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  • Who’s now the NFL’s longest-tenured head coach?

    In the span of a week, the Baltimore Ravens fired John Harbaugh, and Mike Tomlin stepped down from his post with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

    Tomlin led the Steelers to a Super Bowl win and another appearance during a 19-season run. Harbaugh also delivered a ring over the course of his 18-season stay with the Ravens.

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    They were AFC North staples.

    And they were the NFL’s two longest-tenured head coaches.

    Now that title belongs to Andy Reid, who has been at the helm of the Kansas City Chiefs for 13 seasons. With that in mind, here’s a rundown of the league’s active head coaches who have held their roles the longest:

    1. Andy Reid, Kansas City Chiefs: 13 seasons (since 2013)

    Before Reid oversaw the NFL’s latest dynasty, he coached the Philadelphia Eagles for 14 seasons from 1999-2012. He’s been a head coach for 27 seasons. During the 2021 campaign, he became the first NFL head coach to win 100 games (including playoffs) for two franchises, and he fittingly accomplished that feat with a win at Lincoln Financial Field, the home of his former team. Reid eventually also became the first head coach in league history to lead two franchises in regular-season wins. He won 130 regular-season games with the Eagles, and he’s gone 149-64 with the Chiefs. Along with quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce, Reid’s guided the Chiefs to three Super Bowl victories.

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    T-2. Sean McVay, Los Angeles Rams: 9 seasons (since 2017)

    When the Los Angeles Rams hired McVay ahead of the 2017 season, he emerged as the youngest head coach in NFL history. At just 30 years old, he changed the way the coaching carousel spun. An innovative yet calculated offensive mind, McVay immediately ended the franchise’s 12-season playoff drought. As a first-year head coach, he led the Rams to an NFC West title. In Year 2, he took them to the Super Bowl. Three seasons after that, L.A. was back in the big game, and the Rams won it all. McVay’s responsible for eight winning records in nine seasons and seven playoff appearances. With a divisional-round win over the Chicago Bears this week, McVay would have 10 postseason victories before the age of 40.

    T-2. Kyle Shanahan, San Francisco 49ers: 9 seasons (since 2017)

    Kyle Shanahan went from coordinating offenses in Houston, Washington, Cleveland and Atlanta to earning the head job in San Francisco, where he’s taken the 49ers to a pair of Super Bowls. The Niners have lost both games to the Chiefs in agonizing fashion, first surrendering a 10-point fourth-quarter lead to Kansas City during the 2019 season and then losing in overtime during the 2023 season. Still, Shanahan’s two NFC Championships and quarterback-friendly system are commendable. He’s a Coach of the Year candidate this season for piloting a 12-win team through a forest of injuries.

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    T-2. Sean McDermott, Buffalo Bills: 9 seasons (since 2017)

    Under McDermott, the Bills have rattled off seven consecutive double-digit-win seasons. Before that stretch began during the 2019 campaign, Buffalo hadn’t won 10 games since the 1999 season. McDermott came over from the Carolina Panthers, for whom he served as defensive coordinator from 2011-16, and he’s been the Bills’ leading man through the Josh Allen era. The Bills QB has won a league MVP, and Buffalo has reached the AFC Championship twice, however, it’s still searching for that elusive Super Bowl victory that heartbreakingly escaped the franchise in the early ’90s.

    T-5. Zac Taylor, Cincinnati Bengals: 7 seasons (since 2019)

    The Cincinnati Bengals are sticking with Taylor after missing the playoffs for the third season in a row. This season was derailed by the latest setback to franchise quarterback Joe Burrow, who missed nine games with a turf toe injury that required surgery. That said, with Burrow under center and Taylor on the headset, the Bengals have made two AFC Championships, winning one during the 2021 season before falling short to the Rams in the franchise’s first Super Bowl appearance since the 1988 season. Taylor, previously a McVay assistant in L.A., has posted a 52-63-1 regular-season record and a 5-2 mark in the postseason. He’s the third-longest tenured head coach in Bengals history, behind Sam Wyche (127 games) and Marvin Lewis (256 games).

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    T-5. Matt LaFleur, Green Bay Packers: 7 seasons (since 2019)

    After the Green Bay Packers let another late-game lead slip to the Bears, this time bowing out of the playoffs in the process, LaFleur’s job status has been questioned. But, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Packers are trying to keep LaFleur around, despite the team’s five straight losses to end the season. LaFleur has logged a 76-40-1 regular-season record in Green Bay since taking over the reins from Mike McCarthy. That run started with three consecutive 13-win seasons. The problem is, the Packers are only 3-6 in the playoffs under his watch. They’ve yet to win more than one postseason game in a season during his tenure.

