Rams coach Sean McVay announced the bad news Thursday night: An MRI confirmed cornerback Derion Kendrick tore an anterior cruciate ligament. Kendrick will undergo surgery and miss the 2024 season on injured reserve. McVay did not rule out brining back cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon, via Gary Klein of the Los Angeles Times. The Rams signed Witherspoon on June 29, 2023, after …

The Cooper Jaguars were one of two Northern Kentucky teams that advanced to the 2023 Kentucky High School Athletic Association football state championships. Since they return 100 percent of their offensive production and the majority of their defense, many believe they can return to Kroger Field this fall. To the casual fan, the Jaguars’ roster doesn’t present many questions. But …

OXNARD, Calif. — Every July, the Dallas Cowboys’ future is filtered through a tapestry of numbers. How many free agents were signed? What extensions were achieved? How many years remain on the head coach’s contract? How much money is left under the salary cap? And of course, the unyielding accounting of how many years it’s been since that last Super …

Most everyone reading this probably has a favorite football dynamic duo. It could be Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase, Max Montoya and Anthony Muñoz, even Sauce Gardner and Coby Bryant. Football, which many would call the ultimate team game, doesn’t work without great combinations of players. A great quarterback is nothing if his receivers can’t catch the ball. A great …

Steelers General Manager Omar Khan sounded confident Thursday that defensive lineman Cameron Heyward with be with the team long term. Heyward isn’t getting his hopes up. “Am I confident?” Heyward said, via Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “I don’t like to go either way with that because you get your hopes up and something doesn’t happen. I’m just going …

In the midst of the summer busy season of recruiting and visits once again under way, we have a bit of a different kind of news with a four-star prospect in Texas. Sugar Land (Texas) Fort Bend Christian four-star defensive end Max Granville, who committed to Penn State in June, has reclassified to the 2024 class. With that move, he …

It’s safe to say the Raiders are ticking off the Chiefs. At the Raiders’ training camp practice Thursday, a fan brought a Kermit the Frog puppet that was wearing a Patrick Mahomes’ jersey and a wig to mock the quarterback’s hair. A video surfaced on social media of Raiders safety Trey Taylor putting on the puppet and saying, “I’m a …

One of the most intriguing and connected figures in pro football in recent decades has died. Via Jeff Duncan of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, former NFL executive and marketing agent Mike Ornstein died Thursday at his home in L.A. Ornstein previously served as the NFL’s V.P. of marketing. He represented running back Reggie Bush in 2006, lining up multiple marketing …

It’s safe to say that Notre Dame football’s “Grill and Chill” recruiting event was a huge success. Plenty of prospects were on campus on Thursday, and one of them, Damari Simeon was offered a scholarship. The New Jersey native stands 6-foot, 3-inches and weighs 275-pounds clearly passed the look test for the Irish coaching staff. Simeon isn’t currently ranked at …

Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Forecast This embedded content is not available in your region. Training camps are opening across the country and there’s no better time to get an insider’s perspective on the biggest whispers at the buzziest camps. Yahoo’s senior NFL writer Jori Epstein joins Matt Harmon to share her biggest observations and what’s she’s hearing from Bears, …

Maybe the sky isn’t falling for Texas football recruiting. The Longhorns got a recruiting win on Thursday evening when 2025 4-star defensive lineman Josiah Sharma flipped his commitment from Oregon to Texas. Rated as the 30th ranked DL in the nation according to the 247Sports composite, Sharma measures in at 6-foot-4, 320 pounds and had been committed to the Ducks …

Most NFL players wouldn’t take five days off during the peak of job battles at training camp. Then again, most NFL players aren’t Chicago Bears safety Jonathan Owens. The sixth-year backup is taking the time away to watch his wife, Simone Biles, compete for the U.S. gymnastics team at the Paris Olympics. “Man, it’s crazy,” Owens said. “It’s like everyone’s …

Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson missed the team’s first training camp practice with a tight calf. The Steelers have named Wilson their starting quarterback, but it was Justin Fields who got the first-team snaps Thursday. “It was good to get back out there and knock the dust off a little bit,” Fields said, via Teresa Varley of the team website. “I …

Michigan State football has extended a scholarship offer to an athlete from Florida who’s getting some attention on the recruiting trail. Devonte Anderson of Winter Garden, Fla. announced on Thursday that he’s received an offer from the Spartans. Anderson is an athlete in the 2026 class. Anderson is currently unranked on 247Sports, but has picked up some interest on the …

Subscribe to Football 301 This embedded content is not available in your region. On today’s episode of Football 301, Nate Tice and Charles McDonald look ahead to the 2024 season and predict which teams will finish with the top 10 defenses in the NFL. Can the New York Giants’ defense be carried by its defensive line? Will the Baltimore Ravens’ …