Former five-star signee and Alabama freshman All-American offensive tackle Kadyn Proctor is reportedly set to enter the NCAA transfer portal. It’s the latest potential transfer from Alabama following legendary head coach Nick Saban’s retirement. With Proctor’s inclusion, eight Tide players have entered the transfer portal per 247Sports since Saban announced his retirement on Jan. 10. It could be huge news …
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Bills vs. Chiefs weather forecast: Heavy snow to hit Buffalo prior to NFL divisional round playoff game
Getty Images The Buffalo Bills overcame both extreme winter weather and the seventh-seeded Pittsburgh Steelers to earn the opportunity to play host to the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes in the AFC divisional round on Sunday. Mahomes will be experiencing his first true road playoff game in his career after playing his first 15 either …
Read More »Ravens waive Melvin Gordon
The Ravens will start their playoff run without Melvin Gordon on their 53-man roster. Baltimore has waived the veteran running back, according to Tom Pelissero of NFL Media. Gordon, 30, spent most of the season on the practice squad. He appeared in four games, recording 81 yards on 26 carries with a touchdown. He also caught three passes for 46 …
Read More »5 potential candidates to become Alabama’s next cornerbacks coach
In what came as a surprise to most, Alabama defensive backs coach Travaris Robinson has left the Crimson Tide and accepted a coaching gig at Georgia. He will be the Bulldogs’ co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach. Robinson spent the last two seasons coaching for the Crimson Tide. Now, Alabama will be forced to find someone to replace Robinson. During his …
Read More »Why Louis Rees-Zammit’s NFL dream is so shocking to the rugby community
Martin Rogers FOX Sports Insider By now, so many overseas athletes have come to the United States to take their shot at the National Football League that it no longer feels particularly newsworthy. Louis Rees-Zammit is an exception. This week, Rees-Zammit, a 22-year-old winger for Wales’ national rugby team and a genuine star of last year’s Rugby World Cup, created …
Read More »Patriots welcome new head coach: Jerod Mayo embraces historic hiring; Robert Kraft says in-house GM on table
History was made Wednesday in Foxborough, as the New England Patriots introduced Jerod Mayo as the franchise’s 15th head coach. Mayo, who is replacing six-time Super Bowl champion head coach Bill Belichick, becomes New England’s first Black head coach. That fact was not lost on Mayo, a former All-Pro linebacker and assistant coach for the Patriots. “You better believe being the …
Read More »Packers ‘fire starter’: Aaron Jones helping power NFL’s youngest team to postseason run as 49ers await
ARLINGTON, Texas — The seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers entered this postseason as the NFL’s youngest playoff team since the 1974 Buffalo Bills, and on Sunday on the road against the second-seeded Dallas Cowboys, they pummeled the home team 48-32. Green Bay led by as many as 32 in the fourth quarter before head coach Matt LaFleur took his foot off …
Read More »7 Things to know about Oregon’s transfer CB Brandon Johnson
Dan Lanning and the Oregon Ducks can’t seem to get enough of the transfer portal, picking up a new transfer target or commitment seemingly every day. On Wednesday afternoon, Oregon added their 10th transfer commitment of 2024: Brandon Johnson, a former cornerback for the Duke Blue Devils. The Ducks are losing their top CB from 2023, Khyree Jackson, this offseason, …
Read More »Jared Goff, Baker Mayfield and the Battle of the Misfits
Carmen Vitali NFC North Reporter No matter what happens in Sunday’s divisional round showdown in Detroit, the NFC Championship Game will be started by a quarterback who was once given up on. Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff was the afterthought in a trade that sent then-Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford to the Los Angeles Rams. The former Rams first-round pick was …
Read More »Bills needed a punter, but passed on Matt Araiza
In 2022, the Bills liked punter Matt Araiza enough to use a sixth-round pick to draft him. Now, when they need a punter in advance of the most important game of the year, they had no interest in bringing him back. By signing Matt Haack to the practice squad as the potential replacement for Sam Martin, who suffered a hamstring …
Read More »Spartans offer elite, Nevada 2025 4-star OL Alai Kalaniuvalu
Michigan State football has extended a scholarship offer to one of the best offensive lineman prospects in the 2025 class. The Spartans have extended an offer to four-star interior offensive lineman Alai Kalaniuvalu on Wednesday. Kalaniuvalu plays for Bishop Gorman and is considered one of the top prospects in Nevada. Kalaniuvalu ranks as the No. 7 interior offensive lineman in …
Read More »A closer look at the 7 candidates to be the next Commanders head coach
Ralph Vacchiano NFC East Reporter When Adam Peters, the newly hired general manager of the Washington Commanders, took stock of the franchise he’s now running, he didn’t see a complete mess. He saw “a few cornerstone pieces” on the roster. He believed the foundation for success was already there. “This is not a total rebuild,” Peters insisted in his introductory …
Read More »2024 NFL playoffs: Buccaneers’ Baker Mayfield has epic response to Lions’ C.J. Gardner-Johnson’s trash talk
Football isn’t the only thing Baker Mayfield has gotten better at during his time in Tampa. The Buccaneers’ starting quarterback had the perfect response to Lions safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson trash-talking him ahead of Sunday’s divisional-round playoff matchup. In case you missed it, here’s what Gardner-Johnson said about Mayfield when he was recently asked about the Buccaneers’ receiving corps. “This group probably …
Read More »Alabama’s transfer portal woes, Ohio State finds a new AD & will Jim Harbaugh stay at Michigan?
This embedded content is not available in your region. Subscribe to The College Football Enquirer Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde kick off the podcast examining where Jim Harbaugh could be coaching in 2024 after interesting language was found in his Michigan contract. The former 49ers head coach has already taken interviews with the Los Angeles Chargers and …
Read More »Agent’s Take: Can Cowboys afford not to give Dak Prescott a record-breaking extension?
The Dallas Cowboys’ season came to a shocking end in the wild-card playoff round with a 48-32 home loss to the Green Bay Packers. A No. 7 seed hadn’t won a postseason game since the NFL expanded the playoffs to 14 teams in the 2020 season. Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott took his share of the blame for the historic upset …
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