  • Mike Tomlin steps away from Steelers after 19 seasons and a Super Bowl title

    For just the third time since Chuck Noll was hired in 1969, the Pittsburgh Steelers will be hiring a new head coach. Mike Tomlin’s run with the Steelers is over.

    Tomlin’s run as the longest-tenured head coach in the NFL, a title he grabbed after the New England Patriots parted ways with Bill Belichick, is finally over. After 19 seasons, the 53-year-old Tomlin is ready for something new, having informed the team he is stepping down from his position as head coach after Monday night’s blowout wild-card loss to the Houston Texans.

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    The Steelers confirmed the news Tuesday, with team president Art Rooney II saying Tomlin “decided to step down as our head coach.”

    Rooney thanked Tomlin for his “hard work, dedication and success” over the past 19 years. And said it was “hard for me to put into words the level of respect and appreciation I have for coach Tomlin.”

    Tomlin released his own statement, thanking Rooney and Steelers players, coaches and fans for their support during his near-two-decade tenure as Pittsburgh’s coach.

    “While this chapter comes to a close, my respect and love for the Pittsburgh Steelers will never change,” Tomlin said. “I am excited for what the future holds for this franchise, and I will forever be grateful for my time coaching in Pittsburgh.”

    It’s a huge shift, for Tomlin, the NFL and definitely the Steelers. The Steelers’ only three coaches since the start of the 1969 season are Noll, Bill Cowher and Tomlin.

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    Tomlin had a successful run as Steelers coach, which included a Super Bowl championship at the end of the 2008 season and the AFC title in the 2010 season. But while Tomlin famously never posted a losing season in Pittsburgh, Steelers fans grew impatient with the lack of playoff success. That continued at the end of the 2025 season, when Tomlin’s Steelers lost 30-6 to the Texans in the wild-card round. It was Tomlin’s seventh straight playoff loss, tying Marvin Lewis’ NFL record.

    [Get more Steelers news: Pittsburgh team feed]

    The Steelers will try to get back to being a Super Bowl contender with another coach.

    What’s next for Mike Tomlin?

    Tomlin shouldn’t have much of a problem getting another head-coaching job whenever he wants it — if he wants to keep coaching with another team. Tomlin reportedly had two years left on his contract so the Steelers still hold his coaching rights and could negotiate a trade with another team if Tomlin wanted to coach as soon as next season.

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    Tomlin reportedly indicated to the Steelers in Monday’s meeting that he planned to take at least some kind of break from coaching. TV offers reportedly await him if he wants to transition to media. In fact, Fox Sports, ESPN, NBC and CBS all will have interest, according to The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand, who pointed out that Fox Sports has not replaced Jimmy Johnson on “Fox NFL Sunday,” and that CBS’ “NFL Today” just lost Matt Ryan to the Atlanta Falcons’ president of football position.

    Tomlin has a Super Bowl ring and another Super Bowl appearance. He is a respected leader and has a fantastic résumé as a head coach. He won almost 63% of his games with the Steelers, going 193-114-2 in the regular season. It was just time for a change in Pittsburgh.

    Tomlin’s final few Steelers seasons were barely above mediocre, which is why the fan base grew restless. Tomlin’s critics would point out that the team had not won a playoff game since the end of the 2016 season. The Steelers won either nine or 10 games in each of the past five seasons, and weren’t a real threat in the playoffs.

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    The 2025 season summed up the frustration. The Steelers took a big lead in the AFC North, with Aaron Rodgers at quarterback, as the rest of the division struggled. But the Steelers struggled themselves at times. Late in the season, there were even “Fire Tomlin” chants during a blowout home loss to the Buffalo Bills. Tomlin said he understood the fans’ frustrations over the Steelers not winning as many games as they’d like.

    The Steelers won the AFC North on the final play of the regular season, when the Baltimore Ravens missed a field goal. But then came yet another lopsided playoff loss, in which the Steelers didn’t score one offensive touchdown. Even though the Steelers won the division, the way in which the playoff loss went made a change seem inevitable.

