A couple of defensive coordinators have landed on the list of candidates for the Chargers head coaching job. According to multiple reports, the Chargers have requested interviews with Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn and Raiders defensive coordinator Patrick Graham. The Chargers fired head coach Brandon Staley and General Manager Tom Telesco during the regular season. Quinn has been a popular …

In the Arizona Cardinals’ 21-20 loss to the Seattle Seahawks in Week 18 to close out the season, the offense was on the field for 70 snaps. Four players played every single one of them. How was the playing time divided up? Below are the individual snap counts for everyone who got into the game on offense, grouped by positions. …

It was Brandon Aubrey’s wife Jenn who first realized her husband might have been playing the wrong sport. Two years after being selected in the first round of the MLS SuperDraft, and a year after retiring from soccer without appearing in an MLS match, the Aubreys were watching an NFL game on TV when a kicker set up for a …

This embedded content is not available in your region. Subscribe to The College Football Enquirer The 2023 college football season is officially in the books, as Jim Harbaugh’s Michigan Wolverines football team pounded the Washington Huskies 34-13 on Monday night in Houston, securing a perfect season and the program’s first national championship since 1997. Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s …

Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson posted 95 catches for 1,042 yards while playing with four different starting quarterbacks this season, but don’t tell him that he did a good job of turning lemons into lemonade. Wilson told reporters on Monday that the 2023 season was “the worst year of my life” and that “football hasn’t been this hard” at any …

USC has offered four-star tight end DaSaahn Brame from the 2025 class. The Derby, Kansas, native stands at 6-6 and 235 pounds. He originally picked from a group of schools which included Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Oklahoma, Michigan, Kansas State and Texas A&M, but he ultimately picked the Oregon Ducks. Brame is listed as a four-star prospect by the 247Sports index …

En route to winning the AFC South, C.J. Stroud was one of nine quarterbacks to eclipse 4,000 yards passing, did so with the third-best yards-per-attempt average a 8.2 and tossed 23 interceptions to just five picks. Quite easily, he just completed one of the finest rookie quarterback seasons we’ve ever seen.  Where does his rookie season rank among the best …

HOUSTON — Drake Nugent remembers almost feeling guilty when he arrived in Ann Arbor last spring. Michigan football had won back-to-back Big Ten championships and reached the the College Football Playoff twice, yet here he was, injured and trying to join the mix after winning just three games at Stanford the year before. “I was kind of reaping the benefits …

The Michigan Wolverines were on a mission all season long, and they found a way to accomplish their goal on Monday night. In a year where the head coach was suspended for three games on two separate occasions, Michigan claimed its first national championship since 1997 with a 34-14 victory over Washington on Monday night in the College Football Playoff …

HOUSTON — One year ago, Michigan quarterback J.J. McCarthy stood on the sideline of the Fiesta Bowl watching purple confetti fall on State Farm Stadium in Arizona after TCU stole a bid to the 2023 College Football Playoff National Championship.  “We’ll be back,” McCarthy said in the postgame press conference. “I promise that.” And then he walked out.  It was …

Former Stanford and USC running back Austin Jones has been selected to play in the 2024 Hula Bowl in Orlando. In his career, Jones rushed for 2,337 yards and 24 touchdowns on 4.7 yards per carry. He also added over 900 yards receiving and three touchdown catches in his five years on a college gridiron. Jones was the second running …

Washington quarterback Michael Penix Jr. leaves field at the end of the half against Michigan of the national championship NCAA College Football Playoff game Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) HOUSTON (AP) — Michael Penix Jr. couldn’t complete the final chapter in his storybook season Monday night. The quarterback with two surgically repaired knees threw for 255 …

1 The Bulldogs have still won 29 out of their last 30 games. If not for a stumble against Alabama, they would have been playing for a third straight national championship. With Carson Beck and most of a rock-solid defense returning, there’s no shame in winning three out of the last four nattys.2 Nick Saban has stiff-armed retirement rumors as …

Michael Cohen College Football and College Basketball Writer HOUSTON — The private plane carrying two of Michigan football’s most ardent supporters was waging an unexpected battle with a stormy Texas sky as kickoff for Monday night’s national championship game neared. It had taken off from Baltimore a few hours earlier but encountered rotten weather on the approach into Houston, where …

HOUSTON — Michael Penix Jr. was determined to not let his well-documented injury history define him on college football’s biggest stage. Despite being hit, sacked and pressured by Michigan’s defense at the College Football Playoff championship game on Monday night, the Washington Huskies’ quarterback was going to finish the game — hobbling or not. When asked after the game about …