The 2024 football season is quickly approaching, and things are beginning to change across the SEC. Oklahoma and Texas are finally going to join the SEC, which means that a new scheduling model is set to roll out. Gone are the days of divisional play, and the days of the top two teams in the conference playing for the SEC …
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NFL exploited this loophole in broadcasting rules to schedule rare Friday game for Week 1 in Brazil
During the week leading up to Super Bowl LVIII, the NFL made a huge announcement when the league revealed it would be playing a regular-season game in Brazil for the first time. The fact the game is being played in Brazil isn’t the only unique thing about the game. It’s also notable the game will be played on a FRIDAY in …
Read More »Emmanuel Ogbah landing spots: Dolphins to save $13.7 million in cap space by cutting veteran DE, per report
The Miami Dolphins are currently projected to be way over the cap, giving general manager Chris Grier plenty of decisions to make in terms of cost-cutting measures. One of those decisions came this week, as the Dolphins are set to release veteran pass rusher Emmanuel Ogbah, according to ESPN. Releasing Ogbah prior to June 1 would save $13.7 million for Miami, according …
Read More »2024 NFL draft top 150 prospects: Pre-Combine edition
The 2024 NFL draft is quickly approaching. While free agency does come before the draft, that will only shift the needs of teams–the Buffalo Bills included. It’s still fair game to give grades and rank prospects all throughout the offseason leading up to the draft, even now… and that’s exactly what our friends at Draft Wire did. Here’s Draft Wire’s …
Read More »Meet the NFL Draft hopeful who hasn’t made a mistake in his career
Martin Rogers FOX Sports Insider Everyone makes mistakes in the National Football League. Patrick Mahomes, the greatest of all superstars, who now has three Super Bowl rings, threw 14 picks last season and saw a third of his passes fall incomplete. Wide receivers drop balls. Linemen get outmaneuvered. Coverages get blown. Kickers miss field goals. Yet as you read this, …
Read More »Five biggest storylines for 2024 NFL offseason: Bears’ looming draft decision, Stefon Diggs’ future with Bills
Super Bowl LVIII is in the rearview mirror, and so is the 2023 NFL season. As the Kansas City Chiefs celebrate their latest championship, the rest of the league is hard at work trying to knock them off their pedestal and hoist the Lombardi Trophy for themselves. Over the next few months, key milestones of the roster-building process will take …
Read More »Commanders sign LB Keandre Jones
The Commanders have added linebacker Keandre Jones to their roster. The team announced Jones’ signing on Friday afternoon. He will be part of the team’s 90-man offseason roster. Jones signed with the Bears after going undrafted out of Maryland in 2020 and then moved on to the Bengals practice squad after being cut in September. He bounced between the practice …
Read More »Why College Football Playoff needs modified system to evaluate contenders amid expansion into 12-team era
When it came to narrowing down the field to four teams in the College Football Playoff race, a popular refrain was, “it will all work itself out” whenever we started to really twist ourselves into knots coming up with chaos scenarios. A decade of evidence from the four-team format has shown that by the end of conference championship weekend, picking …
Read More »NFL franchise tag values: Here’s how much it will cost teams to use the franchise tag based on position
The NFL informed teams in a memo on Friday that the salary cap for the 2024 season will skyrocket to $255.4 million, a staggering 13.6% jump over where the cap was last year. In accordance with that spike, the league also announced the franchise and transition tag values at each position for next season. Those values are as follows: QB $38,301,000 …
Read More »Dolphins releasing Emmanuel Ogbah: Miami to save $13.7 million in cap space by cutting veteran DE, per report
Getty Images The Miami Dolphins are currently projected to be way over the cap, giving general manager Chris Grier plenty of decisions to make in terms of cost-cutting measures. One of those decisions came this week, as the Dolphins are set to release veteran pass rusher Emmanuel Ogbah, according to ESPN. Releasing Ogbah prior to June 1 would save $13.7 million …
Read More »Sooners’ are latest school to offer 2025 CB Graceson Littleton
Recruiting Florida is nothing new for Oklahoma, as they have been recruiting the Sunshine State regularly for a while. They’ve been successful in bringing in multiple contributors and starters from the state. In recent years, Florida has treated them well. One area of Florida that has been very generous to the Sooners is the Tampa area, as Oklahoma has landed …
Read More »Steelers’ T.J. Watt wants ‘more clarity’ on Defensive Player of the Year voting: Award is about my ‘legacy’
Steelers star T.J. Watt led the NFL in sacks and became the first player in NFL history to lead the league in sacks three times. He didn’t get Defensive Player of the Year as Myles Garrett took home the prestigious honor. Watt says he’s not upset over someone else winning the award, but wants some clarification on how the winner was selected. …
Read More »Bears add former Bucs QB Ryan Griffin to coaching staff
Former Buccaneers quarterback Ryan Griffin is breaking into the coaching ranks. The Bears announced on Friday that they have hired Griffin as an offensive assistant. Griffin will be working with the team’s quarterbacks and wide receivers during the 2024 season. Griffin entered the NFL with the Saints in 2013 and moved on to the Bucs in 2015. He remained in …
Read More »Jalen Milroe among this week’s Alabama football Student-Athletes of the Week
The Alabama football team kicked off the fourth quarter program this week and is now just a handful of days away from the start of spring practice. As the players begin to prepare for spring football, their classroom duties remain the same and the football program has officially announced this week’s Student-Athletes of the Week. Headlining this week’s recipients is …
Read More »Chiefs DC Steve Spagnuolo, four-time Super Bowl-winning coordinator, says he still wants to be a head coach
Now one of the most successful coordinators in NFL history, Kansas City Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo has won four Super Bowls coaching that position — one with the New York Giants and three in the last five years with Kansas City. And this season, his Chiefs team had their best defense yet. The unit finished the season ranked second …
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