Four-star class of 2025 linebacker Abdull Sanders Jr. announced his commitment to Alabama football, per On3. Sanders Jr., a 6-foot-2, 210-pound linebacker out of Mater Dai High in Santa Ana, California becomes the latest addition to Kalen DeBoer’s 2025 pledge class. He joins the likes of Anthony Rogers (Montgomery, AL), Antonio Coleman (Saraland, AL), Myles Johnson (Brewton, AL), Derick Smith …

USATSI The Baltimore Ravens are continuing their search for a veteran receiver. Baltimore is slated to play host to former Detroit Lions wideout Josh Reynolds on Friday, according to ESPN.  The 6-foot-3, 195-pound Reynolds is one of the top wideouts still available on the free agent market, along with Beckham and former Cincinnati Bengals receiver Tyler Boyd. He caught 40 …

The Cardinals cut safety Qwuantrezz Knight on Thursday, the team announced. In 2023, Knight appeared in six games for the Cardinals but did not record a statistic. He saw action on four defensive snaps and 32 on special teams. It was his first career regular-season playing time. Knight, 26, signed with the 49ers as an undrafted free agent out of …

Now that the four-team College Football Playoff era is coming to a close, ESPN took a look back at the past decade and graded every team that ever made it on a CFP Top 25 poll, including the Florida Gators. The good news is that the Orange and Blue are the No. 2 team in the B tier of this …

The NFL’s annual meetings will take place next week in Orlando, Florida. After years of some level of drama around the meetings — hello, Daniel Snyder — this year’s meetings plan to be so ho-hum that the league pushed up the end date from Wednesday to Tuesday. The biggest ticket item for these meetings will be the proposed change to …

Joe Hortiz inherited a salary cap mess when he joined the Chargers as General Manager. They began the offseason $22.1 million over the 2024 salary cap. Four big moves helped them get under the $255.4 million cap: Edge rushers Joey Bosa and Khalil Mack accepted pay cuts; receiver Mike Williams was cut; and receiver Keenan Allen was traded. “We had …

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti didn’t go into much detail about defensive tackle Philip Blidi entering the transfer portal other than to call it an “unexpected” departure. Cignetti met with the media on Thursday morning following his team’s first practice of the spring. Blidi was one of the few returning starters on the defense still on the team from …

Left tackle Tyron Smith held down the Dallas Cowboys’ left tackle spot for 13 seasons with a level play that has him on a likely path toward the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Eight Pro Bowls, two First Team All-Pro selections and a selection as a member of the league’s 2010s All-Decade Team is the result of his body of …

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks for Steve Spurrier. He joined an exclusive group of “Distinguished Americans.” He made headlines for sounding like countless Florida football fans. Spurrier received the Walter Camp Award last weekend at Yale. It goes to someone who, among other things, “has been dedicated to the preservation of American ideals.” For someone who has enough …

The Lions have released cornerback Cameron Sutton. The team announced the move on Thursday. He started all games for the Lions last year, regular season and postseason. He signed with Detroit in March 2023 after spending his first six NFL seasons in Pittsburgh. Sutton has been wanted for two weeks. He faces a felony charge of domestic battery by strangulation. …

Ryan Roberts of College Sports Wire is ranking the 18 teams in the new-look Big Ten Conference before April and the completion of spring football for every program. Within his larger rankings (which you can see at the link posted just above), Roberts devoted a separate article to USC football in particular. Here’s a small excerpt: “The defense for the …

It seems to be a foregone conclusion that the Chicago Bears will draft Caleb Williams with the first overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft. Not only has Williams long been the heavy betting favorite to be selected No. 1 overall by the Bears, but days after trading former quarterback Justin Fields to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Bears general manager Ryan …

Tyron Smith has accomplished just about everything a left tackle can accomplish during his 13-year NFL career with multiple Pro Bowl and All-Pro selections to his name. But the new Jets’ tackle is still missing out on the ultimate team accomplishment: a Super Bowl victory. “New York has the potential to do it and I’m going to do everything in …

A third man was charged with second-degree murder Thursday in connection with the shooting during the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl rally that killed a woman and injured nearly two dozen others. The 20-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri, was also charged with unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of armed criminal action. He is jailed on $1 million …

Florida’s push to flip Raines (Jacksonville) offensive lineman Solomon Thomas from Florida State isn’t slowing down any time soon, and the Gators plan to host the elite in-state recruit on yet another unofficial visit, according to 247Sports. After an extended visit in January, Thomas will return to Florida on April 5-6 to see the Gators in their second spring scrimmage. …