Travis Hunter made sure to leave one more mark on the Colorado history books before he said good-bye.

The Buffs’ two-way receiver/cornerback star and second-ever Heisman Trophy winner became the highest-ever CU player taken in the NFL draft Thursday night, being selected by Jacksonville with the No. 2 pick overall.

CU hadn’t had a player ...Read more

The Giants selected Penn State edge rusher Abdul Carter with Thursday night’s No. 3 overall pick, the closest thing to a consensus elite prospect in this 2025 NFL draft.

“You can’t have enough pass rushers,” Giants GM Joe Schoen said before picking a pass rusher in the top five for the second time in his four drafts.

Carter, 21, is an ...Read more

FOXBORO, Mass. — The Patriots have a new left tackle to protect Drake Maye’s blindside … hopefully.

The Patriots selected LSU offensive tackle Will Campbell with the fourth overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft. Campbell, 21, was LSU’s starting left tackle for the last three seasons. There is some question about his ability to man that ...Read more

Defensive tackle Mason Graham, a consensus All-American and a finalist for the Outland Award and Nagurski Trophy, not surprisingly was the first former Michigan player to be selected in the NFL draft.

Graham was selected fifth overall by the Cleveland Browns on Thursday. He had been projected to be a top first-round selection by most draft ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Aireontae Ersery took a drive down southern Kansas City neighborhood streets on a recent afternoon. The nondescript houses and apartments, past due for renovation, offered the setting he specifically sought and then made a point to take in along the way.

The memories they sparked, he’s always craved them — but that’s ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The building blocks of Andy Reid’s journey to three Super Bowl championships and 301 NFL wins and, one day, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, are self-evident: an absurd work ethic, tactical brilliance and what might be called taskmastery.

The mortar of it all, though, is the sense of humor and care that go into the personal...Read more

RENTON, Wash. — It wasn’t an attempt to annoy or agitate. The question stemmed from pure curiosity.

During the Seahawks’ pre-draft news conference Monday, I asked the team’s general manager, John Schneider, if he thought there was validity to all the poor grades various websites had been giving Seattle’s offensive line.

The ...Read more

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — It’s a simple question.

What has Atlanta Falcons general manager Terry Fontenot done to merit faith in the decisions that he will make in this week’s NFL draft?

Most of his record would invite skepticism. It’s not how a Falcons fan would want to approach this highly critical event, but here we are.

The Falcons ...Read more

DETROIT — Kerby Joseph isn’t going anywhere.

The Detroit Lions on Wednesday agreed to a four-year contract extension worth $86 million with the All-Pro safety, a source confirmed to The Detroit News. The guaranteed money in the deal is not yet known.

Joseph is now the highest-paid safety NFL history, both in average annual value ($21.5 ...Read more

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers cannot have the home-run draft they need without nailing their first-round pick, scheduled to be No. 11 on Thursday.

The plan is to take a defensive lineman. An interior player is preferable, but an end will work too.

Of course, as John Lynch said Tuesday, “a draft breaks out and you never know...Read more

NEW YORK — This is Joe Schoen’s fourth NFL draft as Giants GM. And it could be his last if he doesn’t get it right.

Those are the stakes for a regime that failed so badly last season, they made the skies over MetLife Stadium look like the runway at Teterboro.

That is the pressure and desperation that guides Schoen and Brian Daboll ...Read more

Welcome to the first round of the NFL draft — and for once, everyone is invited.

Each NFL team still has its original first-round pick — no trades at the top so far — which means for the first time in the 32-team era, every franchise could be making a selection in the opening round.

But in this, the first-ever draft in Green Bay in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Already planned for an early kickoff to Week 1 in Brazil, the Chargers will get an early start to their preseason too when they face the Detroit Lions in the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio, the NFL announced Wednesday.

The game will take place July 31 at 5 p.m. PDT to open the NFL preseason. The Chargers will honor former ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — As the draft approaches Thursday, I do not understand the general indifference in Philadelphia surrounding the possibility of the Eagles trading Dallas Goedert. He is an elite tight end as both a receiver and as a blocker. There should be anger. Outrage. Incredulity.

For a team rebuilding, or a team without a proven quarterback...Read more

Part of my mock draft preamble explains it is an attempt at figuring out the best players available in this season’s draft class, and which teams they’d match up well with considering the draft order. The closer we get to draft day, the more I attempt to match what teams will actually do with their draft picks as opposed to what I believe ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Vikings have the 24th pick in the draft with which to supplement a strong roster.

What should they do?

I’m not going to throw out a bunch of names. When you pick that low in the first round, and don’t need a starting quarterback, predictions are worthless.

But there are scenarios worth exploring. Here are three:

Stay ...Read more

MIAMI — By the numbers, this week marks the 90th NFL draft, the 60th for the Miami Dolphins and my 34th annual official Miami Herald mock draft. I did not invent the mock draft — gridiron historians credit late super-nerd Joel Buchsbaum for doing that circa late-1970s and ESPN’s Mel Kiper Jr. for bringing it to the forefront — but I was ...Read more

NEW YORK — Drafting Shedeur Sanders would be the most exciting thing to happen to the Giants since …

Fill in that blank. Go ahead, do it.

Picking the son of Deion ‘Prime Time‘ Sanders, tabbing the outspoken and confident Colorado quarterback as the new face of New York’s franchise, would be the most exciting thing to happen to the ...Read more