Last season, the Jets hogged both Rookie of the Year awards all to themselves, with Garrett Wilson taking offensive honors and Sauce Gardner defensive honors. We’ve already taken a look at the odds for this season’s Offensive Rookie of the Year. Now let’s see which first-year defensive players have the best odds to take home some hardware.
Houston’s new edge defender, Will Anderson Jr. of Alabama, leads the field at +333. The Texans traded up to get their guy at the no. 3 pick after taking quarterback C.J. Stroud at no. 2, starting off the NFL draft with a bang.
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The Eagles fell short in Super Bowl LVII, but Jalen Hurts outplayed Patrick Mahomes on the biggest stage to remind the organization of what they possess at quarterback. Philadelphia didn’t mess around and locked down Hurts with a five-year, $255 million contract after his breakout 2022 season.
But with Hurts’s new deal eating a sizable chunk of the team’s salary cap for years to come, the Eagles had to say goodbye to a handful of veterans, including defensive tackle Javon Hargrave, guard Isaac Seumalo, linebacker T.J. Edwards and defensive back C.J. Gardner-Johnson.
USC’s Caleb Williams is looking to become the first player since Ohio State’s Archie Griffin in 1974 and 1975 to win multiple Heismans. But odds suggest he’ll have some competition.
For 20 years, the AFC East consisted of the Patriots and three NFL versions of a laugh track.
Fast forward to 2022, and the roles are reversed. The Jets have Aaron Rodgers under center, the Bills are three-time defending AFC East champions and the Dolphins are loaded with talent and boasting a new defensive coordinator in Vic Fangio.
While Buffalo remains the favorite, New York and Miami are fascinating.
Fans at Citi Field had no sympathy for Max Scherzer as the ex-Met pitcher returned in a Rangers uniform.
Scherzer was a casualty in the Mets’ dumping of contracts at the deadline. He waived his no-trade clause to be traded to Texas after discussions with the Mets front office.
On Monday, the Citi Field screens welcomed Scherzer back with a tribute video.
Ravenous Mets fans stuck it to Scherzer for no longer being a Met with loud boos as a live shot showed him waving to the crowd.
If it seems like everybody is in awe of Shohei Ohtani, it’s probably because it’s true – everybody loves the coolest baseball player in the world.
Ohtani might no longer be able to pitch this season because of an injury he suffered last week, but he’s still serving as the designated hitter in Angels games, which is both wild and impressive.
Monday he shared another cool moment with someone who is in awe of him – the Phillie Phanatic. The legendary mascot had some fun with Ohtani as he got ready to go to the plate in Los Angeles’ 6-4 loss to the Phillies.
Skip Bayless and his new-look morning yelling sports show, Undisputed, returned to FS1 on Monday and it was, well, a total mess. It started with the cringiest rant by Bayless and then later it ran into a good problem for viewers – Bayless couldn’t get a word in because there were too many co-hosts on the show.
The other morning yelling sports show, ESPN’s First Take, seemed to notice that Bayless’ new show looked very similar to theirs, as Ryan Clark appeared to take a subtle shot at Stephen A. Smith’s former sparring partner.
Clark said: “This is what we do know.
A 45-year-old father in Virginia was arrested over the weekend after allegedly taking a metal bottle and attacking his son’s soccer coach with it during a game.
Blerand Hxoha was charged with malicious wounding after allegedly striking the coach in the face multiple times during the game in the city of Manassas. The coach was left with a swollen face and a black eye. According to FOX 5 DC, Hoxha is being held in jail without bail.
Once in a while, MLB fans will evade security, rush onto a field and reach a player.
Monday night featured the latest case as two wild fans rushed onto the Coors Field green. They reached and tackled Atlanta Braves star Ronald Acuña, Jr., positioned in right field.
The fans managed to bring Acuña down, which surely started Braves nation.
Wild scene in Denver as two fans ran on the field and tried to hug Acuna. This could have been really bad. pic.twitter.com/eFGvgzMpEf
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 29, 2023
Luckily, Acuña made it out of the scrum unscathed.
Braves outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. was involved in a bizarre incident during Monday’s game against the Rockies when two fans ran onto the outfield at Coors Field and made contact with the 25-year-old, knocking him down when security tried to remove the fans from the field and all parties got tangled up.
Speaking to reporters after the game, via an interpreter, Acuña explained that he believes the two fans had been hoping to get a picture with him.
“I was a little scared at first, but I think the fans were out there and asking for a picture.