Alabama football enters the 2024 season with a lot of unknowns. A new head coach, a handful of new players having to replace key contributors and a new-look SEC schedule. Another new aspect of the team is incoming transfers and recruits, but that happens every season. ESPN’s Blake Baumgartner and Tom VanHaaren shared their picks for the top newcomers from …
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With the 2023 NFL season in the books, it’s only right that we now rank the rookie classes for all 32 teams. The “hits” are ranked in order of how well they performed as rookies, and that ranking is based relative to when they were drafted. Higher expectations for earlier picks etc. Year 1 hits: None Not a good sign …
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With their win in Super Bowl LVIII, Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs have officially become NFL’s second dynasty since the turn of the century, five years removed from the New England Patriots’ final Super Bowl win. If you weren’t sure before, there’s no denying the Chiefs’ place in history now. While several teams have won two Super Bowls, very few have managed …
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The Florida Gators football team starts the spring at No. 33 overall on the SP+ rankings from ESPN. SP+ is “a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. It is a predictive measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football, not a résumé ranking. Along those same lines, these projections aren’t intended to be a guess at …
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The Steelers don’t have a clear-cut No. 1 quarterback. And they apparently don’t have a clear-cut vision within the building about who the No. 1 quarterback should be. As explained by Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “there appears to be some internal division that maybe Mason Rudolph should be the starter,” given his performance at the end of the …
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USC football’s spring camp will come to a close with its traditional spring game on April 20. USC football is generating excitement for 2024 with the arrival of several new defensive coaches who are all saying and doing the right things. Everything USC fans have wanted to see and hear is coming to fruition with D’Anton Lynn, Eric Henderson, Matt …
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USATSI The Kansas City Chiefs defense was one of the best units in the NFL this season, highlighted by the play of L’Jarius Sneed and Chris Jones. Both players are going to be free agents in a month, and the Chiefs would likely need both to make a run at a three-peat. Sneed certainly hopes the Chiefs have enough money …
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The Kansas City Chiefs are a dynasty, fresh off their third Super Bowl win in five years. But the San Francisco 49ers are already early favorites to hoist the Lombardi Trophy at the end of the 2024 season, with oddsmakers deeming them 2025’s top Super Bowl contender after their second-place finish. History tells us that teams who lose in the …
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Brian Kelly and the LSU recruiting staff took a trip to Marietta, Georgia, to extend an offer to a three-star cornerback who is currently up for grabs. Mark Manfred is a 6-foot-3, 175-pound, three-star defensive back from Marietta, Georgia, where he plays for Sprayberry High School. The Sprayberry Yellow Jackets finished the 2023 season 6-5 with a loss to Rome …
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Patrick Mahomes was so confident that the Kansas City Chiefs would win the Super Bowl this year that he actually predicted that it would happen BEFORE the regular season even ended. The reason we know that is because his wife, Brittany, leaked out some family texts after the Super Bowl. In one of the texts, which was from Jan. 5, …
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Nothing sells tickets in the NFL quite like an elite quarterback and explosive offense. But Super Bowl LVIII is recent evidence that defense still matters greatly in the hunt for a Lombardi Trophy. Perhaps more than even Patrick Mahomes, Steve Spagnuolo’s Kansas City Chiefs defense helped propel the third title in five years for this generation’s NFL dynasty. With that …
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With the Super Bowl now in the rearview mirror, we are officially out of the 2023 season and gearing up for 2024. Over the next several months, 31 teams are going to do their best to catch up to the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs. That process begins in earnest with free agency, which opens next month. With that …
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It’s been more than 10 years since the last time a college football video game was on the horizon, but on Wednesday, EA Sports announced that “College Football 25” will be available in the summer. Fans across the country — including myself — have already begun speculation as to what will be included in the new game and what won’t. …
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Now that Super Bowl LVIII is in the books, and the Kansas City Chiefs have been crowned the 2023 NFL champions, the betting markets are officially open for next season. With that, there is one market in particular we have our eyes on — NFL Coach of the Year. Cleveland Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski won the award at the …
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Steve Sarkisian is set to become one of college football’s highest-paid coaches. Details of Sarkisian’s new contract were released on Saturday. The fourth-year Texas head coach will become the third-highest paid coach in college football, trailing only Georgia’s Kirby Smart and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney. After an impressive 2023 season that included a Big 12 Championship and College Football Playoff berth, …
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