Welcome to today’s roundup of New Orleans Saints and NFL news.

What is Kool-Aid McKinstry’s ceiling?

The 3rd year CB is cementing himself as one of the best on the Saints secondary

The Saints got surprising production at edge rusher last year. Can it be repeated?

Several seasoned veterans and some new names should beef up production with the pass rush

New NFL Rumors on Roger Goodell’s New Contract Ahead of Expiration Date

The commissioner is here to stay

The New England Patriots entered this year’s free agency with 14 of their players in need of a new contract. Initially, only two of them — QB Tommy DeVito, TE/FB Jack Westover — were retained. Earlier this week, a third joined the mix: Isaiah Iton, who had remained on the open market since March, was re-signed to effectively take the place of fellow defensive tackle Travis Shaw.

For Iton, this will present an opportunity to pick up where he left off.

Hard facts

Name: Isaiah Iton

Position: Defensive tackle/Interior defensive line

Jersey number: 62

Opening day age: 25 (8/23/2001)...

Coming off a berth in Super Bowl LX, the New England Patriots are in the process of retooling their roster. They made some moves in free agency to improve the foundation, and added some youth in the NFL Draft and rookie free agency.

In order not to get lost amid all the movement, here is our handy up-to-date Patriots roster and depth chart.

Patriots updated roster: 91 players

*denotes unsigned draft pick | ^denotes roster exemption | °denotes active/PUP/NFI designation

Quarterback (3): Drake Maye (10), Tommy DeVito (16), Behren Morton (15)

Running back (6): Rhamondre Stevenson (38), TreVeyon Henderson...

Bengals Training Camp is a week away from getting underway on the Kettering Health Practice Fields behind Paycor Stadium. Storylines abound, and there are many questions going into camp and about the Bengals’ 2026 season.

For the second straight season, the Voice of the Bengals, Dan Hoard, released an episode of the Bengals Booth Podcast where he asked five identical questions to seven Bengals beat writers as we get ready for the grind of Training Camp.

Richard Skinner (retired Local12 columnist), James Rapien (host of First Word on The Crown, host of Enter the Jungle on Cincinnati Bengals Talk, publisher/writer...

Tight end is a bit of a notorious position for the Bengals. The team loves Drew Sample, but he has obvious limitations. Anytime you mention Mike Gesicki’s name, someone is bound to call him a wide receiver.

Then there is Erick All, the 2024 draft pick who can do it all, except notably stay healthy.

Jack Endries fits into a similar mold.

He’s not as strong of a blocker as All, but he can get the job done, and he is a definite threat in the passing game.

If All can stay healthy, this young duo could be a heck...

Wow, it has been that long already, huh? The Dallas Cowboys in 2026 are heading into their 20th year of training camp in Oxnard, California.

As we all know, camp starts next week, but until then it continues to be slow in terms of topics and what we can write about with no drama from Jerry Jones or the front office, but I would much rather have it this way.

With that said, I wanted to drop MY personal top 20 players as the team heads into camp next week. Remember this is my list, you can agree to disagree,...

There is a belief that the Pittsburgh Steelers downgraded at wide receiver.

The Pittsburgh Steelers finally acquired a No. 2 wide receiver this offseason, trading the Indianapolis Colts for veteran Michael Pittman Jr. However, there seems to be a belief that they could have had a much better wide receiver duo.

Sports Illustrated recently ranked Pittman as the ninth-best wide receiver in the NFL, behind former Steelers wide receiver George Pickens, who came in at the top of the list at No. 1.

Pickens has certainly brought some baggage to wherever he has played throughout the start to his professional...

Player: ILB Carson Bruener Stock Value: Up Reasoning: Second-year ILB Carson Bruener has a chance to make his way up the depth chart this season, even on defense. While he may be the frontrunner for special teams captain, could he make Malik Harrison expendable? With the latter making nearly $5 million, the budget-conscious front office may […]

The NFL does a great job of making news year-round. Back in the day, the season ended by Christmas, the owner’s meeting was a few weeks later in mid-January, the draft commenced in April, and training camp kicked off in July.

But now? Something is going on every single month. That is well-planned out.

ELATED: GARRETT WILLIAMS AMONG LEAGUE BEST

The Super Bowl is in February. Free agency begins in March, while the draft is held in April. May is the schedule release, while June is OTAs and players having over a month of time off before camp begins.

Usually,...

Here at Cat Scratch Reader we have counted down the final 100 days leading up to the Carolina Panthers season opener by for at least the past ten years. We’ve always done this by highlighting the current player on the roster whose jersey number matches the day on the countdown. This year, we decided to change that up a bit by counting down our own list of the Top 100 Panthers of all time. This does not correspond to jersey number, does not need to be somebody who wore a jersey, and will in no way be controversial.

#53. Todd...

Good morning Gang Green Nation! Sometimes you read something and do a doubletake. Enzo Flojo’s article down below had that effect on me. He writes about two Jets in danger of being cut: Jeremy Ruckert and Bailey Zappe. Ruckert would be surprising, but that isn’t my issue.

Bailey Zappe certainly could find himself on the outside looking in. Cade Klubnik might beat him out for the QB2 role and the Jets could decide to carry only two quarterbacks. The Jets might also bring in another, better quarterback than Zappe or Klubnik to take over as QB2. But those aren’t the...

July is top 100 season in the NFL as everyone tries to kill the days until training camp and the start of the new season. Unfortunately, the official top 100 list from the league is not good. We’re not trying to hate; it’s just a well-accepted fact at this point in time.

For five years, we’ve been trying to do better. The time has come for the 2026 version of our NFL Trade Rumors Top 100 Players. Instead of using player polls, we aim to better reflect reality with traditional and advanced statistical analysis, evaluations from league personnel, positional value,...