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Titans hire AJ Highsmith as director of scouting - NBC Sports

The Titans are hiring AJ Highsmith as their new director of scouting, Neil Stratton of insidetheleague.com reports.

Highsmith, the son of Patriots executive Alonzo Highsmith, will have pro and college duties in his new role.

He reunites with Titans General Manager Ran Carthon after the two previously were on staff of the 49ers.

Highsmith spent five seasons as a scout with the Bills, working his way up from area scout to national scout.

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Jaguars, city of Jacksonville agree to $1.4 billion stadium deal

The Jaguars and the city of Jacksonville have agreed to a $1.4 billion stadium deal, the Associated Press reports.

The “stadium of the future” would keep the team in the city for another 30 years.

The proposal calls for each side to contribute $625 million to the $1.25 billion project. Jacksonville won’t levy any new taxes to pay for the rebuild and has committed to another $150 million to get EverBank Stadium ready for construction in 2026.

The city will finance its portion by moving $600 million from a capital improvement plan and using revenue from an existing, half-penny sales tax.

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Chiefs-Steelers, Ravens-Texans will play on Christmas Day

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Falcons sign CB Anthony Johnson

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Chiefs sign five draft picks

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Greg Olsen lands on Fox No. 2 team with Joe Davis

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Giants sign sixth-round pick Darius Muasau

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Commanders sign Damiere Byrd

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Jaguars agree to terms with LB Ty Summers

Free agent linebacker Ty Summers has agreed to terms with the Jaguars, Chris Tomasson of the Denver Gazette reports.
Summers participated in the Broncos’ rookie minicamp last weekend and worked out with the Jaguars on Wednesday.
It is a reunion for Summers, who spent time with the Jaguars in 2022. The team claimed him off waivers that season and he had four tackles in three games with them.
The Saints signed him off of Jacksonville’s practice squad late that season, and Summers remained with New Orleans through the 2023 season.

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Jets have seven standalone games in 11 weeks and two Sunday-to-Thursday turnarounds

For the third straight year, they’ve gotten a difficult schedule. Not as it relates to opponents, which are predetermined via a formula based on rotation and prior-season results. But as it relates to the configuration of the games.

Brian Costello of the New York Post has obtained the Jets’ full schedule.

Thanks to the presence of Aaron Rodgers, the Jets have six prime-time games in 2024. They also have a standalone Sunday morning game in London.

After the Monday night opener at San Francisco, the Jets will fly home for a Sunday game. But they won’t play at home. They’ll have to travel to Tennessee for a Week 2 game against the Titans. Then, they’ll fly home for a Thursday night game against the Patriots.

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Sunday Night Football schedule kicks off with Rams visiting Lions - NBC Sports

Last season’s Wild Card game between the Rams and the Lions was a thriller and the two teams will square off again on the first Sunday night of the NFL season.
The Lions won that game 24-23 to begin a trip that ended in the NFC Championship Game and the matchup on Sunday Night Football will be an early gauge of two teams with aspirations of postseason success.
Both teams will make other appearances on Sunday night. The Lions will visit the Texans in Week 10 while the Rams will be at home against the Eagles in Week 12. The Texans and Eagles are also scheduled for multiple appearances and those four teams are joined by the Chiefs, Bills, Cowboys, Jets, and 49ers. The Cowboys are scheduled for three Sunday night games.

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Harbaugh Bowl set for Monday Night Football in Week 12

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Thirteen teams have a pair of 4-day turnarounds

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Lions scheduled for six standalone games in 2024

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ABC will have seven Monday night games this year

In all, ABC will have five games: Two simulcasts (Jets-49ers in Week 1 and Lions-49ers in Week 17) and three exclusive games as part of a staggered doubleheader.

For Week 3, ABC has Commanders-Bengals at 8:15 p.m. ET. (ESPN has Jaguars-Bills at 7:30 p.m. ET.) In Week 4, ABC has Seahawks-Lions at 8:15 p.m. ET. (The ESPN game at 7:30 p.m. ET is Titans-Dolphins.) In Week 15, ABC has Bears-Vikings at 8:00 p.m. ET, with Falcons-Raiders on ESPN at 8:30 p.m. ET.

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Giants unveil alternate uniforms to commemorate 100th anniversary

The Giants will be celebrating their 100th anniversary this season and an alternate uniform will be part of that effort.

The team unveiled that look on Thursday and it’s a big departure from what we’ve grown accustomed to teams wearing in the modern era. The “Century Red” look features red jerseys with a blue midsection underneath white numbers. There is also a special 100th season patch on the upper left.

It is a replica of the jerseys that the Giants wore in 1933, when they advanced to the first NFL Championship Game. They will also wear tan pants with red and blue striped pants that are a throwback to the team’s 1925 uniforms.

The Giants will also be wearing alternate helmets that resemble the winged helmets made famous by Michigan, but in red and blue rather than maize and blue. The team wore a similar look with leather helmets during the 1938 season.

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Lions sign TE Sean McKeon - NBC Sports

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CBS, Fox will both have doubleheaders in Week 15 - NBC Sports

Most weeks see only one of the networks holding a doubleheader with late games starting at 4:25 p.m. ET and one of them being broadcast across most of the country. In recent years, the exceptions have been in Week One and Week 18, but the 2024 schedule has the two networks hosting dueling doubleheaders in Weeks 15 and 18 instead.

“Is it better to do it later in the season when you have a better sense of where all the teams are and how to get the right teams into those windows?” executive vice president of NFL Media Hans Schroeder said, via Joe Reedy of the Associated Press. “We continue to tweak and evolve. If teams play their way on, we have a chance to look at that we wouldn’t have in Week One.”

In Week 15 this season, CBS will carry Patriots at Cardinals, Colts at Broncos and Bills at Lions at 4:25 p.m. ET. Fox will have Buccaneers at Chargers and Steelers at Eagles.

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Hall of Fame Game to air on ESPN and ABC - NBC Sports

This year’s Hall of Fame Game will air on ESPN and ABC, the league announced today.
The annual kickoff to the preseason features the Bears and Texans this year, in recognition of the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2024 featuring former Bears Devin Hester, Steve McMichael and Julius Peppers, plus former Texan Andre Johnson.
The Monday Night Football broadcasting team of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman will call the game. It will be the first time ESPN has broadcast the Hall of Fame Game, but the game aired on ABC from 1971 to 2005.

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Community benefits side agreement could be issue for Jaguars stadium renovation