Getty Images Star defensive tackle Aaron Donald sent shockwaves through the NFL when he announced his retirement from the sport earlier this month. Donald may have put a bow on his legendary 10-year career with the Los Angeles Rams, but that may not stop others from recruiting him. During the most recent episode of the “New Heights” podcast, Kansas City …

The USC football recruiting outlook for 2025 just changed in a big way. The Trojans landed multiple elite 2025 prospects on the defensive side of the ball on Sunday, March 24. We wrote this: “Five-star defensive lineman Justus Terry, who has long been committed to Kirby Smart’s Georgia Bulldogs, has now officially flipped his commitment to the USC Trojans following …

NFL teams have once again voted down an alternative to the onside kick. The Eagles’ proposal to allow teams to line up their offense on the field on fourth-and-20, instead of kicking off, was rejected today in a vote at the league meeting. Under the Eagles’ proposal, teams that scored a touchdown or field goal could have followed it by …

The Chicago Bears are taking the next step toward likely making Caleb Williams the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. Williams will head to Chicago for a top-30 visit with the Bears in the first week of April, Bears general manager Ryan Poles shared with reporters at the NFL’s league meetings on Monday. The team will also …

The Ohio State football spring game is heading to network TV. Fox Sports analyst Joel Klatt announced Monday that the Buckeyes’ spring game will air on Fox at noon April 13. The network will also broadcast Michigan football’s spring game April 20 at noon. In 2023, the OSU spring game was shown live on Big Ten Network and carried on …

The NFL has banned the “hip-drop” tackle, according to multiple reports on Monday. The league’s competition committee had proposed a rule to penalize the tackle, which league executive Jeff Miller said increases risk of injury by 25 times the rate of a standard tackle. The committee views those tackles as being similar to horse collar tackles that were banned before …

Mistake-prone Eagles wide receiver signs with Steelers originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Quez Watkins, whose once-promising Eagles career collapsed in a flurry of costly fumbles and drops, has signed with the Steelers, ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported Monday morning. Watkins, still only 25, was the Eagles’ 6th-round pick in 2020 and after playing sparingly as a rookie he blossomed in …

How would C.J. Stroud stack up to Caleb Williams? How about if we threw Jordan Love or Will Levis in the mix? What about Drake Maye, Anthony Richardson, and Jalen Hurts?  Although these questions relate to the same position, this exercise can be likened to comparing apples to oranges to grapes. There’s no perfect way to rank a collection of …

Ryan Poles explains why Bears made hard decision to trade Justin Fields originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles knew what the right move for the Bears was but that didn’t make the decision to trade quarterback Justin Fields any easier. “Justin, probably one of the harder things I had to do,” Poles told reporters Monday …

John Garcia Jr./Rivals.com It was looking like a rather subdued weekend of commitments across the country until USC got rolling on Sunday. The Trojans had a big weekend of visits, especially from the Southeast, and by the end of Sunday they added five massive commitments. Here is a look at the 10 biggest pledges of the weekend. ***** CLASS OF …

Jim Harbaugh continued his praise of J.J. McCarthy at the NFL’s league meetings on Monday, with a division rival hinting that they might be in on the Michigan quarterback. The Los Angeles Chargers head coach doubled down on his take on McCarthy’s standing among the quarterbacks in the 2024 NFL Draft, telling reporters he believes his former signal-caller is “the …

ORLANDO, Florida — A swarm of reporters were gathered around Jim Harbaugh, back in the NFL after a decade away from his last coaching stint in which he won everything expect the Super Bowl. Harbaugh was able to accomplish winning the national championship at Michigan before returning to the NFL, with future first-round pick J.J. McCarthy leading the Wolverines to …

In the four regular season games where he has faced the Baltimore Ravens, running back Derrick Henry has 55 carries for 277 yards and three touchdowns. Henry helped the Tennessee Titans defeat the Ravens, 28-12, in the divisional round during the 2019 season, rushing for 195 yards in the playoff win. After years of trying to stop King Henry, head …

The nation’s No. 1 recruit in the class of 2026 has committed to the Georgia Bulldogs. Quarterback Jared Curtis, who is ranked as a five-star recruit, is Georgia’s first commitment in the 2026 recruiting cycle. Curtis is a rising junior at Nashville Christian School in Nashville, Tennessee. The 6-foot-4, 225-pound quarterback is the nation’s No. 1 player at his position, …

As the NFL Draft has come closer and closer, it seems like more and more people expect quarterbacks to come off the board extremely quickly. The Chicago Bears are widely expected to take a quarterback at No. 1 overall, and the Washington Commanders are expected to do the same at No. 2. At the NFL Annual Meeting this week, Commanders coach …