Overview
- The NFL announced at owner meetings in Atlanta on Wednesday that it will discontinue the competitive Pro Bowl game and instead honor the 88 voted players at a Los Angeles ceremony.
- The league and the NFLPA agreed a new discipline framework that counts three violations from five defined dangerous actions—hip-drop tackles, horse-collar tackles, launching, hits on defenseless players, and blindside blocks—as an automatic one-game suspension.
- Coaches and teams will share responsibility under the new rules because coaches must meet with the league as players near the suspension threshold and organizations can face larger fines for excessive violations.
- San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York was arrested in an Ohio prostitution sting, pleaded no contest to reduced charges, paid a $1,150 fine, and is now under an NFL conduct review that the league says is ongoing.
- The Cleveland Browns have kept Deshaun Watson listed as the starter and retained Shedeur Sanders as the backup after preseason evaluations left the quarterback controversy unresolved, a choice that continues to draw internal and public criticism.