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On Monday March 11th, the NFL’s 48-hour legal tampering period begins, setting the stage for contracts to be signed on Wednesday March 13th on the first official day of Free Agency. One of the players to keep an eye out for is Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield, whose eventual signing could prove to be […]

Welcome to Part 3 of Championship Week Bracketology here at ClutchPoints! To start off, I’d like to offer a sincere congratulations to the Morehead State Eagles, the Ohio Valley Conference champions and the first team to punch their ticket to the 2024 NCAA Tournament. As you’ll very soon see, the Eagles — who are making […]

Among the many standouts from the week spent in Indianapolis for the NFL Scouting Combine, arguably the biggest winner of the week was Texas Longhorns wide receiver Xavier Worthy. Worthy, who heading into Combine week was already considered one of the dozen or so best receivers in the 2024 draft class, set the Combine record […]

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Diontae Johnson was limited to just 13 games last season, and missing those four games played a large role in why for the first time since 2019, he was not the Steelers leading receiver at season’s end. While it was a hamstring injury that cost him his shot of extending that […]

After multiple years of discontent and disappointment as a member of the Broncos, wide receiver Jerry Jeudy is finally on his way out of Denver and heading to Cleveland to join the Browns in exchange for a 5th round pick and a 6th round pick. The trade is an unfortunate, but to-be-expected conclusion for Jeudy’s […]

The Philadelphia Eagles may be looking to move on from two key members of their defensive line in Haason Reddick and Josh Sweat, but one member of the Eagles defensive line who had previously been weighing retirement will officially be back in Philadelphia for the 2024 season. BG IS BACK ‼️ We've agreed to terms […]

It may officially be the NFL’s offseason, but we all know that the National Football League is a 24/7, 365 days a year operation. And while players may be enjoying their time off from the rigors of a brutally long regular season schedule, the folks in the front office are busy at work to try […]

Any time a player’s name is placed in the same sentence as Michael Jordan, it reflexively forces everyone to do a double-take. It doesn’t matter if you’re saying that this player’s game is stylistically similar to MJ’s, or if over the course of a season or a long stretch of games their numbers were similar, […]

Now look, I’m no stranger to carefully crafting an ambitious parlay with the hopes of hitting it big. And because that’s the case, you won’t find me critiquing anyone else’s choices on that front. However, that won’t stop me from looking at a winning FanDuel ticket and wondering, “how on earth did they come up […]

Look, there’s no reason to try to pull one over on you here. We’re talking about the 22-41 Memphis Grizzlies, who last year were the #2 seed in the Western Conference, and this year are undergoing one of the all-time brutal seasons from hell. No one move is going to turn things around for Memphis […]

As has been the case for over two decades now, you can’t go a day during the NBA season without something newsworthy happening with LeBron James. 40,000 points? Sure, that was fun. Hourglass emoji? Yeah, been there. Another victory in his battle with Father Time? Getting used to those, right? Well, this week on an episode of […]

Some players are just meant to play for certain teams. New Orleans Saints safety Tyrann Mathieu is one of those players. Mathieu was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to high school at St. Augustine in New Orleans, and then went to college in nearby Baton Rouge to play for the LSU Tigers. After nine […]

Back in early January, it was reported that there were some people around the NFL who were concerned that the medical evaluation of Washington Huskies quarterback Michael Penix Jr. was going to be so bad that teams would have to consider dropping him from their draft board entirely. For any player, this would be a […]

One of my running shticks here at ClutchPoints has been to take a story about an athlete playing through an injury that would force a normal human like me to cower and cry and do anything but play in a football game. Well now, thanks to some of the folks who make up Chiefs Kingdom, I’ve learned […]

Among the many teams around the league who will be heading into the 2024 season with a new face at quarterback, two of them are traditional AFC powers, the Pittsburgh Steelers and Denver Broncos. The Steelers and Broncos have combined to win nine total Super Bowls, so each franchise is well-acquainted with the business of […]

Since being selected 2nd overall by the New York Giants in the 2018 NFL Draft, Saquon Barkley has been (when healthy) one of the most productive and electric running backs in the entire NFL. But in fairness, that’s precisely what was expected of him while he was at Penn State. If ever there were a […]

Welcome back to Bracketology here at ClutchPoints! Listen, I know why you’re here… you’re looking for the latest Bracketology projections, and I don’t want to delay you any further. Just keep in mind, that when the next update comes on the morning of Sunday March 10th, I’m going to be including a little something called […]

It’s interesting, because I’m certain that most normal people probably haven’t had a discussion about Michigan wide receiver Braylon Edwards in years, and yet, because Braylon Edwards is my friend Collin’s favorite college football player ever, I don’t qualify as a normal person. And as we learned today, even Braylon Edwards himself isn’t a normal […]

Surely he’s not the first wise man to drop this knowledge, but ESPN legend and NFL Primetime host Chris Berman will often note the following when discussing the way a team has been playing: “Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a pattern.” I bring this up today because it’s starting to […]

There’s an alternate history where the city of Seattle never loses the SuperSonics, and in that scenario, Kevin Durant goes down as one of the most iconic athletes in Seattle professional sports history. Of course, this is not the version of events that we lived through. Instead, Durant played one just season in Seattle — winning […]

