The Drake Maye Report: Rookie QB flashes big-time traits on Day 1 originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Editor’s Note: After each training camp practice, Phil Perry will provide an in-depth breakdown of Drake Maye’s day — complete with the No. 3 overall pick’s snap counts, passing stats and the pros and cons from his performance — in The Drake …

UTEP football coach Scotty Walden’s first task in El Paso was to assemble his first staff, and like everything else surrounding Miner football, it’s almost entirely new and largely young. The 17 assistants are 100% new to UTEP, though 11 of them were with Walden at Austin Peay, part of the massive exodus from Clarksville, Tenn. to El Paso. UTEP …

The history of the NFL has seen teams come close to winning it all one year before coming back to finish the job the next season and it has seen teams come close before falling flat upon their return to the field. Lions head coach Dan Campbell wants his team to be in the former category. They led the 49ers …

Whether it’s the Cold Summer Cookout at Alabama, Big Cat Weekend at Auburn, Grille in the Ville at Florida, Seminole Showcase at Florida State, Bayou Splash at LSU, Notre Dame’s Grill and Chill, or Saturday Night Live at Oregon, it’s the last loaded weekend of visits on tap. Rivals national recruiting director Adam Gorney takes a look at 10 of …

The Jaguars announced that they will be wearing throwback uniforms for a game this season last week and they unveiled another alternate uniform choice on Thursday. The team revealed “Shell White” helmets that they will wear for their Week 10 game against the Vikings. Head equipment manager George Pellicer said the team looked at a variety of options for an …

Dak Prescott was in the MVP conversation for most of last season. (Yahoo Sports/Henry Russell) Other NFL team previews: 32. Panthers | 31. Patriots | 30. Broncos | 29. Commanders | 28. Giants | 27. Titans | 26. Raiders | 25. Cardinals | 24. Saints | 23. Chargers | 22. Vikings | 21. Seahawks | 20. Buccaneers | 19. Jaguars …

Jul. 25—When the new Potato State Trophy was unveiled on Monday during the Big Sky media day, it created a stir. The 19.4 pounds of Douglas Fir wood, in the shape of a potato, resting on a wooden base with a metal cutout shaped as the state of Idaho, will now be awarded to the winner of the Idaho/Idaho State …

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and Frank Schwab discuss the significance of Dan Quinn leaving the Cowboys’ defense and expectations for Dallas this season. Listen and subscribe to the “Zero Blitz” podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen. View more Video Transcript What’s your one big thing for the Cowboys? There’s a ton of them here. Which one are …

The raucous crowds, big plays, tailgates, and stadium entrances all define one sport – college football. The North Carolina Tar Heels begin their coming season on Thursday, Aug. 29 at Minnesota, a team they beat in their inaugural matchup – 31-13 – last year in Chapel Hill. There’s a lot of mystery surrounding UNC entering the fall, with plenty of …

14 Wisconsin Badgers cracked the Shrine Bowl preseason watch list entering the 2024 football season. With roughly one month remaining until Wisconsin begins its 2024 campaign, college football outlets have begun to craft preseason rankings and hierarchies for the fall slate. One of those projections, the East-West Shrine Bowl watch list, includes hundreds of the most promising players across the …

Saquon relishing Eagles training camp with Hard Knocks in rearview originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia There aren’t many fans allowed on the sideline during a typical Eagles training camp practice but those in attendance for Day 1 on Wednesday were pretty excited to see Saquon Barkley. In fact, they cheered loudly every time he touched the football. “Yeah, I …

OSHKOSH – The 48th Annual Wisconsin Football Coaches Association All-Star Charity Football Games were held this past weekend, hosted for the 45th time by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, at Titan Stadium, in partnership with and to benefit the Children’s Wisconsin Foundation. Each year, the best of the best high school football players and coaches from throughout the state are nominated …

LAKE BLUE STREAKS  HEAD COACH: Dan DeGeorge, 12th year, 68-51 LAST YEAR: 9-4, 4-2 POSTSEASON: Division II, Region 5 Lake linebacker Charlie Christopher forces Jackson running back Kristian Satterfield to the sideline in the third quarter, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Lake football’s returning lettermen (22) Charlie Christopher, RB-LB, 6-1, 230, Sr. Gavin Constantine, OL-DL, 6-3, 200, So. Korey Datsko-Miller, FB-LB, …

The Bengals have finally leveraged the bad-teams-draft-high thing into the foundation for a great team, thanks to the presence of a great quarterback. They’ve wisely paid their quarterback. Elsewhere, the Bengals apparently are determined to be as cheap as they’ve always been. Yes, there’s a salary cap. There’s also a salary floor. And the difference between the two is raw …

INDIANAPOLIS — Go back exactly eight months, and there was Michigan State football mangled and crumpled, a green-and-white heap of a mess. The 42-0 loss to Penn State on a frigid November night at Ford Field was the last disaster punctuating a trainwreck of a season, when the Spartans endured the tabloidish midseason firing of their coach, a historic defeat …