    Steelers in unfamiliar position

    Tomlin’s résumé stacks up with plenty of Hall of Fame coaches. Steelers fans grew frustrated with his lack of recent postseason success — they won just three playoff games since the AFC championship game at the end of the 2010 season — but he’s still a top coach who had a great career with the Steelers. The highlight was a 27-23 win over the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII.

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    The Steelers’ extreme patience and stability will make it an attractive job opening. There are roster issues, however. Rodgers could retire at age 42, meaning the Steelers have to figure out a solution at quarterback. Many key players, especially on defense, are aging. The Steelers had another winning season, but there are still issues with the roster as a whole for the new coach. But if history is an indicator, the new coach will have plenty of time to work through those issues.

    It’s strange to have the Steelers be in the head-coaching carousel. Tomlin is the only head coach they’ve hired since Cowher took over in 1992. Whoever does land the Steelers job will hope to have the same type of run that Tomlin did.

  • Yankees acquire starting pitcher Ryan Weathers from Marlins for 4 minor leaguers

    The New York Yankees acquired left-handed pitcher Ryan Weathers in a trade with the Miami Marlins. The Marlins confirmed the trade Tuesday evening.

    In return, the Marlins are receiving four minor leaguers: outfielders Dillon Lewis and Brendan Jones and infielders Dillon Jason and Juan Matheus.

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    Jones was the No. 15-rated prospect in the Yankees’ organization, and Lewis was rated No. 16, per MLB.com prospect rankings. Per those rankings, Jason and Matheus were not ranked among the top 30 Yankees prospects.

    Weathers, 26, is a former first-round pick (No. 7 overall, 2018, Padres) who has played in parts of five MLB seasons for the Marlins and Padres. In 281 MLB innings pitched, Weathers has a 4.93 ERA and 1.384 WHIP with 235 strikeouts and 99 walks.

    He has never pitched more than 94 2/3 innings in a season. He tallied that total in his 2021 rookie campaign with the Padres, in which he made 18 starts.

    Weathers played parts of three seasons for the Padres, who traded him to the Marlins at the 2023 trade deadline. He posted a 4.11 ERA with 131 strikeouts and 48 walks in 138 innings with the Marlins across two-plus seasons. Multiple injuries, including a forearm strain and a lat strain, limited his availability in Miami.

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    While his role with the Yankees isn’t defined, he projects as a potential option for the back end of their starting rotation if he can remain healthy.

    Weathers is the son of 19-year MLB veteran David Weathers, who pitched parts of two seasons with the Yankees in 1996 and ’97.

  • Oregon TE Kenyon Sadiq declares for 2026 NFL Draft

    Oregon tight end Kenyon Sadiq is declaring for the 2026 NFL Draft.

    Sadiq made the expected decision to go to the NFL official on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. The junior is widely expected to be the first tight end taken in the draft and could even go in the top 15.

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    Sadiq was Oregon’s leading receiver in 2025 as the Ducks made the semifinals of the College Football Playoff. He had 51 catches for 560 yards and a team-high eight touchdowns. He had a quiet end to the season, however. Sadiq had 15 catches over Oregon’s last four games but those catches went for just 81 yards.

    He had a dominant stretch before those final four games, however. In wins over Minnesota and USC, Sadiq combined for 14 catches for 168 yards and three scores.

    A former four-star recruit, Sadiq had 24 catches for 308 yards and two scores in 2024 as he played behind current Los Angeles Rams tight end Terrance Ferguson.

    Could Sadiq end up on the Rams? In Yahoo Sports’ latest mock draft, Nate Tice and Charles McDonald had Sadiq going to Los Angeles at No. 29.

    A shiny toy for Matthew Stafford and Sean McVay to close out their second first-round pick. The Rams already have a couple talented tight ends in Colby Parkinson and Terrance Ferguson, but Sadiq can be the true gamebreaking receiving threat that opens up another door for what’s already an elite offense.

    Overall, Sadiq had 82 catches for 892 yards and 11 touchdowns in three years with the Ducks. If he is taken in the first round, he’d be the fifth tight end picked on the first night of the draft over the last four years after no tight ends were taken in the first round in 2022. In 2023, the Bills took Dalton Kincaid and Brock Bowers was a first-round pick in 2024 by the Las Vegas Raiders. This past draft, the Chicago Bears took Colston Loveland and the Indianapolis Colts took Tyler Warren in the first round.

