Retired tennis great Serena Williams and her husband, Alexis Ohanian, have submitted a bid as potential investors to the NFL's planned pro flag football men's and women's leagues, Front Office Sports reported.

The NFL is replacing its traditional human-operated "chain gang" crews with a new innovative technology to decide ball placement and first downs during the 2025 season.

NFL owners approved a new competition committee proposal that would incorporate stats from the All-America Football Conference, or AAFC, into the NFL record books. The league lasted from 1946 to 1949 and included three future NFL teams that joined the league in 1950: the Niners, Baltimore Colts and Cleveland Browns.

The 6-foot-5, 285-pound sophomore received his first pair of Power 4 offers this week, including one from an NFL legend.

Statistics from the All-America Football Conference, a pro football league that existed from 1946 to 1949 until some of its teams were folded into the NFL, will count toward the NFL's official records.

Tennis legend Serena Williams and her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, have reportedly "submitted a bid to the [NFL's] request for proposal seeking investors" for its planned pro flag football leagues, an NFL spokesperson told Michael McCarthy of Front Office Sports.

It's an NFL Mock Draft with a twist. Instead of doing another version of the same mock draft you've seen a billion times, there's a fun stipulation for this mock. We're only drafting draft-eligible players from the 12 schools who made the College Football Playoff this season.

Missouri’s Luther Burden brings elite speed, strong hands, and big-play potential to the 2025 NFL Draft, projecting as a dynamic WR2 with room to grow.