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My grades are based heavily on slot value. Addressing needs and in-draft trades are also considered. Below, along with each team’s grade, you’ll note three additional categories – draft capital, talent acquired and value – teams are ranked in. Draft capital was calculated via Rich Hill’s trade chart. Talent acquired is based on scoring the

8:36 PM ET NFL teams selected a record 65 players from SEC schools during the 2021 draft, continuing the conference’s dominance over the three-day event. The previous record was also set by the SEC, with 64 in 2019. In fact, the four highest totals of drafted players from one conference belong to the SEC. They

Getty Images For the 15th straight year, the SEC was the king of the NFL Draft. Given that a majority of college football‘s talent pool lies in the South, it shouldn’t be a major surprise that the SEC led all conferences with 65 picks, setting a new all-time record for a single conference in the

Ducks: Troy Franklin, Dont’e Thornton & Kris Hutson show they belong originally appeared on NBC Sports Northwest If you had just one takeaway from the 2021 Oregon Ducks Spring Game, it’s that the program is loaded with more talent than any other year in recent memory. That’s what the recruiting prowess of head coach Mario

Getty Images Saturday saw a number of spring games across the country, including the Blue-Gold Game at Notre Dame, the Nebraska spring game, and a couple of powerhouses in the Pacific Northwest. While you never want to read too much into anything you see in the spring, we’re all a little desperate for football, aren’t

Reuters Chris Weidman issued 6-month medical suspension Former UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman was issued a 180-day medical suspension after a gruesome injury at UFC 261 last week in Jacksonville, Fla. Weidman is facing a recovery period of up to a year after badly breaking his right leg just 17 seconds into his bout against

MMA Weekly UFC Vegas 25 results: Jiri Prochazka knocks out Dominick Reyes to earn title shot The UFC Vegas 25 results were littered with decision after decision, but the fight card finished strong with two blistering finishes in the main and co-main events. Jiri Prochazka knocks out Dominick Reyes to earn title shot Dominick Reyes

It was a quiet spring for USC, which wrapped its last of 15 practices late Friday afternoon as the sun beat down on Howard Jones Field, beckoning for summer. For Clay Helton, the Trojans’ embattled coach, it was likely his last quiet stretch for some time, as the inevitable questions about his future loom. Other

The Cincinnati Bengals head into Day 3 of the 2021 NFL draft with seven picks, including three in the opening fourth round thanks to the trade down with New England on Friday night. With the roster’s three biggest needs addressed, the Bengals are free to focus on the best player available at each pick, though

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