The 49ers are adding some veteran depth to their defensive line. Nick Williams will sign with the 49ers, according to multiple reports. The 49ers lost defensive lineman Kalia Davis for about half the season when he injured his knee in the preseason opener, and getting Williams in the rotation will help. The 34-year-old Williams entered the NFL as a seventh-round …

Nico Iamaleava. Tennessee’s Orange & White Game at Neyland Stadium on April 13, 2024. Photo by Dan Harralson, Vols Wire Tennessee will kick off its 2024 college football season in 17 days at Neyland Stadium. The Vols continue to practice in fall training camp in preparation for the upcoming season opening Aug. 31. Ahead of Week 1, ESPN’s Bill Connelly …

The standoff between receiver Brandon Aiyuk and the 49ers may be coming to a conclusion soon. According to Ian Rapoport of NFL Media, the 49ers and Steelers have a deal for a potential Aiyuk trade in place. The Steelers also are “in a good place” with Aiyuk on a new contract. If the 49ers give their final sign-off, the deal …

Stuck behind more veteran options at center, Sheridan Wilson said Tuesday he spent his first two years with the Texas Tech football team feeling undervalued. That’s not uncommon for an offensive lineman playing in the Big 12 with the last name Wilson. The Tech redshirt sophomore said the same thing happened to his older brother Preston, who is now a …

Jets head coach Robert Saleh said recently that quarterback Aaron Rodgers could make an appearance in the team’s final preseason game, but it doesn’t sound like Rodgers finds it necessary to get on the field. The topic came up during Rodgers’s press conference on Tuesday and said he’s “not worried” about whether he gets any game action before the season …

ORLANDO — The most important game is the next one, or so any coach will have you believe. It’s a classic college football cliché and, sure, there’s a fair share of truth involved. Teams don’t typically begin preparations for their opponents until the week of the game. But once a schedule is finalized, it’s also fairly easy to determine which …

How Purdy inspired Vikings QB Darnold during short-lived 49ers union originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Sam Darnold’s time with the 49ers was short-lived, but beneficial nonetheless. The veteran quarterback spent the 2023 NFL season mostly as a backup to 49ers starter Brock Purdy, and in their short time together, Darnold said he observed and learned plenty from Purdy …

Most Ivy Leaguers aren’t associated with smelling salts or taking cannonball plunges into cold tanks in the training room. Then again, Florida football defensive tackle Joey Slackman isn’t your typical Ivy Leaguer. Sure, Slackman enrolled at Penn, where he earned a wresting scholarship before transitioning into football his final two years on campus. But after earning Ivy League Defensive Player …

Jaguars defensive lineman Arik Armstead is ready to go. Armstead was activated from the physically unable to perform list, the team announced this afternoon. The 30-year-old Armstead is in his first year in Jacksonville after spending his first nine NFL seasons in San Francisco. Armstead tore the meniscus in his knee last season with the 49ers, played with the injury …

EVANSVILLE — The Courier & Press sports reporters will be making daily predictions or observations on various high school football topics this week ahead of the 2024 season. Next up: Which players in the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference and Pocket Athletic Conference have breakout potential in 2024? Everyone knows who the top players will be. Every year, a handful of …

Finally cleared, Cooper DeJean practices for first time since spring originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The Eagles secondary was already jammed with promising young defensive backs. Now it’s even more crowded. Rookie 2nd-round pick Cooper DeJean, who’s been on the Non-Football Injury list since the start of training camp with a hamstring injury, was activated on …

Leroy McFadden was a rare Big Ten recruit out of the NIC-10 … sort of. He played more for Michigan State (391 yards rushing, 224 receiving in 1997 and 1998) than he ever did at Auburn, leaving Rockford to move in with his uncle in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, after his sophomore year. “I had to get away,” said McFadden, who …

The biggest story at Jets training camp continues to be a player who has yet to even show up. Edge rusher Haason Reddick, who formally requested to be traded on Monday, is still holding out for a new contract — one he hopes will pay him in the range of $25-28 million annually. Just about everyone on the Jets, including …

The Saints made a couple of roster moves on Tuesday. They have signed cornerback Kaleb Ford-Dement to the 90-man roster. They waived fullback Zander Horvath in a corresponding move. Ford-Dement spent time with the Patriots after going undrafted earlier this year. He had 32 tackles, one sack, three tackles for loss, and three interceptions while playing for Texas State last …

STOCK | Footballs rest in a bag at a high school football game between St. Augustine and Bolles in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 25, 2023. [Clayton Freeman/Florida Times-Union] There is a quarterback battle at DeSoto, one of the top programs in Texas football and the nation. In last week’s release of the USA TODAY Sports Preseason Super 25, DeSoto was …