INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts general manager Ryan Grigson said Thursday that Andrew Luck should be healthy enough to participate in this season’s offseason workouts.
Luck missed the final six games last season with a lacerated kidney and a partially torn abdominal muscle after being bent awkwardly on a hit Nov. 8 against Denver.
Coach Chuck Pagano said Luck was “doing great” and the kidney was “clear.”
Not long after that, Grigson told reporters at the NFL’s scouting combine that Luck was “fine” and would be ready to go when workouts begin.
Grigson also said the Colts and Luck’s agent, Will Wilson, are working on a contract extension, but did not establish a timeline for getting a long-term deal finished.
Jaguars
NEW YORK (AP) — The Jacksonville Jaguars carried over the most salary cap space from last year, $32.7 million, according to figures released Thursday by the players’ union.
Under the labor agreement reached in 2012, teams can transfer unused salary cap space from the previous year. The total carry-over amount from 2015 was $203,963,112, making the average carry-over per club $6.4 million, the NFL Players Association said.
The smallest carry-over amount was $11,587 by Seattle.
Once the 2016 salary cap is set in early March, the carry-over amount and other adjustments from the 2015 season will be combined for each team’s official salary cap position.
By the end of 2016, the 32 teams must spend an average of 95 percent of the salary cap over the four-year period that began in 2013.
Pierre-Paul vs. ESPN
NEW YORK (AP) — Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $15,000 in damages against ESPN and reporter Adam Schefter for posting his medical records.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Miami Dade County in Florida, alleges that Pierre-Paul’s privacy was violated — as was Florida’s medical records statute — by the report last summer after the player severely injured his right hand in a fireworks accident on July 4.
The New York Post first reported the lawsuit Wednesday night.
According to Pierre-Paul’s lawyers, Mitchell Schuster and Kevin Fritz, Schefter “improperly obtained” the defensive end’s medical chart, which showed he had his right index finger amputated at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Schefter posted a photo of the record on Twitter, where he has more than 4.5 million followers.
Jets
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — New York Jets coach Todd Bowles says he had a noncancerous, golf ball-sized tumor removed from his throat shortly after the team’s season concluded.
According to Newsday and NJ Advance Media, Bowles revealed the procedure to a few reporters after a news conference at the NFL scouting combine Wednesday.
Bowles says he felt the mass — “It was almost the size of a golf ball” — in the front of his neck last September. Tests revealed the growth was benign, but caused him some trouble swallowing because it was pressing against the artery in his neck.
Bowles was able to put off surgery until about two weeks after the end of his first season as coach of the Jets. He says he won’t need any follow-up treatments.
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