INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Latest on the NFL combine (all times EST):
2:15 p.m.
Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst says that the team would like to extend the contract of quarterback Aaron Rodgers ”sooner rather than
later.”
Article continues below ... Gutekunst was asked about the two-time NFL MVP at the combine. He says that the team realizes it’s ”not going to be inexpensive.”
Rodgers is under contract through the 2019 season following a five-year extension signed in 2013 that boosted his annual average salary to $22
million
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The 34-year old Rodgers has since been passed by other players, including the five-year deal worth a reported $137.5 million that quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo
agreed to with the San Francisco 49ers.
Gutekunst says that taking care of Rodgers is a high priority, ”and I think that should take care of itself at some point.”
Gutekunst is in his first year as the Packers GM after replacing Ted Thompson.
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1:45 p.m.
Browns coach Hue Jackson hopes to avoid starting a rookie quarterback in 2018.
Cleveland owns the No. 1 overall pick, and is expected to use it to select a quarterback from a talented group that includes Southern Cal’s Sam Darnold,
UCLA’s Josh Rosen, Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield and Wyoming’s Josh Allen.
The Browns will use this week’s combine to evaluate that foursome and other top players.
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all 16 games.
”I would hope not,” Jackson said when asked if he intends to start a rookie QB. ”There’s going to be other opportunities as we all know. We just go to see
how it all fits as we move forward.”
The Browns are expected to be active in free agency and it’s possible they’ll land their starting quarterback there. Jackson refused to comment on Cleveland’s
intended targets, but one of them is certain to be Cincinnati quarterback AJ
McCarron. The Browns were poised to acquire McCarron in a trade last season
before the deal was scrapped because the teams failed to file paperwork with the
league on time.
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1:30 p.m.
The Chicago Bears plan to part ways with quarterback Mike Glennon.
General manager Ryan Pace said the Bears will release him rather than bring him back for a second season after he lost his starting job to rookie Mitchell
Trubisky.
Pace, speaking at the NFL combine, said a mechanism in Glennon’s contract prevents the Bears from letting him go until the start of the league’s calendar
year on March 14. The Bears were also releasing linebacker Willie Young.
Glennon left Tampa Bay to sign a three-year contract with the Bears last March and replace Jay Cutler as the starter. He went 1-3 with five
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”We were going to be aggressive at that position,” Pace said. ”We were going to take swings at that position and be aggressive at the most important
position, really, in sports. There are multiple factors that go into that. But
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”So, it was kind of twofold. So I can sit back now and be happy that we have a guy that we feel good about, a young quarterback that we want to build
around.”
A triceps injury limited Young to four games last season. He had 26 sacks in four seasons with Chicago, giving him 32 in eight years with the Bears and
Detroit Lions.
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1 p.m.
The NFL’s competition committee is meeting in Indianapolis this week and the group is looking into ways to redefine the troublesome catch rule. The committee
also is entertaining the notion of turning the defensive pass interference call
into a 15-yard penalty.
It’s currently a spot of foul flag.
At least one head coach is certain the league won’t mess with that rule.
Broncos coach Vance Joseph was among the first coaches to step to the podium at the NFL combine and he says the catch rule certainly needs to be
addressed.
But Joseph insists there’s no way the NFL would follow the NCAA’s lead in making defensive pass interference a 15-yard infraction instead of putting the
ball at the spot of the foul.
Joseph says pro football fans like seeing points scored and if that rule is changed, there will be ”a lot of defensive backs grabbing and pulling
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11 a.m.
Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott says cutting quarterback Tyrod Taylor is not part of the team’s current plans, though he won’t rule out trading the
three-year starter.
McDermott says it’s too early to remove any option off the table ”other than cutting him at this point,” in answering a question as to whether the Bills
would consider trading Taylor. ”We’re in a good position with some options out
there, so that’ll work itself out,” he added at the NFL combine on
Wednesday.
Taylor’s future in Buffalo remains in question even though he helped lead the Bills to a 9-7 record and clinch the team’s first playoff berth since 1999.
Taylor has a 23-21 record with the Bills and went 8-6 last season while also
being benched for one game in favor of rookie Nathan Peterman.
The Bills considered cutting Taylor last March before the quarterback agreed to restructure his contract by reducing it from a five-year to a two-year
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