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Adrian Peterson is one of the greatest running backs in college football history. The former five-star, No. 1 overall recruit had three incredible seasons at Oklahoma before being drafted with the No. 7 pick in the 2007 NFL Draft.
However, Peterson almost didn’t end up in Norman. He grew up in Texas and was highly considering the Longhorns, as well as the USC Trojans.
Ed Orgeron even tried to get Peterson’s incarcerated father transferred to California in an effort to land the top-ranked running back. He was ultimately unsuccessful.

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The first round gets shaken up.
We’re entering the final stretch of NFL Draft season. At this point the mocks are starting to align with what we’re learning about the teams at the top, and we should be reaching a fairly safe facsimile of what will happen next week in the first few picks.
Everything will go off the rails. It does every year, and 2023 could be wilder than most depending on how much of a feeding frenzy there is for quarterbacks at the top of the draft.

Antonio Brown is quite an … interesting human being. And, clearly he enjoys the spotlight. The former NFL wide receiver now co-owns a National Arena League franchise, the Albany Empire.
However, there’s some debate about that, too. According to the Times Union, Brown claims to be the team’s solo owner. However, the co-owner disagrees with Brown’s assertion.
“I’m the owner, 100 percent owner. I don’t take that lightly,” Brown told the newspaper.

COVID-19 is no longer considered a national emergency in the United States. President Joe Biden literally signed a law declaring that the emergency is over on April 10, but that doesn’t mean all professional athletes, such as Linn Grant, can compete in the U.S.
While the national emergency tag has been removed from the pandemic in the United States, the public health emergency is still intact and carries an expiration date of May 11. The public health emergency was set to expire earlier this year, but just days before that date arrived, the Biden administration extended it.

Damar Hamlin has been cleared to return to football after being seen by three specialists. The Bills safety suffered cardiac arrest during a Jan. 2 game against the Bengals.

Former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown is the co-owner of the National Arena League’s Albany Empire, and on Sunday the team started the season with a dominant 70–33 win over the Orlando Predators. However, there appeared to be some drama outside of the game with Brown. 
Brown posted a video of himself on the field where he was interacting with fans, until a security guard can be heard repeatedly telling him to “get off the field right now.” Brown refused, saying, “We ain’t going nowhere.”
“You gotta go get some bigger muscles,” he told the security guard.

Defensive end Chris Smith, who played eight seasons in the NFL, most notably with the Browns, has died at age 31.

Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia are finally getting into the ring together on Saturday night. The long-awaited super-fight between two of the most high-profile boxers in the world is finally happening, barring any unforeseen setbacks.
And to the victor will go all of the spoils. At least, so has been said.
Davis and Garcia are fighting for the whole purse. Unless the latter backs out.
Davis, who has held multiple belts in three weight classes across the WBA and IBF, is the bigger draw at the moment. He is guaranteed $1.5 million for the fight.

Bills safety Damar Hamlin has been medically cleared to resume football activities only three months after going into cardiac arrest on an NFL field.
Buffalo general manager Brandon Beane said Tuesday morning Hamlin was given the okay after all three of his specialists said he was “fully cleared.”
“He is fully cleared. He’s here,” Beane told reporters. “He’s in a great headspace to make his return.”

Per GM Brandon Beane, Damar Hamlin has been cleared to resume full football activities.@HamlinIsland is in Buffalo and in a great headspace. pic.twitter.

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Jalen Hurts signed a record deal, and contracts won’t get smaller.
We’re in the middle of a massive salary boom in the NFL. Soaring revenue has led to a major increase in the salary cap over the last decade, with the 2013 figure soaring from $123.6M to $224.8 million in a decade. This isn’t slowing down either. The cap will keep growing, and we’ve never seen deals hit the height they are right now with the NFL’s money faucet wide open.
Quarterbacks, naturally, are seeing the biggest benefits first.