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Fujita, Hargrove and Smith File ‘Reservation of Rights’ With League

NEW ORLEANS (NFL/Wyche) — While Saints line­backer Jonathan Vilma filed a let­ter stat­ing his intent to appeal his season-long sus­pen­sion Mon­day, three other play­ers sus­pended in the Saints bounty scan­dal, jointly filed, through the NFLPA, a “reser­va­tion of rights” let­ter to the NFL. Scott Fujita, Anthony Har­grove and Will Smith, filed notice that they reserve the right to appeal after a griev­ance filed by the NFLPA on their behalf chal­leng­ing com­mis­sioner Roger Goodell’s author­ity regard­ing these sus­pen­sions is heard. The NFLPA states that no... 

You Can’t Keep Colt McCoy Away From Work With Browns

Cleve­land (NFL/Newsfeed) — On Thurs­day morn­ing, the Cleve­land Browns leaked infor­ma­tion that they expected Colt McCoy to make a “big leap for­ward” in 2012. By Thurs­day night, he was on the trade block. Mon­day has arrived, and McCoy is back where he started: The Browns’ team facil­ity. Tom With­ers of The Asso­ci­ated Press noted that McCoy was present for the team’s off­sea­son program. Really, what choice does he have? Jason La Can­fora of NFL Net­work tells ATL that the Browns expect McCoy to be back on the team. The Browns can’t get any­thing for him... 

Kellen Moore: No QB Will Be More Motivated Than Me

Detroit (NFL/Newsfeed) –Kellen Moore learned over the week­end that col­lege suc­cess doesn’t always trans­late to NFL inter­est. The Boise State prod­uct won a record 50 games dur­ing his col­lege career, but he was with­out an NFL job until the Detroit Lions picked him up as an undrafted free agent. Moore’s fall from grace hasn’t dimin­ished reader inter­est in him. He was the most pop­u­lar search item on NFL.com Sun­day. Ian Rapoport of NFL.com broke the news about Moore’s arrival in Detroit, and gained roughly 600 fol­low­ers on Twit­ter imme­di­ately thereafter. While... 

Washington Redskins Release Jabar Gaffney

WASHINGTON, D.C. (NFL/Wyche) — The hint was cast when the Wash­ing­ton Red­skins gave rookie quar­ter­back Robert Grif­fin III jer­sey No. 10, which had been worn by wide receiver Jabar Gaffney. Real­ity came Tues­day when Gaffney was released by the Red­skins, accord­ing to a source with knowl­edge of the situation. The team later con­firmed the release on Twitter. The 10-year vet­eran had a career-best sea­son in 2011, when he led the Red­skins in both recep­tions and receiv­ing yards with 68 catches for 947 yards and five touchdowns. Wide receivers Josh Mor­gan and Pierre... 

Spielman Says Vikings Had Other Offers on Table for No. 3 Pick

Min­neapo­lis (NFL/Newsfeed) — Min­nesota Vikings gen­eral man­ager Rick Spiel­man rebuffed the notion that he “fleeced” the Cleve­land Browns by trad­ing the No. 3 pick in the 2012 NFL Draft, allow­ing Cleve­land to select for­mer Alabama run­ning back Trent Richardson. In the wake of Friday’s first big draft-day deal, some reports spec­u­lated that the Browns could have taken Richard­son with the No. 4 pick they orig­i­nally held because the Vikings were bluff­ing about other pos­si­ble trades. “We did have offers on the table, I can tell you that. I’m not going... 

Indianapolis Colts Expects to Sign Luck Soon

Indi­anapo­lis (NFL/Newsfeed) — Indi­anapo­lis Colts owner Jim Irsay expects to sign Andrew Luck sooner than later, the Indi­anapo­lis Star reports. “It’s some­thing that should be done swiftly,” Irsay said Sat­ur­day evening. “There shouldn’t be a dif­fi­cult process with that.” The Colts are expected to ink top-pick Luck to a four-year, $ 22 mil­lion con­tract, in line with the money slot­ted for the top draft pick. “The sooner the bet­ter on all the draft picks,” Irsay said. “We’re going to present all the picks (offers) and say, ‘Here is the deal.... 

Umenyiora Protests Perception That He Is Greedy

New York (NFL/Newsfeed) — Dis­grun­tled New York Giants defen­sive end Osi Umenyiora says he isn’t happy that the team offered him only “half” the guar­an­teed money it recently gave to fel­low defen­sive end Math­ias Kiwanuka. “They offered an exten­sion — guar­an­tee­ing half of what they just gave ‘Kiwi’ guar­an­teed,” Umenyiora wrote to The Star-Ledger on Sun­day. “And I’m a greedy pig for turn­ing down half of what they just gave ‘Kiwi.’ Lol.” Kiwanuka received a three-year exten­sion from the Giants last week that included $ 10.95 mil­lion in... 

Jets Curse Out Seahawks After They Draft Bruce Irvin

NEW YORK (NFL/Newsfeed) — The Mel Kipers of the world thought the Sea­hawks reached when they took pass rusher Bruce Irvin in the first round. The Rex Ryans of the world thought it was a great pick. We’ll trust the Ryans on this one. After Seat­tle took Irvin, the Sea­hawks got a call from Jets head­quar­ters. New York “good-naturedly” cursed at the Sea­hawks for tak­ing the guy they planned to draft one pick later, accord­ing Len Pasquarelli of the Sport­sX­change. Irvin was also believed to be on the short list of can­di­dates in Chicago, Green Bay, and San Fran­cisco. One... 

Denver Broncos’ Peyton Manning Takes in Rockies Game

DENVER (NFL/Newsfeed) — Pey­ton Man­ning felt right at home at Coors Field tak­ing in a Col­orado Rock­ies game Sun­day, where his col­lege pal Todd Hel­ton had a pinch-hit grand slam in the bot­tom of the eighth inning with two outs. Man­ning and Hel­ton were quar­ter­backs at the Uni­ver­sity of Ten­nessee in the mid-1990s. Man­ning recently signed with the Den­ver Bron­cos to become their new QB. When Man­ning was going through his reha­bil­i­ta­tion from neck surgery dur­ing the NFL lock­out, Hel­ton helped arrange for him to use the Rock­ies’ facil­i­ties... 

Yes, Graham Harrell Will Be the Packers’ Backup QB

Green Bay (NFL/Newsfeed) — The Green Bay Pack­ers picked up a quar­ter­back in the NFL draft, but it wasn’t Colt McCoy. Seventh-round pick B.J. Cole­man is a guy the Pack­ers will develop for the future, but Gra­ham Har­rell is the backup of the present. Gen­eral man­ager Ted Thomp­son is not inter­ested in bring­ing in a vet­eran to dis­place Harrell. “I don’t think you just say, ‘Hey, I need a vet­eran backup,’” coach Mike McCarthy told the Mil­wau­kee Jour­nal Sen­tinel on Sat­ur­day. “We have the MVP in Aaron Rodgers as our No. 1, and I feel like we have,...