FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- New England Patriots wide receiver Josh Gordon, who currently is serving an indefinite NFL suspension, officially signed his restricted free-agent tender on Tuesday, a league source told ESPN's Field Yates.

This means that if Gordon is reinstated, he would be under contract with the Patriots for 2019 and scheduled to earn a base salary of $2.025 million.

The 28-year-old Gordon played in 11 games for the Patriots during the 2018 regular season, totaling 40 receptions for 720 yards and three touchdowns. He was suspended on Dec. 20 for violating the terms of his reinstatement under the league's substance abuse policy, missing the team's final two regular-season games and all three playoff games.

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had been asked about Gordon's status in late March at the league's annual meeting.

"The first thing right now is to focus on Josh himself as a young man, and what he needs to do to get his life on the right track. That's what our focus is. We have resources supporting that, and that's our hope -- to make sure he gets on the right track," Goodell said. "Once he gets on the right track, we'll get to that place. But I think right now, he has had a complete focus on 'I have to get myself all cleared in the right place before I can get back on the field.'"

The Patriots are currently thin at receiver, with Super Bowl LIII Most Valuable Player Julian Edelman atop the depth chart, followed by Phillip Dorsett, Demaryius Thomas, Braxton Berrios, Bruce Ellington, Maurice Harris and Damoun Patterson.

The Kansas City Chiefs added a significant piece to their defensive rebuild on Tuesday by trading a pair of draft picks to the Seattle Seahawks in exchange for defensive end Frank Clark, league sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Clark, who had yet to sign the $17.128 million franchise tag given to him by the Seahawks, has agreed to a five-year, $105.5 million deal that includes $63.5 million guaranteed, sources told Schefter.

The Chiefs parted with their first-round draft choice, which is 29th overall, and the teams will exchange third-round picks, sources told ESPN. The Chiefs also will send the lower of their two 2020 second-round draft picks to the Seahawks, sources told ESPN.

"I feel like I'm good. I wanted to be somewhere where I'm wanted, where I'm appreciated," Clark told ESPN's Josina Anderson on Tuesday. "I thank God that K.C. came in and showed that. ... In life, you just want to be shown that you are appreciated sometimes, and I feel like this was one of those things."

Now that an agreement on a long-term deal is in place, Clark will fly to Kansas City to take a physical and finalize the trade, sources told ESPN. The agreement with Clark would eclipse the five-year, $105 million deal -- but not the $65 million guaranteed -- given to DeMarcus Lawrence by the Dallas Cowboys earlier this month.

Clark has 36 sacks in his four NFL seasons, including a team-high 14 with the Seahawks last season.

The Chiefs had one of the NFL's worst defenses last season, and that liability kept them from the franchise's first Super Bowl in 49 years. The Chiefs lost 37-31 in overtime in the AFC Championship Game to New England after losing the coin flip to begin the extra period and failing to stop the Patriots from driving for the winning touchdown.

Shortly afterward, the Chiefs replaced most of their defensive staff, including longtime coordinator Bob Sutton. Steve Spagnuolo replaced him and changed the base defensive system to a 4-3 from a 3-4.

The Chiefs cleared out three of their best defensive players in safety Eric Berry and linebackers Justin Houston and Dee Ford, who was designated with the franchise tag and then traded to the San Francisco 49ers for a second-round pick in 2020. The Chiefs then signed or traded for five new starters, most notably Clark and safety Tyrann Mathieu.

Before the trade, the Seahawks had a league-low four picks in this year's draft.

Clark also had four forced fumbles and an interception last season, and he added a sack in a wild-card playoff loss to the Dallas Cowboys.

His 33 sacks since 2016 rank ninth in the league, and his 2,045 defensive snaps in that span are fewer than the eight players ahead of him, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. Of the 21 players with at least 25 sacks since 2016, Clark's average of a sack every 63.9 snaps ranks seventh.

