Stock up, stock down from NFL combine (MSNBC)
Stock up, stock down from NFL combine (MSNBC)
The big names dominated the hallway talk at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis this weekend. Big names are supposed to control college football conversations, you say? Sure, but only on Saturday afternoons in October.
NFL Europe drafts 2 from MTSU (Tennessean)
Two former Middle Tennessee State football players will be teammates once again. This time, though, they will be playing on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Cornerback Keon Raymond and defensive end Bobby Payne were among the 134 players selected today in the NFL Europe free agent draft. Both were taken by Berlin — Raymond in the ninth round and Berry in the 18th. Raymond was signed last …
NFL Coaches Are Outplayed by Economists in Draft: Kevin Hassett (Bloomberg.com)
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) — The best and brightest college football stars started descending on Indianapolis last week to participate in the NFL’s six-day scouting combine.
LaRon Landry set for NFL challenge (AP via Yahoo! News)
LaRon Landry vividly recalls those fierce competitions with his two older brothers. Perhaps it would start with a pickup basketball game and carry over to football practice. Whatever the challenge, Landry welcomed it even if he occasionally got beaten up.
Favre set for NFL workouts after ankle surgery (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Brett Favre, American football’s all-time completions leader, underwent left ankle surgery on Monday but is not expected to miss any off-season workouts for the Green Bay Packers.
A Football League Of Their Own (CBS 3 Philadelphia)
The NFL off-season is just getting underway, but there’s another football league about to start playing games. CBS 3 s Brandy Bell got a hands-on look at the Philadelphia Phoenix Women s Football Organization.
Football Coach Charged With Sexual Battery (Cleveland - NewsNet5 via Yahoo! News)
A local high school football coach will face a judge in connection with one count of sexual battery involving a 17-year-old female student at Buchtel High School.
Financial gap widening between NFL’s haves and have-nots (USA Today)
At the NFL’s scouting combine this week, the world of professional football is churning smoothly. But the management of the Cincinnati Bengals, Jacksonville Jaguars and several other small-market NFL teams are warning that the league’s competitive balance is being threatened by tremendous growth in revenues that have resulted in large part from that level playing field.
Opinion: NFL Scouting Combine A Source For Excuses (NBC 10 Philadelphia)
Opinion: The NFL scouting combine’s poking, prodding and running prospects like livestock in a county fair show is about more than seeing who might perform well in pro football. It is also about providing teams plausible deniability when most of those prospects don’t.