Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders hires an agent for first time, adding more fuel to trade rumors

Shedeur Sanders has hired an NFL agent for the first time, and while that typically sounds like something a player wanting a new contract would do, that isn't the main reason the Cleveland Browns quarterback is making this move.

Sanders, in only his second season since being drafted in 2025, has hired Adie von Gontard of Young Money APAA Sports, as his first NFL representation.

This is a logical choice because Gontard already represents Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Travis Hunter. Hunter and Sanders were teammates and friends at the University of Colorado and came out in the same 2025 draft.

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But the fact that Sanders is hiring an agent now, after going through the draft process, enduring a disappointing first day in which he hoped to be selected in the first round but fell to the fifth and signing his rookie deal without representation, is curious.

The timing suggests stuff.

Young Money APAA Sports did not immediately reply to a request for comment. But multiple NFL sources are telling OutKick they believe Sanders has hired representation because he's getting ready to press for a trade from the Cleveland Browns.

It should be noted the NFL is rife with rumors and none of the sources speaking about Sanders are directly tied to his family.

But this is very much how the NFL operates, so it makes sense.

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Only two weeks ago, Arizona Cardinals receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. hired an agent for the first time and over the weekend the Houston Texans confirmed they had traded for him.

Minkah Fitzpatrick (2019), Za'Darius Smith (2023) and Haason Reddick (2024) all hired new agents because they were trying to get traded.

Sanders currently finds himself as the backup quarterback in Cleveland after losing a competition for the starting job to veteran Deshaun Watson. Coach Todd Monken's decision to start Watson was not unexpected, but nonetheless disappointing to Sanders.

Sanders has mostly stepped back into the shadows as most backup quarterbacks do. But it is no secret around the league that he wants to play and believes he can help a team.

That opportunity, however, doesn’t appear to be on the horizon in Cleveland.

Watson, 31, hasn't been great in leading the Browns to a 3-2 record. But he hasn’t been a disaster, either.

His seven touchdown passes match the totals of Josh Allen and Sam Darnold. And he has fewer interceptions (2) than either player.

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Watson's 94.1 passer rating is also not spectacular, but it is better than the likes of Drake Maye, Aaron Rodgers, Jalen Hurts and even Matthew Stafford.

And, yes, Cleveland's 93 total points is bottom 10 in the league. But some of that is surely on the fact the Browns offensive line has been inconsistent, coach Todd Monken's offense is a work in progress and the running game is middling.

The point is the picture of the Browns' offense is not one that suggests Watson is on the verge of getting benched and Sanders promoted.

So what does a player who believes he should be playing somewhere else do? He can grit his teeth, stay quiet and do nothing.

Or he can grit his teeth, stay quiet and hire an agent to do something on his behalf. The new agent would then deal with the team on the player's behalf in requesting a trade — which is rarely a pleasant conversation.

It makes sense if Sanders wants an opportunity elsewhere, he hire someone to make that case on his behalf instead of fighting the battle himself.

The NFL's trade deadline is Nov. 10 at 4 p.m. So, yes, the timing of the agent hiring raises eyebrows.

It adds smoke to rumors that were already smoldering.

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Dodgers turn to Blake Snell to avoid 0-3 hole as NLCS shifts to Los Angeles for Game 3

The National League Championship Series comes back into action tonight with a shift to Los Angeles. The Brewers have a commanding lead over the Dodgers in this one, winning both of the first two games, but if the home team continues to win, the Dodgers could head back to Milwaukee up 3-2 on their opponent. What will happen tonight as Los Angeles looks to make this a series against pesky Milwaukee.

The Milwaukee Brewers are putting on a clinic right now. There are a few things that are very impressive about the Brewers in this series. The first thing that I like is that they are winning in a multitude of ways. Game 1 saw them hit a game-tying homer, then they drew a walk, bunted their runner to second, and then hit a single to take the lead. Game 2 was a lot of station-to-station baseball, but they did get a major home run from William Contreras at a key moment. Another impressive thing about Milwaukee has been their ability to come back. The Dodgers have scored first in both games, but the Brewers haven't rolled over and died.

