When Ohio State takes the field for its spring game on Saturday, the college football world will get its first glimpse at the changes made by the Buckeyes over the offseason. Chip Kelly gave up a head coaching job to become offensive coordinator in Columbus. Ryan Day and his staff were very active in the transfer portal, bringing in more …

Packers President Mark Murphy says his team is ready, willing and able to head to Brazil in Week One, if the NFL sends them. The league has already announced that the second game of the 2024 regular season will be played in Brazil on Friday, September, 6, and that the Eagles will be the designated home team in a game …

Apr. 9—Luka Gilbert is headed for the Sunshine State to play college football. The Lakota West junior announced Monday night he has verbally committed to the University of Miami after fielding offers from Ohio State, Michigan, Iowa and many others since last year. Listed 6-foot-7, 217 on the roster last fall, Gilbert caught 15 passes for 171 yards and two …

The Dallas Cowboys have already had one of the strangest offseasons of any team in the league. After Jerry Jones declared that the team would be all in for the upcoming season, the team instead allowed six starters to leave in free agency and lost another to retirement, and signed only one outside free agent.  The Cowboys have cried poor, …

The 2024 NFL Draft is now less than three weeks away, and there are plenty of questions we all are wondering. How many quarterbacks will go in the top five, and who could be aggressive enough to trade up for one? Is it possible NFL teams aren’t as high on this quarterback class as some appear to be? Who will …

Montreal Canadiens defenseman Arber Xhekaj will undergo season-ending surgery on his left shoulder, the team announced Tuesday. Per the Canadiens, Xhekaj will have surgery Wednesday and is expected to be ready for the start of next season. Xhekaj, 23, recorded 10 points (three goals, seven assists) and a plus-6 rating in 44 games this season. He also had 11 points …

During Jackson State’s annual spring football game Saturday, head coach T.C. Taylor called the offensive plays as the Blue team defeated the White team 23-9 at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium. It was a duty made necessary by offseason changes in the coaching staff. Co-offensive coordinators Maurice Harris and Jason Onyebuagu, who called the plays in 2023 when the Tigers led …

Five new helmet models will be used in the 2024 season that the NFL says are safer than any helmets previously worn in the league. The NFL and NFLPA announced today that the new models tested better than ever before in the safety testing that the league oversees before approving helmets for use. Additionally, six helmet models that have previously …

Getty Images This offseason, New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers was in the headlines for non-football reasons. The New York Times reported last month that Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. approached Rodgers about potentially serving as his running mate. However, Kennedy eventually landed on attorney and tech entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan as his running mate.  During a Monday interview on …

The Miami Hurricanes lost a talented local player to the transfer portal on Tuesday. Defensive lineman Nyjalik Kelly plans to enter the transfer portal, he shared on his Instagram account. The next transfer window starts on April 15. Kelly, a former Dillard High star and Sun Sentinel Super 11 pick, was a standout for the Panthers. He was rated a …

Logan Ryan, the versatile defensive back who won a pair of Super Bowls with the New England Patriots, announced on Tuesday that he is retiring from the NFL after spending 11 seasons in the league.  Ryan was a third-round pick of the Patriots out of Rutgers back in 2013, and he quickly emerged as a starter and one of the …

Apr. 9—Some of the most common questions of spring football at Ohio State have centered on the impact of Chip Kelly’s arrival in Columbus. The Buckeyes’ new offensive coordinator isn’t likely to reveal much in the spring game Saturday at Ohio Stadium, but we have gotten some clues from interviews over the past few weeks. Here is a sampling: Head …

Former 49ers DB Logan Ryan retires from NFL after 11 seasons originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Defensive back Logan Ryan may have figured he had already played his final NFL game when he went on a late-November Disney cruise to the Bahamas with his family. On Tuesday, he made it official. Ryan, 33, announced his retirement in a …

Year after year, Dabo Swinney and the Clemson football program boast one of the best defenses in college football, and that isn’t expected to change in 2024.  The Tigers have a tremendous amount of talent on their defense and continue to recruit at a tremendous level on that side of the ball. In the 2023 recruiting class, it was bringing …

When projecting what could occur during the 2024 NFL Draft, analysts often explore the likely outcomes, but the long shots should be acknowledged just to explore all possibilities.  Here are some specific scenarios that are considered unexpected: New England passes on a quarterback in the first round At this point in time, most fans expect the Patriots to use the …