Second-year wideout Danny Gray left Saturday’s preseason victory against the Denver Broncos after injuring his right shoulder on the game’s opening kickoff. After the game, Niners coach Kyle Shanahan expressed concern that Gray might have broken his collarbone, an injury that would keep him out about two months. On Sunday, the Niners received some good […]
Continue readingTeams in the NFL are required to cut their rosters to 53 players by 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Cuts come earlier this season as teams had three preseason games — not four — to accommodate the 17-game regular season schedule. The biggest names let go are New England Patriots quarterback Cam Newton and New […]
Continue readingEven as a kid, Grimes was unmistakably confident, working on defensive back drills against NFL players when he was a sophomore in high school, talking smack the whole way. His Twitter handle, created when he was 15, is @757EliteDB. He’s from “the 757” — Virginia Beach, home to Michael Vick, Allen Iverson, Dre Bly and […]
Continue readingAlabama, the defending national champion, had six players selected in the first round of last week’s NFL draft, tying the Miami Hurricanes’ record set in 2004. Alabama and Ohio State each had 10 players drafted overall, the most of any program in this year’s draft. Georgia was third with nine draft selections, the most in […]
Continue readingEven in a 2020 college football season that featured more starts and stops than Los Angeles traffic, there were a handful of near certainties, such as Alabama, Clemson and Ohio State reaching the College Football Playoff. Even a pandemic couldn’t balance power in the most top-heavy sport. Will we finally see those heavyweights fall back […]
Continue readingIt’s been a running joke on the college football internet that at some point the ACC Coastal is going to fulfill its perfect mediocrity and give us a seven-way tie at 4-4. That was never going to happen in 2019 with Georgia Tech going into full-on rebuild mode, but we got the next-best thing: a […]
Continue readingWith spring practice on the horizon, national signing day (both of them) in the rear view, and the FBS coaching carousel finally winding down (apologies to Colorado), it’s a great time to update the 2020 Way-Too-Early Top 25 rankings. The four College Football Playoff teams — Clemson, LSU, Ohio State and Oklahoma — continued to […]
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