The Seahawks recently added defensive ends Cassius Marsh and Nate Orchard in free agency. Dion Jordan, who spent the past two seasons with Seattle, remains unsigned.

Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson became the highest-paid player in the NFL when he signed a four-year, $140 million contract extension with the team last week.

ESPN's Brady Henderson contributed to this report.

The Pittsburgh Steelers are working to complete a contract extension for quarterback Ben Roethlisberger before the NFL draft begins Thursday night, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Tuesday.

Roethlisberger, who was drafted by the Steelers in 2004, is heading into the final season of the four-year, $87.6 million extension he signed in 2015.

The two sides have been talking since the end of the 2018 season and are getting closer to having a new deal in place, a source told ESPN.

Roethlisberger, who turned 37 on March 2, has two Super Bowl victories and ranks sixth in career passing yards (56,194) and seventh in touchdowns (363). He led the NFL in passing yards in 2018 with 5,129. The Steelers never have had a losing season with him at quarterback, and he is among the franchise leaders in career games played with 216.

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson became the highest-paid player in the NFL when he signed a four-year, $140 million contract extension last week.

ESPN's Jeremy Fowler contributed to this report.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Golden State Warriors understand that they have to win one more game over the LA Clippers to advance to the Western Conference semifinals, but the group also knows that a showdown with the Houston Rockets awaits if and when they do.

"They're a great team," Warriors swingman Klay Thompson said after Tuesday's practice. "They got two Hall of Fame guards in the backcourt [in James Harden and Chris Paul], and everyone else has carved out a nice role. We've had a ton of history with them in the last five years of the playoffs. I know they're just itching to get another shot at us, and that's when, when two teams meet like that, when the stakes are that high, it makes for the best basketball in the world."

Thompson's comments come on the heels of Sunday's postgame interview with ESPN's Lisa Salters, in which he noted that the Warriors were hoping to close out their series against the Clippers as soon as possible -- after blowing a 31-point second-half lead in Game 2 -- because the Warriors knew the Rockets were on the verge of sweeping the Utah Jazz and getting extra rest. After the Jazz extended their series with a Game 4 win on Monday, both the Rockets and Warriors have a chance to close out their series on Wednesday in Game 5s.

"It's really not hard at all," Warriors guard Stephen Curry said of focusing on the Clippers, not the impending Rockets series. "At the end of the day, we know what Houston's about. We know what Utah's about and their styles of play. At this point, there isn't anything really different jumping off the TV, but coming to practice, we lock in and focus and get ready for the game [Wednesday], hopefully take care of business. It's kind of ingrained in our routines and our mindsets as we've been through so many different experiences in the playoffs. You know how to pace yourself and stay locked in on the task at hand while still having an awareness of what's going on throughout the league."

Curry said he has been keeping up with all the playoff games just like he normally would.

"You watch every game," Curry said. "You understand what's going on. You may not be as in tune, like focused on the details, but I like watching basketball in general, so it doesn't matter really who's on. Just understanding we got to focus on getting four wins now against the Clippers and go from there, but as a fan of basketball, I turn on every game."

The good news for the Warriors is that forward Draymond Green will play in Game 5 after undergoing an MRI on his right wrist. Green was seen leaving Staples Center in a wrist brace after Game 4, but Kerr didn't seem concerned that the injury will have any impact on the defensive star moving forward.

"He's fine," Kerr said. "He had an MRI, and it was clear, and he practiced fully today, so he's fine."

As for injured center DeMarcus Cousins, he was back at the Warriors' facility with his teammates on Tuesday as he continues the rehab process for a torn left quad. Cousins suffered the injury during Game 2 of the series, and Kerr noted that it is "highly unlikely" he returns before the season ends.

"We'll see what happens in a few weeks," Kerr said. "Once we have a better sense of healing and his ability to maybe get on the court, maybe, who knows? But at this point, conservatively, I would say it's highly unlikely [he returns]."

Jason Kidd interviewed for the Los Angeles Lakers' head-coaching vacancy Monday, multiple sources told ESPN.

