Mar 18, 2026
NFLFirst & TenLas VegasBostonLos AngelesBaton RougeEdmonton
You want a winner. That is what Kubiak said. Nine days to the CFL Combine. Six days to Lane Kiffin's first LSU practice. Rodgers by end of month. Ten things.
Fernando Mendoza won the Heisman Trophy. He threw 41 touchdown passes and 6 interceptions. He led the Indiana Hoosiers to an undefeated regular season and a national championship. He is 22 years old and he has already done something that the state of Indiana will talk about for the rest of its life.
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NCAABaton Rouge
The No. 1 portal class in the country opens March 24. Leavitt will have limited availability. The question of whether 51 new faces can become a team starts next Monday.
Lane Kiffin's first spring practice at LSU begins March 24, six days from now, and almost nothing about the program that opens that practice will resemble the program that Kiffin inherited when he arrived in Baton Rouge. Fifty-one new players are expected on the 2026 roster. Kiffin assembled what is widely regarded as the top-ranked transfer portal class in the country, headlined by quarterback Sam Leavitt from Arizona State, defensive end Princewill Umanmielen from Ole Miss, offensive tackle Jordan Seaton from Colorado, and safety Ty Benefield from Boise State. The volume of new personnel makes LSU's spring practice less an evaluation of returning contributors than a first look at whether a reconstructed roster has the cohesion to function as a team.
Continue reading →Mar 17, 2026
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That is a man who knows where he is and who he is coaching for. Meanwhile in Athens, Gunner Stockton walked to the huddle and nobody had to say whose huddle it was.
Lane Kiffin rode in the Baton Rouge St. Patrick's Day parade today. I want you to understand that sentence completely. Lane Kiffin — the head football coach of the LSU Tigers, one of the most scrutinized jobs in college football, in his first spring in Baton Rouge with 51 new players on his roster and a quarterback recovering from a Lisfranc injury — got on a float in a parade and rode through a city that has been waiting for him to arrive for four months.
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The combine confirmed. Pro days decide. Thirteen programs hold workouts next week. Here's what scouts are looking for when the real evaluation begins.
The NFL Draft pro day circuit begins next week, with thirteen programs scheduled to hold workouts for scouts between March 10 and March 14. The pro day is where players who underperformed at the combine — or simply had better settings to show their skills on a familiar field — get a second chance to make an impression. The most anticipated pro day of the opening week is Indiana's on March 12, where Fernando Mendoza will throw in front of the largest scout gathering the program has hosted since Andrew Luck's 2012 pre-draft process. Mendoza's combine week was deliberately conservative — he didn't risk anything, didn't try to audition, just confirmed what teams already knew. Pro day is where he throws with conviction, in his system, to his receivers, against a script he's worked on for weeks. This is where quarterback evaluations get specific.
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