Ohio State football is winning the offseason and although it is extremely fun to track all of the transfers coming in from the SEC and the heavy-hitting five-star recruits from the states of Florida and Georgia, it is also fun to see local kids get an opportunity to shine. This is college football and despite the emergence of the transfer …

Joe Flacco’s short, surprising stint with the Browns could lead to a second season in Cleveland — maybe as Deshaun Watson’s backup. General manager Andrew Berry said Monday that he would “absolutely love” to re-sign the 39-year-old Flacco, who went 4-1 as a starter and helped the Browns make the playoffs after Watson suffered a season-ending shoulder injury.  Berry noted …

Warner, Kittles wear 49ers-Levi’s collaboration to game vs. Packers originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area SANTA CLARA — Fred Warner, George Kittle and his wife Claire Kittle brought an NFL playoff vibe to their game-day wardrobe on Saturday, wearing collaborations with Levi’s clothing company to the 49ers’s divisional-round clash against the Green Bay Packers. Warner donned a trucker jacket …

Robert Bourdon, a three-star offensive lineman at Collierville High School, has flipped his commitment. Bourdon, who is a senior and originally committed to Duke, announced Monday on social media that he was committing to Texas A&M instead. He’s ranked the No. 12 player in Tennessee, per 247sports composite. This season, Bourdon was named to the Tennessee Sports Writers Association Class …

Eric Williams NFC West Writer The San Francisco 49ers could be without their most explosive playmaker on Sunday in the NFC Championship game at home against the Detroit Lions (6:30 p.m. ET on FOX and the FOX Sports app). San Francisco head coach Kyle Shanahan has confirmed that receiver Deebo Samuel has a shoulder injury that will put his availability …

After the Bills lost to the Broncos 10 weeks ago tonight, it wasn’t looking good for Buffalo coach Sean McDermott. That’s when things changed. The Bills, after replacing offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey with Joe Brady, got hot. They won six of seven games to finish the regular season as unlikely AFC East champions and the even more unlikely No. 2 …

Mark Torres, who was the only head football coach and athletic coordinator at Class 6A Pebble Hills, is leaving the program. On Monday night, he was named the head football coach and athletic coordinator at Buda Hays in the Hays Consolidated ISD in the Austin area. Buda Hays is a Class 5A Division I program. Torres guided the Spartans to …

Getty Images Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Brian Johnson has interviewed for several head coaching vacancies since the conclusion of the Eagles’ season. Johnson had confirmed virtual interviews with the Tennessee Titans and Atlanta Falcons in the initial round of the head coach interview process.  According to The Athletic, Johnson won’t be getting an in-person interview with the Carolina Panthers. The …

Kathryn Riley / Getty Images For the third time in the past four years, the Buffalo Bills had their Super Bowl hopes crushed by Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. This season, they had home-field advantage against Mahomes for the very first time, but were outscored, 14-7, in the second half en route to a 27-24 loss. Buffalo’s loss …

Ben Arthur AFC South Reporter The Tennessee Titans’ offense was a disaster this past season, accentuated by one of the worst pass-protecting offensive lines in football. It’s been a unit in regression for three straight years, since Arthur Smith’s departure as offensive coordinator. It played a role in Mike Vrabel’s stunning firing after six seasons earlier this month.  There’s hope …

The Cleveland Browns and head coach Kevin Stefanski are looking for their offensive scheme to evolve in 2024. And it appears that is starting with the poaching of Tommy Rees from the Alabama Crimson Tide To do that the team let go of offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt, running backs coach Stump Mitchell, and tight ends coach T.C. McCartney. They …

The Cleveland Browns are plucking an assistant off Nick Saban’s coaching tree. Head coach Kevin Stefanski is close to hiring Alabama offensive coordinator Tommy Rees to coach the team’s tight ends, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Monday. Rees will replace T.C. McCartney, who was not retained last week in a postseason shakeup by Stefanski. …

The Bengals lost offensive coordinator Brian Callahan to the Titans, who hired him Monday as their new head coach. Cincinnati has an in-house replacement for Callahan in quarterbacks coach Dan Pitcher, but the team has competition for Pitcher. Pitcher has a virtual interview with the Patriots on Tuesday before flying to Las Vegas to meet with the Raiders, Ian Rapoport …

On Monday Jan. 22, San Jose State announced that Craig Stutzmann will be hired as the team’s new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Stutzmann’s hiring marks newly minted SJSU head coach Ken Niumatalolo’s first staff hire after replacing Brent Brennan who left for Arizona. The move from Niumatalolo, the winningest head coach in Navy history, means current SJSU offensive coordinator …

With the 2023 regular season in the rearview mirror, 28 of the NFL’s 32 teams are now done for the year. That means it’s time to turn our attention toward the league’s coaching carousel, where there are currently five vacancies.  The New England Patriots started things off by promoting Jerod Mayo to replace Bill Belichick, and the Las Vegas Raiders …