Kidd becomes the third candidate to meet with the Lakers, following Philadelphia 76ers assistant coach Monty Williams and former Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue, who both interviewed last week. Miami Heat assistant coach Juwan Howard is also scheduled to interview for the job, sources told ESPN, and Williams and Lue are expected to have follow-up sessions.

Kidd's interview was with general manager Rob Pelinka and team executive Kurt Rambis and was conducted at the team's practice facility in El Segundo, California. The interview with the Hall of Fame point guard lasted for several hours, sources told ESPN.

The 46-year-old Kidd formerly coached the Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks. He was fired by Milwaukee during the 2017-18 season. In Kidd's 4½ seasons with the Bucks and Nets, his teams compiled a 183-190 record (.491).

Kidd has previous ties to Lakers star LeBron James, having been an Olympic teammate of his in 2008, when Team USA won the gold in Beijing. Kidd's Dallas Mavericks also defeated James and the Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals.

The woman accusing Luke Walton of a 2014 sexual assault said Tuesday that she was terrified the NBA coach was going to rape her and that the reason it took her so long to publicize the allegations was because she was scared.

Kelli Tennant -- a former host on Spectrum SportsNet LA, the Lakers' regional sports network -- spoke with media during a news conference Tuesday in Los Angeles, after a civil lawsuit alleging that Walton sexually assaulted her was accepted by the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Tennant alleges that Walton, then an assistant with the Golden State Warriors who was in Los Angeles on a road trip, sexually assaulted her in a Santa Monica, California, hotel room, which her attorney says happened in 2014.

"This type of behavior cannot be condoned and no woman should ever be made to feel like a victim," Tennant said Tuesday.

Tennant had a working relationship with Walton stemming from his time as a guest analyst on Spectrum. In the lawsuit, she alleges she met with him at the Casa Del Mar Hotel to drop off a copy of her book, "a guide for student-athletes making the transition into a world after sports," for which he wrote the foreword.

Tennant alleges that Walton invited her up to his room, where he allegedly pinned her to the bed and forcibly kissed and groped her.

"Out of nowhere, he got on top of me and pinned me down to the bed and held my arms down. With all his weight," she said of Walton, who was named head coach of the Sacramento Kings earlier this month. "He kissed my neck, and my face and my chest. And as I kept asking him to please stop and to get off, he laughed at me.

"I thought he was going to rape me. I was finally able to get up after what felt like forever. And I immediately jumped up to leave the room and he came around and grabbed me from behind and again held my arms down so I could not move. And started kissing my neck again. I kept begging him to please let go and to please stop. And he continued to laugh in my ear. He finally let me go, and I got out of the room."

Tennant said she did not go the police or talk with officials at Spectrum after the alleged incident because she was only 25 at the time and was scared.

"When someone assaults you and you think you're going to be raped, coming forward is a scary thing," she said. "And I have spent years now dealing with this, trying to forget about it, hoping that I could push it to the side and bury it and hoping that time would heal. And that was not the case. And I feel like over this time I was able to muster up the courage and have enough conversations with [my attorney Garo Mardirossian] where I felt comfortable to talk about this."

In the lawsuit, Tennant also alleged that Walton "forced an aggressive hug" and made a lewd remark about her outfit at a charity event the two attended in May 2017.

News of the lawsuit first surfaced Monday night in a story by TMZ that later was confirmed by ESPN.

Walton, 39, was hired to be the Lakers' head coach in 2016, after his run as a Golden State assistant. Walton and the Lakers mutually parted ways on April 12, and he was then hired by the Kings shortly after.

Walton's attorney, Mark Baute, called the allegations "baseless.''

"The accuser is an opportunist, not a victim, and her claim is not credible,'' Baute said in a statement earlier Tuesday. "We intend to prove this in a courtroom.''

Mardirossian initially said during Tuesday's news conference that they were not interested in filing a criminal complaint.

