Welcome to the first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff. In anticipation of the first four-round postseason in college football history, we’re counting down our predicted playoff field as the season approaches. The top five conference champions in the CFP selection committee’s rankings will make the playoff and the rest of the field will be filled out by seven …

Welcome to the seventh installation of Thursday Thoughts, a series of looks at key topics across the NFL landscape. We’ve covered plenty of quarterbacks throughout this summer, and today we’re looking at another intriguing group: the young, still-cheap ones. I don’t think I’m delivering any scorching hot take when I say starting quarterback is the most important position in sports. …

USATSI The Cleveland Browns have traded backup kicker Cade York to the Washington Commanders in exchange for a conditional seventh round draft selection, per Cleveland.com. York was Cleveland’s fourth-round draft pick in 2022. In his first season out of LSU, he converted 75% of his 32 field goal attempts, in addition to missing two of his 37 extra point attempts. …

On Saturday, at noon ET, Florida State and Georgia Tech kick off the 2024 college football season from inside Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. The international ACC showdown is one of four college football games played a week before the traditional Labor Day weekend kickoff — a date known as “Week 0.” The full smorgasbord of college games unfurls next …

Dolphins edge rusher Chop Robinson hasn’t played in a regular season game yet, but the first-round pick had a “Welcome to the NFL” moment on Wednesday. The Dolphins held a joint practice with the Buccaneers and Robinson got a chance to square off with All-Pro left tackle Tristan Wirfs. Robinson said it is “crazy that I get to go up …

Rutgers will be without one of its defensive leaders when the Wisconsin Badgers visit on Oct. 12. That is star linebacker Mohamed Toure, who Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano said this week will miss the entire 2024 season with a torn ACL. Related: Wisconsin football listed as underdog in seven games on 2024 schedule The game at Rutgers is one …

Running back Joe Mixon sat out most of Texans training camp with a quad injury, but he returned to practice last week and progressed to team drills in Wednesday’s practice. That trajectory puts him on track to be ready to go for the season opener and Mixon said after Wednesday’s practice that his mind is on making sure he’s on …

The New England Patriots will wrap up the preseason on Sunday when they visit the Washington Commanders. Once that game concludes, all of the attention will center around the task that Jerod Mayo and Eliot Wolf have in front of them, needing to trim down the 90-man roster to 53 players. Throughout the summer, there have been some fascinating position …

Penn Cambria linebacker Derek Hite has been a force in the Panthers’ lineup since his sophomore season. Hite made an instant impact in a leadership role as an underclassman, a fact evident when he earned Tribune-Democrat Defensive Player of the Year honors following an often-dominant effort in 2023. Now a senior, Hite is part of a tight-knit, veteran group of …

‘Dudes were just killing each other:’ How Vic Fangio is using vintage NFL film to transform Eagles’ defense originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Vic Fangio loves showing his defensive guys videos of old-time football stars playing the game the right way. And maybe the wrong way, too. When you hear people talk about how Fangio is “old school,” it’s …

Dec 30, 2016; Nashville , TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers defensive end Derek Barnett (9) and Tennessee Volunteers defensive lineman Jonathan Kongbo (1) talk with Nebraska Cornhuskers quarterback Ryker Fyfe (17) after a near sack during the first half at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports Tennessee will kick off its 2024 football season in nine days. The Vols will open …

Carson Steele #42 and the Kansas City Chiefs play their final preseason game tonight against the Chicago Bears. (David Eulitt/Getty Images) It’s almost time for the NFL season to kick off, but first, we have to finish up the 2024 NFL preseason. This Thursday, the preseason continues with the final preseason match up for the Kansas City Chiefs and the …

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series. The first, on Iowa State’s worst-case 2024 scenario, can be found here. How do you discuss a best-case scenario for a college football team? It would be easy to type “12-0 regular season followed by a conference championship game victory and a three-game coronation doubling as the College Football Playoff.” …

There may be another injury concern for Titans receiver Treylon Burks. According to multiple reporters on the scene, Burks had to exit Wednesday’s practice a bit early. He made a catch late in practice but went down hard. When he came up, he was favoring his right hip/lower back area. He then walked gingerly back into the building with a …

MANHATTAN — Kansas State football associate head coach Matt Wells, who joined Chris Klieman’s staff at the end of last season, was asked earlier this week to assess the Wildcats’ roster heading into the 2024 season. His answer was simple. “I think we’ve got a lot of depth,” said Wells, who also serves as the Wildcats’ co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks …