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The Pittsburgh Steelers made a big-time move on Sunday night by acquiring receiver DK Metcalf from the Seattle Seahawks for a second-round draft pick, according to multiple reports. Metcalf reportedly will sign a five-year, $150 million deal with the Steelers. The teams reportedly are also switching draft picks in the sixth and seventh rounds. Metcalf requested a trade last week and the Seahawks agreed to see if they could grant his wish. Metcalf, 27, narrowly missed his fourth career 1,000-yard receiving season in 2024 by catching 66 passes for 992 yards and five scores in 15 games (12 starts). He topped 1,000 in 2020, 2022 and 2023 with his career best of 1,303 coming in 2020. The two-time Pro Bowl pick has 438 receptions for 6,324 yards and 48 touchdowns in 97 career games (93 starts) in six seasons with the Seahawks, who selected him in the second round of the 2019 draft. Pittsburgh could enter next season with two top-notch receivers in Metcalf and George Pickens unless the Steelers decide to deal the latter. Along with Friday's reported trade of quarterback Geno Smith to Las Vegas for a third-round pick, Seattle is now set to own four of the top 68 and six of the top 82 picks in the 2025 NFL Draft. --Field Level Media

Los Angeles Rams wide receiver Tutu Atwell agreed to terms on a one-year, $10 million contract that includes $5 million guaranteed at signing, multiple media outlets reported Thursday. Per reports, the deal was completed by agents Drew Rosenhaus and Robert Bailey. The news comes a few weeks after longtime Rams receiver Cooper Kupp announced that he has been informed by the team that he will be traded. Kupp, 31, has been plagued by injuries over the past three years and has only topped 800 yards once during the span. Last season, he injured an ankle in Week 2 and was limited to 12 games, producing 67 receptions for 710 yards and six touchdowns. He was named an All-Pro and Offensive Player of the Year following the 2021 season, in which he caught 145 passes for 1,947 yards with 16 touchdowns, all NFL highs. Atwell, 25, posted career highs in catches (42) and receiving yards (562) in 17 games (five starts) last season. He did not have a receiving touchdown, however. A Super Bowl champion with Los Angeles, Atwell has 99 catches for 1,343 yards and four touchdowns in 54 career games (23 starts) since being selected by the Rams in the second round of the 2021 NFL Draft. --Field Level Media

INDIANAPOLIS -- Only Aaron Rodgers has more career earnings as an NFL quarterback than current Los Angeles Rams starter Matthew Stafford, but it's possible finances send the latter to a new destination for 2025. Rams head coach Sean McVay, who courted Stafford before Los Angeles traded Jared Goff and multiple draft picks in a swap of starting quarterbacks before the 2022 season, clarified Tuesday that the preference from the team's perspective is to stick with Stafford. But the Rams are in limbo as Stafford's representatives contact other teams to assess his market value, which required the Rams' signoff. In an interview with ex-NFL quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and Andrew Whitworth, who played for the Rams and McVay before retiring, on the "Fitz & Whit" podcast, McVay attempted to clarify that Los Angeles would love to keep Stafford, 37. "There's no discrepancy on us wanting him to continue to lead the way and be our quarterback. The interesting and the challenging dilemma and dynamics within this are, 'Hey, how do you continuously as a head coach look at the short term and the long term and be able to figure out what does that really look like?'" McVay said on the podcast. Other teams are interested in Stafford, and reports of the Tennessee Titans considering the veteran instead of drafting a rookie and the Las Vegas Raiders weighing the value of chasing the 16-year veteran percolated Tuesday and Wednesday. NFL Network reported Stafford's recent visit with Raiders minority owner Tom Brady, who still had six seasons to go entering his 17th year in the league, was more a chance encounter at a ski resort in Montana. Whether Stafford and Brady's reps are playing damage control by releasing that information is uncertain. Stafford has two years remaining on his current contract with a salary of $27 million in 2025 and only $4 million guaranteed. By base salary -- $23 million -- Stafford is No. 8 in the NFL using current salary information. His cap number is fifth-highest in the league at $49.67 million for next season. The Rams view of the salary and contract came due to a difference of opinion with Stafford's camp. McVay said the Rams had "something in mind, (agent Jimmy Sexton and Stafford) had something and mind and nobody was right or wrong," so they hatched the plan to transparently gauge value. Even with the public appraisal pending, there stands a chance the Rams will decide to look at another quarterback. "There is no dispute -- and let's not get it twisted in regarding to anybody wanting him to be our quarterback. Now, there's layers to it," McVay said. "You have to be able to say, 'Hey, how do we continuously build? How do we support him? How do we make sure that he's getting what is his worth relative to those things?'" Stafford is among the league's statistical greats, ranked 10th all-time in career passing yards (59,809) and touchdown passes (377), and ninth in both pass completions and attempts. He's 5-2 with the Rams in the playoffs, including a victory in Super Bowl LVI in 2022, after going 0-3 over his 12 seasons in Detroit. --Field Level Media

Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Darius Slay said that he plans to play next season, the final year of his three-year, $42 million contract. Fresh off their Super Bowl victory, the Eagles may need to rework Slay's contract to lower their salary cap number or release the 34-year-old altogether. Those options became more appealing on the heels of Cooper DeJean and Quinyon Mitchell coming off successful rookie seasons. "I've got one more left (on my contract), but you know how that works," Slay said recently on the St. Brown Podcast. "Whatever they want to do, I might re-sign back, hopefully. If I ain't, we'll see what I'm doing because I do want to play one more year, for sure." At that point, Lions wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown floated the idea of a possible return to the place with which Slay began his NFL career: Detroit. "If it is, it is. If it ain't, it ain't," Slay said. "For sure, the two spots I would love to always be at is Philly or Detroit. The main two, the main ones I'd love to be at." Slay recorded 49 tackles, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery in 14 games (all starts) last season. A six-time Pro Bowl selection, Slay had 619 tackles, 28 interceptions -- including three returned for touchdowns -- and five fumble recoveries in 177 career games (167 starts) with the Lions and Eagles. --Field Level Media

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce said he won't make any swift decisions about his NFL future following a disappointing Super Bowl LIX loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Kelce, 35, was a non-factor in the Chiefs' failed attempt at a historic threepeat, finishing with four catches for 39 yards on Sunday in New Orleans. "I know everybody wants to know whether I'm playing next year and right now, I'm just kicking everything down the road. I'm kicking every can I can down the road. I'm not making any crazy decisions," Kelce said on the latest episode of his "New Heights" podcast released Wednesday. The 10-time Pro Bowl selection and four-time first-team All-Pro carries a $19.8 million cap hit in the final season of his contract in 2025, which would be his 13th NFL campaign. Kelce co-hosts the popular podcast with his brother Jason Kelce, the longtime Eagles center who retired before the 2024 season. Travis Kelce said many times during the weeks leading up to fifth Super Bowl appearance that he planned to return in 2025, but acknowledged that the extra grind of yet another long postseason run takes a toll. "I've been fortunate over the past five, six years, I've played more football than anybody," he said. "It's because of the people that are in that building. The fact that we keep going to these AFC Championships and these Super Bowls, that means I'm playing an extra three games more than everybody else in the entire league. That's a lot of wear and tear on your body and it's a lot of time spent in the building, focusing on your craft, focusing on the task at hand and every challenge that you set up for yourself." Kelce caught 97 passes during the 2024 regular season for 823 yards, his lowest total since he had 862 in 2014. He posted seven straight 1,000-yard campaigns from 2016-22. "As you see yourself or not feel yourself have the success you once had, it's a tough pill to swallow," he said. "For that not to be there in the biggest moments, knowing your team's counting on you, those are all extremely hard things ... it's just a tough reality. "That process can be grueling. It can weigh on you, it can make you better, it can drive you crazy at the same time. And right now, it's one of those things where it was driving me crazy this year. It happens as you kind of tail off towards the back nine of your career as SVP [ESPN's Scott Van Pelt] would say." Kelce, a third-round draft pick by Kansas City in 2013, has 1,004 receptions for 12,151 yards and 77 touchdowns in 175 regular season games. He has another 178 catches for 2,078 yards and 20 touchdowns -- all playoff records -- in 25 postseason starts. --Field Level Media