Google has agreed to distribute the NFL's "Sunday Ticket" package on YouTube TV on a seven-year deal worth more than $14 billion.

DirectTV has paid $1.5 billion per year on an eight-year contract that expires at the end of this season.

The NFL had been seeking $2.5 billion per season for the package. The league could reach that total since they retain commercial rights to bars and restaurants and are selling those separately.

Besides Amazon, Apple and ESPN also expressed interest in the "Sunday Ticket" package.

Google's YouTube is close to acquiring the rights to NFL's Sunday Ticket package of games.

Google has discussed paying about $2.5 billion a year to the league, $1 billion more than DirecTV, which had the rights for years.

The league could receive additional payments based on the number of YouTube subscribers that Google is able to add.

YouTube TV is the premium streaming product for Google.

YouTube said in July that YouTube TV had more than five million subscribers and trial users of the product, which costs $64.99 a month.

Apple was interested in the rights, but became skeptical that the Sunday Ticket package was worth what the NFL was seeking.

Arizona Cardinals general manager Steve Keim is taking a leave of absence for health-related reasons, the team announced Wednesday.

Vice president of player personnel Quentin Harris and vice president of pro personnel Adrian Wilson will handle Keim's duties on an interim basis.

The team said it will have no further comment "out of respect for privacy -- which is required by law."

Bobby Wagner won't face criminal charges for tackling a man who ran onto the field during the Los Angeles Rams' Oct. 3 game against the San Francisco 49ers.

The incident occurred late in the first half of San Francisco's 24-9 win over the Rams at Levi's Stadium.

Alexander Taylor ran on the field with a pink smoke bomb as part of an animal rights protest. With security struggling to corral him, Wagner stepped in to help and knocked Taylor down so security could detain him.

Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder "permitted and participated" in the team's longtime toxic work culture and obstructed a 14-month congressional inquiry by dodging a subpoena, working to dissuade and intimidate witnesses from cooperating, and claiming more than 100 times in testimony that he could not recall answers to basic questions, according to the final report of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform.

Tampa police issued a warrant Thursday for former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown.

The active warrant stems from a domestic battery incident involving a woman, according to authorities.

On Nov. 28, Brown and the woman were involved in a verbal altercation at his home in South Tampa. The argument became physical, and according to police, Brown threw a shoe at the victim. Brown also attempted to evict the woman from the home by locking her out.

Brown was released by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Jan. 6 after he jogged off the field against the New York Jets.