Chargers’ WR coach Sirianni to join Reich’s coaching staff
Manziel reveals bipolar diagnosis
WASHINGTON, Feb 13, (RTRS): Chargers’ wide receivers coach Nick Sirianni will join Frank Reich’s coaching staff with the Indianapolis Colts and serve as offensive coordinator. Sirianni, 36, spent two seasons as wide receivers coach including last season in the franchise’s first in Los Angeles.
A college wide receiver at Mount Union, Sirianni worked with Reich from 2013-15 with the Chargers. Reich was quarterbacks coach in San Diego in 2013 and was offensive coordinator of the Chargers in 2014 and 2015.
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Johnny Manziel was selfish, entitled and dealing with bipolar disorder.
Manziel, the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy in 2012 and a rapid flameout in the NFL, said Monday in an exclusive interview with ABC that he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder a year ago and since quit drinking.
“I’m working to try and make sure that I don’t fall back into any type of depression, because I know where that leads me and I know how slippery a slope that is for me,” Manziel told ABC News’ “Good Morning America.” “At the end of the day, I can’t help that my wires are a little bit differently crossed than yours. I can’t help my mental makeup of the way that I was created.”
The Arizona Cardinals extended the contract of general manager Steve Keim through the 2022 season, the team announced. The deal puts Keim on a similar timeline with newly hired head coach Steve Wilks, whose contract runs through 2021 with a team option for the 2022 season.
Cincinnati Bengals backup quarterback AJ McCarron is expected to get a free agency ruling this week in his challenge of the team’s decision to place him on the non-football injury list during his rookie season.
NFL players typically get unrestricted free agency after four years, but McCarron did not earn an accrued year in his 2014 rookie season after being placed on the non-football injury list for most of the season due to a shoulder injury.
Former Browns wide receiver Mohamed Massaquoi had most of his left hand amputated last year after an ATV accident, he revealed in a video published on The Players’ Tribune.
Massaquoi showed the prosthetic he now wears in place of most of his left hand — his thumb is intact. In the 4 1/2-minute video, he described taking a turn too sharply when he went trail riding on an ATV last April. The vehicle rolled and destroyed his left hand.
A woman told police that Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt “shoved and pushed” her in a dispute in Cleveland over the weekend, according to a police report obtained by Cleveland.com
Per the newspaper, Abigail Ottinger, 19, told police Hunt assaulted her around 3:45 a.m. Saturday morning outside Hunt’s hotel apartment at The Metropolitan at the 9, while a woman who was with Hunt’s friends told police that Ottinger assaulted her. One police report lists Hunt as a suspect, and another lists Ottinger as a suspect.
After sitting out the 2017 season and considering retirement, Washington Redskins safety Su’a Cravens has officially applied to the NFL for reinstatement off the team’s reserve/left squad list, according to an NFL Network report.
Cravens’ agent, Fadde Mikhail, announced in a December statement that Cravens was cleared to resume all football activities after being treated for post-concussion syndrome and intended to return to the NFL in 2018.
Former Indianapolis Colts cornerback Vontae Davis has been cleared in his recovery from core muscle surgery and is expected to draw interest from teams soon, according to an ESPN report. Davis, who will turn 30 in May, is a free agent who can sign at any time because he was released rather than having his contract expire. Davis was released by the Colts in November after seeking additional medical opinions and opting to have surgery.
Houston Texans tight end C.J. Fiedorowicz says he is contemplating retirement after sustaining three concussions in 2017. “You can’t go repair your brain,” Fiedorowicz told the Northwest (Ill.) Herald.
Entering the final year of his rookie contract, wide receiver Mike Evans has not had contract discussions with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and is planning to play out 2018 on his fifthyear option, according to his agent.