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Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields may not be the Chicago Bears quarterback for too much longer. After three seasons and a 10-28 record as the Bears starter, Chicago is now in a position where for the second straight spring they own the #1 pick in the NFL Draft — this time thanks to the Carolina […]

Nobody in their sane mind would ever call Los Angeles a Clippers town. Whether they’re up, down, or right smack dab in the middle of the standings, the Lakers are and will always be the kings in Los Angeles like the Kings are kings in Sacramento. Make sense? In the same breath, nobody can look […]

Because Tom Brady’s status as the greatest quarterback to ever live is pretty secure (at least for the time being), his historically poor performance running the 40-yard dash at the NFL Scouting Combine in 2000 has become nothing but a humorous footnote in his remarkable story. The fact that a man who was selected 199th overall […]

Penn State defensive end Chop Robinson has bold ambitions for the 2024 NFL Scouting Combine. The 1st Team All-Big Ten performer is considered by most draft analysts to be a late 1st-round pick, likely one of the first four or five edge rushers off the board. But Chop Robinson has his sights set on solidifying […]

Behind 32 points from Jamal Murray and a fourth-consecutive triple-double from reigning Finals MVP and the uncrowned Face of the NBA Nikola Jokic, the Denver Nuggets took care of business on Wednesday night versus the Sacramento Kings, improving their record to 40-19 on the season. With this win, the Nuggets not only kept pace with […]

The Las Vegas Raiders are one of a handful of teams who are in need of stability at the game’s most important position. Derek Carr spent nine years as the Raiders starting quarterback, and while he often provided stability, he only seldom showed glimpses of being a true franchise quarterback. Other than Carr, the closest […]

Six days before the 2023 NFL Draft, veteran NFL reporter Bob McGinn of GoLong.com published the S2 test results of several quarterbacks who were about to be coming into the NFL. For those unaware, the S2 test is a pre-draft cognition test that supposedly does a suitable job of predicting the mental capacity and quick-decision […]

While a handful of his players were partaking in NBA All-Star events in Indianapolis and the rest were enjoying the rest and relaxation that comes with the week-long break that the league provides for All-Star festivities, Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla stayed busy working. But eight days between games is an eternity in the […]

San Antonio Spurs rookie phenom Victor Wembanyama is no stranger to navigating ridiculous, borderline hyperbolic expectations. Not since LeBron James walked into the NBA as an 18-year-old over two decades has a player came into the league with so much pressure to be great right away, and as was the case with LeBron, early returns […]

On Monday morning’s episode of First Take, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith yelled that Boston Celtics’ forward Jayson Tatum is currently atop his MVP ballot, followed by Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic. Stephen A. went on to justify both his selection and Tatum’s candidacy using the tried and […]

For a decade in Seattle, Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson came together to make up one of the most successful quarterback/head coach combinations in the NFL. In ten years, Carroll and Wilson won over 65 percent of their regular season games, led the Seahawks to nine winning seasons, four division titles, and one Super Bowl […]

Welcome to the final February edition of Bracketology here at ClutchPoints! Read that opening sentence back real quick and then check your calendar, and you’ll be happy to see that since this is the final February edition of Bracketology, that means that very, very soon, it’s March. And March means Madness. And March Madness means […]

NFL fans who have been eagerly waiting for the opportunity to see the presumptive 1st overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft, USC quarterback Caleb Williams, throwing during the NFL Scouting Combine will be disappointed to learn that while Williams does plan to be in Indianapolis to meet with coaches and scouts and to speak […]

The beginning of free agency is still a few weeks away, but that won’t stop players around the league from shooting their shot in an attempt to lure a new high profile teammate or two to town. Consider New England Patriots defensive end Matthew Judon one of the first this year who has done so […]

The 2023 Houston Texans were living proof of how quickly a successful rebuild can come together. Not only did the Texans take the first step toward establishing themselves as year-in, year-out contenders in the AFC by making the playoffs and winning a game in the Wild Card Round, but even more important to their long-term […]

After playing just a single season in Tallahassee for the Florida State basketball team, Patrick Williams entered the NBA Draft, and despite not starting a single game for the Seminoles, Williams was made the 4th pick in the 2020 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls. Had the rest of the lottery not been made up […]

So here’s the conundrum I find myself in today… how is one expected to find the singular fatal flaw of a team that has been so dominant and looked so good not just over the course of this season, but since the NCAA Tournament last year, that it’s difficult to identify even one single tiny flaw? Additionally, as a […]

Starting this week, scouts, analysts, coaches, front office personnel, and hundreds of hopeful future NFL stars will descend upon Indianapolis, turning the Hoosier State into the epicenter of the football world for a single week. The NFL Draft Combine offers college players the opportunity to raise their draft stock, while also giving teams an up-close-and-personal […]

In the opening minute of the fourth quarter during Friday night’s game between the Miami Heat and the New Orleans Pelicans, Kevin Love dished out a hard foul on Zion Williamson underneath the Pelicans basket, resulting in what started out as a scuffle and ultimately materialized into a short-lived brawl that led to the ejections […]

Typically when current NBA stars are asked the question, “Who is your GOAT,” the response is one of three names: Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, or LeBron James but certainly not any Minnesota Timberwolves. Twenty years ago, this exercise would’ve produced slightly different results. I assume that in 2004, the common answers to this question would’ve […]