As impressive as their offense has been, their pitching staff has been even better. Their starters have been reliable, but their bullpen has been even better. Tonight, they send out Robert Gasser to the mound. Gasser has made one start in the postseason; he went four innings and allowed three hits and one walk. He allowed a solo homer, and the Brewers won the game 3-1 over the Padres. This could be a good game for the Dodgers as they faced Gasser twice this season and won both games. They are also hitting .312 against him.

The Los Angeles Dodgers need a win. Teams that go down 0-2 in a best-of-seven series have about a 15% chance to win the series. There have only been six teams to ever do it, but three of them have done so in the past six seasons. The Dodgers aren't playing bad baseball. In Game 1, they might've been the better offense, but they couldn't get the hit when they needed it. Game 2 was mostly the fault of their bullpen. However, it isn't a good sign for them that they lost games with both Tarik Skubal and Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound.

The Dodgers have one of the deepest starting rotations in baseball history. That's more opinion than fact, but they essentially can throw an ace in any game. Tonight's ace is Blake Snell, who makes his second start of the postseason. In Snell's game against the Braves, he went 3.2 innings, allowed three hits, and one earned run. He struck out five hitters, but he also walked five. He walked 16 hitters over 42.2 innings in the regular season, so this game was an outlier. He didn't face the Brewers this season, but he has held them to a .172 batting average over their careers against him. Take out Gary Sanchez from the lineup, and they are 4-for-41 against him (.095 average).

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I do think the Dodgers get the win tonight, but I'm not willing to wager -172 on it. Instead, I think this is a game where we get some success from the Dodgers offense. I doubt Gasser gets more than three innings of work, but eventually this Brewers bullpen has to falter a bit. I just don't think it will be a high-scoring game tonight. I wouldn't be surprised to see Shohei Ohtani break out either. Give me the over 3.5 runs for the Dodgers tonight.

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DR MARC SIEGEL: Pope Leo's lung surgery puts modern medicine alongside faith

When Pope Leo XIV visited Lourdes, France, on Sept. 26, he drank a glass of water from the spring at the Grotto of Massabielle, where St. Bernadette Soubirous reported visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858.

Who knew last month that the pope might be calling on the healing waters to help in his own healing as he faces surgical removal of what the Vatican has described as "a small localized nodule" that he has said "was identified at a very early stage and well situated." 

The surgery will take place Tuesday, Oct. 13, followed by a week of recovery at Rome’s highly rated Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital. Small lung nodules are often detected on CT scans of the lungs. If the nodule is small and well circumscribed, and has characteristics, including irregularities that are concerning for malignancy, as may be the case here, removal can often be performed using minimally invasive techniques.

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The surgeon leading his medical team is Professor Stefano Margaritora, director of the Thoracic Surgery Unit at Gemelli and an expert in minimally invasive techniques. Margaritora is known for uniportal (one small incision) video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS), which is done via a scope under direct visualization. This is the procedure that will be performed on the pope. 

Dr. Robert Cerfolio, CEO at Pinnacle Global Health and one of the top minimally invasive lung surgeons in the world, thinks highly of Margaritora but generally prefers a robotic approach, in part because of smaller incisions and better visualization. The robot is placed between the ribs and into the chest and is controlled by the surgeon from a console.

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If all goes well, I would expect the Holy Father to resume normal activities fairly quickly. His recovery will no doubt be aided by the fact that, at age 71, he has maintained an active lifestyle and has generally appeared to be in good health.

Lourdes is famous not only for the 72 healings officially recognized as miraculous by the Catholic Church — instantaneous healings with no medical explanation — but also for "small miracles that aren’t recognized until later." Those are the words of Fox Business anchor David Asman. Asman is his wife’s "voiturier" at Lourdes, meaning that he takes her around the sanctuary during their visits. The couple has made pilgrimages to Lourdes following a stroke affecting the right side of his wife’s brain in 2004 that left her with severe loss of strength on her left side.

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Marta Cecilia Asman is rejuvenated spiritually at Lourdes. She watches people who come there hopeless and return home with tremendous hope, their spiritual and emotional state completely changed.

