Legendary head coach Nick Saban retired after 17 seasons at Alabama, opening one of the most sought-after and pressure-packed jobs in college football history. Former Washington coach Kalen DeBoer is taking on the challenge, heading to Tuscaloosa after leading the Huskies to the 2024 College Football Playoff national championship game this season. One of the biggest questions he will have …

USATSI San Francisco 49ers star wide receiver Deebo Samuel’s status for the NFC Championship remains up in the air, as he deals with a shoulder injury. Samuel suffered the injury during the team’s 24-21 Divisional Round win over the Green Bay Packers on Saturday. He was originally ruled questionable to return and was eventually downgraded to out. San Francisco still …

If recent conference title game history is any indication, then your Championship Round NFL picks should feature a narrow margin of victory. Three of the last four conference title games have been decided by exactly three points, the one outlier being when the 49ers had no healthy quarterbacks versus Philadelphia in last year’s NFC Championship Game. San Francisco has no …

Getty Images And then there were four. The NFL playoffs have whittled down to the final four after a wild divisional round, and now we have Championship Sunday to look forward to which features a handful of the league’s elite clubs.  Both No. 1 seeds emerged out of their lone playoff game victorious following the first-round bye and Baltimore along …

The Florida Gators became the latest indirect beneficiary of Nick Saban’s retirement when they formally added blue-chip defensive back Jameer Grimsley on Monday. Grimsley is a 6-foot-3, 185-pound athlete who played at Bloomingdale High and Tampa Catholic. He was the nation’s No. 189 overall recruit in the 2024 class, according to the 247Sports composite, and would have been a welcome …

The Chiefs offense didn’t always click during the 2023 season, but they went back to what’s worked in the past in Buffalo on Sunday and it paid off for them. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce hooked up for touchdowns in the second and third quarters of their 27-24 win over the Bills. The scores were the 15th …

Getty Images San Jose State has hired former Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo to replace Brent Brennan, who accepted the Arizona job amid a wave of openings stemming from Nick Saban’s retirement at Alabama. Niumatalolo’s deal is for five years, according to ESPN.  Niumatalolo recently accepted the tight ends coach job at UCLA after he spent the 2023 season in a support staff role with …

Video Details Not only is Dak Prescott’s brother, Tad, sharing his wishes that the quarterback hightail it out of Dallas after the Cowboys’ early playoff exit. Other family members of Dak’s teammates have been chirping too, including CeeDee Lamb’s mom, and Micah Parsons’ brother. Greg Jennings and Willie Colon join Craig Carton to talk about whether all of this criticism …

Getty Images The Kansas City Chiefs advanced to their sixth consecutive AFC Championship Game following their 27-24 road victory over the second-seeded Bills in frigid Buffalo on Sunday night, and apparently they weren’t done dealing with the cold after the game. The Chiefs now own the second-longest streak of reaching the conference championship game round since the 1970 AFL/NFL merger, …

The Carolina Panthers’ hunt for a new head coach may have maxed out at 11 candidates. According to Joe Person of The Athletic, the organization appears to have “quietly moved on” from Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Brian Johnson—who was reportedly expected to interview for the opening. Person, in his column from Monday morning, writes that the Panthers are now unlikely to …

The quarterback names at the top of the 2024 NFL Draft have been discussed for months: USC’s Caleb Williams and North Carolina’s Drake Maye. There are a handful of others that have entered the chat at various points during the college football season, including LSU’s Jayden Daniels, Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy, Washington’s Michael Penix Jr. and Oregon’s Bo Nix.  With a …

Getty Images The Philadelphia Eagles have fired defensive coordinator Sean Desai, as CBS Sports Lead NFL Insider Jonathan Jones confirms an NFL Media report. It’s expected to be the first of many sweeping changes on that side of the ball. Desai lasted just one season as the team’s defensive coordinator and 13 games as the defensive play-caller before being replaced by …

After ending his rookie season in the AFC Divisional Round against the Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud was asked if he called the 2023 season “a success.” With that, Stroud looked back at his time at Ohio State. “Where I come from in college, you don’t win it all, it’s a fail,” Stroud told reporters. “So that’s the …

Video Details It may have been a missed field goal that sealed the Buffalo Bills fate in their Divisional Round face off against the Kansas City Chiefs, but there were a number of mishaps that led to this loss, and Craig Carton is joined by Greg Jennings and Willie Colon to recount them. They start with Josh Allen, who missed …

13 DC candidates for Eagles to consider in 2024 originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia The Eagles officially moved on from Sean Desai on Sunday (not a shocker) but it was noteworthy that Nick Sirianni was the one to fire Desai. And the Eagles will obviously be looking for a new defensive coordinator. Last season after losing Jonathan Gannon, the …