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The market keeps moving and changing as the first day of 2013 NFL free agency winds down. I've put together a chart showing some of the notable happenings for unrestricted free agents from NFC West teams. NFC West teams are also looking at play...

The St. Louis Rams valued the hits Quintin Mikell put on opponents, but not enough to offset the hit his contract was going to make against their salary cap in 2013. That explains why the Rams released Mikell in a move ESPN's Adam Schefter reporte...

The NFL window for negotiating with projected unrestricted free agents opened overnight. The NFC West has responded with ... crickets so far. The Seattle Seahawks' and San Francisco 49ers' meetings with veteran defensive lineman John Abraham were ...

Dashon Goldson, Delanie Walker, Danny Amendola, Kevin Kolb, Charles Woodson, Dwight Freeney and Chris Clemons were among the subjects for conversation during a Monday chat with Dave Grosby and Bob Stelton on 710ESPN Seattle. I've been away for a ...

Five nuggets of knowledge about the San Francisco 49ers' divisional playoff game against the Green Bay Packers on Saturday at Candlestick Park: Season of change: These are not your 2011 49ers. The three players most instrumental in San Francisco's...

Five nuggets of knowledge about the Seattle Seahawks' wild-card playoff game against the Washington Redskins on Sunday at FedEx Field: Rookie showcase. Washington's Robert Griffin III (102.4) and Seattle's Russell Wilson (100.0) are the only quali...

Marshawn Lynch had quite possibly run his course in Buffalo. The production he has sustained since Seattle acquired him probably exceeds what the Bills would have gotten from him. That makes it tough to criticize the Bills too harshly for making a...

The latest NFC West chat has passed, but there's more. Clay from Charlotte raised an interesting question about Week 1 and officiating. "Have you heard anything from the teams instructing players to take advantage of replacement refs?" he asked...

Darren Woodson and Tedy Bruschi recently discussed whether Gregg Williams' indefinite suspension from the NFL should become a lifetime ban. Just about everyone should get a second chance, Woodson said, and Bruschi largely agreed. Whether Willia...

Seth from Newport News, Va., says the ESPN.com/ESPN The Magazine's NFL Any Era team "is a joke" if the St. Louis Rams' Steven Jackson does not appear on the list. Mike Sando: Jackson did not appear on the list. Tim Tebow did. That seems wrong. We ...

This was indeed a special season for the San Francisco 49ers and, by extension, the NFC West overall. The Associated Press All-Pro Team, announced Friday, includes five 49ers, a league high for any team. Arizona's Patrick Peterson made the team as...

Perfect sense: Larry Fitzgerald, Adrian Wilson, Andy Lee, David Akers, Justin Smith and Patrick Willis are past Pro Bowl selections enjoying strong seasons. Their selections made perfect sense. No St. Louis Rams made it. Steven Jackson was worthy of ...

One of my Facebook friends asked whether the Seattle-St. Louis game was the NFL's least inspiring matchup this week. He must have missed that 4-0 showing from the NFC West in Week 10. I mean, how many other games this week feature two teams coming...

Referee Ron Winter waved off one of the interference penalties against Arizona Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson in Week 9. "There is no foul for defensive pass interference," Winter announced. "The contact and the ball arrived at the same tim...

Matt Maiocco of CSNBayArea.com expects Ahmad Brooks to earn a starting job this season. Maiocco: "Brooks, who recorded 11 sacks in the past two seasons combined, has been lining up on the left side with the first-team defense. With his job apparently...

Skip Bayless and Dan Graziano took up the case for Charles Haley as a Pro Football Hall of Famer on ESPN's First Take. Bayless thought Haley should have qualified on the first ballot as a key championship variable for the San Francisco 49ers and D...