The Terrion Arnold case has returned to court on Friday, for a hearing on whether he’ll be required to wear a GPS monitor while on house arrest pending trial on eight felony charges.
The core question is whether he’ll be practicing or playing football in 2026. If so, the judge likely will stick with the ruling made while Arnold was still on the Lions’ roster. If not, it’s more likely that Arnold will be required to follow the standard home-confinement protocol and wear a device.
The evidence supporting Arnold’s position has come from his agent, Nicole Lynn. Via Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press, Lynn testified that four teams have inquired about Arnold: the Colts, Jets, Seahawks, and Texans. She said that he visited and worked out for the Texans, per Birkett. (That workout has yet to appear on any of the daily NFL transaction reports.)
Lynn added that there is a “very good likelihood” Arnold will be signed in the next 45 days.
The next question will be whether any of those teams will confirm their interest in Arnold, or act on it. Often, if a player who works out for a team isn’t promptly signed, he’s not going to be signed by that team — at least not in the immediate future.
The other question looming over Arnold is whether the NFL will place him on the Commissioner Exempt list (i.e., paid leave). If a team has reason to think that’s coming, it will have less reason to sign him.
Regardless, the testimony worked. The judge, per Birkett, denied the prosecution’s motion. Arnold will not be required to wear a GPS device. He remains confined to his home with the exception of work and meetings with attorneys.
Former NFL linebacker Darron Lee, a first-round pick in the 2016 draft, has hired a lawyer to represent Lee on first-degree murder charges in Hamilton County, Tennessee.
Via WDEF, former Hamilton County District Attorney Neil Pinkston will be handling the case. He has entered no plea on Lee’s behalf, which is the same as entering a plea of not guilty.
Lee is accused of killing his girlfriend, Gabriella Perpetuo, in February 2026. The details of Perpetuo’s injuries are extensive and graphic.
The case against Lee includes evidence that he used ChatGPT for advice on how to deal with an unresponsive person.
Lee could face the death penalty. The prosecution has not yet announced whether it will be seeking it.
Lee was drafted by the Jets ten years ago. He also played for the Chiefs and Bills.
Von Miller recently said he regretted choosing the Commanders over the Seahawks almost exactly a year ago. He signed with Washington on July 16, a season after the Commanders played in the NFC Championship Game. The Seahawks, though, won the Super Bowl.
Now, the edge rusher is looking for a new home.
He has said he would love to return to the Broncos and has previously talked about re-signing with the Commanders. The Cowboys, who play 24 miles from his hometown of DeSoto, now have his eye.
On Wednesday, Miller posted a photo of himself in a No. 24 Cowboys jersey with a “Shhh” emoji.
That came two days after he told R.J. Ochoa of SB Nation that “it would be great to be a Dallas Cowboy.”
“I grew up here in Dallas,” Miller said. “I’ve always had a special place in my heart for the Dallas Cowboys. If I played for the Dallas Cowboys this year, I [would] only have to drive 20 minutes to work. This would be the first time that my mom and dad don’t have to fly to every single game. My mom has been to every single game that I’ve ever played in, and she’ll be able to drive to all the home games, and you know I got so many family members here. My kids are here. My family is here; [my] girlfriend is here. Everybody’s here. It’d just be easy to work it out, so you never really know.
“You know we talked about that magnetic field in College Station [when he played at Texas A&M]. Maybe the magnetic field here in Dallas will get me there. So I would love to play for the Dallas Cowboys, and it’d be amazing.”
Miller won a Super Bowl with the Broncos, earning MVP honors in the process, and another with the Rams. The Cowboys haven’t even been to an NFC Championship Game since winning their last Super Bowl in the 1995 season.
In 14 NFL seasons with the Broncos, Rams, Bills and Commanders, Miller has 138.5 sacks. His nine sacks last season, when he played 37 percent of the defensive snaps, were his most since 2021.
The Mark Sanchez criminal trial as once again been delayed.
Via Jarrett Lewis of WIBC, the trial date has been pushed from July 13 to September 8, one day before the start of the 2026 NFL regular season.
It’s the fifth time the trial has been continued. The final pre-trial conference had been set for today, July 8.
Eventually, the trial will happen. (We think.) Barring a plea deal, Sanchez will stand trial on multiple charges arising from an October 2025 alley fight with Perry Tole, a 69-year-old truck driver.
Sanchez had been in town to call a Raiders-Colts game on October 5. Fox later parted ways with Sanchez.
Tole stabbed Sanchez multiple times. The authorities accepted Tole’s version of the events, concluding he acted in self-defense; Sanchez told police he remembered nothing.
Charged with felony battery, Sanchez faces up to six years in prison, if convicted. Tole also has a civil lawsuit pending against Sanchez, Fox, and the company that owns St. Elmo’s.
The drama arising from quarterback Brendan Sorsby’s saucer of sorbet at Texas Tech isn’t ending.
At the Big 12 Media Days (Something Something Monster Energy), Cincinnati football coach Scott Satterfield claimed that Texas Tech was one of several schools that spoke with Sorsby’s camp about transferring before the 2025 season ended. If true, that would be a violation of the NCAA’s tampering rules.
“We had already heard that schools had reached out — Texas Tech in particular had already reached out — with four games left,” Satterfield told Chris Vannini of The Athletic. “So we knew we wouldn’t be able to compete financially with that, so we’d started looking for quarterbacks.”
Sorsby’s agent, Ron Slavin, denied to The Athletic that he heard from Texas Tech before the 2025 season ended.
Tampering is rampant in the Wild West that is college football in the NIL age. Everyone does it, to the point at which any program that doesn’t is operating at a disadvantage.
Satterfield basically acknowledged this.
"[Tampering] happens no matter how you finish the season for everybody,” Satterfield said. “If you’ve got a good player, people are going to contact them. It’s just how we live right now. Everybody’s got agents, and so the player never does it. They don’t really talk to anybody. The agents do all the talking, and they talk to the GMs out there recruiting people. It’s the world we’re living in right now, so there’s nothing you’re going to do about it.”
So why make the claim? Cincinnati has to be feeling a little miffed right now that the Sorsby affair has resulted in the NCAA investigating the Bearcats over Sorsby’s gambling, especially since Slavin has publicly claimed that Cincinnati knew about it for two years.
Satterfield insists the school didn’t know.
“Absolutely we didn’t know,” Satterfield told The Athletic. “If we knew he was doing anything illegal, we would not have played him.”
It’s one thing to not actually know. It’s another thing to know enough to have a duty to find out things you don’t know. That could be part of what the NCAA will be trying to find out.