"If you go to the police a few years later it's very difficult to put together a case where you have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that standard of care is much higher," he said. "So police departments are not very likely to get involved in a case this old at this time."

But pressed on the matter, Mardirossian later said they're not "closing the door on (going to the police) right now."

"Maybe we'll be contacted by a police department that watches or listens or hears about this and wants to investigate this," he said. "We know the NBA is going to investigate this. So we'll see where this takes us."

NBA spokesman Mike Bass had said earlier Tuesday that the league is speaking with the Kings and is "in the process of gathering more information." The Kings also have said they are gathering additional information.

The Lakers said they were never told of the allegations when Walton was their coach and had no additional comment because he now works for another team.

The Warriors said they were "aware of the alleged incident" and gathering additional information. Warriors guard Stephen Curry didn't offer much more when asked about his former coach Tuesday.

"I know the team had a comment on it," Curry said. "That's pretty much all we can say right now. But in terms of Luke, I've known him for a long time so hopefully everything works out."

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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Texas Rangers placed left-hander Drew Smyly on the 10-day injured list Tuesday because of nerve tightness in his pitching arm, pausing his return from elbow surgery that caused him to miss the past two seasons.

Smyly, who turns 30 in June, is 0-2 with a 7.80 ERA in four starts this season. He had surgery on July 6, 2017.

Manager Chris Woodward said he expects Smyly to miss one or two starts. The roster move is retroactive to Saturday; Smyly had been scheduled to pitch against the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday.

Smyly becomes the second Texas pitcher who had Tommy John surgery to miss time already this season. Right-hander Edinson Volquez strained his right elbow and was put on the injured list on April 5.

Right-hander Wei-Chieh Huang was recalled from Double-A Frisco.

CHICAGO -- Suspended Chicago Cubs shortstop Addison Russell will play seven games at Triple-A Iowa beginning Wednesday before being eligible to rejoin the big league club on May 3.

Russell, 25, was suspended 40 games in September for violating the league's domestic abuse policy after details emerged about his former marriage.

Under league rules, Russell is allowed to play up to seven games in the minors before his suspension is complete. He has been working out at the Cubs' spring complex in Mesa, Arizona, this month after participating in spring training with the club.

"I know he's eager and anxious to get out there," manager Joe Maddon said Tuesday. "My conversations with him have been about baseball and how he's feeling."

The Cubs have monitored Russell's mandated counseling, calling his return to the Cubs a "conditional second chance."

Maddon was asked if the Cubs are prepping Russell for what could be a less than positive response from some fans when he returns.

"Let's get him playing, and then after that we'll make our call," Maddon said. "I'm certain we'll discuss those kinds of things prior to him getting here."

It's not clear what role Russell has with the team right now. National League MVP runner-up Javier Baez has thrived at shortstop, and the Cubs are well off at second base with Ben Zobrist, Daniel Descalso and David Bote sharing playing time.

There's still a chance that Russell could be traded, just as Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roberto Osuna was last season with days left on his suspension for the same violation.

The Cubs did make one move on Tuesday, as Bote was placed on paternity leave, and the team recalled lefty reliever Randy Rosario. Bote is expected back on Wednesday.

Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Carlos Carrasco left in the fourth inning of Tuesday night's 3-1 loss to the Miami Marlins with what the team said was left knee discomfort.

Manager Terry Francona said Carrasco will have a precautionary MRI on the knee.

Carrasco, 32, suffered the injury when he landed hard scrambling to catch Carlos Santana's errant throw while trying to cover first base. Carrasco finished the inning, but Francona, not wanting to take any chances, pulled him for reliever Neil Ramirez to start the fifth.

Carrasco pitched four shutout innings and struck out four before being forced to leave. He is 2-2 with a 6.00 ERA this season.

It's the latest injury for Carrasco, who has missed significant time in previous seasons with assorted injuries, many of them unlucky.

His absence will put further stress on Cleveland's rotation, which is already missing Mike Clevinger because of a back strain.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.