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NFL star Justin Tucker has been suspended for the first 10 weeks of the upcoming season, following a slew of allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior.

Tucker is a former kicker for the Baltimore Ravens, and received his suspension on Thursday, after being accused of violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy.

The 35-year-old became a free agent after the Ravens released him last month in the aftermath of reports that he was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior by over a dozen massage therapists.

Allegations against Tucker first emerged in January, when The Baltimore Banner reported that six massage therapists from eight Baltimore-area spas had shared their first-hand accounts with the outlet.

The outlet reported that the NFL star repeatedly exposed himself to the masseuses, touched two of them with his exposed penis and also several times left what appeared to be ejaculate on the massage table.

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Morehead State is set to rename its football stadium to honor program alumnus and Super Bowl champion quarterback Phil Simms. The university announced it will hold a dedication ceremony on Oct. 18 to officially change the facility’s name to Phil Simms Stadium, and the New York Giants legend will be in attendance during the homecoming weekend festivities.

The Eagles’ 10,000-seat home venue opened in 1964 and is presently named Jayne Stadium, honoring late professor William LeGrande Jayne. The historical naming will remain present when the university installs an honorary plaque inside the stadium entrance.

“Phil Simms has remained loyal to MSU throughout the years,” said Morehead State athletic director Kelly Wells. “He has given MSU his time, talent, and treasure to MSU since his days as a college athlete. He has visited Morehead during the summers to host summer camps for young athletes and encouraged them to consider MSU. He has mentored MSU coaches and players throughout the years. Most notable, he has hosted numerous fundraising events and personally contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to support the football program. This recognition is most deserving and long overdue.”

Simms starred at Morehead State from 1975 to 1978 and closed his college football career with 5,545 passing yards and 32 touchdowns. He earned the Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year award in his 1977 senior season and established himself as a premium NFL Draft prospect.

When the Giants selected Simms at No. 7 overall, he became the first player from an FCS school to come off the board in the first round. He remains the fourth-highest selected player from an FCS program behind only Carson Wentz (No. 2, North Dakota State),…

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The Broncos made Bo Nix the sixth quarterback off the board in the 2024 NFL Draft, but his ranking was a bit higher after his rookie season.

Nix piloted the Broncos to the playoffs while throwing for 3,775 yards and completing two-thirds of his passes over the course of the regular season. That performance quieted most of the debate about whether Nix would continue playing at a high level as a professional and it sparked some about how good he will get in the coming years.

Broncos left tackle Garret Bolles isn’t putting a cap on that upside or on how much he enjoys being part of the plan to keep Nix upright in 2025.

“Bo’s a tremendous football player,” Bolles said on NFL Network. “I’m so grateful I get to protect him and being his blindside protector, giving him all the time in the world. He’s a freak of nature. You look at the numbers that he put up last year, between him and [Jayden] Daniels, those were the two young quarterbacks in the league that’s gonna be very successful, and I have one of them behind me. His demeanor, his composure, his work ethic, just always wanting to get better, his arm talent and just the way he sees it, he has swag, man, he really does.”

Ending a long playoff drought meant that no one paid much mind to the Broncos bowing out of the playoffs after one game, but they’ll need to keep moving up in order to show real progress in the future. If they do that, Bolles will have plenty of company when it comes to admiring Nix’s talent.

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On the eve of the NBA Draft, everyone has high hopes. The prospects are hoping to hear their names called early on. The teams are hoping that the players they select will pan out as planned. The fans are hoping that their teams make the right decisions. Everyone is hoping that it will be a night that they remember for a long time.

It’s the same in every sport, of course. NFL prospects, teams and fans are thinking exactly the same kind of things when the draft rolls around each year. So with that in mind, we wanted to compare some of this year’s top NBA Draft prospects (the top eight in the CBS Sports prospects rankings) to NFL equivalents in recent years. 

One thing it’s important to remember is that we’re comparing these NBA Draft prospects to the NFL players AS PROSPECTS, so nothing they did once they entered the pros really holds any relevance here. We’re just looking at the combination of traits, strengths and weaknesses and pre-draft storylines to build out a comparison. We’re also limiting the comparison pool to just the most recent 10 NFL Drafts (2016-2025), because otherwise it might take forever to find someone who really fits.

Without further ado…

Flagg is considered a potentially generational type of two-way prospect. He’s been ticketed as a future No. 1 pick for several years due to the seeming likelihood that he becomes an elite player on both sides of the ball. He had a fantastic freshman season at Duke during which he was named the Naismith College Player of the Year (among many other accolades). 

Hunter, like Flagg, was the consensus No. 1 prospect in his recruiting class due to his special two-way talent. He was considered a future top pick from the moment he stepped on campus, lived up to the lofty expectations placed upon him, won the Heisman Trophy and eventually was selected No. 2 overall.

Harper is the son of former NBA player Ron Harper, who won a trio of…

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Before joining the Dolphins in 2022, offensive tackle Terron Armstead played his first nine seasons with the Saints.

That means he got an up-close, day-to-day view of quarterbacks Drew Brees and Tua Tagovailoa before electing to retire this offseason.

In an interview with the Rich Eisen Show on Tuesday, Armstead noted why he feels like Brees and Tagovailoa have plenty of similar qualities — though Armstead did acknowledge Tagovailoa has plenty more to prove.

“I see similarities. I’m not saying they’re the same player or same person, no two people are,” Armstead told Eisen. “The anticipation, the accuracy, timing of throws, the ability to knock a wing off a fly repeatedly. Those guys throw darts. They don’t throw to areas, they are very precise. And that’s an elite talent, it’s an elite trait. Very few people possess [it]. He’s one of them and Drew Brees is another.”

Why hasn’t Tagovailoa been able to put it all together?

“I would say time on task,” Armstead said. “Having more experience, getting more reps, getting more snaps. I don’t know exactly where Drew Brees was going into his sixth year. I know he had a shoulder that had to get reconstructed when he signed to New Orleans and really pushed his career even further, to be the Hall of Famer player that he was.”

Brees signed with the Saints in the 2006 offseason, leading up to his sixth year. He’d been a Pro Bowler in 2004, but in 2005 had completed 64.6 percent of his throws for 3,576 yards with 24 touchdowns and 15 interceptions.

But while Brees’ shoulder was a significant question before he signed with New Orleans, he had also started at least 15 games three times in his career. To this point, Tagovailoa has reached that mark just once — in 2023, when he started all 17 contests.

Part of Tagovailoa’s lack of availability has been his tendency to take unnecessary risks, which is an issue he’s still working through. But…

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