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Rams, QB Bradford agree to $78M, 6 years (AP)
No. 1 overall draft pick Sam Bradford has agreed to a six-year, $78 million contract with the St. Louis Rams, with $50 million in guaranteed money. The Rams and the former Oklahoma quarterback concluded negotiations Friday night, just in time for the first full-squad workout set for Saturday. The guaranteed money is the highest ever in the NFL.
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Redskins' Haynesworth fails test again (AP)
Early Friday morning, the cones were lined up 25 yards apart on the field for Albert Haynesworth's conditioning test. He needed to complete the first part in 70 seconds or less to have a chance to pass. He clocked 71. Another failed effort. Once again, the two-time All-Pro defensive tackle was not allowed to participate in practice at Washington Redskins training camp.
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Cowboys WR Bryant to miss 4-6 weeks (AP)
Cowboys rookie receiver Dez Bryant could miss the rest of training camp after the first-round draft pick suffered a high right ankle sprain near the end of practice Friday. The team said he will be out four to six weeks. Bryant became entangled with cornerback Orlando Scandrick while trying to catch a pass that was thrown behind him on the next-to-last play of the day.
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Ravens' Foxworth to miss season with ACL (AP)
Baltimore Ravens cornerback Domonique Foxworth will miss the 2010 season with a knee injury, further weakening a secondary already depleted by injuries. Foxworth tore the ACL in his right knee Thursday during an orientation practice. "I was just running and tried to change directions, something I've done a million times in my career.
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Redskins ink No. 4 overall pick Williams (AP)
Trent Williams never got to sleep Thursday night as he waited to hear from his agent. The No. 4 overall pick in the draft had already missed one day of Washington Redskins training camp and wanted to be a holdout no longer. At 4:30 a.m. Friday, the call came. Williams would get a six-year, $60 million contract that includes $36.75 million in guaranteed money.
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Jets extend coach Ryan, GM Tannenbaum (AP)
Rex Ryan and Mike Tannenbaum will be together at least five more years, hoping to deliver the New York Jets a Super Bowl. The Jets signed the bold and brash Ryan to a two-year contract extension Friday, and gave the wheeling-and-dealing Tannenbaum a five-year extension -- keeping the coach and general manager with the franchise through the 2014 season.
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Brady: Negotiations won't be distraction (AP)
Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is known for being able to focus on his receivers in the face of oncoming rushers. This season he plans to put that single-minded approach to another use -- keeping his contract negotiations from becoming a distraction to the team. "Nobody here can solve it but myself and the team," Brady said after practice Friday morning at New England's training camp.
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Lions president suspended 30 days, fined (AP)
Detroit Lions president Tom Lewand will be suspended for 30 days and fined $100,000 for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy following his guilty plea to driving while impaired, the league announced Friday. The suspension begins Aug. 25 and Lewand will be permitted back at work Sept. 24. Lewand, who met in New York at the league office July 16 with commissioner Roger Goodell, also will do...
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WR Coles back with Jets for third time (AP)
Laveranues Coles is back with the Jets for the third time. The veteran wide receiver signed a one-year contract Friday with the team he played with in two previous stints from 2000-02 and 2005-08. The 32-year-old Coles, drafted by the Jets in 2000, spent last season with Cincinnati after leaving New York as a free agent.
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Big Ben glad to put offseason behind him (AP)
Ben Roethlisberger is understandably glad that his troubled offseason is behind him. He's about to find out if the Pittsburgh Steelers' fans are ready to forget about it, too. Roethlisberger ditched the oversized SUV he normally drives and, perhaps trying to reshape his battered image, arrived at training camp on Friday in a subcompact convertible that barely held the quarterback and...
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