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Miami quarterback Cameron Ward is the betting favorite to be the first overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft. But if he doesn’t go first overall, he’s planning to make any team that passes on him regret it.

Ward said he’s looking forward to talking to NFL teams at the Combine, and delivering a message about what kind of competitor he is.

“OK, you’re either going to draft me or you’re not,” Ward said, via the Associated Press. “If you don’t draft me, that’s your fault. You’ve got to remember you’re the same team that’s got to play me for the rest of my career, and I’ll remember that.”

Ward said he’d like to emulate the rookie season Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels just had.

“To see him succeed,” Ward said of Daniels, “is motivating for not only myself but all of the other quarterbacks.”

Ward hopes he can convince NFL teams that he can have the immediate impact that Daniels had.


After the Rams lost to the Eagles in the divisional round (L.A. gave Philly its toughest game of the entire postseason), quarterback Matthew Stafford said he wanted to take some time to think about his future.

It didn’t take much. With Rams coach Sean McVay adding in the aftermath of the season-ending playoff loss that the Rams hoped to get clarity on Stafford’s situation “sooner than later,” preliminary clarity came by the end of the month. Stafford reportedly plans to play in 2025.

That’s not the end. It’s the beginning. Due to make only $27 million in 2025, Stafford needs a bump to at least 50 percent of the top of the $60 million market at the position. Which means that the Rams and Stafford need to work out a new deal.

Last year, Stafford started clamoring for a revised contract in the immediate aftermath of round one of the draft, when the Rams didn’t pick his potential replacement. While both sides kept the process quiet, it lingered until the very start of training camp — and almost didn’t get done.

Now, what will the Rams do? His cap number for 2025 is nearly $50 million. Cutting him with a post-June 1 designation would result in a $26.67 million cap charge for 2026, with a $4 million guaranteed roster bonus owed to Stafford. Trading him before June 1 (and before the $4 million roster bonus comes due) would spark a $37 million cap charge.

Although it’s not as dire as the Deshaun Watson debacle in Cleveland, the Rams have a mess. They could kick the cap can by extending his contract, but he’s 37. At what point will the Rams (who are young at most positions) pivot to someone more than a decade younger than Stafford?

For now, it’s just a weird vibe. And with several teams looking for quarterbacks — Jets, Steelers, Browns, Titans, Raiders, Giants, Saints (maybe) — the Rams likely remain open for business.

Remember, when G.M. Les Snead was asked about the possibility of trading Stafford? Snead didn’t say, “Next question.” He said, "[I]t’ll take someone calling or us reaching out if we want to do that. Those are the things that’ll be determined down the road here.”

So those things are still to be determined. With the Scouting Combine starting next week in Indianapolis, it could be determined there.


The next three Super Bowls are set for Santa Clara, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. For 2029, the NFL’s championship game could be heading back to Las Vegas.

That’s the word from Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal, who reports that the league is leaning toward a return to Sin City only five years after the Super Bowl was played there for the first time.

The news is a bit of a surprise, because the public money quid pro quo would point to Nashville for Super Bowl LXIII, since the 2028 season will be the second year of the new stadium that’s being built in Tennessee.

A final selection will come later this year. Awarding the game to Allegiant Stadium would mesh with Fischer’s reporting that the NFL currently has two Tier 1 cities that will get the game as often as possible — Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

While my own preference would be a three-city primary rotation of Las Vegas, Miami, and New Orleans, my opinion means (as it often does), jack squat. With Vegas getting a game only five years after its first one (and with L.A. due to have its second SoFi Stadium game five years after its first), it looks like the league is settling on a once-every-five-years plan for those two locations, with other locations filling out the other three spots.

Tennessee will get one, at some point. And it will have a chance to nudge its way into Tier 1.

Still, the overall experience is better in Miami and New Orleans. Hopefully, the game will be back in both places, sooner than later.

Miami last hosted the game in 2020. The gap will stretch to at least 10 years, if Super Bowl LXIII goes to Las Vegas. If the 2030 game lands in Nashville, it’ll be at least 11 years between South Florida Super Bowls.


The Jaguars are interviewing Jon Robinson for their vacant General Manager position, Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports reports.

Robinson, 49, served as the Titans’ General Manager from 2016-22. The team fired him on Dec. 6, 2022, and the Titans since have fired his replacement.

Robinson began his career as an area scout for the Patriots in 2002. He worked his way up to director of college scouting, a position he held from 2009-12.

From there, Robinson landed with the Bucs as director of player personnel from 2013-15.

The Jaguars are searching for a new G.M. to pair with coach Liam Coen after firing Trent Baalke. They have interviewed Bears assistant G.M. Ian Cunningham, Bengals senior personnel executive Trey Brown, Rams director of scouting James Gladstone, Bills director of player personnel Terrance Gray and 49ers director of scouting and football operations Josh Williams.


The Chiefs are hardly ever out of a game with Patrick Mahomes at quarterback. But if they’re going to get blown out, there’s a good chance it’s going to be in a Super Bowl.

After losing Super Bowl LIX by a score of 40-22, the Chiefs have now lost four games by a margin of 17 points or more (a three-score game) with Mahomes as their starting quarterback. Two of those four losses were Super Bowls.

The Chiefs’ biggest margin of defeat with Mahomes as their starting quarterback was 24 points in a 27-3 loss to the Titans in Week 7 of the 2021 season.

Kansas City’s next-worst loss with Mahomes came in Super Bowl LV, a 22-point margin in a 31-9 loss to the Buccaneers.

And now the Chiefs have lost by 18 points with Mahomes twice: A 38-20 loss to the Bills in Week 5 of 2021, and Sunday’s loss to the Eagles. Here’s the list of the Chiefs’ five biggest losses with Mahomes at quarterback:

24 points: Titans 27, Chiefs 3, Week Seven, 2021 season.
22 points: Buccaneers, 31, Chiefs 9, Super Bowl LV, 2020 season.
18 points: Eagles 40, Chiefs 22, Super Bowl LIX, 2024 season.
18 points: Bills 38, Chiefs 20, Week Five, 2021 season.
15 points: Broncos 24, Chiefs 9, Week Eight, 2023 season.