By trading Jeff Okudah to the Falcons, the Lions shipped out a top-five draft pick just three years after selecting him. Since 2011, when the NFL instituted its rookie wage scale, teams have seldom traded first-round draft picks during their initial four-year rookie contract or fifth-year option.
When such a trade does take place, it often happens three years into a player’s career, around the time a team must decide whether to pick up the fifth-year option.
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The New York Mets may be more severely impacted by the introduction of MLB’s pitch clock than other teams.
According to a New York Post report, the Mets have had to maneuver around the pitch clock more than most. Not because of any specific talent deficiency or lack of work ethic, but because their staff is so old.
The Mets pitching staff has the highest average age of any team in MLB, at 32.2. And it’s been a major adjustment for a number of their most important pitchers.
Hugh Freeze had an idea, and Zach Arnett is on board. Although the latter is in agreement with the former, Arnett presented a thought that might create some issues for group of five programs.
Freeze, in his first year as head coach at Auburn, is frustrated with the current system of college football spring games. He doesn’t understand why schools play open scrimmages against each other when they are limited to a specific number of practices during the spring period. In his eyes, it’s a waste of a day.
Grizzlies swingman Dillon Brooks has had an adventurous 2023. The Memphis provocateur has feuded with seemingly every player of note in the NBA this season—among them Warriors forward Draymond Green, Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell and the NBA itself when it hit him with a suspension for technical foul accumulation.
Now, Brooks appears to be taking on his biggest fish yet: Lakers forward LeBron James, the league’s all-time leading scorer.
“I wouldn’t mind playing LeBron in a seven-game series,” Brooks mused to reporters Tuesday afternoon.
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The stare down continues between the Packers and the Jets over Aaron Rodgers. One of his current (for now) teammates shared an interesting potential theory for resolving the situation on the Bussin’ With The Boys podcast. “The Packers are rebuilding, whether you think so or not,” tackle David Bakhtiari sad.
On Monday, President Biden signed a law that officially ended the emergency declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic.
H.J. Res 7, which had bipartisan Congressional support but was originally opposed by President Biden, states that after three long years, Covid-19 is no longer considered a national emergency. Biden told Republican Senators a few weeks ago that he would not veto the bill if it passed.
And yet one of the greatest tennis players of all time Novak Djokovic, will still not be allowed to play in the upcoming U.S. Open. tournament.
Nearly 1,200 Division-I basketball players have entered the transfer portal since March 13, and Arkansas has interest in practically every single one. Not really, but the Razorbacks are casting a wide net.
The transfer portal has changed the game forever and head coach Eric Musselman is all-in.
Even before the portal became what it is today, Musselman has put a large focus on transfers. He turned Nevada into the go-to destination for top talent that needed a fresh start and new opportunity, and took the Wolfpack into three-straight NCAA Tournaments as a top-25 team.
The NHL regular season is set to conclude as teams fight for position in the Connor Bedard sweepstakes. Heres everything you need to know about the 2023 NHL Draft Lottery.
Zion Williamson has been ruled out for the Pelicans’ play-in tournament game against the Thunder on Wednesday, and the star forward isn’t thrilled about having to sit on the sideline.
“The s— sucks, I don’t know how else to say it,” Williamson said, via The Athletic’s Will Guillory. “The s— sucks. I love this game. … For those people who think I just want to sit on the sideline just to sit over there, I don’t know why people think that. Nah, it sucks. I just want to be playing basketball.”
The former No. 1 pick hasn’t played since Jan.