. Four-star safety Kendarius Reddick has given a verbal commitment to join the USC Trojans’ 2025 recruiting class.  Reddick is proof of how hard defensive backs coach Doug Belk and the rest of the USC coaching staff are hitting SEC country in this year’s high school recruiting class.  Reddick hails from Thomasville, Georgia, a state that USC has had mixed …

Where Orlovsky ranks 49ers’ Purdy among top NFL QB traits originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area It’s no secret that Brock Purdy was one of the best NFL quarterbacks in 2023, but was his eye-popping success in his first full season a product of his natural talent or the playmakers around him? While Purdy has many weapons in coach …

Texas Longhorns fan Georgina Cantu takes a photo in front of the Southeastern Conference logo in front of Littlefield Fountain during the SEC Celebration at the University of Texas at Austin on Sunday, June 30, 2024. Fans only have to wait a few more weeks for the start of the most anticipated SEC season in history. Adding Texas and Oklahoma …

The Giants suffered a potential blow to their offense on Tuesday, as rookie running back Tyrone Tracy went down with an apparent ankle injury. According to reporters in attendance, Tracy was working on a kickoff drill when he went down untouched. His right ankle was put in an air cast and he was carted off the field. Tracy was selected …

Ken Ruinard-USA TODAY Sports Hours after the release of the preseason AP Top 25 poll Monday, Fox Sports unveiled its “Ultimate 134” rankings of every FBS team ahead of the 2024 college football season. Fox Sports’ rankings differ from the AP’s because they’re compiled by only one individual analyst instead of the cable of sportswriters who make up the AP …

Ryan S. Clark, NHL reporterAug 13, 2024, 11:13 AM ET CloseRyan S. Clark is an NHL reporter for ESPN. The St. Louis Blues are not only making the rare move of using an offer sheet on another team’s player, they’re doubling up on the tactic. The team announced Tuesday that they tendered offer sheets for Edmonton Oilers defenseman Philip Broberg …

Curran: Patriots’ handling of Maye all ties back to Mac Jones originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Drake Maye saw the least action of any first-round rookie quarterback in Week 1 of the preseason. Is Mac Jones indirectly to blame? Maye played just one series in the New England Patriots’ 17-3 win over the Carolina Panthers last Thursday, in part …

PISCATAWAY – Rutgers football is just past the midway point of training camp with its season opener against Howard about two weeks away. The Scarlet Knights have played one scrimmage with another coming up on Saturday, their next chance to game into a game-like setting – an important experience for the quarterbacks with the addition of helmet communication starting this …

Mayo gives Patriots stern warning about joint practice fighting originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston New England Patriots head coach Jerod Mayo doesn’t want to see any fights when his players square off against the Philadelphia Eagles in Tuesday’s much anticipated joint practice at Gillette Stadium. And if there is fighting, there will be consequences involving Thursday night’s preseason matchup …

The Upstate is full of talented high school football running backs. Here’s a chance for fans to vote for their favorites. Polls will close at 5 p.m. Friday. Multiple votes are allowed. Here are 10 candidates listed in alphabetical order: Aiden Gibson, Woodruff: Gibson had three 100-yard games last season as a freshman. He finished with 765 yards (4.8 per …

Fresh off a full week of preseason action, we’ve got ADP movement across the board! We kicked off last week’s risers and fallers with a set of players seeing movement based on training camp hype and injuries. This week, the majority of movement can be attributed to real football. The weekend was certainly full of hype but many teams blessed …

Kristen Shilton, ESPN NHL reporterAug 13, 2024, 10:31 AM ET CloseKristen Shilton is a national NHL reporter for ESPN. Canadian junior hockey player Rylan Masterson filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the NCAA and 10 universities on Monday evening, alleging the NCAA is violating anti-trust laws by preventing any player who has appeared in a major-junior hockey game from also …

On ESPN college football reporter Bill Connelly’s final 2024 preseason SP+ rankings – “a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency” that predicts the best teams in the sport heading into the season – Ohio State remains near the top. Connelly has the Buckeyes as his second-ranked team behind No. 1 Georgia and ahead of No. 3 Oregon, No. …

With so many players to choose from in drafts and so many to rank, some underrated gems are bound to fall through the cracks. But here, fantasy football analyst Sal Vetri wants to help you make sure you don’t miss the players possessing great value, and those with potentially league-winning upside. Here are five tight ends to consider late in …

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz looks ahead to the upcoming season in the Atlantic Coast Conference – highlighted by a 17-team roster that is led by Clemson and Florida State. View more Video Transcript The theme for the AC C in college football this season might be quantity over quality. And no, that’s not a Misspeak for once. For me. It’s …