The Big Ten conference has produced some of the best players in the NFL today, and those players are being rewarded immensely for their talents. The NFL new year officially started on Wednesday, meaning free agency is now open and players can sign new deals. Amongst the marque free agents were a handful of former Big Ten stars, and they cashed in quite nicely in free agency. Let’s take a look at a few former Big Ten standouts that struck gold in free agency this week. 1. QB Kirk Cousins (Michigan State) Former Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins has been…
Author: Alec Whitaker
College Football is becoming more popular, and like with the NFL, television outlets are taking advantage of the increase in interest of the sport. According to Andrew Marchand of The Athletic, Fox Sports will air a weekly Friday night college football game for the 2024 season. This move shouldn’t come as much of a surprise with Fox Sports continually trying to spotlight featured college football games at times that differ from the usual Saturday night primetime slot. Fox started by putting its premiere game of the week at noon and calling it “Big Noon Kickoff” to combat CBS dominating the…
Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin loves to say what’s on his mind, and that’s what makes him one of the best personalities in college football. In an interview with Andy Staples of On3, Lane Kiffin opened up about his thoughts on the return of EA Sports College Football video game, which will be released this summer. Unlike players, college coaches are not expected to be featured in the video game. Despite this, Kiffin would love to be coaching his Rebels in the game, and he gave his reasoning to Staples. “The kids like to play it,” Kiffin said to…
The Big Ten is expected to be one of the most competitive conferences in college football in 2024, but a few teams are still trying to figure out their quarterback situation. Multiple Big Ten teams with their eyes on reaching the 12-team College Football Playoff in 2024 still need to find their man under center for this upcoming season. The expanded Big Ten will be one of the most competitive and entertaining conferences this season with Oregon, Washington, USC and UCLA coming over from the Pac-12. Having the right man at quarterback will be vital for all 18 teams, because…
Multiple Penn State Football players had strong showings at the NFL Combine, and that has led to a boost in their draft stock. A recent mock draft by Chris Trapasso of CBS Sports has two former Penn State football standouts being selected in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft. The first is offensive tackle Olu Fashanu, who Trapasso has going No. 10 overall to the New York Jets. There may not be a team in the NFL more in need of offensive line help than the Jets as they try to protect an aging Aaron Rodgers, who is…
ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit dropped an interesting tidbit about the College Football 25 video game during a live stream appearance on Tuesday evening. While appearing on the “Streit Talk Show”, which is hosted by Kirk Herbstreit’s twin sons, Tye and Jake, on YouTube on Tuesday night, Herbstreit was asked numerous questions about the upcoming revival of the popular NCAA Football video game. The game is set to return this Summer after not being made since 2013, due legal disputes with the name, imagine and likeness (NIL) of the student athletes represented in the game. Those issues went away with the passing…
College football is filled with fascinating and heated rivalries that catch the attention of fans across the nation, but every once in a while, a rivalry that makes little sense on the surface arises. When you think of great college football rivalries, you probably think of Ohio State and Michigan or Alabama and Auburn or Pitt and West Virginia. These rivalries last all year round, because not only do these teams play each other often, if not annually, they recruit against each other because of their proximity to their rival. These rivalries make sense, but what about Missouri and Penn…
The Alabama Crimson Tide enter their first recruiting cycle in the post Nick Saban era, and new head coach Kalen DeBoer looks primed to try some new recruiting tactics. DeBoer and Alabama ended February by extending offers to two 2025 Pennsylvania recruits that are starting to gain national recognition. The first is tight end Andrew Olesh, a 4-star from Center Valley, PA. Olesh has an impressive offer list that includes Michigan, Miami, Penn State, Ole Miss, Missouri and Texas A&M. Olesh can now add Alabama to that list. Another Pennsylvania recruit that picked up an Alabama offer at the end…
