Don Pierson

BALTIMORE RAVENS 1. (31) Todd Heap, te, Arizona State. 2. (62) Gary Baxter, db, Baylor. 3. (92) Casey Rabach, c, Wisconsin. 4. (126) Edgerton Hartwell, lb, W. Illinois. 5. (161)...

So far Mark Hatley's wait-and-see strategy on free agents is working. Like other teams, the Bears are waiting and seeing supply outweigh demand. There are a lot of familiar names...

Trent Dilfer started a trend. For this year, anyway, quarterbacks don't seem so all-important. NFL teams are plugging in whomever is available. The Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl with...

Drafting running backs used to be simpler for the Bears. Every decade or so, they would decide they needed another Hall of Fame-type runner in the mold of Red Grange...

Strange and unpredictable things happen this time of year when NFL teams start scrambling to shave their salaries and prepare for free agency and the draft. One of the strangest...

As Frank Sinatra would sing, if the New York Giants can make it in Tampa, they can make it anywhere. They have been treated like the Washington Generals all week,...

The team from New York City is the shy one. The Giants are overlooked as well as underdogs. It makes no sense. They tiptoed into town. They have a curfew,...

Buddy Ryan picks the Baltimore Ravens, of course. "I said so in August," the former defensive coordinator of the Bears said. "I've been in their training camp two years in...

In the tangled, incestuous web of NFL front offices, Ernie Accorsi finds himself in the middle of a Super Bowl right out of Bizarro World. The general manager of the...

The son convinced the father something had to be done. Their football team was going nowhere and hadn't arrived in years. The father was reluctant at first to turn his...