Updates From NFL Owners Meetings

Patriots brass are in Phoenix, Arizona for this week's NFL Owners Meetings. The Competition Committee is discussing potential rule changes, including the ability to challenge penalties, moving the extra-point back and mandatory possession of the ball for both teams in overtime games.

NFC champion Seattle, Denver and Kansas City each were awarded four compensatory picks in this year's draft after losing more or better compensatory free agents than it acquires in the previous year. The NFL handed out 32 such picks to 14 teams yesterday, including third-rounders to New England, Kansas City and Cincinnati. Baltimore and Houston each received three picks, one more than Green Bay and San Francisco.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell expects "Deflategate" to wrap up soon. He tells MMQB.com there is no deadline and he hasn't spoken to investigator Ted Wells in weeks, but thinks the investigation into the Patriots using under-inflated footballs against the Colts to be "near the end."  (Metro Networks Inc.)