"Lourdes is a miracle," she says to me in an interview for my new book, "The Angels Among Us." "Not everyone can say they are cured. For me, my hand opens and starts working again after my stroke when it isn’t supposed to. During my rehab at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital [in New York’s Westchester County], I’m told I’m not supposed to be able to walk on my own again, but I do. … Sometimes I feel I am trapped in New York City. But then I am uplifted by Lourdes, my emotional health is tied to Lourdes, and I know there is no limit to what I can do."

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Dr. Alessandro De Franciscis, outgoing director of the Lourdes Office of Medical Observations, tells me in an interview for the book that Lourdes is a joyful place, a place of mind-over-matter healing. "The pilgrims who travel here are malades who may not be able to get into the metro or climb a stairway or push into a department store, and yet they thrive here."

The "malades" are cared for by four times as many volunteer caregivers a.k.a. "hospitaliers."

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During his September 2026 visit to Lourdes, Pope Leo met with thousands of sick pilgrims and the hospitaliers who outnumber and care for them, celebrating the sanctuary's profound legacy of physical, spiritual and internal healing.

And now, as he undergoes surgery with the benefit of modern medical science, it certainly won't hurt to have the prayers of millions around the world — and to have partaken of the healing waters of the Lourdes Grotto.

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Underdog Promo Code FOXNEWS: Play $5, Get $100 on Rams vs Bills on Monday Night Football

It was a wild week of football, but we still have one game on the schedule before the week closes, and it is a great one. The Rams and Bills play on Monday Night Football, and Underdog is offering new users the promo code FOXNEWS to earn $100 on a $5 wager. 

There is a lot of season left, and looking at standings and results from this season, it seems like there is a lot of parity around the league. But it wouldn’t be a difficult argument to make that tonight’s game is a potential Super Bowl preview. Even given that the current odds on the market show that these two are more likely to make it than others. 

The Buffalo Bills are 3-1 and coming off a loss to the Patriots. It is hard to evaluate the Bills because the team isn’t that good, but their success comes from Josh Allen covering up a lot of flaws. He can hit almost any throw, and his legs are a major difference-maker. He already has seven rushing touchdowns this season. 

The defense does have quite a bit of struggle. Even with just four games under their belt, they are the third-worst passing defense in football. Their rushing defense is better, but they aren’t particularly great, allowing 116 rushing yards per game to opponents. 

The Los Angeles Rams are just 2-2 for the season. They have played in some very strange games this year. In their season opener, they had to travel to Australia, and it was a disaster against the 49ers. Then they came home and dropped the Giants, but New York lost starter Jaxon Dart in that game.

Their past two games saw them drop one to the Broncos and win one over the Eagles. Both were road games. Against Denver, they were up 16-0 at halftime, and the defense just couldn’t get a stop when needed in the second half, giving up 30 points. Against the Eagles, they were down 20-10, but two fourth-quarter touchdowns gave them the win. 

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Eagles release Pro Bowl quarterback Andy Dalton after just one disastrous pass in loss

The Philadelphia Eagles saw Andy Dalton throw one pass and decided they'd seen enough.

Dalton, 38, entered the Eagles’ 27-7 Week 3 loss to the Chicago Bears after Jalen Hurts briefly left the game with an injury. The Eagles were down 7-0 in the second quarter and faced third-and-goal from the Bears' 2-yard line.

The three-time Pro Bowler took the shotgun snap but threw an interception when rookie safety Dillon Thieneman jumped the pass. On Friday, before the team departed for London, the Eagles released Dalton.

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After Dalton’s interception, the Eagles promoted Tanner McKee to the backup quarterback role, dropping the former Cincinnati Bengals star to No. 3 on the depth chart. Now, he is no longer with the team.

The Eagles were the sixth team Dalton played for during his NFL career . He was a starter for the first nine years of his career with the Bengals but has since served as a backup for several teams.

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Following his nine-year run with the Bengals, the three-time Pro Bowler played for the Dallas Cowboys (one season), Chicago Bears (one season), New Orleans Saints (one season), Carolina Panthers (three seasons) and Eagles.

