Another Georgia football assistant may get a head coaching gig this offseason. Bulldogs running backs coach Dell McGee, who has coached under coach Kirby Smart since 2016, is reportedly a candidate for the Georgia State coach opening, according to The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman on Wednesday. REQUIRED READING: Names that fit for Georgia football WR hire. Bryan McClendon’s impact as coach …

Safety Theo Jackson will be staying with the Vikings. The team announced that they re-signed Jackson on Wednesday. Jackson was set for exclusive rights free agency, so the team only had to tender him a contract in order to ensure that he’d remain under team control. Jackson was a 2022 sixth-round pick by the Titans and the Viking signed him …

Texas A&M’s 2025 recruiting class is already building towards being one of head coach Mike Elko’s first big wins at the helm, already landing three prospects this month, including 4-star running back Deondrae “Tiger” Riden on Monday night. Elko’s defensive background will certainly play a big part in landing some of the top recruits at every defensive position. At the …

Patrick Mahomes rules. There’s no truer statement regarding the NFL these days. With three Super Bowl titles and three Super Bowl MVP awards in the last five years (and with Tom Brady finally calling it quits before last season), the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback reigns supreme over the rest of the league. But when Antonio Pierce uttered the phrase “Patrick …

The Cowboys have hired former Boston College offensive coordinator Steve Shimko as an offensive assistant, the team announced Wednesday. He replaces Will Harriger, who the Panthers hired as their quarterbacks coach. Shimko reunites with offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer after the two worked together in Seattle from 2018-19. Shimko’s experience includes working as a graduate assistant at Rutgers, Western Michigan and …

Justin Fields wants to stay in Chicago: ‘I can’t see myself playing in another place’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago Justin Fields could be traded this offseason for the first time in his career. But would he prefer to stay in Chicago? “Yeah, of course. Of course, I want to stay,” Fields told the St. Brown brothers on “The …

USATSI The College Football Playoff Management Committee met Wednesday in the wake of the official move to the 5+7 model for the 2024 and 2025 seasons. The Management Committee, which is made up of the FBS commissioners and the Notre Dame athletic director, has now been tasked with negotiating a future for the CFP for 2026 and beyond. That includes …

Mayo: Search for LB coach was extensive, talked to Hightower ‘for a while’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The New England Patriots introduced their new staff on Wednesday afternoon, officially marking the end of the Bill Belichick era and the beginning of Jerod Mayo’s tenure. The media had a chance to catch up with New England’s new head coach …

Michigan football has a lot of questions to answer, not just this fall, but once spring ball kicks off just about a month from now. After nine years with the program, Jim Harbaugh departed for the NFL and the entire defensive staff left this offseason, as well. There’s been a ton of player turnover, with quarterback J.J. McCarthy, running back …

Report: Big Dom’s suspension impacted Sirianni’s sideline emotions originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The Eagles’ fall following their 10-1 start to the 2023 NFL season remains one of the most perplexing shifts in recent history. The decline started after Philadelphia stunningly lost 42-19 at home to the 49ers on Dec. 3, a result that seemingly had a ripple …

The offseason in college football is basically the Wild West these days. If there’s no news, fans from every team do as much as they can to create some. The latest came when Michigan football star cornerback Will Johnson, a legacy player in Ann Arbor whose father Deon was a star defensive back for the Wolverines, posted an eyeball emoji …

It can be difficult to form a Mount Rushmore for NFL quarterbacks, but one of the players who’s a candidate to be held in that esteem, Dan Marino, has a shortlist of players who stand out to him — including two signal-callers from the current generation. “I gotta go back to the guys I played against, I always loved Joe …

ESPN’s Graziano believes Aiyuk trade ‘most likely’ outcome for 49ers originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The 49ers are headed for a salary cap conundrum, but it’s nothing the reigning NFC champions haven’t figured out before. And while contract restructuring has worked in the past for San Francisco, ESPN’s Dan Graziano doesn’t see it playing out that way this …

Kansas State football coach Chris Klieman has often spoken the last couple of years about the challenges in staying on top of college football roster machinations in the modern era of transfers and name image and likeness, not to mention the lingering fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Enter Clint Brown, a veteran college football assistant and for the past two …

The Saints announced six new assistant coaches for Dennis Allen’s staff for 2024. They have hired John Benton as offensive line coach, Rick Dennison as senior offensive assistant, Derrick Foster as running backs coach, Andrew Janocko as quarterbacks coach, DeNarius McGhee as assistant wide receivers coach and Keith Williams as wide receivers coach. Benton has 33 years of coaching experience, …