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2024 NFL Draft Day 2 winners and losers: 49ers, Cowboys stand out originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Day 2 of the 2024 NFL Draft is in the books. Following the plethora of offensive talent taken in the first round, the second and third rounds saw much more defensive talent come off the board. […]

When you’re away from the NFL for nine years, the game can pass you by quickly. Nine years is a couple of NFL lifetimes. Jim Harbaugh is still stuck in his ways a bit, but he showed in the first two days of the NFL Draft that he can also adapt. The Los Angeles Chargers […]

The 2023 NFL season did not end how the Eagles wanted it to as Philadelphia lost six of its final seven games, including a 32-9 drubbing in the Wild Card round at the hands of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Add to that the emotional retirement of Jason Kelce, and the Eagles carry a much different […]

The Dallas Cowboys enter the 2024 NFL Draft knowing they have a lot to prove this upcoming season. After a third-straight playoff appearance that didn’t reach the NFC Championship Game, Dallas lost talent such as Tony Pollard and Tyron Smith in free agency and didn’t do much to replace it. With Mike McCarthy back as […]

Michigan Wolverines running back Blake Corum is heading to the Los Angeles Rams. (Photo by David Buono/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Blake Corum to the Los Angeles Chargers in the NFL Draft, where the Michigan running back would be reunited with his college coach Jim Harbaugh, seemed like a foregone conclusion. Corum is going to […]

Round 2 If you told people Keon Coleman would still be available here back in September, it would have sounded crazy. He’s got big-time talent, but suffered through some inconsistencies over the back half of his final season. Running the 40 in the 4.6 didn’t help his cause, but he’s the type of receiver that […]

The first round of the NFL Draft was all about offensive players. And, given the ongoing narrative, it was fitting that running backs were left out of the party. There were 23 offensive players taken in the first round on Thursday night, four more than in any other draft in the common era. And none […]

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: The Philadelphia Eagles nabbed a star college defender who probably shouldn’t have fallen to them. The Eagles at least made some of their own luck on Friday, trading up to grab Iowa defensive back Cooper DeJean with the 40th overall pick after his slide out of the first […]

The New England Patriots followed the lead of the Chicago Bears and got their rookie quarterback a new target to grow with. New England didn’t have the luxury of the ninth pick, like the Bears did when they took Washington receiver Rome Odunze, but this draft was deep at receiver. The Patriots, who took quarterback […]

This wasn’t how Blue Jays fans envisioned Shohei Ohtani hitting a homer at the Rogers Centre. (Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images) It appears Toronto Blue Jays fans aren’t quite over being spurned by Shohei Ohtani. It also appears Ohtani doesn’t care. Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers visited Toronto on Friday, only a few months […]

The Los Angeles Chargers wanted an offensive lineman in the NFL Draft, but they also had a need at wide receiver. The Chargers solved both problems. They got their offensive lineman with the fifth overall pick on Thursday, taking offensive tackle Joe Alt, then made sure they drafted a good target for Justin Herbert early […]

When the Buffalo Bills traded Stefon Diggs, it was a surprising move that left a big hole at receiver for a team that still has Super Bowl hopes. Realistically, the only avenue the Bills had to fix that issue was through the NFL Draft, even if it’s hard to depend on a rookie receiver to […]