For a moment in the offseason, Chargers running back Austin Ekeler requested a trade from the team as he negotiated a new contract. Eventually, he and the team agreed to a restructured deal that added incentives to the final year of his four-year, $24.5 million deal this season.
However, Ekeler doesn’t seem thrilled with his deal, or the state of running back contracts as a whole. On The Rich Eisen Show, Ekeler explained his perspective of the running back market.
“It comes down to comparing, let’s see what the real value added to a team is,” Ekeler said.
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It happens every year. You can bank on one or two teams turning around from a losing record one season to the playoffs the next. Since the wild-card era began, the playoffs have included 64 such turnaround teams in 28 years, or an average of 2.3 surprise teams per year. That includes at least one turnaround team in 27 of the 28 years, including 17 in a row.
This year we have four surprise teams holding a playoff spot as the second half begins: the Rangers, Marlins, Diamondbacks and Reds. A fifth surprise team, the Twins, are only a half game out of another spot.
Running backs are in a precarious position right now, as the league values them a lot less than the players believe they are worth. Still, the league appreciates the best of the best at the position, even if there are fewer than there used to be.
As is the case every year, ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler is releasing the top players at each position, as voted on by NFL executives, coaches and scouts. While fans might think 49ers back Christian McCaffrey is the best, the league has a different name at the top.
The F1 team posted an incredible video of the Honey Badger’s first day at work
AlphaTauri shocked the Formula 1 world on Monday, announcing that rookie driver Nyck de Vries had lost his seat, and wouuld be replaced by veteran — and Red Bull reserve — Daniel Ricciardo “with immediate effect.”
The team made it “social media official” on Friday, releasing an incredible video of Ricciardo’s first day at the office.
It started in November of 2020, and now the NCAA investigation into Tennessee football has come to an end. The Committee of Infractions released its final findings on Friday, while also handing down penalties to the university and Jeremy Pruitt.
The school went in front of the NCAA’s committee in April to further discuss the investigation. Tennessee had a full contingent in Cincinnati to explain its case, with former head coach Jeremy Pruitt also in attendance.
Irsay considers his collection priceless because the eclectic items possess personal — as well as historic — significance.
Welcome to the 15th installment of a weekly mailbag that I will be writing about the world of sports media (and anything else you want to chime in on). Please email me any questions you have to Jimmy.Traina@si.com or send them via Twitter.
It’s amazing how you guys have questions about NFL Sunday Ticket every week. I guess I can understand the confusion with the service moving from DirecTV to YouTube.
Please clear up Sunday Ticket on YouTube.
A countless number of players and coaches around the NFL were slapped with fines for breaking COVID protocols during the 2020 campaign. Sean Payton and Jon Gruden were among that group, but only one of the head coaches decided to pay up.
According to ESPN, during a Week 2 matchup between Payton’s Saints and Gruden’s Raiders, the two coaches were found to be in violation of the league’s policy. Their egregious offense? Not wearing their masks properly on the sideline.
The No Fun League elected to slap them both with $100,000 fines. For not wearing a cloth over their faces.
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Everything you need to know about sports and life.
In the world of professional sports unwritten rules are horrible. They’re often invented by the most boring, starchy people in existence that insist on “doing things the right way” and sucking all the fun out of sport.
That said, in our personal lives unwritten rules are critical. They’re the unspoken guidelines we have to follow in order to have a society run smoothly.
It’s all Aaron’s fault.
That’s what radio host Colin Cowherd is saying after HBO and the NFL announced that the New York Jets were chosen – aka forced – to have to be this year’s Hard Knocks team because of their quarterback, Aaron Rodgers.
“When you become Mr. Polarizing and noisy in the offseason, this is what HBO wants. Juice and heaters and gossip” the FS1 host began.