On Saturday night the #1-ranked Houston Cougars barely escaped with a win at Oklahoma thanks to a last-second Jamal Shead baseline jumper, but even after coming away with the victory, the Cougars didn’t make it through the weekend unscathed. “Houston freshman JoJo Tugler broke a bone in his right foot and will miss the remainder […]

Heading into the NFL Scouting Combine, it seemed as though the big question surrounding the Chicago Bears was if they planned to trade quarterback Justin Fields. Now, as the Combine comes to a close, that is no longer the question being asked in NFL circles. The wide-spread assumption is that the Bears will indeed move Fields, likely […]

People fear what they don’t understand Hate what they can’t conquer Guess it’s just inferior man -Nas, Hate Me Now  There’s plenty about USC Trojans quarterback and presumptive No. 1 pick in the 2024 NFL Draft Caleb Williams that we don’t yet understand. But how could we? How could anyone effectively put themselves in the shoes […]

If asked the question “Who is the best college football quarterback of the 21st century,” there are plenty of directions you could choose to go. And then there’s the right direction. ESPN did not go the right direction. On a recent episode of the “4th and 1 Show,” former Heisman Trophy and National Championship winning […]

Shamrock Shake… CHECK! Commercials on CBS for The Masters… CHECK! That squiggly, fuzzy feeling in your gut when you think about college hoops… CHECK! Oh yeah. It’s officially March. And I’m pleased to tell you that ClutchPoints will not just be your home for Bracketology projections the next two weeks — it’ll be your one-stop-shop […]

Strange but true: in the last 25 years, the Connecticut Huskies men’s basketball team has won more National Championships (5) than outright Big East regular season titles (2). And before today, UConn only had one in that stretch, and in order to re-visit it you’d need to go all the way back to the 20th […]

It doesn’t require a great deal of mental gymnastics to make the case that Iowa women’s basketball superstar Caitlin Clark is one of, if not the biggest and most talked-about athletes alive right now. The sports world has been watching the Hawkeyes guard in her pursuit of numerous scoring records, and today, during a home game […]

No matter what you thought of Zach Wilson’s ceiling when he was coming out of BYU ahead of the 2021 NFL Draft, there are very few out there who would’ve believed that his floor would be so low. Sure, it’s a small sample size, and yes, he’s only 24 years old and just three years […]

It was just two years ago when, at the NFL Scouting Combine, the Pittsburgh Steelers had Kenny Pickett on their mind. At that point in time, the Steelers were searching for the heir apparent to Ben Roethlisberger, who had been Pittsburgh’s starting quarterback since 2004. Pickett, a standout at Pitt and the third-place finisher in […]

Despite spending six years in college, Tennessee Volunteers quarterback Joe Milton III may have only one full season as a starting quarterback under his belt, and that will be cited as one of the reasons why he likely won’t be selected until the fifth or sixth round of the NFL Draft. But there’s an important […]

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers entered the 2023 NFL season with low expectations after the retirement of Tom Brady, yet stunned nearly every analysts and prognosticator as they finished the season with a 9-8 record, which was good enough to win the NFC South. The Bucs surprising run of success continued into the Playoffs. Tampa Bay […]

The increasingly prestigious career of LeBron James has been by no means perfect. The self-proclaimed “haters” know all about this, and they’ll be quick to spin any positive story about LeBron into a tale about his failures. LeBron has made ten appearances in the NBA Finals. Yeah, but he’s lost six of them! He’s the only player […]

The NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, Indiana is annually one of the most interesting events of the NFL calendar. Prospects of all different positions and pedigrees get to step onto the field and into the meeting rooms in order to boost their stock ahead of April’s NFL Draft. One development we see play out each […]

The closer it gets to the NFL Draft, the more it feels like Caleb Williams, Drake Maye, and Jayden Daniels will be the first three players selected. Now, whether the Chicago Bears, Washington Commanders and New England Patriots are the three teams making those picks remains to be seen. But what happens if things don’t go […]

On May 3rd of this year, it will be the 20th anniversary of one of the crowning achievements from one the league’s best players of the last 25 years. Kevin Garnett, then a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves, won the only MVP Award of his career on May 3rd, 2004, capping off a season in […]

After the early portion of his career was marred by off-the-field issues that led to a season-long suspension for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy, tight end Darren Waller returned in spectacular form in 2019, catching 90 balls for 1,145 yards and 3 touchdowns for the Raiders. The next year, Waller was even better, pulling […]

Giannis Antetokounmpo’s place in NBA history is already pretty secure. Giannis is one of only 13 players in NBA history who has won back-to-back regular season MVP awards. He’s made five straight 1st Team All-NBA appearances and is well on his way to a 6th. And in 2021, he helped the Milwaukee Bucks win their […]

Michigan quarterback JJ McCarthy is a hot name in NFL draft circles. The National Title winning quarterback certainly has the physical attributes and the championship pedigree to be a star at the next level, and if McCarthy had gone to a school that didn’t often win with a physical running game and a lights out, […]

Iowa women’s basketball superstar Caitlin Clark, the newly crowned scoring queen in women’s college basketball history, launches three’s from distances that most men’s basketball players wouldn’t dream of. She also hits an extraordinarily high percentage of them. During the 2022-23 season, Clark hit 42.9 percent of three’s from 25 to 30 feet, per Ben Pickman of […]