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NFL mock draft: Who experts project 49ers will pick in first round originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area The 2024 NFL season isn’t over yet, but it’s never too soon to start thinking about the 2025 NFL Draft — especially considering how this year has gone for the 49ers. San Francisco has several areas of need it could address …

Bill Belichick is finalizing a deal to become the head coach at the University of North Carolina. That makes him eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026, a spokesman for the Hall of Fame confirmed. The Hall of Fame changed some rules this year, including the length of time coaches are required to be out of …

Bill Belichick is getting the gang back together again. First up, Michael Lombardi. The NFL personnel executive turned media personality will join Belichick at North Carolina as the General Manager of the program. Most recently, Lombardi worked for VSiN. He worked for multiple NFL teams from 1984 through 2007. After an initial media stint, he became G.M. of the Browns …

Like Bill Belichick, these NFL coaches went ‘back to school’ for NCAA football originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Bill Belichick, 72, is going back to school. After a year away from coaching following a lengthy and successful run with the New England Patriots that solidified him as one of the NFL’s greats, Belichick is headed to college football. Belichick …

Yes, Bill Belichick is taking a page from Rodney Dangerfield and going back to school. The University of North Carolina has announced that Belichick has accepted the head-coaching job with the Tar Heels. “I am excited for the opportunity at UNC-Chapel Hill,” Belichick said in a statement released by the school. “I grew up around college football with my Dad …

CMC’s pregame tradition honors 49ers fan who beat cancer twice originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Before every game Christian McCaffrey plays in, the All-Pro running back selects a young 49ers Faithful to gift an official NFL football, which he uses during pregame warmups. Ahead of the 49ers’ Week 13 game against the Buffalo Bills, as the snow fell …

LAS COLINAS, Texas — As NFL executives and team owners convened in the Dallas area this week, an undercurrent permeated league meetings. Was six-time Super Bowl champion head coach Bill Belichick really going to accept a job offer from the University of North Carolina? Agents who had represented Super Bowl-winning coaches considered how they would advise the 24-year New England …

What Belichick’s ex-players are saying about coach’s shocking UNC move originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston In a stunning development, legendary New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick will head to Chapel Hill to lead the North Carolina Tar Heels football program. Belichick finalized a five-year deal to become UNC’s next head coach, the school announced Wednesday. The six-time Super …

Bill Belichick is doing something only one other Super Bowl-winning coach has ever done. The six-time Super Bowl winner is set to take over as the head coach at North Carolina. Belichick has spent this season out of coaching after parting ways with the Patriots following the 2023 season. When North Carolina kicks off its 2025 season on Aug. 30 …

© Stephen Lew-Imagn Images North Carolina has hired Bill Belichick as its next head coach and while many top prospects will be intrigued to play for the eight-time Super Bowl champion, six as a head coach, he will still have to pick up the phone and make some recruiting calls. Here should be the first five: MORE GORNEY: Prospects will …

Getty North Carolina made a significant financial commitment to lure legendary NFL coach Bill Belichick to Chapel Hill.  UNC and the 72-year old Belichick agreed to a five-year deal, the school announced. Terms of the deal have not been released yet, but The Athletic had originally reported the deal was in the ballpark of $10 million annually. That would be …

The news of Bill Belichick reportedly becoming the new head coach at North Carolina rather than pursuing one of the NFL coaching openings has shaken the sports world. Belichick going to Chapel Hill, with reports of him agreeing to a three-year deal, is surprising for a variety of reasons. The presumption was that the six-time Super Bowl winner (with two …

Getty North Carolina made a significant financial commitment to lure legendary NFL coach Bill Belichick to Chapel Hill albeit with a shorter- than-industry-standard contract length. UNC and the 72-year old Belichick agreed to a three-year, $30 million contract, according to The Athletic. That is a significant financial upgrade from the $5 million UNC paid Mack Brown, a national championship-winning coach, …

© Bob Breidenbach / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images You thought Deion Sanders at Colorado was fun and different for college football? Just wait until you see Bill Belichick at North Carolina. Everyone in Chapel Hill should send holiday cards to Robert Kraft for pushing Belichick out of New England and to Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank for choosing …

Welcome to Week 15 of the NFL season, a week that is synonymous with the start of Fantasy football postseasons. Fortunately for you, we’ve got a rundown of every team’s injury report so you know who to start ahead of this week’s games.  Even if you’re not a Fantasy football player (or unfortunately did not make your league’s postseason), there …