Veteran NFL recipient Chris Hogan gets tweeted roughly by Adam Schefter of ESPN.com, but not because he just signed with a new team. In a piece of news we didn’t see coming, Hogan filed for the Premier Lacrosse League draft in March. Hogan mainly played lacrosse in college, as you probably know if you’ve seen a broadcast of a game he played in during his heyday with the Patriots. Hogan was an incredible story as he only played college football in Monmouth for one season after being transferred from Penn State, where he played lacrosse.
He joined the Bills after a few years of shuffling from practice teams and became a household name during his 2016-18 run with New England. In those three years he was often Tom Bradybiggest deep threat, and he was a big part of two winning teams in the Super Bowl. He signed with the Panthers in 2019, but injuries limited him to eight catches in seven games. He was with the Jets for the first five games of their disastrous 2020 season, catching 14 balls for 118 yards before landing on an injured reserve and later being cut. Now he is trying to return to his first sport at the age of 33. It’s unclear whether he’s actually being drafted or not, but all of us here at PFR wish him the best.
Here’s more from the football universe:
- We’ve already heard that 68-year-old Bruce Arians will after the Buccaneers’ Super Bowl win, so why would his 82-year-old offensive advisor Tom Moore? Moore apparently has no intention of quitting anytime soon, as he told Guy Limbeck of the Rochester Post Bulletin that “I want to coach until I can’t physically or mentally or until I dieHe added “because there is absolutely nothing about it that distracts me. So I want to coach as long as I can, I want to coach as long as someone hires me and that I can do the work that I have to do. ” Moore never made it to head coach, but had multiple runs as OC in the NFL, most recently coordinating the Colts’ attack from 1998-2008. He was Arians’ assistant head coach with the Cardinals from 2013-17.
- The Steelers had recently retired two players, old center Maurkice Pouncey and tight end Vance McDonaldAlthough both ran away from the game without Pittsburgh cutting them off, the Steelers are still taking a financial blow. Those two retirements will result in $ 9 million in dead cap for Pittsburgh, The Athletic’s Mark Kaboly tweetsThe Steelers are not in the best of situations, which helps explain why Ben Roethlisberger will have to restructure his contract if he wants to return for another season.