ALAMEDA, Calif. — Oakland Raiders outside linebacker Aldon Smith, who missed the 2016 season as part of an NFL-mandated suspension, was mentioned in a report taken by the San Francisco Police Department for an incident that occurred over the weekend, police confirmed Monday.

Exact details of the report were not made public.

“He is cooperating with SFPD and the reporting party,” Officer Grace Gatpandan told ESPN.com. “The report was taken over the weekend and he was mentioned in the report.”

No arrests have been made.

TMZ Sports reported it was a domestic-related investigation earlier in the day.

The Raiders declined to comment to ESPN.com, though the team is forbidden from having any contact with Smith under the rules of the player’s suspension, which was handed down in November 2015 after several incidents that included arrests and a substance abuse infraction.

Raiders owner Mark Davis has taken a strong stance against cases of domestic violence, saying the team has a “zero-tolerance” policy.

“It’s just something we can’t tolerate,” Davis told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2015. “I don’t know how to fix it in society but I know we can’t have it on our team.”

Raiders Hall of Fame receiver Fred Biletnikoff lost his daughter Tracey in 1999 when an ex-boyfriend killed her, and the Raiders have been supporters of Biletnikoff’s mission to provide a home for women in need. Davis presented Biletnikoff with a check for $50,000 in 2015.

Smith applied for reinstatement this fall but the league tabled discussion to this offseason. The NFL Network reported Smith could be reinstated in March, so long as he stays out of trouble.

“I’m back,” Smith said last week on Instagram Live. “And there’s nobody who can stop me.”

Answering questions from viewers, Smith said, “You already know it. Raider Nation, we got this (stuff).”

Should Smith gain reinstatement, he would be able to join the Raiders and reigning NFL defensive player of the year Khalil Mack for the start of their offseason program, which is scheduled to begin on April 17. Rookie minicamp is scheduled for May 5-7 with OTAs on May 23-25, May 30-June 1 and June 5-June 8. Mandatory minicamp is scheduled for June 13-15.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England Patriots running back James White said he forgot to keep the football that he scored the game-winning touchdown with in Super Bowl LI, but luckily for him, an equipment assistant scooped it up, according to a team spokesman.

The Patriots are now displaying the football at their Hall of Fame.

Now on display: The game winning ball from the #Patriots record breaking comeback to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl LI. pic.twitter.com/6EVXfXoyli

— The Hall (@TheHall) February 13, 2017

On ESPN Radio’s Mike & Mike show the day after Super Bowl LI, White said he forgot to keep the football. In a separate interview on “The Dan Patrick Show” the following day, White said he was hopeful that an equipment manager picked it up.

White’s remarks came in the wake of uncertainty over the whereabouts of quarterback Tom Brady’s game jersey, which led some to assume that perhaps the football was also missing.

“I wasn’t thinking in that moment,” White said. “I was too busy sprinting down the field.”

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  Just two days after winning Super Bowl LI for their fifth championship, the Patriots are looking ahead to next season by filing to trademark the phrase “Blitz for Six.”

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — New San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan admitted at his introductory news conference that he will “go back through every play” of Super Bowl LI for the rest of his life. And though the ending of that Super Bowl and his tenure as Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator will undoubtedly be hard to shake, not everything from Shanahan’s Super Bowl experience will take on such a serious tone.

After last week’s news conference and making the rounds with various media outlets, Shanahan popped into the media room to chat with a group of writers in a more informal session. At the start of that sit-down, Shanahan recounted the case of his missing backpack, which included his iPad playbook, from early in Super Bowl week.

It was a particularly amusing story for Bay Area media considering the accidental thief of the backpack was Art Spander of the San Francisco Examiner. Spander is a local legend in San Francisco sports writing, earning the McCann Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1999.

Here’s Shanahan’s recollection of what happened in his own words:

“It was a very panicked feeling,” Shanahan said.

But Shanahan wasn’t panicked because of the presence of his game plan, which would still have needed a password to access.

“[But] that had all my Super Bowl tickets in it for all my friends and family, so it’s basically a $30,000 bag of cash that was missing,” Shanahan said. “So that was my panic.”

It was a panic that held Shanahan for a long time as he tried to figure out where the backpack went.

“I was just looking for my backpack,” Shanahan said. “I didn’t know who took it. But I couldn’t get more than five feet without someone stopping me. And I was getting insecure because people were trying to talk to me and I can’t even look them in the eye. [I was thinking] ‘I’ve got to find my backpack!’ And they’re [thinking] ‘this guy’s weird.’

“So finally I went back to my seat where I was and there was this one backpack sitting there. And so I just went and started looking in that backpack and finally I found Art’s name on it. I was asking some reporters around and someone had his cellphone, so they called him.”

But recovering the backpack wasn’t that easy.

“They talked to Art,” Shanahan said. “And I was like, ‘Does he have it?’ He goes, ‘I don’t know.’ I’m like ‘you just talked to him for 30 seconds, what do you mean you don’t know?’ [He said] ‘I don’t know. He’s coming down here, though.'”

So Shanahan sat down and waited 30 minutes for Spander to return with his backpack. He missed the team bus while waiting.

“Finally he came, he was wearing the backpack,” Shanahan said. “But he still didn’t know it was mine. I tried to grab it from him and he shook me off. And then eventually he realized it and then he was awesome. Just a mistaken backpack.”

Shanahan said the backpacks were placed in a dark area so it was understandable that his black backpack could be mistaken for Spander’s blue one. He also acknowledged that he has a knack for misplacing things.

The New York Giants released wide receiver Victor Cruz and running back Rashad Jennings on Monday, creating significant salary-cap space by parting ways with two veteran members of their offense.

Cruz, an undrafted free agent from nearby Paterson, New Jersey, described his seven-year stint with the Giants as an “amazing journey.”

“I pretty much grew up in front of the eyes of this entire organization,” Cruz said as part of a statement released by the team. “The Giants fan base, the community, my hometown, my family. I grew up there. It’s very much a family atmosphere and it’s very much like leaving your family. That’s what it feels like. I did some great things there.”

Cruz, 30, is 2½ years removed from major knee surgery and would have counted for $9.4 million against the Giants’ salary cap in 2017. New York frees up $7.5 million in cap space with his release.

Jennings would have counted $3,062,500 against the cap in 2017. Releasing him frees up $2.5 million in cap space.

Giants general manager Jerry Reese described Cruz as “one of the great stories in the National Football League.”

After spending most of his rookie season on injured reserve, Cruz burst onto the scene with back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons in 2011 and 2012, and he caught a touchdown pass in the Giants’ Super Bowl XLVI victory. But he has struggled to regain that form since suffering a torn patellar tendon in October 2014. He missed the entire 2015 season and had just 39 catches for 586 yards and a touchdown this past season.

Cruz’s role diminished as he fell behind Odell Beckham Jr. and Sterling Shepard on the Giants’ depth chart in 2016.