Photo: Isaiah Hole ANN ARBOR, Mich. — After coming out of spring ball a bit decimated at the position, Michigan football bolstered its wide receiving corps by adding two players via the transfer portal — one unfamiliar and one very familiar. The unfamiliar one was Youngstown State transfer C.J. Charleston. Last year, the Ohio native had 33 catches for 503 yards …
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Coaches will tell you there’s a competition at any position, even when there’s not. Weigh that when deciphering what Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said about his quarterbacks on Wednesday. But also know that Tomlin spent most of the offseason saying Russell Wilson was his starter, not really entertaining the notion that Justin Fields could win the job. Him declaring …
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As the 2024 Notre Dame football season rapidly approaches, the goals are fairly obvious, make the expanded College Football Playoff field. ESPN ranked 25 players with the most importance (subscription required) in the CFP race, and not one member of the Irish was included in the group. There is a silver-lining however, as [autotag]Riley Leonard[/autotag] was one of two players …
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Steelers’ Tomlin has sly Aiyuk response to loaded question originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Programming Note: Watch “49ers Training Camp Live” with Matt Maiocco and Jennifer Lee Chan at 3 p.m. PT today from Santa Clara, streaming live on the NBC Sports app. Watch the show later on YouTube and Facebook. Steelers coach Mike Tomlin addressed the elephant in the room. …
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Photo: Isaiah Hole ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Convention would say that without J.J. McCarthy at the helm and with Michigan football breaking in a new quarterback, the Wolverines would get more conservative and lean more on their roots of running the football. But general convention doesn’t necessarily win games. Go big or go home. The maize and blue are still embroiled …
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ECR stands for “Expert Consensus Ranking,” which means the average rankings of the fantasy football industry and is typically similar to ADP (which differs from site-to-site). This ongoing positional series will highlight some big differences between ECR and my own ranks. [Quarterbacks I like more/less | Running backs I like more | Running backs I like less] ECR: WR21 vs. …
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The New England Patriots are out of the Brandon Aiyuk sweepstakes. After Aiyuk turned down the Patriots’ extension offer, the Patriots opted to no longer pursue a trade for the star receiver, ESPN reported. New England was prepared to make the highest contract offer to Aiyuk out of all the teams pursuing him, giving him a proposal that would’ve paid …
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Rivals national recruiting analyst Greg Smith is joined by recruiting analyst Jed May of UGASports.com, Ryan O’Bleness of SpartansIllustrated.com and Tim Verghese of InsideNebraska.com to tackle three topics and determine whether they believe each statement is FACT or FICTION. MORE FACT OR FICTION: Beating Miami would boost Florida’s recruiting instantly ***** CLASS OF 2025 RANKINGS: Rivals250 | Team | Position …
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Even the experts can have a tough time during their draft evaluations. We asked six analysts to reveal which player has been their hardest to rank for the 2024 fantasy football season. I’m having a hard time ranking DJ Moore. On the one hand, he balled out last year and was a top-five fantasy receiver when Justin Fields was his …
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The chaos of the conference realignment carousel has led conferences across the country to adjust their scheduling philosophies ahead of the 2024 college football season. There are no longer any divisions in the four power conferences as the top two teams in the standings at the end of the season will play each other for the conference title. Given that …
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Not that long ago, the New England Patriots were a dynasty and the top organization in the NFL. It just seems like that was a long time ago. There’s another chapter in the ongoing Brandon Aiyuk trade drama. There was a report that the San Francisco 49ers and Patriots had agreed to a framework of a trade, then suddenly another …
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BATON ROUGE – On-the-field work to begin the fix for LSU football’s historically bad defense from last season had to start in the defensive backfield. Opposing teams had fields days against LSU’s pass defense in 2023 and head coach Brian Kelly set out to right the ship but first, letting go of last season’s entire defensive staff. He brought in …
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The “Running Back Dead Zone” is a term that fantasy football players know all too well. For those who aren’t familiar, the running back dead zone describes a section in the middle rounds of drafts featuring a group of running backs who, every year, seemingly never live up to their ADPs. In this article, I’ll be taking a closer look …
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Nov 18, 2017; Oxford, MS, USA; Texas A&M Aggies helmets after the game against the Mississippi Rebels at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Texas A&M Aggies defeated the Mississippi Rebels 31-24. Mandatory Credit: Justin Ford-USA TODAY Sports Before fall football camp began last week, Texas A&M true freshman athlete Terry Bussey sat down for a conversation with Ali Russell of TexAgs on the …
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Veteran safety Justin Simmons is one of the top unsigned players on the market right now and he’ll be meeting with a team in a bid to change that on Wednesday. Nick Underhill of NewOrleans.Football reports that Simmons will be visiting with the Saints. Simmons was a 2016 third-round pick for the Broncos and he spent the last eight years …
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