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Would it shock anyone to learn Jalen Milroe opened Alabama’s spring practice at the top of Alabama’s depth chart?
Kalen DeBoer is ushering in a new era of Alabama Crimson Tide football after being hired to replace Nick Saban. He has some massive shoes to fill. Many would argue too big to fill, and that’s something fans will debate for a long time moving forward.
One of the biggest questions moving forward is if Jalen Milroe will retain the starting QB role in a re-tooled offense that will likely be much pass heavier than what Saban ran in his final year.

Josh Jacobs is coming off a disappointing 2023 fantasy campaign that saw him miss four games and finish 28th in total points among running backs. That’s quite a far cry from the third-place finish he recorded the previous season, when he won the NFL rushing title. He’s still in the prime of his career at 26 years old, however, so Jacobs won’t be short of potential suitors if he enters free agency during the offseason.

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Let’s handicap the big Kirk Cousins free agency sweepstakes
NFL free agency officially gets underway next week with the start of the league’s “legal tampering period.”
But as we all know, discussions started in Indianapolis last week during the NFL Scouting Combine.
Perhaps the biggest domino that will fall in the coming days? Kirk Cousins. The veteran quarterback is set to hit free agency, and while there is a path for him to remain a member of the Minnesota Vikings, there are going to be a number of suitors for his services.

It’s been a rocky road for the New York Giants with Daniel Jones. 
The team had high hopes when it selected the former Duke quarterback with the sixth pick in the 2019 NFL draft, but he’s been inconsistent under center for much of his time with the Giants.
Jones’s best season came in 2022, when he completed 67.2% of his passes for 3,205 yards and 15 touchdown passes to five interceptions. 
The career year earned him a lucrative new contract, which the Giants apparently are regretting, if the buzz around the NFL scouting combine is to be believed.

Even NBA players are late for work sometimes. 
Anthony Edwards had to come off the bench for the Minnesota Timberwolves for the first time since his rookie season during the team’s 119—114 win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night at the Target Center. 
Edwards didn’t miss the start because he was being punished or placed on a minutes restriction. Amusingly enough, the Timberwolves star guard simply missed tip-off for the contest against the Blazers because he was distracted.

If you are a college football fan counting down the days until the new EA Sports video game is released this summer, you’ll reportedly have to wait another year to technically play with Texas backup quarterback Arch Manning. 
The anticipation for the college football game to return continues to be a driving force of news, especially about who is opting into the game from a playable standpoint. A majority of the players who opt into the game will receive a payment of $600, along with their own copy from EA Sports.

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Despite a strong start to the season, Red Bull F1 is tearing itself apart at the seams
The 2024 Formula 1 season has gotten off to an incredible start for Red Bull.
On the track that is.
Max Verstappen drove away from the field in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, capturing pole position on Friday and then not just winning the race, but also securing the fastest lap to give him the weekend sweep.

After the Dallas Cowboys suffered another disappointing early playoff exit in January, critics raised questions regarding whether or not quarterback Dak Prescott was the right man to lead the offense for years to come.
But it’s not the personal criticism of his play that bothers Prescott the most. Instead, what upsets him is critique of the franchise’s culture and whether or not that culture is conducive to competing for Super Bowls.

Jason Kelce’s legendary NFL career came to an end Monday when he retired from the Philadelphia Eagles after 13 seasons.
While his press conference was an emotional ride, the end of his career led to lots of people celebrating Kelce for all that he did both on, and off, the field.
His former Eagles teammate, Chris Long, shared an old clip from his Green Light podcast of Kelce telling a story about how he was almost killed after jumping off a boat to go to the bathroom in the water at a Fourth of July party many years ago.

Fans better start mentally preparing for the NCAA Tournament field to expand, even if it’s a very foolish and dumb idea.
There’s been speculation for years that the men’s tournament could expand to as many as 90+ teams, and those of us with common sense have been arguing for the field to not grow.
Well, it sounds like it’s likely to happen, just at a reduced rate of growth.
“We’re not talking about 96. There is little to no appetite for 96 teams, or really even 80,” a college administrator with knowledge of the situation told The Athletic.