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ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports Jimmy Garoppolo reaches out to Trey Lance After the 49ers drafted Trey Lance with the third overall choice, he expressed a desire to get to know and to learn from Jimmy Garoppolo. Not long after that, Garoppolo reached out to Lance to welcome him to the team. “Yeah, he sent

If Alabama won the first night of the 2021 NFL Draft, SEC foe Georgia won the second and third rounds. The Bulldogs have been one of just a handful of programs recruiting at a level above all other programs, and now it’s showing up on draft night with five more players hearing their name called,

Let’s ride, Broncos. Western Michigan football may have surprised the NFL world — and annoyed Eastern and Central Michigan Football fans — when D’Wayne Eskridge was drafted Friday at No. 56 overall by the Seattle Seahawks late in the second round of the 2021 draft. “D’Wayne Eskridge will absolutely eat you up in a hurry

7:57 PM ET Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The Mountain West has eliminated its intraconference transfer rules, becoming the latest Division I league to decide to it will be governed solely by NCAA rules. The Mountain West announced Friday that the conference’s board of directors approved a recommendation by the league’s administrators and athlete

7:11 PM ET Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State said Friday it has informed football recruit Steffan Johnson that he will not be a part of the program following his arrest in Florida. Johnson, a cornerback from Venice, Florida, signed with the Spartans in December. He was arrested for extortion directing or promoting

USATSI This is what it’s been like recently for SEC wide receiver on draft day: In the last decade, the Strength Everywhere Conference has seen more first-round picks at receiver (11) than any other league. In this week’s NFL Draft, the conference record for wideouts taken in the first round could fall — easily. Basically,

4:02 PM ET FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – Pete Lammons, the starting tight end on the New York Jets‘ Super Bowl III championship team and a member of the University of Texas 1963 national champions, died Thursday in a boating accident in Texas, according to authorities. He was 77. Lammons, an avid fisherman, fell overboard at

Ball State cornerback Antonio Phillips was long and lean. His little brother Jason Eberhart Jr., four years his junior, was thick and stout. Despite the different builds and last names, they were thick as thieves. They bounded throughout childhood, most often playing football or talking about their favorite sport. Most of all, they shared the

Getty Images If you’ve ever wondered whether NFL execs watch Alabama or Clemson or LSU and say, “yeah, sure, I’ll take all of that, thank you very much,” turns out your hunch was correct. During Thursday night’s first round of the 2021 NFL Draft, four teams — the Dolphins, Eagles, Bengals and Jaguars — reunited

No Big 12 players were taken in the first round of the 2021 NFL draft.  It’s the first time in the conference’s history that the school didn’t have a player chosen in the first 32 picks and a stark contrast from the 2010 draft dominated by Big 12 talent.  Five of the first six players

8:30 AM ET The first round of the spring FCS playoffs gave us the tension we crave in tournament settings — four games were decided by single digits, and we had a genuinely perfect playoff game in Southern Illinois’ narrow win over Weber State — but it also gave us mostly chalk. The top four

9:42 AM ET Kansas has hired Buffalo‘s Lance Leipold as head football coach, the school announced Friday. The Jayhawks and Leipold agreed to a six-year contract, according to the school. “It is an exciting and humbling opportunity, and this is a day I will never forget,” Leipold said in a statement. “We are going to

Getty Kansas has hired Buffalo’s Lance Leipold as its next head football coach, the school announced on Friday. This marks the end of a search — the beginning of which spans back to mid-March — for both a new athletic director and head coach. Kansas fired coach Les Miles on March 9 amid allegations of misconduct during

10:29 AM ET The 2020-21 college football coaching carousel isn’t as robust or as glitzy as previous versions, but it has stamina. Kansas’ hire of Buffalo’s Lance Leipold on the last day of April means the carousel will spin into May. The Power 5 vacancies are likely set with Leipold’s move to KU, a sensible

Apr 29, 2021 Tory BarronESPN Editor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports. Yeah, it’s great for the Cincinnati Bengals, Miami Dolphins, Denver Broncos and Philadelphia Eagles that they’re adding

Getty Images The last big spring game Saturday will take place this weekend as 12 FBS programs including Notre Dame, Oregon, Washington, Nebraska and Virginia hit the field to wrap up their spring practice sessions. The Fighting Irish are hoping to build off of last season’s run to the ACC Championship Game and College Football Playoff, the

CBS Sports graphic Gus Malzahn to UCF feels so right. It is not only the best addition of the current hiring cycle of college football coaches, it’s the best Group of Five hire basically since we started calling it the Group of Five about 10 years ago. And it’s not even close. That’s because championship-pedigree

The Guardian NFL 2021 mock draft: Trevor Lawrence is No1 but who are the sleeper picks? This year’s top prospects are about to enter the professional ranks. We assess the best young players coming out of college as Thursday’s first round looms Trevor Lawrence is far ahead of the competition in this year’s NFL draft.