Greg Auman

4 days ago | foxsports.com | Greg Auman

The Derek Carr era in New Orleans has ended. The 34-year-old quarterback is retiring, citing a shoulder injury that will require surgery and would have forced him to miss the 2025 season. He went 14-13 in his two-year run with the Saints, limited by injuries and playing through others, ultimately unable to be the quarterback to get New Orleans back to the playoffs for the first time since Drew Brees' retirement after the 2020 season.

1 week ago | foxnews.com | Greg Auman

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The challenge of identifying "best value" draft picks almost immediately is that you're mainly assessing value compared to expectations entering the draft. In two years, or in four years at the end of rookie contracts, you can assess value based on actual on-field production, and it's easy to identify starters who were late-round gems, or stars who weren't expected to be that good way back when they were drafted.

1 week ago | foxnews.com | Greg Auman

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Some of the most memorable moments of any NFL Draft are videos of players getting the long-awaited phone call from a team on the clock, with their new coach and general manager telling them they're about to be selected. This isn't a new phenomenon. The classic photo of a jorts-wearing Brett Favre sitting on a bed in a crowded room, huge portable phone at his ear, took place in 1991, fully 34 years ago.

2 weeks ago | foxsports.com | Greg Auman

TAMPA, Fla. — In February 2020, the football program at Georgia State held an open tryout for potential walk-ons, and about 40 students showed up to run through drills. But only one made an assistant hurry into head coach Shawn Elliott's office. "He said, 'I don't know if this guy can play, but he's massive,'" Elliott recalled. "I said, 'Where is he?' and he pointed him out on the field. I said, 'Tell that dude he doesn't have to go through tryouts. We're going to take him, regardless.

2 weeks ago | foxsports.com | Greg Auman

The Saints' new quarterback is, relatively speaking, an old quarterback. New Orleans used its second-round draft pick on Louisville's Tyler Shough, whose draft stock rose after seven years of college football, going 40th overall for the Saints' highest draft pick used on a quarterback since Archie Manning in 1971.