Player Notes

It’s just over a month until football season. And with all due respect to the Rice Owls, we’re about 40 days until the Texas Longhorns’ most important game against Alabama. The Longhorns need to win it.Texas faces the Alabama Crimson Tide not long from now. The game’s importance is not about long-term implications or about announcing that Texas is back. Even if Texas made the playoff this season it ...

The 2023 college football season is one that Texas fans are hoping will live up to expectations.While this feels like a familiar song and dance, it isn’t just Texas fans that are high on the Longhorns. Texas was picked to win the Big 12, and there have been growing expectations that they can even make a playoff push. A goal that 247Sports‘ Brad Crawford believes will come down to their defense.When ...

In January, the Carolina Panthers tabbed Frank Reich to become their head coach after Matt Rhule had been fired five games into 2022 and secondary coach Steve Wilks finished the season at the helm.Before a coaching career that includes five seasons guiding the Indianapolis Colts, Reich spent 14 years as an NFL quarterback.In February, Reich hired Josh McCown as the Panthers’ quarterbacks coach. McCown ...

For the second time within a week, Auburn scores a massive recruiting win over one of its arch-rivals.Class of 2024 5-star wide receiver Perry Thompson from Foley High School announced he has flipped his commitment from Alabama to Auburn during Auburn’s Big Cat Weekend recruiting event.He is Auburn’s second major commitment of the weekend after 4-star athlete Malcolm Simmons of the Benjamin Russell ...

For some NFL players, training camp is a tune-up for the regular season with secure role already in hand.For many more, training camp is a fight for survival to earn a spot on the 53-player roster for the regular season, or at least to stick on the practice squad.Between the secure and the roster hopefuls is another group of players who will use training camp to decide which of the other two groups ...

LAS VEGAS – Most Mountain West defensive coordinators were happy to see Jake Haener run out of eligibility and move on to an NFL career.But Haener wasn’t the primary issue for Wyoming the last two seasons. His counterparts were.Fresno State defeated the Cowboys 17-0 in Laramie with Sean Chambers and Levi Williams taking turns throwing incompletions.Last season Andrew Peasley was out of rhythm in his ...

The Big Ten Conference's annual football media days wrapped up Thursday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and the two-day press junket offered some valuable insight on what to watch for this season.From Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti and University of Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell and quarterback Tanner Mordecai making their media days debut to former Badgers defensive coordinator landing a job ...

Former University of Wisconsin star Jonathan Taylor has formally asked the Indianapolis Colts for a trade, according to NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport.Taylor met with Colts owner Jim Irsay on Saturday. The running back is entering his fourth NFL season, the last on his rookie contract. He led the league in rushing in 2021 and earned first-team All Pro, then saw his numbers backslide in 2022, when ...

The Hotline mailbag publishes each week. Some questions have been edited for clarity and brevity.Do Oregon and Washington need to give consideration to joining the Big 12? It has been well documented that both schools covet the Big Ten. But the opportunity may not exist today, and they could always join at a later date if/when the opportunity arises. — Andrew PerezThe Hotline doesn’t foresee the Pacific ...

Virginia running back Mike Hollins details his spring football return aheadHe’s continuing on his miraculous quest toward taking the field when Virginia opens its new campaign on Sept. 2 against Tennessee in Nashville.Cavaliers running back Mike Hollins, a survivor of this past November’s shooting on Grounds that left him wounded and killed three of his teammates, said he doesn’t know exactly yet how ...