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Stop 7: Bengals training camp in downtown Cincinnati …
1) The Bengals receivers are aliens. Ja’Marr Chase had a catch down the sideline with two guys on him on Monday, where he shielded a defender with his body and caught the ball seemingly off his left hip with one hand, that I don’t think five guys on the planet would’ve made. Tee Higgins had a stream of catches where his body was moving one way across the middle, and his hands would dart back the other way to snatch the ball. And those two, and the way they push each other, came up a bunch with guys I talked to here.

After spending the past six seasons as an NFL beat reporter, I knew there were two critical rules for covering training camp: Apply lots of sunscreen and do not forget the binoculars. Now as an NFL staff writer for The MMQB, I get plenty of opportunities to tan in multiple stops for my first training camp tour. I plan on visiting with eight teams on the West Coast throughout the next two weeks. But my first stop was with the Raiders, and I broke one of the critical rules—I forgot my binoculars.

The biggest first round slide of anyone in this year’s NFL Draft belonged to Will Levis. He attended the draft in Kansas City, believing a team would select him in the first round. But none did. The Tennessee Titans took him with the second pick in the second round.
Most NFL teams apparently were not enamored with Levis, as three quarterbacks were taken in the first four picks. Yet Levis fell to #33.
And it seems like Levis hasn’t been overly impressive since joining Tennessee, either.

A little over a decade after settling into Pac-12 life, Colorado is on its way out the door.
The Buffaloes are heading back to the Big 12 in 2024, their football home from 1996 to 2010. The move will reduce the Pac-12 to nine teams as USC and UCLA leave for the Big Ten as well.
News of Colorado’s machinations broke shortly before the start of the 2023 season and made the Buffaloes—already a popular target thanks to their hiring of coach Deion Sanders in the offseason—fodder for discussion across the conference.

College football is back and West Virginia is among the teams who need to get things figured out in 2023. It’s now or never.
Although Week 0 is still about a month away, players all across the country are returning to campus and reporting to fall camp — some of them heavier than others.

Matt Rhule Rejects Sixth-Year Senior, Sends Him Home For Showing Up Too Fat To Nebraska Training Camp

Among those who are ready to go ahead of the 2023 season is West Virginia defensive back Hershey McLaurin.

Dallas Cowboys running back Ronald Jones — formerly with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers — is suspended for two games after violating the NFL’s PED guidelines.
As relayed by NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, the league released a statement on the violation, stating Jones will be eligible to return Sept. 18.
Dallas Down A RB With Ronald Jones Suspension
The decision read: “Ronald Jones of the Dallas Cowboys has been suspended without pay for the first two games of the 2023 regular season for violating the NFL Policy on Performance-Enhancing Substances.

Alabama coach Nick Saban settled for the No. 31-ranked quarterback in the NCAA Transfer Portal last April in Notre Dame’s Tyler Buchner. And he could be the starter.
Saban let go and went on a vacation in Europe in June.
Last month at the SEC Media Days, he endured trending talk that his dynasty was nearing its death valley days. And Georgia became the first program other than Alabama to be picked to win the SEC since 2015.

The Cowboys will be without running back Ronald Jones II for the first two games of the 2023 NFL season after he was suspended by the NFL for violating its policy on performance-enhancing drugs, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Jones, who was competing to be Dallas’s backup running back behind starter Tony Pollard, will now be unavailable to suit up until Week 3 when the Cowboys take on the Cardinals. As such, he won’t be available for either of the team’s season-opening tilts against the Giants and Jets.

You know who’s not going to miss Deion Sanders and Colorado when they leave the Pac-12 for the Big 12 next season? Oregon head coach Dan Lanning.
And by that, I mean Lanning dug a hole, put the Buffaloes in a body bag and buried them six feet under when asked about his fond memories of the program.
“Not a big reaction. I’m trying to remember what they won to affect this conference,” Lanning said during Monday’s media avail. “I don’t remember … do you remember them winning anything? I don’t remember them winning anything.

Niners general manager John Lynch says he is “not at all” concerned about reaching an agreement with star defensive end Nick Bosa as the reigning Defensive Player of the Year is still absent from training camp.