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[Farabaugh] Aaron Rodgers says he is retiring after this season. "Yes. This is it."
bsky.appUPDATE: One week before being ordered to serve 30 days in jail, Rashee Rice underwent a clean-up surgery on his right knee to remove loose debris that was causing inflammation and now is expected to sideline him 2 months. Per Adam Schefter.
bsky.appHere's the NCAA's response to Brendan Sorsby's lawsuit: "The NCAA has not received a reinstatement request for this case. The NCAA generally doesn't comment on pending reinstatement requests, but the Association's sports betting rules are clear, as are the reinstatement conditions. When it comes to
espn.com[Brooke Pryor] After Aaron Rodgers took first team reps, Will Howard was QB2. Mason Rudolph was QB3, and Drew Allar was QB4.
nitter.net[Rapoport] #AZCardinals QB Jacoby Brissett is not present as his team begins its first practice of voluntary OTAs. The starting QB has been staying away as he seeks a raise for 2026.
bsky.appDeeeeeeeeeep Sleeper: Mitchell Evans - possible TE1 on the Panthers?
As rookie drafts begin to settle down and people are making their way to the first waiver wire bids of the football year, I wanted to highlight someone that you can get for free and may make an impact this year.
Mitchell Evans was drafted in the fifth round last year by Carolina coming out of Notre Dame. To call the TE room crowded would be disingenuous due to the lack of real top end talent, JT Sanders was a promising rookie two years ago and Tommy Tremble is an actual NFL player. Despite his draft capital, Evans managed to carve out a role as a rookie, getting increased playing time as the season went on and Sanders' nagging injury really hampering his ability. The Panthers, like much of the league, increased their usage of 2-TE sets to try and accommodate Bryce's shortcomings and maximize the passing attack despite the lack of passing weapons.
Evans himself was a pretty solid TE prospect who himself was held back from his potential by a nagging injury, but he was still one of the most reliable targets in his final too college seasons posting over 400 yards each.
Evans isn't going to be the next Kittle or Waller, but this is the time of year where we scrape the bottom of the barrel for longshots that could increase in appeal as training camp goes by. The Panthers didn't meaningfully add to the TE room in the draft or the off-season, and their receiving group is still pretty threadbare. We more or less know what Tremble is, and JT Sanders sadly seems to have been sapped of his once-promising abilities. Evans is a complete TE who can both block and catch. It's possible he ascends to the top of the heap and be a larger factor in the passing game. If you can afford a roster spot or are looking for players to add to your watchlist, you could do a lot worse (but still much, much better lol) than Mitchell Evans.
Penix back on field throwing in Falcons' offseason program
espn.com[Duggan] Giants WR Malik Nabers underwent a 2nd surgery on his knee to remove scar tissue that was causing stiffness. I'm told the 2nd surgery took place "multiple weeks ago" and was described as "clean up." This isn't expected to impact Nabers' recovery timeline.
bsky.appBig boy trade. My Allen/CMC for a haul
Thinking about tearing it down. Other team has Herbert and Jefferson and an insane amount of draft capital the next two years.
Dolphins Place RB Le'Veon Moss On Retired List
nfltraderumors.coFantasy Football creator Flock Fantasy gets called out for stealing the idea of a fan then gets completely flamed on twitter after attempting to save face (bonus: view botting proof)
Flock Fantasy is a fantasy football analyst collective on youtube that regularly posts rankings and hosts livestreams engaging in drafts on the underdog gambling platform for the bestball format (don't worry, you don't need to know any of that to follow along lol). There are many individual creators and collectives within the fantasy space. While Flock isn't the biggest, they are certainly one of the channels that will consistently pop up from gaming the algorithm if you do any searches for player profiles or rankings.
A video was posted by user Joe 6 days ago alleging that Flock owner/figure head Mason (pictured above) had stolen and developed an idea that the two engaged in conversation with last year. Joe alleges that he approached Flock with the idea to develop a live drafting tool that uses publicly available scraped data (common in the space) to help users with draft decisions in real time (something not common within the space). Mason liked the idea but said it was too late within the league year to have the tool go live (it's not uncommmon for dynasty and bestball drafts to start in April/May despite the actual season not starting until August). Joe reached out this March to followup on the idea for it to go live for this year, but Mason advised that Flock went ahead and developed the tool without him, thus not providing a handshake deal of $5,000.
Mason than took to twitter (don't worry, this is a proxy site) to defend himself with a story that did not negate anything that Joe said. He provides screenshots thinking it would absolve him of blame, but instead gets flamed in the responses.
Joe responds with a follow up video that provides further clarification and receipts confirming the full scope of events and backs up his side of the story.
Mason then angrily goes live saying this has ruined his mothers day weekend and says that he doesn't owe Joe money because the Flock dev team developed their own version of the tool using Claude code. He says he will not give Joe the $5k he promised, but will donate $100. The comments go as well as you would think. He then proceeds to draft a team while users chime in.
BONUS:
Flock Fantasy also has very suspicious view activity. If you look at their socialblade graph, you'll notice something very obvious
Their videos tend to follow a very suspicious pattern of being posted and having around 10k views exactly within a few hours. and plateau around the same mark. If you look at the amount of views they get around April
Without getting too in the weeds for anyone not too familiar with the fantasy football space, these numbers are absurd for the off-season of the actual football, even around draft season.
Flock is not a highly regarded or widely talked about source of analysis within the space. If you go to r/dynastyff or r/fantasyfootball you will basically never see their name brought up. These numbers are absurd for niche content of watching someone else draft fantasy football teams months out from the peak of view engagement (when the football season is actually about to start). For reference, here are the numbers of one of the biggest names in the space, FantasyPros
and some more from the actual show that is funded by the Underdog gambling platform itself
You can see that Flock's numbers go far past the point of believability.
TL;DR: Flock Fantasy stole a live drafting tool then attempted to tell half-truths to defend themselves and got blowback. They are also boosting their views to game the algorithm.