Brady Allen has entered the transfer portal. It’s déjà vu all over again.
The 19-year-old was in this exact same position just four months ago. His decision to return to the portal is the perfect example of the new reality within college football.
Allen, a four-star recruit in the Class of 2022, was Indiana’s Mr. Football in 2021 and chose to stay home and play for Purdue. He committed to the Boilermakers in July before his junior year and stuck with his decision over offers from Cincinnati, Indiana, Kansas, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
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At least 18 Colorado players since Saturday said they were entering the transfer portal to leave coach Deion Sanders.
The defending Stanley Cup Champions, the Colorado Avalanche, are having a bit of a tough time with the Seattle Kraken. Now, things just got a little bit tougher with news that their No. 1 defenseman Cale Makar has been suspended 1 game for a hit on Seattle’s Jared McCann.
It happened in Game 4 of the Kraken and Avalanche’s first-round series. McCann fired a shot on net and peeled off into the corner where Makar delivered a bone-crunching hit. Of course, it caught the refs’ attention because the puck was nowhere around them when this happened.
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What does it take to ‘win-now’ in the NFL?
The Jets actually did it. After months of consternation and encroaching feeling that a trade might not happen, New York finally landed Aaron Rodgers from the Green Bay Packers. It wasn’t the steal they probably hoped, giving up what will be tantamount to a first and second round pick for Rodgers, but if it means the Jets are able to hoist the Lombardi Trophy in the next two years then nobody will care that they overpaid for a 39-year-old quarterback.
The Cowboys have the 26th pick in the first round of the 2023 NFL Draft. The team has been unusually busy this offseason, acquiring both wide receiver Brandin Cooks and cornerback Stephon Gilmore. That, at least in theory, would fill two of the positions the team might have focused its attention on with their first-round choice.
One of the positions Dallas didn’t fill is tight end, where Dalton Schultz left for the Houston Texans. The oddsmakers at SI Sportsbook believe this is the most likely first-round target, as tight end is listed at +200.
Folks in Green Bay wasted absolutely no time in erasing Aaron Rodgers from the city after news of his trade to the New York Jets became official. A mural of the now-former Packers quarterback was replaced just hours after the deal was announced.
Kyle Malzhan of Green Bay’s WFRV news shared a video of the mural being painted over. Malzhan said the Rodgers mural was “replaced,” but erased may be the proper word to use seeing as how it was simply painted over with black paint.
The Aaron Rodgers mural in Green Bay has been replaced. #Packers
Artist: Beau Thomas pic.twitter.
Hard-hitting welterweight Roberto Soldić makes his debut on American soil next week at ONE Fight Night 10, matching up against Zebaztian Kadestam in a bout that promises to be fiercely violent.
A fighter from Bosnia, Soldić (20-3, 1 NC) has primarily competed across Europe. He is a former two-division KSW champion, a major MMA promotion in Poland. He represented a prized acquisition for ONE when he signed last summer.
He has breakout star potential, and his bout next week on Amazon Prime Video—which is ONE’s first event in the United States—is a candidate for fight of the night.
A Reddit post convinced hundreds of people to waste they money betting on Will Levis.
Draft season always gets dumb, but on Tuesday it became hilariously stupid. When everyone went to bed on Monday the top pick of the draft was more or less settled. Every sign pointed to the Carolina Panthers selecting Bryce Young, with a very slender chance that C.J. Stroud could be the top pick.
Then, when everyone woke up, it was anarchy.
Will Levis’ odds to go No. 1 overall at the 2023 NFL Draft
An hour ago: +4000Current: +400 pic.twitter.
Barring unforeseen circumstance, Kedon Slovis will be the starting quarterback at BYU this fall. And not because he is getting paid a lot of money to be there.
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— BYU FOOTBALL (@BYUfootball) April 19, 2023
Slovis, a 22-year-old fifth-year graduate transfer, landed in Provo after three years at USC and one year at Pittsburgh. His journey, though unique, is a testament to the current state of college football.
Player movement is more prevalent than ever, and things don’t always work out as planned.
The Jets officially traded for longtime Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers on Monday after months of negotiating terms with Green Bay.
After the details of the trade emerged, fans generally thought the Packers won the deal. Even with that sentiment, Jets general manager Joe Douglas seems to be happy about the trade solely because they finally got Rodgers as their quarterback.
“We’re comfortable with how this deal is shaped,” Douglas said during a Tuesday press conference. “In any negotiation, I don’t think anyone walks away where you feel you won everything.