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The NFL announced on Friday (got to love a Friday news dump) that the league has suspended Arizona Cardinals director of college scouting Ryan Gold indefinitely for violating the league’s gambling policy. Gold apparently gave information about 2026 draft props to a third party and also bet on NFL games in the past.
Below is the NFL’s full statement:
The NFL confirmed today that Ryan Gold, Director of College Scouting for the Arizona Cardinals, has been suspended indefinitely for violating the NFL’s Gambling Policy. This suspension is effective immediately.
The Gambling Policy, which is annually reviewed with...
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If you’re new to this series, we’re reviewing how the Green Bay Packers offense performed in 2025 by situation. We’re doing that by building out a call sheet, which I ran down in my initial post. This is the 10th article in the series, where we’re looking at the High Red Zone (plays between the 11-20 yard line).
We finished up our down & distance sections in our previous post, so now we’re truly starting to wind down this series. We’re breaking up the Red Zone into two (maybe three) sections, and we’re focusing on the High Red Zone...
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When the Green Bay Packers take the field this fall, their linebacker group will be one of the more interesting units on the roster. The team has a bona fide star on the roster, but aside from Edgerrin Cooper, the rest of the group provides far more questions than answers.
What does Zaire Franklin bring at this stage of his career, coming off his worst season as a pro? How much can the team get out of Isaiah McDuffie, a viable run-stuffer who remains a major liability in coverage? What exactly is Ty’Ron Hopper, the third-year pro who played just...
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Here’s a fun softball question for this slow news period: Who was your first favorite Green Bay Packers player? My answer is pretty basic, and I expect a decent number of you to have the same: Brett Favre.
Unlike some of you, I didn’t grow up in the state of Wisconsin. I’m an Oregonian, and we obviously don’t have a pro football team (and I don’t feel like rooting for Seattle sports when we’re rivals). The way I became a Packers fan was my dad buying me a Favre jersey to troll my grandma (his mother-in-law), who was a Denver...
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The Green Bay Packers are a little thin across the board after the first line of the depth chart, but one position where they have bodies to spare is safety, arguably the deepest position on the team. In the final defensive edition of our 2026 roster preview, we’ll touch on every safety on the team and how they’re expected to contribute this upcoming season.
If you want to read any of our previous installments, here are our breakdowns of Green Bay’s other position rooms:
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Few players on Green Bay’s roster enter 2026 under a brighter spotlight than Lukas Van Ness.
As Bill Huber of Packers On SI recently noted, the Packers’ biggest question on the edge isn’t just replacing early production while Micah Parsons recovers from a torn ACL. It’s whether Van Ness can finally become the impact pass rusher Green Bay envisioned when it made him a first-round pick.
The pressure is justified. Through three seasons, Van Ness has flashed elite traits, but hasn’t consistently translated them into production. He’s totaled just 8.5 sacks in his career, including only 1.5 last season. Needless...
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We’re getting close to the end of our roster preview series. Today, we’re going to tackle the Green Bay Packers’ cornerback room, a lightning rod for Packers fans.
If you want to read any of our previous installments before we take you through every single cornerback on Green Bay’s 91-man roster, though, here are our breakdowns of Green Bay’s other position rooms:
What more can we say about Keisean Nixon at this point? Going into Year 4 as a...
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Sigh.
There are a bunch of people who didn’t like Matthew Golden right out of college. You can find them online, but here’s one.
And in the Green Bay Packers’ section of this year’s FTN Almanac written (You should buy it, it’s great!) by Bryan Knowles, Golden is a featured player. The preview as a whole is very good and I think Knowles is “tough-but-fair,” and that FTN’s statistical projection for Green Bay makes sense. But the Matthew Golden stuff is starting to bug me partially because I don’t actually think Golden is that important to how the team’s offense...
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The Packers’ offseason renovation of their wide receiver position could be seen as a repudiation of their previous approach. For years, they’ve gone with a version of the “no number one receivers” offense, and the results have been fair to middling, diminished by injuries at the position and an at times fractured offense overall.
But what if their move toward a more focused, traditional wide receiver room is simply the result of one truth? Because the reality is, the Packers may not need a bunch of wide receivers when they’ve got a couple of really good ones. In fact, if...
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Linebacker is the weirdest position on the Packers right now.
It hasn’t quite arrived, but isn’t quite in transition either. It seems like the Packers have been trying to solve a problem there for most of a decade and haven’t quite landed on a solution. And for that matter, the answer to whatever question they’re asking has probably changed several times as they’ve transitioned from Mike Pettine to Joe Barry to Jeff Hafley and now to Jonathan Gannon.
What are they trying to achieve? What is the vision at linebacker? “To have good ones” is about all I can come...
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ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler has been running his annual top-10 series this month, where he asks executives, coaches, scouts and analysts who the best players at each position are. On Tuesday, he dropped his list of linebackers, which featured Green Bay Packer Edggerin Cooper as the 9th overall player on the list.
Here’s how the full top-10 breaks down:
According to...
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I feel like I’ve spent most of the offseason complaining about the way people have talked about the Packers’ offseason. Most NFL media seems to be fixated on the idea that the Packers had a bad offseason because they lost some players they weren’t going to use anyway, disregarding the fact that no Packers fan is sitting around shedding tears for Nate Hobbs or wondering how they’ll possibly get by without the lackadaisical services of Rashan Gary.
That’s the hazard of working as a national writer, though. There just isn’t enough time to understand the entire league. There are too...
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