SBNation’s Mark Schofield chatted with Lando Norris about the Baku City Circuit, McLaren’s slow start, and a Fiat Jolly
Confidence is a hard trait to gauge, especially when the attempt is made over a video conference and with less than 30 minutes at your disposal.
But Lando Norris is an incredibly confident person.
Even over a screen, even across the globe, even over just a few minutes, Norris’ confidence leaps out at you.
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Cowboys pass rusher Micah Parsons jumped from his seat and gave a hearty fist pump after Dallas announced the pick of Michigan defensive tackle Mazi Smith with the No. 26 pick in the draft on Thursday night.
Smith, who was the key cog to Michigan’s interior defensive line and earned first-team All-Big Ten honors a year ago, is sure to quickly upgrade the Cowboys defensive line.
“Dan [Quinn] knew! Look at the text man. I told you, I told you Dan wouldn’t let me down!” Parsons exclaimed on Bleacher Report‘s live draft show.
Former Kentucky quarterback Will Levis had a nightmare of a night at the 2023 NFL draft, as he sat in the green room all evening and never heard his name get called by Roger Goodell during the first round.
Levis, who was rumored to be a high pick just days before the event, is now one of the best players available on the second day of the draft, which starts Friday night at 7 p.m. ET.
In case you didn’t know, Levis shared a pretty gross morning ritual of his before the draft—he likes to put mayonnaise in his coffee. For real.
One of the questions entering the draft for the Cardinals was whether or not the team would move veteran wideout DeAndre Hopkins.
There have been plenty of rumors swirling surrounding the wide receiver and whether or not he would be traded elsewhere. Despite this, Hopkins wasn’t moved on Day 1 of the draft, and the expectation in Arizona is that he may not be moved at all.
“I don’t foresee that happening,” Cardinals general manager Monti Ossenfort said on Thursday night. “I don’t know what is going to happen here in the next couple days.
Entering Thursday night’s NFL draft, conventional wisdom was that all four of the top quarterback prospects—Alabama’s Bryce Young, Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud, Florida’s Anthony Richardson and Kentucky’s Will Levis—would be selected relatively early. That was true for three of the four, with Young, Stroud and Richardson going as three of the top four picks to the Panthers, Texans and Colts, respectively.
Unfortunately for Levis, as it turned out there were only three teams that were clearly in the quarterback market at the top of the draft.
Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. For the ninth consecutive year, I was not selected in the first round of the NFL draft.
In today’s SI:AM:
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📝 Grading every first-round pick
🔮 Projecting the next two rounds
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The NFL draft is always unpredictable
As expected, the Panthers took Bryce Young with the first pick of last night’s NFL draft. After that, things got a little wacky.
One of the surprises of the first round of the NFL draft on Thursday night came when the Jets selected Iowa State outside linebacker Will McDonald IV.
Many did not expect the Cyclones product to go to a team with as much depth as the Jets have at linebacker, but when asked about the selection in his media session after the pick was made, Jets coach Robert Saleh explained that drafting McDonald had a lot to do with Aaron Rodgers.
“You know how we play [on defense], we come at you in waves,” Saleh said. “We dress 10 guys on gameday [at linebacker].
Searching the internet for NFL draft Round 1 analysis from across the globe, one theme emerges: no many like what Detroit Lions GM Brad Holmes did.
Will Levis was this year’s Brady Quinn, dropping like a rock in the NFL Draft’s opening round. And when you experience a slide like that, you get on a camera — a lot. The top takeaway from Thursday’s first round? Just how many damn girls did Will bring to Kansas City with him, and who the hell is Kelley Levis?
Now, before we dive in — yours truly got way out in front of this trend before it became hot. If you ready Thursday’s Nightcaps, you already knew Will’s true girlfriend was college sweetheart Gia Duddy.
New York Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner tried to lift up former Kentucky quarterback Will Levis, as the NFL prospect fell out of the first round on Thursday night, even as he was rumored to be a top-five pick.
The broadcast cameras panned to Levis throughout the night as optimism that he would be selected in the first round waned. Gardner came to the aid of Levis on Twitter.
Sauce Gardner #1 of the New York Jets reacts prior to an NFL football game between the New York Jets and the Jacksonville Jaguars at MetLife Stadium on December 22, 2022 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.