Owners have approved a rule change to shorten overtime in the regular season from 15 minutes to 10 minutes.

Last season, there were six overtime games in which the extra period lasted more than 10 minutes.

The NFL claims the proposal was made with player safety in mind.

Owners are discussing a change on the timing of certain NFL head coaching hires that would allow teams to agree upon deals but not announce them until their incumbent teams are out of the playoffs.

If the change is approved, it will alter the timing of when teams can officially hire coaches still in the playoffs and allow those organizations to begin assembling coaching staffs so they will not be playing catch-up later.

The Falcons have experienced it on both ends, with waiting to hire now-head coach Dan Quinn away from the Seattle Seahawks during the 2014 postseason and having the San Francisco 49ers court then-offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan while they were marching through last season's playoffs.

O.J. Simpson could be released from prison this year after nearly a decade behind bars.

Simpson is set to face a parole hearing this July, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections. The date for the hearing won't be set until next month.

The former NFL running back has been serving 33 years in a Nevada prison on burglary and kidnapping charges.

Former Detroit Lions All-Pro linebacker and kicker Wayne Walker has died at the age of 80.

Walker, the Lions' fourth-round pick in 1958, played 15 seasons with Detroit, and when he retired he held a team record with 200 games played -- a mark since passed by Jason Hanson.

Massachusetts court officials on Friday released an excerpt of the letter that former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez wrote to his fiancée, Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez, before he killed himself last month.

Stephen Jones believes the NFL should take another look at their marijuana policy.

Jerry Jones recently said the NFL should "drop its prohibition" on marijuana.

"Well, our system, our testing, has been in place for years and not unlike we do in our organization . . . we always look to see how we can do it better," Stephen Jones told PFT Live. "I think Jerry's opinion, my opinion, is this program, this system has been in place for a long time. I think it needs to be heavily scrutinized in terms of its results.

"Is it helping players in terms of their accountability? And, obviously, addiction is a sickness and you want to make sure - obviously, there's accountability but it's also a program that helps players get better. . . . Jerry and I think that it might could be done better and we just need to take a look at it. Like I said, it's been the same program that's been in place for many, many years and I think all things to do with the NFL, we should all want the very best for our players. We should want the very best for our organizations and we should want the very best for our fans, and that's anything that has to do with the NFL.

"In my opinion, we should take a long hard look at how we're doing this and see if there's a way, a better way to do it. What that is, I don't have the answer. But we have a lot of smart people that can get in there and analyze something and really make some good decisions and see if there need to be changes."