The Jaguars signed another draft pick on Thursday. The NFL’s daily transaction wire brings word that second-round pick Maason Smith has signed his four-year rookie deal. Three of the team’s nine picks, including first-round wideout Brian Thomas Jr., remain unsigned. Smith and Thomas were teammates at LSU, but Smith missed all but one game of the 2022 season with a …

The Pop-Tarts Bowl is returning to Orlando in December after a “crazy good” launch. The game will feature the top teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Big 12 Conference at Camping World Stadium on Dec. 28, 2024. On Thursday, Florida Citrus Sports announced the college football bowl schedule in Orlando for the 2024-2025 season, including the Cheez-It Citrus …

A lawsuit brought by NFL fans alleges the league colluded with network partners CBS and Fox, along with DirecTV, and controlled the pricing of Sunday Ticket in a violation of antitrust law. (Chris Delmas / AFP / Getty Images) Did the NFL conspire to put the squeeze on its biggest fans, driving up the price of DirecTV’s Sunday Ticket package …

Ravenwood senior Donovan Starr committed to Auburn football and coach Hugh Freeze on Thursday, he confirmed to The Tennessean. The 6-foot, 175-pound defensive back visited Auburn on Wednesday. He chose Auburn over Clemson, Tennessee and Missouri. He was at Clemson last week. Starr is the No. 14 player from Tennessee in the Class of 2025, according to the 247Sports Composite, …

The Dolphins haven’t won a playoff game since 2000. It was a 23-17 overtime victory over the Colts in the wild-card round. Dave Wannstedt was the team’s coach; Jay Fiedler was the quarterback: and Zach Thomas and Jason Taylor led the defense. Mike McDaniel is the 10th Dolphins head coach since then, counting interim head coaches, and 21 other quarterbacks …

Texas Tech football players have made their mark in the Canadian Football League for years. Wide receiver Derrell Mitchell topped 12,000 career receiving yards in an 11-year career north of the border and was inducted into the CFL Hall of Fame in 2016. Linebacker Micah Awe last year set a single-season tackles record for the Calgary Stampeders. Former Tech offensive …

Olympic gold medalist wrestler Gable Steveson has an uphill climb to make the roster after signing to play for the Bills, but he has found a good mentor in Von Miller. Miller, the eight-time Pro Bowl pass rusher, said Steveson approached him immediately and said he wants to soak up all of Miller’s knowledge. “His locker is right next to …

The BYU Cougars storm the field before a football game at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. | Ben B. Braun, Deseret News BYU may have landed its quarterback of the future on Thursday. Nolan Keeney, a 6-foot-4, 215-pound QB from Tualatin, Oregon, announced on social media that he has committed to the Cougars. A three-star …

The Philadelphia Eagles replaced their coordinators on both sides of the ball after a stunning late-season collapse from the 2022 NFC Champions, including hiring Kellen Moore to run their offense. Moore spent four years as the offensive coordinator for the archrival Dallas Cowboys before one ill-fated season with the Los Angeles Chargers in 2023. While Moore has shown the ability …

Damien Harris rips Belichick, Patricia for failed Patriots offense originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Former New England Patriots running back Damien Harris went on a near 15-minute rant Thursday, opening up to Robert Mays on “The Athletic Football Show” about what it was really like to be led by head coach Bill Belichick and offensive coordinators Matt Patricia and …

The Big Ten Conference is now USC’s conference. The Trojans are setting up shop in the Midwest alongside three West Coast neighbors who are also making the transition from the Pac-12. In this transition year, how does Big Ten football stack up against other conferences in terms of strength of schedule? ESPN’s Football Power Index (FPI) is measuring strength of …

The Panthers are signing UFL receiver Daewood Davis, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports. Davis earned All-UFL honors, catching 41 passes for 446 yards and five touchdowns on 70 targets in 10 games with the Memphis Showboats this spring. He played for Oregon from 2017-20 and Western Kentucky in 2021-22 but went undrafted in 2023. The Dolphins signed him as …

The USC-LSU college football season opener is one of the best games in Week 1 of the season, just before Labor Day. We joined the Powers On Sports podcast, hosted by Jason Powers, to discuss that game plus a few other Week 1 showcase games. We also talked about non-college football topics, just so you know, but college football was …

With the NFL debuting new rules governing kickoffs this upcoming season, there’s at least one coach out there (Mike McDaniel of the Dolphins) who thinks we are going to see No. 1 wideouts and running backs campaigning to get in on the return game. That may or may not actually come to fruition, but the team here at CBS Sports …

After some recent speculation was floating around about former Michigan State football captain and defensive tackle Simeon Barrow jumping from Miami, where he committed this spring, over to Missouri, Barrow put those rumors to rest on Thursday, affirming his commitment to the Hurricanes on social media. You can see his statement below: There’s been a lot of assumptions and rumors …