C.J. Stroud wasted no time letting his new team know what he needed. Shortly after he was drafted by the Texans last week, the former Ohio State quarterback told team leadership that he wanted them to draft a specific player—and they did just that.
While at the NFL combine, Stroud and Houston wide receiver Nathaniel “Tank” Dell threw together and the two clicked. Dell said the two spoke after Stroud was selected with the No. 2 pick and he told Stroud “tell ’em to come get me.” Stroud responded, “I got you, trust me.
Author: Michael
The Houston Texans selected Ohio State quarterback CJ Stroud second overall in the NFL Draft. Many believe that was the plan all along and everything else was a smokescreen.
However, OutKick spoke to a source that said Stroud’s visit to Houston was “terrible.” The coaching staff and front office were not sold on him, which is why so many reports came out saying they might try to trade the pick or take a defensive player.
It seems as though the ownership group possibly stepped in and wanted Stroud. That makes sense.
Sauce Gardner apparently needs to read up on his entertainment history and familiarize himself with Jessica Alba.
The New York Jets CB attended the Knicks/Heat game Tuesday with the team’s new QB, but it wasn’t the duo who caught everyone’s attention.
It was Alba who stole the show. She resurfaced seemingly out of nowhere to set Twitter on fire. There was just one problem for the young Jets player.
Two powerful karmic forces met on the field Wednesday night in St. Louis. The first: whatever has condemned the Angels to falter continuously, seemingly against all odds and despite the best efforts of Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani. The second: whatever is currently plaguing the Cardinals.
Ohtani struck out 13 in five innings and went 3-for-5 with a double. He made history—joining Babe Ruth as the only players in modern history to record 500 strikeouts as a pitcher and 100 home runs as a hitter. With the Angels being the Angels, however, none of this guaranteed a win.
Jalen Carter was the most-polarizing prospect in the entire 2023 NFL Draft class, yet he is now the first first-round selection of the draft to sign an NFL contract.
According to NFL insider Adam Schefter, the Philadelphia Eagles signed the former Georgia Bulldog to a four-year, fully-guaranteed contract worth just under $22 million. The Eagles traded up in the draft to take the defensive tackle with the ninth overall pick.
The Chiefs and former Buccaneers offensive tackle Donovan Smith agreed to a one-year deal worth up to $9 million, according to ESPN’s Adam Teicher.
NFL Network was the first to report the financial value of Smith’s deal. Smith, who was released by Tampa Bay on March 7 as part of the franchise’s efforts to remain under the league’s salary cap, joins a Chiefs franchise that completed an overhaul of its offensive line.
Former offensive tackle Orlando Brown signed with the Bengals while Andrew Wylie signed a three-year, $24 million deal with the Commanders in March.
Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images
The Denver Nuggets are stifling the Phoenix Suns by shrinking the floor around Kevin Durant and Devin Booker
Late in the third quarter of Monday’s Game 2 between the Phoenix Suns and Denver Nuggets, Devin Booker and Nikola Jokic delighted viewers by closing the period trading a slew of invigorating buckets. After both sides slogged through a 42-40 first half, they each established some rhythm in the third, combining for 61 points as Booker and Jokic starred.
When Aaron Rodgers’s future as an NFL quarterback was up in the air a couple of months ago, he planned a darkness retreat to help him get some guidance.
Reports, mainly coming from ESPN’s Adam Schefter and the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, had been swirling that Rodgers’s time with the Packers was done and he could retire or maybe join the Jets.
During this time, Rodgers made one of his appearances on the Pat McAfee Show and took aim at the two reporters.
“There’s an inner circle, and in my inner circle nobody talks to Ian Rapoport or Adam Schefter or to any of those people.
Antonio Brown is at the center of controversy, again. Rinse, repeat.
This time, though, the 34-year-old is not in the headlines as a player, or former player, but as an owner. Brown and his father purchased an ownership stake in a National Arena League football team, the Albany Empire, back at the beginning of March. His dad Eddie was a star offensive player for the Albany Firebirds in the 1990s so the team holds sentimental value.
However, less than two months after buying into the franchise, Brown is already in some hot water.
Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports
Shohei Ohtani is again in Babe Ruth’s company.
Shohei Ohtani continues to set records in the most outstanding of ways.
In the Los Angeles Angels 6-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday, Ohtani was once again incredible both on the mound as a starting pitcher and at the plate as the DH. He struck out 13 batters through five innings as a pitcher, then went 3-5 with an RBI as a hitter.
With those 13 strikeouts on Wednesday, Ohtani joined some very elite company.