The Nebraska football team received a resignation letter right before the start of training camp. Defensive backs coach and passing game coordinator Evan Cooper resigned on Friday evening. Cooper was entering his second season as the Huskers’ defensive backs coach. The 2024 campaign would have been his 12th consecutive year on Rhule’s staff. He resigned for personal reasons. Cooper’s secondary …

Gadsden City’s Zyan Gibson has burst onto the recruiting scene last spring and this summer, garnering offers from some of the top schools in the country. The Class of 2026 defensive back has an offer sheet headlined by SEC and in-state giants Alabama and Auburn. Tennessee, Texas A&M, Miami, Georgia, LSU, defending champions Michigan and other power conference offers have …

WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue football coach Ryan Walters made recruiting lockdown cornerbacks a priority. On Friday evening, the Boilermakers landed one of the nation’s best in the 2025 class. Columbus, Ohio’s Dawayne Galloway, a four-star cornerback by 247Sports, announced on his Instagram account he’s verbally “100% committed” to Purdue. Galloway becomes the 11th known member of Purdue’s 2025 football recruiting …

Damien Shanklin will be a LSU Tiger. The Indianapolis (Ind.) Warren Central four-star defensive end announced his pledge to the Tigers on Friday. He took official visits to Tennessee, Ohio State and Alabama in addition to his trip to Baton Rouge. Shanklin originally planned to commit on Aug. 29 but moved his date up since he knew LSU was the …

The Alabama Crimson Tide coaching staff has already begun to recruit for the 2026 recruiting class. One prospect that the Crimson Tide are an early finalist for is interior offensive lineman Brandon Anderson. On Friday, Anderson listed Alabama in his top seven. The other six finalists were Georgia Bulldogs, Georgia Tech, LSU Tigers, North Carolina State, Tennessee Volunteers, and UCF. …

USC football recruiting might not exactly be terrible. The Trojans could have a top-15 class for 2025. That’s certainly not atrocious. Moreover, USC is taking big swings and is not shying away from high-profile recruitments in the South and other contested regions. However, for all the swings USC takes, the Trojans aren’t hitting it out of the park. That’s what …

LSU’s 2025 class took a hit in the ratings with a couple of key recent decommitments, namely five-star receiver Dakorien Moore and four-star cornerback Jaboree Antoine. It will take some time before the Tigers are pushing for the top class in the country as they were previously, but after landing a trio of commitments this week, they’re back on track. …

The Tigers are on a roll. Missouri football secured a verbal commitment from four-star wide receiver Donovan Olubode on Friday, marking the second blue chip receiver based in the state of Florida to pledge to Eli Drinkwitz’s Class of 2025 in as many days. Olugbode — who is originally from Naperville, Illinois — committed to the Tigers on the heels …

LSU has seen its standing in the 2025 recruiting rankings fall a bit in recent weeks, but it’s picked up quite a bit of momentum to start the July 4 weekend. The Tigers landed a trio of commitments capped off by the addition of four-star EDGE Damien Shanklin, who committed to the Tigers on Friday. Shanklin, an Indianapolis prospect, is …

Wide receiver Martavis Bryant isn’t thinking about ending his bid to make it back into an NFL game. Bryant was reinstated last November from an indefinite suspension that was put in place while he was playing for the Raiders during the 2018 season. Bryant had repeated violations of the league’s substance abuse policy, but signed to the Cowboys practice squad …

IMG Academy wide receiver Donovan Olugbode committed to the Missouri Tigers on Friday over Florida, Oregon, USC and Washington. Olugbode announced his decision live on 247Sports’ YouTube channel surrounded by his family. He reviewed each of his top five schools with national college football recruiting analyst Tom Loy before revealing his choice. “Billy Napier, him being a receiver guy, coming …

The Seattle Kraken on Friday agreed to terms with restricted free agent Eeli Tolvanen on a two-year contract worth $6.95 million. He will count $3.475 million against the salary cap through the ’25-26 season. A first-round pick by Nashville in 2017, Tolvanen found a home in Seattle after the Kraken claimed him off waivers early in the 2022-23 season. Tolvanen …

The state’s top high school football prospect is headed to bayou country for college. Warren Central defensive end Damien Shanklin, ranked as the No. 48 prospect in the country by 247sports and the No. 5 defensive end, announced his commitment to LSU on Friday on his Instagram page. The 6-5, 245-pound picked LSU over Alabama and Ohio State. He took …

Cam Newton is considered one of the best dual-threat quarterbacks in NFL history, maybe even the best. If pressed, Newton says he isn’t the GOAT of the dual-threat quarterbacks.  Newton deferred to Lamar Jackson as the greatest dual-threat quarterback, citing a different style of play than the quarterback who has the most rushing touchdowns for a player at his position …

Coach Mike McDaniel spent the offseason reminding the Dolphins how long it’s been since the franchise has won a playoff game. It came 24 years ago, in the 2000 season, when Miami beat the Colts 23-17 in overtime. The Dolphins reached the postseason each of the past two seasons under McDaniel but lost in the wild-card round. But with their …