Antonio Brown will file nine grievances and appeals simultaneously as he looks to recoup as much as the $61 million he believes he is still owed to him.

The grievances and appeals involve the following issues and sums of money:

• Fine appeals with the Oakland Raiders: $215,000

• Salary guarantees with Oakland: $29 million

• Signing bonus with Raiders: $1 million

• Oakland's unpaid Week 1 salary: $860,000

• New England Patriots' salary guarantee: $1 million

• Patriots signing bonus: $9 million

• Patriots' unpaid Week 3 salary: $64,000

• Patriots' option year in 2020: $20 million

Brown could also file an appeal if he is suspended by the NFL. Brown has been accused of sexual assault and sexual misconduct by two different women

The NFL has dropped its quest for an 18-game season and is instead focused on expanding the regular season to 17 games, sources tel Daniel Kaplan of The Athletic.

The NFL would shorten the preseason from four games as part of the change.

“Not enough owners support (for) 18 and players would not go for it either,” one of the sources said.

There are currently 18 months remaining on the NFL's existing 10-year collective bargaining agreement.

“I don’t see an 18-game schedule — under any circumstances — being in the best interest of our players,” NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith told ESPN.com in July. “If somebody wants to make an 18-game proposal, we’ll look at it. I haven’t seen anything that makes me think that it would be good for the players.”

It is not yet known what the NFLPA's position will be on 17 games.

Antonio Brown called out Robert Kraft and Ben Roethlisberger for their alleged sexual transgressions following his release by the New England Patriots.

Kraft was chawed with solicitation for allegedly receiving a sex act at a massage parlor.

Roethlisberger was suspended four games by the NFL for multiple sexual assault accusations.

Kraft got caught in the parlor AB speculations fired different strokes different folks clearly 🤷🏾‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/eKrAE0Vwih

— AB (@AB84) September 22, 2019

4 games for Big Ben crazy world I’m done with it pic.twitter.com/ZXVZXzM4xh

— AB (@AB84) September 22, 2019

A source told Adam Schefter that "Kraft [is] never writing that check, no matter what the ruling is now."

Antonio Brown declined to sign a settlement with Britney Taylor worth just over $2 million.

Brown had a deadline last Sunday night to sign the settlement before Taylor's attorneys sought to file their civil lawsuit of sexual assault allegations against him.

Brown's decision not to sign the settlement came around the same time that he agreed to a deal with the New England Patriots.

The NFL will meet with Taylor this coming week.

The NFL will not place Antonio Brown on the commissioner's exempt list at this time.

Brown has a pending civil lawsuit against him from an alleged sexual assault. There is no criminal investigation pending against Brown.

Brown's accuser will meet with the NFL next week.

ESPN is bracing for competition for NFL television rights when their eight-year, $15.2 billion deal for Monday night games comes due. Their deal runs through 2021 while the NFL's contracts with CBS, NBC and Fox extend to 2022.

Amazon, Google and Facebook could be among the bidders.

“I have no idea if they’re going to be interested specifically in ‘Monday Night Football,’ but I do believe that several new media companies are going to be interested in acquiring more NFL rights,” said ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro.

He added: “I still very much like ESPN’s hand, if you look at what we offer in terms of production expertise, in terms of the scale and scope, in terms of what we can do with the game, around the game, ‘SportsCenter,’ all of our original programming, how we can drive value for our league partners I think is really the differentiator.”

Antonio Brown is being sued by a woman who claims he sexually assaulted and raped her during three separate encounters.

The woman identifies herself as Britney Taylor and says she was hired by Brown as a personal trainer.

Taylor claims the first incident happened in June 2017 during a training session when "Brown exposed himself and kissed [her] without her consent."

Taylor then describes a second alleged incident ... "Later that month, Brown, while positioned behind her, began masturbating near her without her knowledge and ejaculated on her back."

Taylor claims Brown begged her to continue training him and eventually agreed after initial hesitation.

The woman claims nearly a year later "Brown cornered [her] forced her down onto a bed, pushed her face into the mattress, and forcibly raped her."

Taylor met Brown while they were both students at Central Michigan.

Brown's legal representation released the following statement:

"Mr. Brown denies each and every allegation in the lawsuit. He will pursue all legal remedies to not only clear his name, but to also protect other professional athletes against false accusations. Mr. Brown was approached by his accuser in 2017, shortly after Mr. Brown signed a contract making him the highest paid wide receiver in the NFL. At that time, Mr. Brown was asked to invest $1.6 million dollars in the accuser’s business project. Mr. Brown was not informed by his accuser that she had just been levied with a $30,000 IRS tax lien or that $300,000 of the $1.6 million so called “investment” was to be used to purchase property already owned by the accuser and her mother. When Mr. Brown refused to make the $1.6 million “investment,” the accuser supposedly cut off communications with Mr. Brown. However, in 2018, the accuser resurfaced and offered to travel to Pennsylvania and South Florida to train Mr. Brown for the upcoming season."

Brown was released by the Oakland Raiders last week and subsequently signed with the New England Patriots.

Odell Beckham Jr. plans to continue wearing his Richard Mille watch during games despite objections from the NFL.

“I’m here to play football,’’ Beckham said Tuesday. “I would love for them to talk about football and what I do on the field, if I messed up on the field or if I didn’t do well on the field, talk about my performance. Don’t talk about any extracurricular, that’s just it. If anybody else would’ve worn the watch, or if it was a $20 watch, it wouldn’t have been no problem.’’

The watch retails for approximately $190,000.

Beckham tweeted on Monday night, “If it ain’t one thing…it’s another.’’

He said the tweet was in response to the watch flap.

“Yeah, that’s just my life,’’ he said. “If I ain’t this, it’s something else. If it wasn’t the watch, it would’ve been the way that I tie my shoes.’’

Beckham was asked if he'll still wear it during the game.

“The same way I wear it every day, at practice, I go here, I go there. I’ve been wearing it. Take a shower with it on. It’s just on me."

ESPN's ratings for Week 1 Monday Night Football were up 19 percent from 2018 and their best showing since 2015.

The New Orleans Saints' win over the Houston Texans had a 9.3 overnight rating, which was up 25 percent from last year's early game featuring the New York Jets and Detroit Lions.

The Oakland Raiders' win over the Denver Broncos in the late game had a 7.7 rating and up 10 percent from 2018 when the Los Angeles Rams beat the Oakland Raiders.

The NFL's ratings for the Sunday games of Week 1 of the 2019 regular season were about even with 2018.

The New England Patriots' win over the Pittsburgh Steelers was up 3% from the Sunday Night Football telecast featuring the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers in 2018, though down 6% from the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants in 2017.

The Cowboys' win over the Giants in FOX's afternoon time slot was up one percent from 2018.