- Days after firing off knee-jerk tweets that sparked controversy, Rashard Mendenhall has been dropped as an endorser for Champion. Not gonna lie, I’m starting to feel bad for the guy. Social media can be quite dangerous. (Ron Cook of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a good take.)
- Drew Rosenhaus thinks Carson Palmer will be dealt for a first-round pick when the lockout ends. My guess: second round.
- Let’s slow down on this talk that Matt Hasselbeck is done in Seattle.
- An interesting debate from Buffalo Rumblings: Who should be next on the Bills’ Wall of Fame?
- You’re never going to guess who’s going to be teaching Colin Kaepernick the San Francisco offence. Clues: He’s still the Stanford quarterback and Niners fans would much prefer to have him on their team.
- Bob Raissman of the NY Daily News is rightly pissed about the way in which NFL Network treated Bob Papa during the process in which Papa ended up getting canned.
- It’s no secret that character concerns related to drinking and drugs have plagued new Patriots quarterback Ryan Mallett, which is why it makes perfect sense that John Daly is taking Mallett under his wing. Wait, what?
- Hines Ward explains his handcuffing incident. Here’s the background.
- In a compelling and rich look at the Falcons’ 2011 depth chart, D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has already added potential free agent defensive end Ray Edwards, who is unhappy in Minnesota.
- Apparently, signs point to Tiki Barber landing with the Steelers or Bucs, even though I’m pretty sure I’ve seen denials on that front from both sides. Oh, here’s the first, and here’s the second.
- An early short list for Nnamdi Asomugha.