Dalton had started games for every team he played for except the Eagles.

Dalton has played in 180 games, starting 169 of them, and has compiled an 84-83-2 record. He has completed 62.6% of his passes for 39,793 yards, 254 touchdowns and 152 interceptions.

The Eagles (2-2) will play the Jacksonville Jaguars (3-1) in London at 9:30 a.m. ET on Sunday.

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Trump says Rogers 'completely obliterated' El-Sayed in debate

President Donald Trump said that Michigan GOP U.S. Senate candidate former Rep. Mike Rogers "obliterated" Democratic opponent Abdul El-Sayed in a Thursday night debate.

"Mike Rogers, the great American Patriot and Republican Candidate for the U.S. Senate from Michigan, completely obliterated Mohammad El-Sayed in the big debate tonight. If this was a fight they would have stopped it," the president declared in a Truth Social post issued shortly after midnight on Friday.

"Mohammad is a Jihadist lunatic who hates our Country, the Black People of Detroit, and wants to see the U.S. fail. Short on Stature, Patriotism, and Truth, Mohammed’s statements have been loaded up with lies and deceit. I won Michigan BIG, and know that Mike Rogers, a total winner, is the man for you!!!" Trump added.

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El-Sayed's campaign and the White House did not immediately respond for comment to Fox News Digital. 

Trump has endorsed Rogers, who previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from early 2001 until early 2015. Trump also backed Rogers in 2024, but the GOP candidate lost the 2024 Michigan U.S. Senate race to then-Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin.

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In part of a Wednesday Truth Social post, the president wrote, "Mohammed El-Sayed is a terrible Candidate for the Dumocrats. While his opponent, Mike Rogers, is an extremely good one, Mohammed goes back to the days of the Jihad. He is a RADICAL Extremist, Terrorist Sympathizer, and no different from his best friend, America Hating Hasan Piker."

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El-Sayed, whose full name is Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, declared in a statement on Thursday, "He knows my name is Abdul. He says it every day. But he’s not just attacking me. He's attacking all of us. He thinks so low of us. He thinks he can use my name and my faith to distract us from the suffering his policies are inflicting on us at the pump, at the grocery store, and at the doctor’s office. He thinks we don’t know any better. It's time for change."

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Minnesota father convicted of killing teenage son whose remains were found in landfill

A Minnesota man was found guilty of killing his teenage son, whose remains were found in a landfill after he vanished for over a month.

Jordan Dupree Collins Sr., who represented himself during his trial, was convicted Wednesday of second-degree murder for killing his 16-year-old son, Jordan "Manny" Collins.

Ashley Berry, the boy's mother, has previously described Manny as someone who was "always helping others, spreading kindness, and lifting up those around him."

"Manny should still be here today," Anoka County Sheriff Brad Wise said in a statement. "No verdict can remove the pain his loved ones feel, but we hope this decision provides some measure of justice. Our thoughts remain with Manny’s family, especially his mother, Ashley, as they continue to grieve and remember him."

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According to the criminal complaint, the teen went to his father's apartment in May 2025 and was never heard from again. His mother and his girlfriend both told police they last communicated with him in the early morning hours of May 8, 2025.

Collins told Manny's mother that the 16-year-old left his Columbia Heights apartment on the afternoon of May 8 to go to St. Paul to visit his girlfriend and grandmother. The girlfriend later told authorities that Manny never indicated he was coming to visit during their last video call together.

On May 15, 2025, police obtained a search warrant and descended on Collins' apartment, where they found "items with apparent blood staining in garbage bags in a living room closet."

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Police said DNA testing confirmed that the blood found in the apartment belonged to Manny.

In early June 2025, local law enforcement agencies, the FBI and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension launched an extensive search of an Elk River landfill after surveillance footage showed a garbage truck emptying a dumpster behind Collins' apartment.

The search ended grimly on June 28, 2025, when investigators recovered Manny's body from the landfill.

An autopsy determined he was likely decapitated with a knife.

Collins was arrested on July 7, 2025, and has been in custody ever since. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 2, 2026.

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