  • USA snowboarder Chloe Kim reveals she’s ‘good to go’ for Olympics despite labrum tear in shoulder

    Two-time Olympic gold medalist Chloe Kim revealed Tuesday that, even though the USA snowboarding star tore the labrum in her shoulder during a halfpipe training run in Switzerland last week, she’ll be “good to go” for this year’s Winter Olympics.

    The Opening Ceremony for the Milano Cortina Games is Feb. 6, but the women’s Olympic halfpipe competition doesn’t begin until Feb. 11.

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    “The bad news is that I tore my labrum. I’m not surprised by that, but it’s official,” the 25-year-old Kim said in an Instagram video updating her injury status on Tuesday.

    “The good news is that I just tore my labrum, and I guess there are two different ways to do it, and the way I did it is less severe than the others, so I’m really happy about that.”

    Kim provided the update after initially announcing last Thursday that he she had dislocated her shoulder ahead of the Laax Open, and one month away from the Olympics.

    She explained Tuesday that she had an MRI on Friday.

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    Kim noted that she’s “devastated” that she has to sit out the Laax Open, which she described as one of her favorite events. She’s also expected to miss the X Games the subsequent weekend.

    “Obviously, I’m really disappointed that I can’t snowboard until right before the Olympics, which is going to be hard,” she said. “I haven’t gotten nearly the amount of reps that I would’ve liked, but that’s OK.

    “It’s funny, I’ve been doing this for so long, and every season I am met with a different set of challenges, so I guess this is going to be the one this year.”

    This year, Kim is one of several women trying to become the first snowboarder to take gold in three straight Olympics.

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    This time, she’ll be wearing a shoulder brace, but she’s just happy she’ll be ready to go for the event.

    “I’m so grateful that I will be good to go for the Olympics,” she said.

  • Bears-Packers playoff game on Prime Video becomes NFL’s most-streamed game ever

    Like every other sports league, the NFL is managing the transition from traditional television to streaming the best it can. It hit a high watermark in that respect last weekend.

    The Chicago Bears’ comeback win over the Green Bay Packers in the NFL wild-card round averaged 31.61 million viewers on Prime Video, the streamer announced Tuesday. That makes it the most streamed game in NFL history by a wide margin.

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    The audience reportedly peaked at 34.16 million.

    The previous record-holder was this season's Christmas game between the Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings, which averaged 27.52 million on Netflix. Prime also notes the game was responsible for the most concurrent viewers and highest single-day global viewership in its entire history.

    Saturday's game is also reportedly a 43% increase over last year's equivalent game on Prime, another rivalry game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens. That game set a previous record with 22.07 million average viewers.

    Having a rivalry game was obviously good for Prime's numbers. The nature of the game mattered too. The game was shaping up as another Bears disappointment against the Packers until the start of the fourth quarter, when Caleb Williams and the Chicago offense came alive with 25 points in the final 15 minutes.

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    It was a breakthrough moment for the Bears. This year's team had showed immense promise under first-time head coach Ben Johnson, but beating the Packers in that fashion — even a version of Green Bay missing star pass-rusher Micah Parsons — was the kind of night Chicago hadn't had in years.

    The Bears' win sets them up for a clash with the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday in the divisional round. That game will be on NBC (and Peacock, of course).

  • Mike Tomlin steps away from Steelers: Here’s how much the NFL, and the world, have changed since his 2007 hire

    The Mike Tomlin era ended for the Pittsburgh Steelers on Tuesday, after 19 seasons, 12 trips to the playoffs and the Super Bowl XLIII title.

    Tomlin was the NFL’s longest-tenured head coach, by an enormous margin in the brief window following the Baltimore Ravens’ firing of John Harbaugh. Despite years of frustrations in the playoffs toward the end, Tomlin leaves Pittsburgh having never had a losing season and playing one game — yes, one — in which his team was already eliminated from the playoffs.

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    Only a handful of coaches have stuck with a single team for longer. One of them, Chuck Noll, worked for the Steelers, and between him, Tomlin and Bill Cowher, Pittsburgh has had only three head coaches since 1969. The Las Vegas Raiders are about to hire their third head coach since 2024.

    On Jan. 27, 2007, the Steelers promoted the 34-year-old Tomlin from defensive coordinator to head coach after the retirement of Cowher. To get a sense of how long ago that is, here’s what else was transpiring around that date:

    • Peyton Manning had yet to win a Super Bowl.

    • Lane Kiffin was announced as the new head coach of the Oakland Raiders four days earlier. He is now on his sixth different job since then.

