FAYETTEVILLE — Rodney Hill’s journey to Arkansas football included a pit stop. It turns out, there was also a large, unexpected speed bump. Hill spoke with the media Friday for the first time since joining the Razorbacks. The redshirt sophomore from Georgia spent two years at Florida State before transferring to Florida A&M, then Arkansas, this offseason. According to Hill, …

It’s been eight days since Judge Philip Gutierrez did the NFL a $14.1 billion favor by throwing out the jury’s verdict in the Sunday Ticket antitrust case. With an appeal inevitable, should the NFL try to settle the case? Ben Fischer of Sports Business Journal raised that issue in his weekly newsletter, with quotes from Jodi Balsam, a professor at …

Ken Ruinard-USA TODAY Sports Cade Klubnik is looking for more consistency and overall improvement as he enters his second season in offensive coordinator Garrett Riley’s system. Klubnik started all 13 games last season and threw for 2,844 yards to go with 19 touchdowns and nine interceptions. He also coughed up 10 fumbles with five resulting in turnovers. The Tigers started …

Steelers rookie Troy Fautanu, the 20th overall pick in the 2024 draft, made his preseason debut on Friday night. At some point while playing, he suffered a knee injury. Via Jeff Hathhorn of 93.7 The Fan in Pittsburgh, Fautanu’s left knee was wrapped after the game against the Texans. Coach Mike Tomlin said the team will have more information on …

Texas Tech football coaches moved into their offices in the new Jones AT&T Stadium south end zone building in July, and the Red Raiders have been having team meetings in the field-level club since they started practice last week. The project construction team met the targeted substantial completion dates on those two levels, Texas Tech deputy athletics director Jonathan Botros …

With Falcons starting quarterback Kirk Cousins not playing in the preseason, rookie Michael Penix Jr. got the start on Friday in Miami. He did well with it. “It was fun to see him go out there and execute some of the pass plays and we were able to get some of the stuff done,” coach Raheem Morris said after the …

LSU football added another offensive weapon to its 2025 recruiting class on Friday. Three-star receiver Phillip Wright III announced his commitment to the Tigers one week after he backed off his pledge to Michigan. According to On3, the athlete from Destrehan High in Destrehan, Louisiana, picked up a recent offer from the LSU track and field team to help convince him …

The plane that flew the Carolina Panthers home from their preseason game against the New England Patriots on Thursday ran off the taxiway at Charlotte Douglas Airport early on Friday morning. The Delta chartered flight carrying players and staff members skidded into the mud while taxiing after landing around 2:35 a.m., according to ESPN’s David Newton. Nobody was injured in …

The Oklahoman recently ranked the top defensive lineman heading into the 2024 Oklahoma high school football season, and now the fans have a chance to have their voices heard. The Oklahoman’s poll for the state’s best high school defensive lineman is now live, and it will be available until noon Thursday. Cast your vote and check out all of our coverage heading into …

If today’s news that the Patriots planned to release receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster was aimed at getting someone to trade for him, the phone didn’t ring. The Patriots have officially parted ways with the veteran receiver. Making a trade impractical was his $7 million salary in 2024, which is fully guaranteed. That said, a team could have offered the Patriots a …

Tyler Barnes has a new title with the Iowa Hawkeyes. Iowa head football coach Kirk Ferentz announced in his Media Day press conference that Tyler Barnes is now Iowa football’s chief of staff and general manager. “The other announcement to make, Tyler Barnes has a new title. It’s football chief of staff and general manager, which is kind of the …

Cordarrelle Patterson is ready to get on the field for the Steelers. The NFL’s daily transaction wire shows that Patterson passed his physical on Friday. That takes him off the non-football injury list and makes him eligible to start practicing and playing with the AFC North club. Patterson won’t be practicing right away because the Steelers are playing the Texans …

NCAA Football: Big 12 Media Days BOULDER, Colo. — Deion “ Coach Prime ” Sanders kicked off his second season at Colorado with a combative news conference Friday when he also celebrated his 57th birthday and became a grandfather. Donning his signature shades and a Buffaloes baseball cap, Sanders started things off by thanking the person who left a card …

Brandon Aiyuk’s tenure in San Francisco may not be coming to an end just yet. Aiyuk’s future with the reigning NFC champions has been in limbo since he requested a trade after not being able to negotiate a long-term contract extension this offseason. Teams such as the Pittsburgh Steelers have reportedly shown interest in acquiring the All-Pro receiver. Then came …

MILAN – Kalen Edwards was one of the loudest people on the Dyersburg sideline on Friday. While Edwards didn’t play in the TSSAA football scrimmage against Milan at Johnnie Hale Stadium to avoid potential injury, he still made his presence felt. Any time his teammates made a big play, he was the first to celebrate. Anytime his teammates made a …