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How Braves plan to move forward after losing Spencer Strider
Just over two weeks into the MLB season, the Atlanta Braves are exactly where they’re expected to be: atop the National League East standings. But any thought that the coming months would be about coasting through the regular season until the real challenge begins in October quickly went out the window when Spencer Strider felt […]
Continue readingHow Saints’ new-look offense is shaping up after free agency
NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Saints’ new offense is starting to come together with less than two months until offseason practices. The Saints had a quiet free agency period on offense, adding only a few players but revamping almost their entire coaching staff. That was evident when most of the contingent was assembled to […]
Continue readingNFL free agency: Roster additions, cuts, remaining questions
The initial NFL free agency rush of 2024 was more frenetic than ever, as hundreds of players were given millions of dollars to relocate to new cities. Leading the way were a pair of former Pro Bowl quarterbacks looking to rekindle old success in new locales, but Kirk Cousins and Russell Wilson were hardly alone […]
Continue readingHow Saints, $42 million over salary cap, can free up space
The new salary cap ceiling was officially announced on Feb. 23. It is an increase of $30.6 million from 2023 and more than $10 million over salary cap projections from January. That’s good news for the Saints, who have started their annual work to get salary cap compliant. They must be under the new cap […]
Continue readingOffseason moves: Will Saints keep WRs Thomas, Shaheed?
More Teams. More Games. Shannon Sharpe and Stephen A. Smith sound off on the Saints scoring a touchdown at the end of the game vs. the Falcons. (2:20) NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Saints saw a mass exodus of their veteran players in 2021. There was a decrease in the expected salary cap because […]
Continue readingTop 2024 NFL franchise tag candidates: Barkley, Jacobs, Burns
More Teams. More Games. Saquon Barkley joins Stephen A. Smith and Chris “Mad Dog” Russo to discuss why he wants to be a New York Giant for life. (2:35) The two-week NFL franchise tag window opens Tuesday and runs until 4 p.m. ET on March 5. During that time frame, each team is allowed to […]
Continue readingThe delightful dozen
The haul includes 11 high school players and one junior college transfer, which allows three available scholarships to be used for early enrollees from the class of 2013. The USC staff was successful in holding onto its committed players, losing just one recruit, defensive end Pio Vatuvei (Patterson, Calif./Patterson), who signed with Washington. The 12 […]
Continue readingDoing it his way
In more ways than one, actually. While his peers spent the day basking in the temporary glory of national signing day and celebrating the end of an exhausting process, the No. 1 quarterback in the nation took the day off. Winston is a member of Team USA in third-annual International Bowl. The game was played […]
Continue readingLooking at the biggest questions for the Saints in the offseason
They spent January evaluating the coaches and personnel, with new coaching hires usually coming in February. Major restructures to player contracts tend to begin in mid-February ahead of the beginning of the new league year (March 13). The Saints have already started on some moves, restructuring the contracts of Marshon Lattimore and Jameis Winston, parting […]
Continue readingMailbag: How the 2011 draft provides lessons for 2015
Do you have a query for John Clayton? Click here to send a note to his mailbag. Twelve of the top 16 players in the 2011 draft have been to the Pro Bowl. It was loaded on defense, with J.J. Watt and Robert Quinn at end, Marcell Dareus at tackle, linebackers Von Miller, Aldon Smith […]
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