Tailback Elijah Holyfield, tight end Isaac Nauta and wide receivers Riley Ridley and Mecole Hardman announced Friday they are skipping their senior seasons to enter the NFL draft. Ridley, the younger brother of Atlanta Falcons rookie Calvin Ridley, led Georgia with 44 catches for 570 yards and nine touchdowns. He finished strong with five-catch games […]
Continue readingReed and Blankenship announced their decisions Sunday on Twitter. Reed was second on the team with 66 tackles while starting every game. Blankenship took over the kicking job in 2016, earned a scholarship and developed into one of the nation’s most reliable weapons. This season, he connected on 19 of 23 field goals and all […]
Continue readingCager, a 6-foot-5 rising senior from Towson, Maryland, led the Hurricanes with six touchdown catches and 17.8 yards per reception in 2018. He caught 21 passes for 374 yards, both career-high totals, in 13 games. Cager announced his decision on social media on Friday. The Bulldogs will have to replace four of their top five […]
Continue readingAt quarterback, Oklahoma and USC have battled back and forth in recent years for the No. 1 spot, and the Trojans are on the verge of tipping the QBU scales after swiping both coach Lincoln Riley and Caleb Williams from the Sooners. On the D-line, Jared Verse and Florida State are closing in at the […]
Continue readingLawrence enters his first NFL preseason game on Saturday 86-4 as a starter — 52-2 at Cartersville (Georgia) High School and 34-2 at Clemson — and was perfect in the regular season (68-0). He lost four times in 22 playoff games, which means there’s a pretty short list of quarterbacks who have beaten him head-to-head. […]
Continue readingTeams in the NFL were required to cut their rosters to 53 players by 4 p.m. ET on Saturday. Given the irregular offseason, with OTAs and minicamps occurring virtually for the first time, teams have had only training camp, which included 14 padded practices, to see their players in person. The biggest names let go […]
Continue readingStafford appeared Saturday on the reserve/COVID-19 list, which means a player either has taken a test that has come back positive or has been in close contact with someone who has been diagnosed with the coronavirus. The Lions, in a statement released Tuesday, said Stafford never had COVID-19 and instead had a false positive test […]
Continue readingDetroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford on Saturday became the eighth member of the team to be placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list. Stafford was put on the list after results came back from the team’s third round of testing on Friday. Players are put on the list either if they’ve tested positive for COVID-19 or have […]
Continue readingColeman and tight end Isaac Nauta join a growing number of Lions players on the reserve list, which means either they’ve tested positive for COVID-19 or have been in close contact with someone who has the coronavirus. In a text message to ESPN, Coleman said “alls well,” but did not expand further on his situation. […]
Continue readingStafford had conversations with general manager Bob Quinn and coach Matt Patricia about the rumors, but he said he stopped thinking about them in a snap — while actually snapping his fingers on a Zoom conference call with reporters. The rumors had started because of some since-debunked local and national media reports as well as […]
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