Despite the Rutgers football class filling up, recruits like Taeshawn Alston continue to be a priority for the program. A three-star defensive end, Alston took an official visit last weekend to Rutgers. A class of 2025 recruit, he plays for Vance County High School (Henderson, North Carolina). Last year for Vance County, he had 27 total tackles including nine tackles …

The Bengals signed center Ted Karras to an extension on Thursday and they also got one of their 2024 draft picks under contract. Defensive tackle Kris Jenkins has signed a four-year deal with the team. He is the ninth of their 10 draft picks to sign his rookie deal with the team. Jenkins was a key defensive piece for Michigan …

Four-star safety recruit Lagonza Hayward has moved up his commitment date. The talented class of 2025 safety prospect plans to announce his commitment on July 27. He was previously scheduled to commit in August. Hayward’s top four schools are Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee. Hayward, who is ranked as the No. 6 safety in the country, is no longer …

Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence has agreed a five-year contract extension worth a reported $275m (£216m), according to NFL Network Insider. The deal is reported to be worth $55 million (£43m) per year with $200 million (£157m) guaranteed, which would make the 24-year-old the joint-highest earning quarterback alongside the Cincinnati Bengals’ Joe Burrow. Lawrence, the number one overall pick in …

In retrospect, he sees it as a blessing in disguise. But at the time it happened, it seemed like the cruelest kind of curse. Here was Quinten Johnson on the doorstep of his dreams in January, days away from the College Football Playoff championship game and a perfect coda to his Michigan football career. It had been quite a journey …

Jonathan Taylor was once a hugely hyped fantasy RB — and the hype could be back for 2024. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images) Not that long ago, Jonathan Taylor was a destination pick for fantasy football managers, a game-changer, a league winner. He charted as the RB4 in his 2020 rookie year, and he jumped to the RB1 slot for …

West Texas A&M’s investment in a new football stadium has paid off as the NJCAA announced Bain-Schaeffer Buffalo Stadium will host the NJCAA Division I Football Championships, beginning in 2024. The stadium opened in 2019, and features 8,500 seats and an estimated capacity of 12,000 when including overflow berm seating and standing-room only space on the concourse level. The stadium …

In late 2021, Tom Brady said this regarding his post-football life: “I imagine not playing. And I imagine watching football on Sundays going, ‘These guys suck.’ I could do way better than that. And then still knowing in my heart that I actually could still do it.” To this day, he knows in his heart that he could still do …

Three-star defensive lineman Walter Mathis Jr. visited Auburn for the first time last week and the visit went “excellent” according to the Savannah, Georgia native. The No. 38 defensive lineman in the class, like so many recruits before him, mentioned the family culture on the Plains as a main reason he enjoyed his time in Auburn so much. Mathis Jr. …

After three months of investigation, the NFL resolved the free-agent tampering cases of the Philadelphia Eagles and Atlanta Falcons. The league announced Thursday that its investigation found the Eagles did not have contact with then-free-agent running back Saquon Barkley during the 52-hour legal tampering period prior to the start of free agency, during which teams can speak to only agents …

Three months before the world shut down, then-Louisville head football coach Scott Satterfield signed 23 high school players on Dec. 18, 2019. It could’ve been 25, but the Cardinals lost four-star quarterback Chubba Purdy and three-star defensive end Josh Griffis to Florida State. Without the two, the recruiting class ranked 45th nationally and sixth in the ACC, according to 247Sports. …

The verdict is in. The Eagles have not been punished for potential tampering with running back Saquon Barkley. The NFL issued the following statement on Thursday morning: “After a thorough review of the Philadelphia Eagles signing of Saquon Barkley, the NFL today informed the club that the investigation did not discover sufficient evidence to support a finding that the Anti-Tampering …

MANHATTAN — For the most part, Kansas State football coach Chris Klieman and his staff have pivoted to assembling its 2025 recruiting class. Before that, much of their energy was focused on bolstering the 2024 roster via the transfer portal, and for the most part they accomplished that goal at the positions of greatest need. After the portal claimed 15 …

As they so often do, the Saints have restructured a contract to give themselves some salary cap relief this year but put themselves in a tougher cap position in future years. This time it’s Taysom Hill who has reworked his contract, according to multiple reports. The restructuring of Hill’s contract turns most of his 2024 base salary into a signing …

SOUTH BEND — Marcus Fakatou just finished up his eighth-grade year in Riverside, Calif., but that didn’t keep Notre Dame football from offering the prodigy a scholarship for the 2028 recruiting cycle. A defensive lineman who already stands 6 foot 7 and weighs 265 pounds, Fakatou reported the offer on social media after attending camp at Notre Dame on Monday. …