Oakland football’s Daune Morris has committed to Southern Cal, according to a retweet he had on the X platform Sunday. The 5-foot-10, 180-pound running back dropped his top-10 schools on Friday, which included SEC teams Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Texas A&M and Missouri, along with Colorado, Southern Cal and Louisville. He took an unofficial visit to USC …
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UFL Week 2 takeaways: St. Louis Battlehawks make spring football history, multiple QBs could draw NFL interest
The United Football League returned this weekend with another slate of spring matchups, marking the latest round of pro action from the merger of the XFL and USFL. All eight franchises came together across four different games, shaking up the league’s early-season standings and writing some new storylines for the 2024 campaign. What did you miss in Week 2? Here …
Read More »Malik Nabers set to visit Titans, Jets, Bears this week
Malik Nabers is going to continue to have a busy pre-draft process. Projected to be one of the top players off the board later this month, Nabers is set to visit with three teams in the coming week, according to NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport. Nabers will visit with the Titans on Monday before heading to the East Coast to meet …
Read More »T’Vondre Sweat arrested: Texas football star, NFL draft hopeful charged with DWI
Former Texas defensive tackle T’Vondre Sweat was arrested and charged with DWI on Sunday afternoon by Austin police. The 22-year-old Sweat was booked at 2:12 p.m., according to Travis County sheriff’s spokeswoman Kristen Dark. His bond has been set at $3,000, according to jail records. No other details were immediately available. The 6-foot-4, 362-pound Sweat had a stellar senior season …
Read More »2024 NFL Draft prospect, former Texas star T’Vondre Sweat arrested on DWI charge, per report
USATSI Less than three weeks before the start of the 2024 NFL Draft, one of the top defensive prospects of this year’s forthcoming rookie class, Texas product T’Vondre Sweat, has been arrested, KXAN reported Sunday. Sweat, 22, was detained at Travis County Jail in Austin, Texas, earlier Sunday after Austin Police arrested the defensive lineman on a misdemeanor charge of …
Read More »Michigan Panthers kicker Jake Bates makes second 60-plus yard field goal in two weeks
Two weeks into the UFL’s inaugural season, a kicker might be the league’s breakout star. Jake Bates kicked a 62-yard field goal for the Michigan Panthers on Sunday in a 20–13 loss at home to the Birmingham Stallions. The booming kick came one week after Bates hit a 64-yarder against the St. Louis Battlehawks. Only one NFL kicker hit a …
Read More »2025 4-star OT Marcus Garcia has announced his commitment date
Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko is very close to adding two more prospects to the Aggies’ 2025 recruiting class. Four-star offensive tackle Marcus Garcia, who received a prediction to land with the program last week, just announced his commitment date for later this month. On Sunday, Garcia revealed that just a week from today, on Sunday, April 14, the …
Read More »Bears mock draft: Ryan Poles re-racks strategies from 2023
Bears mock draft: Ryan Poles re-racks strategies from 2023 originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago We’re two and a half weeks away from the NFL draft and teams across the league are finalizing their big boards. The Bears have almost certainly already made their biggest decision. Quarterback prospect phenom Caleb Williams visited the team at Halas Hall last week to …
Read More »Eagles’ receiver says Saquon Barkley will show people ‘why he’s the best running back in the league’
This offseason, we saw the running back market take a significant step forward from where it had been recently. With one of the best free-agent classes in recent memory at the position, seven different backs signed contracts with an average annual value of $7 million or more. The largest of those deals was the three-year, $37.75 million deal that former …
Read More »Michigan Panthers’ Jake Bates kicks 62-yard field goal, a week after hitting from 64
Jake Bates of the Michigan Panthers is booting long field goals like no one else, at any level of football. Last week, Bates kicked a 64-yard field goal as time expired to lead the Panthers to a victory in their first game with the new United Football League. Today, Bates kicked a 62-yard field goal in the Panthers’ second game …
Read More »UNC football adds 2025 recruit from Georgia with commitment
Mack Brown and the North Carolina Tar Heels football program received some good news on Sunday afternoon. Class of 2025 three-star recruit Javion Butts ended his recruitment and picked the Tar Heels, giving Brown and the staff a big commitment over this weekend. The Georgia native took a few visits to North Carolina over the course of the year, including …
Read More »2024 NFL Mock Draft: Only 2 QBs taken in top 5 as teams prioritize other positions; Raiders, Giants make trade
… Source link : https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2024-nfl-mock-draft-only-2-qbs-taken-in-top-5-as-teams-prioritize-other-positions-raiders-giants-make-trade/ Author : Tom Fornelli Publish date : 2024-04-07 19:46:05 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Read More »2024 NFL Mock Draft: Giants, Vikings take quarterback in first round; Bills pick WR after Stefon Diggs trade
… Source link : https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2024-nfl-mock-draft-giants-vikings-take-quarterback-in-first-round-bills-pick-wr-after-stefon-diggs-trade/ Author : Bryan DeArdo Publish date : 2024-04-07 19:48:27 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
Read More »Aggies in search of starting quarterback and other takeaways from NMSU’s spring game
Apr. 6—LAS CRUCES — Tony Sanchez’s immediate impressions of New Mexico State’s spring game? “Little wind blowing today,” the Aggies’ head coach laughed, gesturing around Aggie Memorial Stadium. Under the strain of nearly 20-mile-per-hour winds, NMSU closed its first practice session under Sanchez with a spring game on Saturday morning. Sanchez takes over the Aggies program from Jerry Kill, who …
Read More »2025 4-star LB out of Buford (GA) will reportedly take an official visit to Texas A&M this summer
This weekend, Overtimes’ OT7 event featured several commits in Texas A&M’s 2025 recruiting class, led by four-star cornerback Deyjhon Pettaway and four-star defensive lineman Landon Rink, who both showed out during Saturday’s festivities. Attending the event, Texas A&M recruiting insider, known professionally as AggiesToday, spoke to nearly every 2025 prospect who attended the event, including four-star linebacker and Georgia commit …
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