How Isaiah Rodgers came back better than ever after 512-day layoff originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia He didn’t have a team. He didn’t have a coach. He didn’t have teammates.  But he could pretend. So during his 512-day absence from football – from late in the 2022 season with the Colts until the start of OTAs last week with …

SEC spring meetings took place this week in Destin, Florida, with the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns taking their place at the table. Oklahoma enters its first year in the SEC after leaving the Big 12. Along with Texas, they will be the newcomers to a conference that’s been very successful, especially in football. But the Red River Shootout, the …

Getty Images PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Eagles are set to conclude organized team activities before the full mandatory minicamp begins next week. The team concluded their fifth of six OTA practices Thursday, the second of which was open to the media.  This practice mostly conducted of 7-on-7 drills and one 11-on-11 segment with some interesting depth chart observations. Mandatory minicamp …

Nine years ago, a group of NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers sued the league over a topic that has spawned antitrust litigation since the 1950s: Do NFL teams limiting how they compete in licensing broadcasts run afoul of antitrust law? That core legal question is headed for a jury trial set to begin next Wednesday in the Los Angeles courtroom of …

College football analyst JD PicKell is putting a plenty of stock in this year for the Texas Longhorns. According to PicKell, the Longhorns’ first impression season in a new conference is vital to their perception in the SEC. The college football commentator said the following of the 2024 season for Texas on his show “The Hard Count.” “I think the …

The 49ers used a third-round pick on guard Dominick Puni this year and that represented a departure from recent trends for the team. Puni is only the third offensive lineman drafted in the first three rounds — they also included a third-round pick in a trade for left tackle Trent Williams — since General Manager John Lynch and head coach …

The annual SEC spring meetings are coming to a close. Nearly every SEC head football coach and athletic director has taken the podium or met with reporters in random hallways to discuss various topics heading into the 2024 college football season. Earlier this week, Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko continued his expansive preview of his inaugural 2024 season. At …

Technically, the Broncos are letting three quarterbacks — Bo Nix, Jarrett Stidham, Zach Wilson — compete for the Week 1 starting job. As a practical matter, they’re hoping that the twelfth overall pick in the 2024 draft will win the job. And so, whenever Broncos coach Sean Payton speaks to reporters, he’ll be asked about Nix’s development. Payton got that …

The Wisconsin Badgers football team will host four-star class of 2025 linebacker Mason Posa for an official visit this weekend. The Albuquerque, New Mexico, native has narrowed his final three programs list to Oregon, Texas A&M and Wisconsin. Posa is ranked as the best player in the state of New Mexico by 247Sports, while the website has him listed as …

In the early days of fantasy football, rookie receivers were an afterthought, almost a joke. You’d ignore them for their first seasons, barely look at them for their follow-up seasons, then maybe consider them for Year 3 breakouts. That was the playbook, and almost everyone followed it. There were occasional exceptions. Randy Moss detonated with an amazing 1998 season. Anquan …

Jaron Keawe Sagapolutele is ready to carry the torch. After seeing Tua Tagovailoa stockpile trophies at Alabama on his way to the NFL and closely studying Dillon Gabriel as he’s accumulated thousands of passing yards, first at UCF and then Oklahoma en route to Oregon, the next star left-handed quarterback from the state of Hawaii aims to follow their lead. …

An 18-game NFL season is coming, and no one can do anything to stop it. Well … that’s not true. But oddly, it seems to have already been embraced as inevitable by all parties just three years since the league went to 17 games, its first expansion of the regular season in 43 years. It’s less a march to 18 …

In early 2006, quarterback Drew Brees had a surgically-repaired shoulder that kept the Dolphins from offering him a contract. It didn’t stop the Saints. Eighteen years later, Brees has been elected to the Saints’ Hall of Fame. His arrival, along with coach Sean Payton, laid the foundation for a rebirth of the city in the aftermath of a hurricane that …

Sherrone Moore and Jonathan Smith soon went their separate ways. But early Thursday morning, they were in lockstep, walking side-by-side as they quickly left the floor at Wayne State Fieldhouse, where they each delivered some brief remarks before a group of high school prospects at the National College Showcase. This is the dawn of the frenetic recruiting season, which means …

While Russell Wilson has been in “pole position” to be the Steelers’ starting quarterback, Justin Fields is also in the mix for the role. But should he not win that job, Fields has expressed a willingness to serve as a potential offensive weapon — like Taysom Hill has been with the Saints. “When my name is called, I’ll be ready,” Fields …