Sean Allen, Special to ESPN.comMar 4, 2024, 12:00 PM ET CloseSean Allen is a fantasy analyst for ESPN.com. He was the 2008 and 2009 Fantasy Sports Writers Association Hockey Writer of the Year. You can tweet him @seanard. A busy start to Week 21 of the fantasy hockey season has a six-game Monday on tap, followed by a nine-game Tuesday …

With the 2023 season officially in the books, the NFL and all 32 teams are gearing up for 2024. Over the next several months, each franchise is going to do its best to catch up to the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs.  That process begins in earnest with free agency, which begins in less than two weeks. With that …

Aside from the warmer weather and the fact we inch closer to the Oklahoma spring game, March is a pivotal month in the college football calendar. Players who have been recruited, gone on visits, and received offers are inching ever closer to deciding where to play their college ball. There’s been a flurry of top school lists as most of …

USATSI The 2023 regular season is in the rearview mirror as the NFL offseason is under way, and that means every team across the league  is working to reconstruct their rosters in hopes of building a competitive club for 2024. Of course, one of the best avenues to do that will be via free agency.  As is the case every …

The 2024 NFL Combine has now come and gone. It’s always a fun event to see prospects compete in a different avenue, but take it for what it is, simply an athletic and skills challenge with no football being played. For what it is and what it isn’t, it’ll still raise the draft stock for players in the eyes of …

Wisconsin extended an offer to class of 2025 wide receiver Bryson Jones on Monday. Jones is currently unranked on 247Sports, though is a three-star recruit according to Rivals. He has an impressive offer list, headlined by Tennessee, Texas A&M, Penn State, Oklahoma State, Utah, Arkansas and Baylor. Related: Las Vegas Big Ten Championship odds released for 2024 football season Jones is …

Nothing sells tickets in the NFL quite like an elite quarterback and explosive offense. But Super Bowl LVIII is recent evidence that defense still matters greatly in the hunt for a Lombardi Trophy. Perhaps more than even Patrick Mahomes, Steve Spagnuolo’s Kansas City Chiefs defense helped propel the third title in five years for this generation’s NFL dynasty. With that …

If we learned one thing from the last NFL offseason, it’s that the league doesn’t want to pay running backs. A total of six NFL players were franchise-tagged last year, with half of them being running backs. The three running backs were the only players of the six who did not eventually receive long, lucrative contract extensions.  It turned into …

The Oregon Ducks appear to be in the running for one of the very best players in the 2025 class as he narrows down his recruitment. 5-star defensive lineman Elijah Griffin cut his list down to 12 teams over the weekend, and he included the Oregon Ducks along with teams like Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Clemson, and USC. Griffin is rated …

The months throughout the NFL season is electric, no doubt about it. Now that we are in the offseason, however, a new type of fun begins. Free agency and the draft provide the opportunity for all 32 teams to alter their rosters, for better or worse. The wide receiver position gains importance seemingly every season for every team in the league …

The Jets defensive unit has undoubtedly been the team’s strength over the past two seasons, so it’s not all that surprising to hear that defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich has drawn interest from other teams around the league. According to Zack Rosenblatt of The Athletic, there was mutual interest between the San Francisco 49ers and Ulbrich in the 47-year-old becoming the …

When Lincoln Riley talked to USC football reporters and beat writers a few weeks ago, he said something about new USC secondary coach Doug Belk which is worth noting. Riley specifically said about Belk that “He does a great job of being able to relate to guys but holding them accountable in areas that are very important.” USC’s previous defensive …

Free agency is the most exciting time of the NFL offseason, as teams around the league get into a spending frenzy in hopes of improving their roster for a Super Bowl run over the coming season. This year’s free agent class has plenty of talent to be had, especially with the increased salary cap in play.  This year’s free agent …

What a show the prospects put on at the 2024 NFL Combine. We have a new record-holder in the most marquee event, the 40-yard dash, (Xavier Worthy). We witnessed a 340-pound offensive linemen have a 9-foot-3 in broad jump (Amarius Mims), and watched Texas Tech safety Tyler Owens nearly tie Byron Jones’ record-12-foot-3 broad jump, which was previously deemed as untouchable.  The …

The Ohio State football team will be embarking on another spring practice season beginning on Tuesday, March 5, and as with every spring, Ohio State football has questions entering the fall. Some of those will get answered, some of them might, and some won’t. What we will get to see isn’t going to be all we see during the fall, …