Tennessee offered a scholarship to 2025 wide receiver prospect Derek Meadows. “I am truly blessed and honored to receive an offer from the University of Tennessee,” Meadows said. The 6-foot-5, 200-pound four-star wide receiver prospect is from Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. Meadows is the No. 144 overall prospect in the class of 2025. He ranks as …
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NFL key dates for 2024 offseason: Combine, free agency, draft schedule, OTAs, start of training camp
With the Kansas City Chiefs recently recrowned as Super Bowl champions, the 2023 NFL season is officially in the rearview mirror. That means it’s time to start gearing up for the 2024 campaign as 31 other teams try their best to end Kansas City’s two-year reign atop the league. Throughout the next several months, teams will adjust their roster, coaching …
Read More »Steelers not interested in pursuing big-name QB despite internal division over Kenny Pickett, per report
Getty Images Plenty expect the Pittsburgh Steelers to consider pursuing a veteran quarterback in the 2024 offseason. In actuality, the team is not interested in adding a signal-caller who expects to be the starter, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, even with apparent internal division over former first-round draft pick Kenny Pickett. “That would include Justin Fields and Kirk Cousins, and …
Read More »Tennessee football recruiting under Josh Heupel: 2025 news, rankings, Vols players to watch by SEC insiders
The Tennessee Volunteers are heading into their fourth season under head coach Josh Heupel, who signed a contract extension last year that will keep him in Knoxville through 2029. He led the Vols to an 8-4 regular season in 2023 and capped it off with a 35-0 win over Iowa in the Citrus Bowl to earn the No. 21 spot …
Read More »Why Steelers legend Terry Bradshaw can’t be forgotten among Super Bowl’s all-time great quarterbacks
Pro football surpassed pro baseball as America’s No. 1 pastime in the 1970s, and Terry Bradshaw was a big reason why. Bradshaw’s role in the Pittsburgh Steelers winning four Super Bowls helped make the NFL and the Super Bowl the immense successes they are today. Super Bowls were mostly duds until Super Bowl X, when Bradshaw’s bombs to Lynn Swann …
Read More »Jimmy Garoppolo reportedly suspended 2 games for violating NFL’s Performance Enhancing Substances policy
The NFL has suspended Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo two games for violating the league’s Performance Enhancing Substances policy, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Garoppolo reportedly used a prescribed medication without having a valid Therapeutic Use Exemption. According to Schefter, Garoppolo will not appeal the suspension and will miss the first two games of the 2024-25 NFL season. Which …
Read More »Alabama’s top newcomer expected to have immediate impact
Alabama football enters the 2024 season with a lot of unknowns. A new head coach, a handful of new players having to replace key contributors and a new-look SEC schedule. Another new aspect of the team is incoming transfers and recruits, but that happens every season. ESPN’s Blake Baumgartner and Tom VanHaaren shared their picks for the top newcomers from …
Read More »Ranking 2023 NFL rookie classes after Year 1: Texans claim top spot; Packers, Rams and Lions crack top 10
With the 2023 NFL season in the books, it’s only right that we now rank the rookie classes for all 32 teams. The “hits” are ranked in order of how well they performed as rookies, and that ranking is based relative to when they were drafted. Higher expectations for earlier picks etc. Year 1 hits: None Not a good sign …
Read More »2024 Super Bowl: Where Chiefs rank among NFL’s greatest dynasties of past 60 years after latest championship
With their win in Super Bowl LVIII, Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs have officially become NFL’s second dynasty since the turn of the century, five years removed from the New England Patriots’ final Super Bowl win. If you weren’t sure before, there’s no denying the Chiefs’ place in history now. While several teams have won two Super Bowls, very few have managed …
Read More »Where Florida football ranks ahead of the spring, per ESPN’s SP+
The Florida Gators football team starts the spring at No. 33 overall on the SP+ rankings from ESPN. SP+ is “a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. It is a predictive measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football, not a résumé ranking. Along those same lines, these projections aren’t intended to be a guess at …
Read More »Report: “Internal division” over whether Kenny Pickett or Mason Rudolph should start for Steelers
The Steelers don’t have a clear-cut No. 1 quarterback. And they apparently don’t have a clear-cut vision within the building about who the No. 1 quarterback should be. As explained by Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “there appears to be some internal division that maybe Mason Rudolph should be the starter,” given his performance at the end of the …
Read More »USC Football 2024 spring game date announced
USC football’s spring camp will come to a close with its traditional spring game on April 20. USC football is generating excitement for 2024 with the arrival of several new defensive coaches who are all saying and doing the right things. Everything USC fans have wanted to see and hear is coming to fruition with D’Anton Lynn, Eric Henderson, Matt …
Read More »2024 NFL free agency: L’Jarius Sneed hopes Chiefs can afford to keep him and Chris Jones this offseason
USATSI The Kansas City Chiefs defense was one of the best units in the NFL this season, highlighted by the play of L’Jarius Sneed and Chris Jones. Both players are going to be free agents in a month, and the Chiefs would likely need both to make a run at a three-peat. Sneed certainly hopes the Chiefs have enough money …
Read More »Three reasons why 49ers own the best odds to win 2025 Super Bowl despite title-game loss to Chiefs
The Kansas City Chiefs are a dynasty, fresh off their third Super Bowl win in five years. But the San Francisco 49ers are already early favorites to hoist the Lombardi Trophy at the end of the 2024 season, with oddsmakers deeming them 2025’s top Super Bowl contender after their second-place finish. History tells us that teams who lose in the …
Read More »LSU offers 2025 defensive back from Marietta, Georgia
Brian Kelly and the LSU recruiting staff took a trip to Marietta, Georgia, to extend an offer to a three-star cornerback who is currently up for grabs. Mark Manfred is a 6-foot-3, 175-pound, three-star defensive back from Marietta, Georgia, where he plays for Sprayberry High School. The Sprayberry Yellow Jackets finished the 2023 season 6-5 with a loss to Rome …
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