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The Pro Bowler played three seasons with the Eagles.
The 49ers and former Eagles defensive tackle Javon Hargrave have agreed to a four-year, $80 million deal, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Monday.
The deal also guarantees Hargrave $40 million when he signs with the 49ers, which he won’t be able to do until 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday, March 15, when the 2023 season officially begins.
Hargrave is coming off three seasons in Philadelphia, which includes a Super Bowl LVII appearance in which the Eagles lost 38–35 to the Chiefs last month.

This is an important offseason for the Los Angeles Chargers. They started by restructuring the contracts of wide receivers Keenan Allen and Mike Williams to create cap space. Now, running back Austin Ekeler wants a trade because the team isn’t offering him the contract he wants.

Chargers’ RB Austin Ekeler is requesting permission to speak with other teams about a potential trade after preliminary talks with the team aimed at a contract extension did not progress, his agent Cameron Weiss told ESPN.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 13, 2023

Austin Ekeler is due $6.

Jason Kelce’s time in the NFL isn’t over yet.
The star Philadelphia Eagles center announced Monday that he’s made the decision to keep playing, and he used some colorful language in the viral tweet.
“Thank you to all my supporters and detractors for fueling me, I ain’t f*cking done yet,” Kelce wrote.

I have put much thought into whether it makes sense to play another season. After talking it over with my wife and many other friends and family, I have decided to return for another year.

The six-time Pro Bowler spent three seasons in Baltimore.
After three seasons with the Ravens, the team announced that they will be releasing defensive tackle Calais Campbell on Monday.
“Calais defines what it is to be a Raven,” Ravens executive vice president and general manager Eric DeCosta said in a statement. “He personifies professionalism, and his contributions to our organization—both on and off the field—are immense. With his passion, leadership and toughness, Calais has undoubtedly produced a Hall of Fame-worthy career.

Sports-talk radio host Brent Axe was fired amid shady circumstances.
1. Last week, following a home game, newly retired Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim went on a bizarre rant about people who show up to games and people who call sports-talk radio shows.
“The fans here, they’re not the ones calling the radio show,” Boeheim told reporters. “Not one fan that was here tonight calls any radio show. The people that call the radio shows do not come to games. They don’t have season tickets. The only way they come is if someone gives them a ticket.

The linebacker completed six tackles during Super Bowl LVII.
The Bears are expected to sign inside linebacker T.J. Edwards to a three-year, $19.5 million deal, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reports. He will also get $12 million guaranteed in the deal.
Edwards was drafted by the Eagles in 2019 out of Wisconsin and has spent the past four seasons in Philadelphia. Over the past three years, he has started 43 games, including all 17 in 2022, and has totaled at least 130 tackles in each of the last two seasons.

Talks about a contract extension reportedly did not progress.
Chargers running back Austin Ekeler is requesting permission to speak with other teams in order to work out a potential trade, his agent told ESPN on Monday. The decision comes after talks around an extension with the team did not progress. 
Ekeler is one of the most dynamic backs in the NFL due to his ability in both the run and passing game. Just this past season, he rushed for 915 yards and had 722 receiving yards. He tallied 18 total touchdowns.  
This is a developing story. Come back for more updates.

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Tracking every move made as NFL free agency opens
NFL free agency has begun.
Kind of.
The league’s legal tampering window is open, which means starting at noon on Monday teams can begin negotiating with free agents. Technological advances have apparently made those negotiations rather expedient, as every year there is a flurry of activity right as the window opens.
Certainly it is technology, and not the fact that the entire NFL world was in Indianapolis just a week ago.
But we digress.

There’s a strange trend going on in media these days. Many media members have simply become cheerleaders. Apparently, ESPN Radio Syracuse doesn’t even hide their intentions.
According to Syracuse.com, radio host Brent Axe got the axe (see what I did there?) because the company president “believes the content of Axe’s show had become too negative toward Syracuse University sports.”
The station is owned by Galaxy Media Partners and the company’s CEO is Ed Levine.

The former 49ers quarterback is expected to have a market at the start of Monday’s negotiating period.
Free agent quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo is expected to be pursued by the Raiders and Texans when the negotiating window for free agency begins on Monday, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Schefter also notes that the Jets could get involved as well, but they’re in wait-and-see mode with Aaron Rodgers.