With the Saints bounty case moving to grievance hearings and court, NFL owners will talk about player safety when they meet on Tuesday. The issue is on the agenda for the owners’ session in Atlanta, where Commissioner Roger Goodell is certain to be asked about Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma’s defamation lawsuit against him. Meanwhile, Goodell’s [...]

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Junior Seau‘s suicide is troubling NFL players. No one knows precisely why the 43-year-old Seau shot himself in the chest at his oceanfront home May 2, less than 2½ years after the end of his Pro Bowl career as a linebacker. What is clear — and cause for concern among other players — is that [...]

The Huddle will be grading each NFL team’s offseason based on roster maneuvers, coaching changes, current events and so forth. Today’s look is at the AFC West with the AFC South on deck for Wednesday. MORE GRADES:  NFC East | NFC North | NFC South | NFC West Denver Broncos (B+): You’d think signing the [...]

ATLANTA (AP) — The NFL has made thigh and knee pads mandatory equipment for the 2013 season, something the players’ union could oppose because the move was not collectively bargained. Atlanta Falcons president Rich McKay, chairman of the competition committee, says Tuesday at an owners meeting that because this is a playing rule, the league [...]

Go to John E. Hoover’s blog In a room full of football legends, a room already alive with laughter and one-liners and boisterous back-slapping and fist-bumping, Eric Dickerson glides in and lights up the place. Dickerson and dozens of other former players visited patients at the Saint Francis Hospital Children’s Center on Sunday, and on [...]

<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 8–> Thirty-five states currently require youth sports organizations to have concussion-awareness guidelines. Players’ safety on owners’ agenda With a dispute under way over the player suspensions handed out in the Saints’ bounty case, NFL owners will meet in Atlanta today. The New Orleans situation is certain to get some attention at the [...]

New NFL Players Association president Domonique Foxworth sent a letter on Monday to NFL players and agents addressing the criticism levied at the union for the results it achieved following last year’s lockout. Foxworth attached a four-page analysis from union outside counsel Jeffrey Kessler, with charts and graphs added to illustrate increases in cash payouts [...]

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Peyton Manning was on target, and there was plenty of zip on his throws at the Denver Broncos’ first organized team workout Monday. Manning ran the offensive practice, lining up receivers, running backs and even fellow quarterbacks during the workout, which marked the first time the media had witnessed Manning throwing the [...]

Winslow had 75 receptions for 763 yards and two TDs in 2011.   Manning on target The Denver Broncos got their first look of Peyton Manning under center with a spirited, fast-paced workout, the four-time MVP’s first full practice in more than 16 months. “Man, it feels good to know he’s going to be on [...]