    • The New England Patriots had recently wrapped up a 16-0 regular season. You probably know what happened the next month.

    • The top picks of that year’s NFL Draft: JaMarcus Russell, Calvin Johnson, Joe Thomas. Two of them worked out.

    • Barry Bonds had yet to become MLB’s all-time home run leader.

    • Stephen Curry was a freshman at Davidson.

    • Tim Tebow was a freshman at Florida.

    Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin vs Green Bay Packers face each other in a pre-season football game in Pittsburgh, Pa.  (Photo by Jason Cohn /Icon SMI/Icon Sport Media via Getty Images)

    Mike Tomlin was Steelers head coach for nearly two decades. (Photo by Jason Cohn /Icon SMI/Icon Sport Media via Getty Images)

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    • Novak Djokovic was more than a year away from his first Grand Slam title.

    • Usain Bolt was months from his first world championship medals.

    • FC Barcelona were the reigning Champions League winners — and had a rising star named Lionel Messi.

    • Lamine Yamal, future FC Barcelona star, was born that year.

    • Apple announced the iPhone the same month.

    • Barack Obama announced his first presidential campaign a month later.

    • Netflix, long known for DVD rentals through the mail, launched a video streaming service that month.

    • The Nintendo Wii had been launched two months ago.

    • Martin Scorsese was on the verge of his first Academy Award for “The Departed.”

    • Suzanne Collins, a freelance writer on the children’s show “Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!” was working on the manuscript that would become “The Hunger Games.”

  • Why Mike Tomlin might need the Steelers to trade him if he wants to coach for another NFL team

    Mike Tomlin voluntarily ended his 19-season run as Pittsburgh Steelers head coach on Tuesday. Tomlin made the decision after what he described in a statement as “much thought and reflection.”

    He decided to step down. The Steelers didn’t fire him.

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    That distinction is important.

    Tomlin, 53, has two years remaining on his contract, meaning that, since he resigned, the Steelers will retain his coaching rights. If Tomlin wants to coach for another NFL team before the end of the 2027 season — he reportedly does not plan to coach anywhere in 2026 — Pittsburgh has the right to seek compensation for him.

    [Get more Steelers news: Pittsburgh team feed]

    Although Tomlin reportedly has a no-trade clause in his contract, the expectation is that he’d give the Steelers permission to send him to a team of his choice.

    In exchange, the Steelers could receive compensation, similar to the way the Denver Broncos had to compensate the New Orleans Saints when they hired Sean Payton as head coach ahead of the 2023 season.

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    The Sean Payton trade

    At the end of January that year, the Saints dealt the rights to hire Payton and their 2024 third-round pick for the Broncos’ 2023 first-round pick and 2024 second-round pick.

    After the 2021 season came to an end in New Orleans, Payton stepped down from coaching the Saints. That marked the conclusion of his 16-season run with a franchise he helped revitalize. Under Payton, the Saints marched to the tune of nine playoff appearances and one Super Bowl victory.

    He was 58 when he pressed pause on his coaching career. He was under contract through the 2024 season. So when the Broncos looked his way after Nathaniel Hackett’s abysmal 4-11 stint, they had to get creative, especially because they were down draft picks due to the Russell Wilson trade.

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    Payton is now in his third season with the Broncos, who are the AFC’s top seed in the playoffs. It seems like the year away from coaching did him well. He spent that time as an analyst for Fox Sports.

    It’s possible Tomlin also tries his hand at TV. In fact, Fox Sports, ESPN, NBC and CBS all will have interest in him, according to The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand, who pointed out that Fox Sports has not replaced Jimmy Johnson on “Fox NFL Sunday,” and that CBS’ “NFL Today” just lost Matt Ryan to the Atlanta Falcons’ president of football position.

    Other times NFL coaches have been traded

    There have been six other head coaches dealt across the league since 1997.

