Jets interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich said on Monday that Aaron Rodgers will remain the team’s starting quarterback because “we think he gives us the best opportunity to win” and Rodgers reiterated on Tuesday that he’s not looking for an exit from a frustrating season. Rodgers said on The Pat McAfee Show that “one of my goals this year coming …
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Early signing period live updates: 2025 commits, rankings for de facto national signing day
The signing period can signal hope for programs coming off a season of struggles. It can also show the start of the next emerging dynasty. The three-day signing period lasts from Wednesday, Dec. 4 through Friday, Dec. 6, allowing high school recruits to sign earlier than ever in the NCAA calendar. Most recruits in recent years have signed during this …
Read More »Fantasy Football Week 14 Rankings (Half-PPR)
Fantasy football managers will be treated to an AFC West showdown featuring two of the league’s best QBs in Justin Herbert and Patrick Mahomes in Week 14. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Warning, fantasy football managers: Bye-pocalypse 2.0 is upon us! There are six games out of the mix in Week 14, including the Indianapolis Colts, New England …
Read More »What is early signing day? Explaining college football’s 2025 early signing period
Wednesday marks the first day of the early signing period in college football, also unofficially known as the early signing day. On Wednesday, high school recruits can sign their National Letter of Intent to the football program they’ll be spending the foreseeable future at. It’s become the unofficial signing day, as most top players put pen to paper on the …
Read More »Prisco’s Week 14 NFL picks: Lions survive Packers, Chiefs handle Chargers and Cowboys officially bury Bengals
There are five weeks left in the NFL regular season. That means I have five weeks to turn things around with my picks. Over the course of the past seven weeks, I’ve gone rotten like a hard-boiled egg left in the fridge for four months. It stinks. So do I. I can’t get anything going with my picks. This is …
Read More »49ers bring back RB Ke’Shawn Vaughn to practice squad
The 49ers are desperate for help at running back, and they’re getting some in Ke’Shawn Vaughn. Vaughn is signing with the 49ers’ practice squad, according to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network. The 49ers have now added two running backs, with Vaughn joining Israel Abanikanda, who was awarded to the 49ers off waivers from the Jets. Vaughn was a 2020 third-round …
Read More »UK’s Kattus a finalist for Pop Warner award
Kentucky tight end Josh Kattus has been named one of four finalists for the 15th annual Pop Warner College Football Award, Pop Warner Little Scholars announced Tuesday. The Cincinnati native has caught 21 passes for 310 yards and five touchdowns in 33 career games and 15 starts for the Wildcats. This season, he made six receptions for 77 yards and …
Read More »Mike Tomlin on George Pickens: I’m not giving you details about what goes on behind the scenes
Following Sunday’s win over the Bengals, Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said George Pickens has “just got to grow up, man,” after the third-year receiver committed a pair of personal fouls. Pickens was flagged for taunting and for making finger guns after a catch, costing Pittsburgh 30 yards in penalties. He finished the game with three receptions for 74 yards …
Read More »Colorado’s Travis Hunter: college football’s mind-warping dual threat is one of one
Travis Hunter of the Colorado Buffaloes, center, celebrates after scoring a fourth-quarter touchdown against Utah at Folsom Field last month.Photograph: Dustin Bradford/Getty Images The Heisman Trophy is college football’s supreme individual honor, an annual tribute to the best player in the game, and more often than not it’s the country’s top quarterback who takes the prize. But this could be …
Read More »Fantasy Football Week 14 Rankings (Full-PPR)
The Week 14 game slate is an abridged one; there are six teams on a bye, which means fantasy football managers will be treated to just 12 total games this week — AKA, just 12 total teams from which to carefully construct your fantasy lineups in what could be an absolutely crucial week toward your trip to the playoffs. [Week …
Read More »Nebraska transfer portal tracker 2024
(Photo by Eric Francis/Getty Images) The Nebraska Cornhuskers are already feeling the impact of the transfer portal during the 2024 offseason. The portal officially opens on Monday, December 9, and closes on Thursday, December 28. That hasn’t stopped several Huskers from already declaring their intentions to enter when it opens. The first player to announce his plans to enter the portal …
Read More »Fantasy Football Week 14 Rankings: Flex (Full-PPR)
Tennessee Titans wide receiver Nick Westbrook-Ikhine has been on a hot streak of touchdown production, making him an intriguing flex play for fantasy football managers moving forward. (AP Photo/Daniel Kucin Jr.) Touchdown production is incredibly fluky. That’s especially the case for a player like Tennessee Titans WR Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, who’s scored eight times on just 20 catches this year. He …
Read More »In his own words: Why Mark Zackery signed for Notre Dame. ‘I knew where home was going to be.’
Ben Davis standout Mark Zackery IV will sign with Notre Dame on Wednesday, the start of the early signing period for college football. Zackery explains, in his own words, why he committed to the Irish: Notre Dame was a school I saw a lot on TV when I was younger, but I never knew much about it. I grew up …
Read More »Fantasy Football Week 14 Rankings: Tight Ends (Full-PPR)
The 2024 NFL preseason was one filled with hope for the potential of the tight end position. It felt like there were a myriad of options who could change the trajectory of a hstorically volatile position. Detroit Lions TE Sam LaPorta was coming off a record-setting rookie campaigni and looked poised to take another step forward. There was an opportunity …
Read More »Cheboygan football’s Munger named NMFL Legends defensive player of year
CHEBOYGAN – Luke Munger was a force on the football field for the Cheboygan Chiefs. Recently, the Cheboygan senior star was recognized by the Northern Michigan Football League Legends Division in a major way. Thanks to an excellent final season, Munger was named the league’s defensive player of the year. In addition, he made the NMFL defensive first team as …
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