Every year, 14 of the NFL’s 32 teams make the playoffs. And on average, only about half of them return the following year. The other half are replaced, with something like six new contenders on an annual basis. It’s a true testament to the league’s parity, and perhaps the greatest argument for the existing salary cap, which requires all franchises …

Eagles-only mock draft: Getting some help on defense originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia It’s the first time they’ve had three of the first 53 picks since 1994. And the first time they’ve had seven of the first 172 picks since 2011. After adding 11 free agents over the past few weeks, GM Howie Roseman will continue to reshape the …

Rivals national recruiting director Adam Gorney ranks the 10 biggest recent pledges and another busy stretch in the recruiting world. RUMOR MILL: Plenty of buzz over the holiday weekend ***** CLASS OF 2024 RANKINGS: Rivals250 | Team | Position | State CLASS OF 2025 RANKINGS: Rivals250 | Team | Position | State CLASS OF 2026 RANKINGS: Rivals250 | Position | …

Carson Wentz finds another job as backup quarterback originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Former Eagles first-round pick Carson Wentz has signed a one-year deal to join the Kansas City Chiefs, according to multiple reports. Bleacher Report’s Jordan Schultz first reported the signing. This will be the fifth team for Wentz in five years, dating back to his final season …

Former Wisconsin football class of 2025 commit Cody Haddad received a crystal ball prediction to choose Ohio State on Monday afternoon. The prediction took no time after the promising athlete decommitted from the Badgers earlier that day. Haddad is 247Sports’ No. 527 player in the class of 2025, No. 37 athlete and No. 16 recruit from his home state of …

Rachel Doerrie, ESPNApr 2, 2024, 07:30 AM ET CloseRachel Doerrie is a professional data consultant specializing in data communication and modelling. She’s worked in the NHL and consulted for professional teams across North American and Europe. She hosts the Staff & Graph Podcast and discusses sports from a data-driven perspective. The NHL season is coming to an end, with the …

Heading into the 2023-24 season, it was unclear what to make of the Nashville Predators. GM Barry Trotz had been busy in the offseason, and that included cutting ties with veteran centers Matt Duchene and Ryan Johansen. Andrew Brunette took over as the new head coach. The club hovered in the mushy middle for much of the season, then lost …

ASHLAND — Basketball icon Bob Haas was four years into his Hall of Fame coaching career at Willard when a young man, fresh out of Baldwin-Wallace College, interviewed for the football post at the high school. His name was Jim Tressel. Puff out your chest, preferably while wearing one of his signature sweater vests, if you already knew that. NJ …

Michigan football had seemingly every necessary ingredient last season en route to a 15-0 record and a national championship. A quarterback who may go in the top five later this month in the NFL draft was key. A running back who rewrote the program record book didn’t hurt either. Of course, those records were all set largely because of an …

Louis Rees-Zammit has joined back-to-back Super Bowl champions the Kansas City Chiefs – Alamy Live News It took 17 years of London NFL games and countless heroic failures from wannabe players but, at last, the British are coming to American football. There have been isolated success stories. Osi Umenyiora, born in London, won two Super Bowls with the New York …

Jermod McCoy was a high school wide receiver who signed with the only power conference school that offered him a scholarship in the 2023 class. A year later, he was among the most coveted cornerbacks in the transfer portal. McCoy chose Tennessee over Texas A&M, Auburn, Oregon, Washington and other schools who weren’t interested in him the first time around. …

Cartwheels, fourth-down conversions and trick plays during the 2023 Louisville football season were only a glimpse of what a Jeff Brohm-orchestrated offense can look like. In his first year coaching the Cardinals, Brohm had three months between his hiring and the beginning of spring football to keep the 2023 high school recruiting class together while assembling one of the country’s …

Former NFL cornerback Vontae Davis has died at age 35. (Photo by Zach Bolinger/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Vontae Davis, former NFL cornerback for the Miami Dolphins, Indianapolis Colts and Buffalo Bills, has died, with all three teams confirming the news on Monday. He was 35, just two months short of his 36th birthday. We are heartbroken by the sudden …

Apr. 1—PULLMAN — If Montana State coach Matt Logie wants the job at Washington State, it’s his. That’s the word from CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander, who reported Monday that WSU offered the job to Logie, who just wrapped up his first season with the Bobcats. Last season, they collected a 17-18 record, winning the Big Sky Conference tournament title and …

New Eagles running back Saquon Barkley has wasted no time in getting to work with quarterback Jalen Hurts. Barkley posted a picture on social media showing himself and Hurts together on a football field last weekend, where they’ve begun their offseason work together. Hurts often organizes offseason work with other players on the Eagles’ offense, but this was his first …