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Coach Mike Shanahan will likely wait until the end of preseason to decide on the Washington Redskins’ starting quarterback. But during the team’s first practice of training camp Friday, it was clear that John Beck tops the current depth chart.

Before defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth could get to training camp and take his conditioning test, the Washington Redskins traded him to the New England Patriots for a fifth-round pick in 2013, according to league sources.

The NFL Players Association and the league have reached agreement on a new labor deal, NFL.com reported today. The agreement was hammered out early this morning.

NFL owners have ratified a deal to lift the player lockout but it's unclear what that means for a collective bargaining agreement or when free agency might begin.

PFT: Both NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith are hopeful their sides can vote on a labor deal sometime Thursday.

PFT: With deal in place for rookie wage scale, even the most skeptical parties involved are "almost stunned at momentum" for completing deal.

Pittsburgh Steelers star wide receiver Hines Ward was arrested early Saturday in Georgia on a drunken driving charge, sheriff’s officials said. The former Super Bowl MVP and reigning “Dancing With the Stars” champ was booked into the DeKalb County jail just outside Atlanta at 3:41 a.m. and charged with driving under the influence. He was released on $1,300 bond.

Negotiators for the NFL and locked-out players moved closer Thursday to a possible resolution of the economic issues at the heart of the sport’s nearly four-month shutdown. If completed, an agreement on how to divide the sport’s revenues would be a major step in their bid to complete a deal to end the lockout in the coming days.

Owners and players are expected to continue talking Friday in Minneapolis; the sides are sparring over issues like how to divide revenue.

Negotiations between the NFL and locked out players resumed Tuesday in Minnesota amid hopes that a deal could be completed by the end of next week to put the sport back in business.