It’s been 10 months since SJ Tuohy moved into his new role as executive director of The Kingdom NIL, a collective geared toward supporting UCF athletes through their name, image and likeness. In that short time, the university transitioned from the American Athletic Conference to the Big 12 in July, opening the doors for a new world of opportunities on …

Report: Bears plan to hire Shane Waldron as OC originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago The Chicago Bears’ exhaustive search for their next offensive coordinator has come to an end. After almost two weeks of interviews, the Bears plan to hire former Seattle offensive coordinator Shane Waldron, NFL Media’s Tom Pelissero reported Monday morning. Waldron spent the last three seasons …

Corey Raymond is back in Baton Rouge. Raymond rose to prominence in the 2010s coaching LSU’s defensive backs, where he assembled some of the sport’s most talented units year after year. He wasn’t retained upon Brian Kelly’s arrival in 2021, but after LSU’s secondary struggled in 2023, Kelly is bringing back a familiar face. According to The Advocate, Raymond’s deal …

The Lions saw left guard Jonah Jackson and tight end Brock Wright leave Sunday’s win over the Buccaneers with injuries and head coach Dan Campbell didn’t have an optimistic update on either player after the game. Jackson left with a knee injury and Wright was wearing a sling on his injured arm in the locker room after the game. Campbell …

In a high school gymnasium in a suburb of Philadelphia, Will Howard threw passes in front of visiting college coaches. It was January 2019 as Howard, then a junior at Downingtown West High School, looked to make an impression. He had missed the last half of the previous season after breaking an arm, a setback that stalled his recruitment. Opportunities …

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes hasn’t been in the NFL that long, but there aren’t a lot of unchecked boxes for a two-time MVP with two Super Bowl rings. One of the only ones was winning a road playoff game because Mahomes never had the opportunity to play in one until Sunday. He’d played in 12 games at Arrowhead Stadium and …

The Ohio State Buckeyes and Ryan Day continue to win big recruitments and feast on other programs’ departing players. Quarterback prospect Julian Sayin committed to Alabama but then transferred once Nick Saban retired. Ohio State picked off Sayin to bolster its roster even more in a highly productive offseason. Buckeyes Wire has more on the story: “Alabama transfer quarterback Julian Sayin committed to …

The AFC Championship Game will be the 17th postseason game of Patrick Mahomes’ career, meaning that Mahomes has effectively played another full season in the playoffs. And in that other full season, Mahomes has put up MVP numbers. In the 16 postseason games that Mahomes has started so far, the Chiefs are 13-3. Mahomes has thrown for 4,561 passing yards …

The Eagles are looking for a reset after exiting the playoffs following a stunning 32-9 loss to the Buccaneers in the Wild Card round of the NFC playoffs. Even with Nick Sirianni’s team clinching a playoff berth for the third straight year, there are question marks centered around the personnel and coaching staff following a historic collapse that saw Philadelphia …

Penn State head coach James Franklin and his updated staff were busy this weekend. Penn State hosted a number of high school juniors for the latest junior day event on campus and that led to a number of players receiving scholarship offers to take home with them. It also yielded a new commitment to the Class of 2025 with the …

Arizona football fans rejoiced on Saturday when they learned that quarterback Noah Fifita and receiver Tetairoa McMillan stayed in Tucson and refused to join former coach Jedd Fisch with the Washington Huskies. Arizona has done reasonably well in terms of retaining quality players for 2024 and its first Big 12 season under new coach Brent Brennan. However, some losses are …

Penn State was busy handing out scholarship offers over the weekend after hosting a number of potential Nittany Lions for a junior day event. One of the players receiving an offer this weekend was Jotavion Pierce, a rising safety out of Alabama. Pierce is a 6′-2″, 185-pound safety recruit in the Class of 2025 playing for Montgomery Catholic Prep in …

Jefferson senior linebacker Brian Senter is on track to play for Troy football next fall to play with the Trojans under recently hired coach Gerad Parker. There were, however, a few speed bumps in the road before this point. In mid-December, in the usual end-of-season shuffle, Troy lost its head coach Jon Sumrall and offensive coordinator Joe Bernardi. Senter was …

Family and football. An alliteration with countless symmetries, the two words blend together effortlessly. It’s the perfect combination for brothers Mark, Chris and Matt Landolfi. “Growing up, I never watched a football game by myself. It was always a big deal with family, friends, relatives. It was chaos, but it was awesome every weekend,” said Chris Landolfi, the former head …

Photograph: Al Bello/Getty Images For some Bills fans of a certain age, the ghost of Scott Norwood’s wide right 47-yard field goal in Super Bowl XXV and the three further Super Bowl losses that followed in successive years had begun to dwindle. After all, it’s a new era in Buffalo. They have a frequent shopper card to the NFL playoffs. …