been times this year that the Knicks have grown a little salty when asked about their performances against the NBA elite teams; they always want to remind you that the 37 games they have won count in the standings every bit as much as the 20 they’ve lost.
The Super Bowl ring Plaxico Burress won as a member of the Giants’ 2007 squad that toppled the then-undefeated Patriots in Super Bowl XLII was auctioned off on Sunday for a whopping $280,600 by Heritage Auctions.
Nyet just yet on that contract extension.