The 2023 season couldn’t have begun much better for the Philadelphia Eagles. Coming off of a heartbreaking loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII, the Eagles began the 2023 season 10-1, seemingly putting to rest the idea that a Super Bowl Hangover was going to claim another victim. However, Philadelphia’s season took […]

After a disappointing 7-10 campaign in the 2023 NFL season, it was expected that the Chicago Bears would opt to make multiple changes to their coaching staff ahead of the 2024 season. It started with the hirings of new coordinators on both sides of the ball — former Seahawks OC Shane Waldron, as well as […]

New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson came into the NBA with a massive target on his back. Not only did Williamson go to Duke for a year, but while at Duke he solidified himself as one of the most must-see college players of the 21st century. With all sorts of fanfare — even among non-Duke fans […]

With the 2024 NFL Draft just about two months away, that means we’ve officially arrived at mock draft season. Scouts, analysts, and amateur draft prognosticators take their best stab at what may happen during the final weekend of April, and naturally, football fans eat all of that up. So today, I’ll be taking a look at the […]

In their first game back from the 2024 NBA All-Star Break, the Denver Nuggets welcomed the Washington Wizards to the Mile High City. What on the surface was simply a matchup of one of the league’s worst teams visiting the defending NBA champions turned out to be a pretty unique game. The Nuggets were outscored […]

With their win over the Phoenix Suns on Thursday night, the Dallas Mavericks are now winners of seven consecutive games and have surged out of the play-in race and into 6th place in the crowded-as-ever Western Conference. Amidst that seven game winning streak are four consecutive wins since acquiring PJ Washington and Daniel Gafford at […]

The NBA returns from their week-long All-Star Break tonight, and frequent topic of conversation over the course of the last week has been on who The Next Face of the NBA will be. The discourse has been covered on countless sports debate shows, by current and former players, and even NBA commissioner Adam Silver weighed in on the […]

It couldn’t be more fitting that Bill Belichick met the man who has long been described as his “consigliere” while working for the New York Jets. Belichick, then the Jets defensive coordinator, met Berj Najarian, who was in the Jets PR department at that time, and made an immediate connection. Belichick took Najarian with him […]

The college football landscape has changed quite drastically over the last five or so years, and there are no signs of stagnation on that front. Things are only going to continue to get wackier, with players entering the transfer portal with a staggering degree of regularity because of their desire for more money and more […]

Despite being limited to only 10 games during the 2023 NFL season, Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson still surpassed the 1,000 yard mark for the fourth consecutive season. In just sixty career NFL games, Jefferson has already accumulated 5,899 receiving yards and 30 touchdowns. His 98.3 yards per game are most in NFL history, besting Calvin […]

The Marquette basketball team was in desperate need of a get-right game after an emphatic 28-point beatdown at the hands of the defending National Champion Connecticut Huskies over the weekend. Fortunately for the Golden Eagles, the next opponent up on the schedule was the DePaul Blue Demons, who coming into Wednesday night’s game versus Marquette […]

Heading into the 2014 NFL Draft, the expectation, and let’s be honest, the hope among otherwise unbiased NFL fans was that the Dallas Cowboys would use the 16th overall pick in the draft to select Texas A&M Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Johnny Manziel. On the surface, it appeared to be a match made in Texas […]

Freshman guard Jared McCain travelled across the country from California all the way to North Carolina in order to play for Duke this year, and at the perfect time of the Blue Devils season, McCain is beginning to peak. With a pair of outings last week that included a double-double versus Wake Forest and a […]

Penn State basketball coach Mike Rhoades has not necessarily had an easy going in his first season with the Nittany Lions. Coming off of what was arguably the program’s best season in two decades, former head coach Micah Shrewsberry departed State College to head to South Bend to take over as the head coach at Notre […]

The Chicago Bears have a franchise-defining offseason ahead of them. With boatloads of cap space and two top ten picks in the upcoming NFL Draft, Bears general manager Ryan Poles has the opportunity to turn Chicago, who finished 7-10 last season after an 0-4 start to the season, into an immediate bonafide playoff contender if […]

With a Kansas City Chiefs win over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl 58, we’ve arrived at the point where it’s fair to make five pretty weighty statements: The Kansas City Chiefs are indeed a dynasty Patrick Mahomes is the second-greatest quarterback of all-time, with only Tom Brady ahead of him Andy Reid is […]

The NBA All-Star Game has never be known as a defensive showcase. In fact, the last time that either conference scored below what was the league points per game average in that given season was in 1975, when the East topped the West by the final score of 108-102, putting the Western Conference All-Stars half a […]

So, over the weekend, the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee revealed the top sixteen teams in their current tournament field, and there weren’t all that many surprises. Kansas on the 2-line? A case could be made that Iowa State should be ahead of the Jayhawks. San Diego State on the 4-line? Hmm, maybe the committee is […]

With it being NBA All-Star Weekend and the NBA All-Star Game just hours away, I felt like it was time to dust off a column concept that I introduced for the first and only time back in 2011 when I had my own blog: The Hypothetical College Basketball All-Star Game! The concept is pretty simple, […]