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    • 1997: Bill Parcells traded from New England Patriots to New York Jets for a 1999 first-round pick, 1998 second-round pick and third- and fourth-round picks in the 1997 draft as well as a $300,000 donation to the Patriots’ charitable foundation

    • 1999: Mike Holmgren traded from Green Bay Packers to Seattle Seahawks for a 1999 second-round pick

    • 2000: Bill Belichick, along with a 2001 fifth-round pick and a 2002 seventh-round pick, traded from Jets to Patriots for a 2000 first-round pick, 2001 fourth-round pick and 2001 seventh-round pick

    • 2002: Jon Gruden traded from Oakland Raiders to Tampa Bay Buccaneers for two first-round picks (one in 2002 and one in 2003), two second-round picks (one in 2002 and 2004) and $8 million

    • 2006: Herm Edwards traded from Jets to Kansas City Chiefs for 2006 fourth-round pick

    • 2019: Bruce Arians, plus a 2019 seventh-round pick, traded from Arizona Cardinals to Buccaneers for 2019 sixth-round pick

    These trades have fared well for the teams acquiring a new head coach. Gruden and Arians led the Bucs to Super Bowl wins. Belichick, of course, was an architect of a two-decade Patriots dynasty that featured Tom Brady and resulted in six Lombardi trophies. Holmgren’s Seahawks made a Super Bowl appearance, too.

  • Miami and Ole Miss reportedly offered Alabama QB Ty Simpson over $6 million to transfer instead of declare for NFL Draft

    Ty Simpson said he turned down some massive NIL offers from other schools to transfer instead of declare for the 2026 NFL Draft.

    The former Alabama quarterback declared for the draft a week after the Crimson Tide were eliminated from the College Football Playoff. He told On3 in a story published Tuesday night that Ole Miss, LSU, Miami and Tennessee were among the schools who inquired about a potential transfer over the weekend. And Miami was apparently prepared to offer significantly more money than even LSU and Tennessee.

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    But Simpson stuck with his decision to head to the NFL.

    From On3:

    Simpson said the offers were pouring into his agent. Miami and Tennessee both said they would pay him $4 million. Ole Miss also jumped in around the $4 million mark, and Tennessee said it could possibly go as high as $5 million. Eventually, Miami ran the tab up to $6.5 million.

    “Miami was kind of like, ‘All right, we’re moving on,’ and then they lost out on Sam Leavitt and came back with that big number,” Simpson said. “And then Ole Miss called again and said they could match it.”

    To put those offers to Simpson into context, the biggest known NIL deal a transfer QB has signed this offseason is Brendan Sorsby’s $5 million deal with Texas Tech.

    Simpson said he ultimately didn’t want to be a guy who stayed in college because he received a huge NIL payment to change teams.

    “ [Coach Kalen DeBoer and offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb] have been so good to me,” Simpson said. “I’m sure they were wondering what was going on because they wanted a decision from me last Thursday so they could start building their roster for next year. I was honest and told them what I’d been offered, but that I just couldn’t do it because of everything I stood for and what Alabama had meant to me and the legacy that I built there. Everybody would just remember me as the guy who took all this money and went to Miami or Tennessee for his last year. But I was a captain. I put my hand and footprints in the cement at Denny Chimes.

    “I would have lost everything that I built at Alabama.”

    A year ago, Miami’s NIL deal with QB Carson Beck was worth a reported $4 million and the biggest of the transfer cycle. That’s worked out pretty well. Even as Beck was recovering from elbow surgery this offseason, he’s helped lead the Hurricanes to the national championship game against Indiana on Monday night.

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    Simpson started just one season at Alabama after backing up Jalen Milroe and Bryce Young. The fourth-year junior was 305-of-473 for 3,567 yards and 28 TDs and 5 interceptions in 2025. He could end up being a first-round pick in the upcoming draft, especially if Oregon’s Dante Moore decides to return to school for another season.

    LSU, meanwhile, signed Leavitt, a former Arizona State QB, via the transfer portal on Monday. However, the other three schools are still currently facing uncertain quarterback situations for 2026.

    Ole Miss is hoping for a sixth season of eligibility for starter Trinidad Chambliss as Week 1 starter Austin Simmons has already transferred to Missouri. The NCAA has denied Chambliss’ waiver efforts for an extra season, and Chambliss is pursuing legal action. Tennessee QB Joey Aguilar is also looking for a waiver for a seventh year of college football after he spent time at a junior college, but his waiver effort also seems unlikely to succeed. Beck is out of eligibility after the national title game.

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    None of the three teams have added a starting-caliber QB in the transfer portal. And, barring a surprise addition to the portal before it closes on Jan. 16 or successful efforts against the NCAA, all three could enter the 2026 season with significant questions at quarterback.

  • Mike Tomlin steps down after 19 seasons: Is the Steelers job desirable + Will Aaron Rodgers retire?

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    Who will be the fourth-ever Pittsburgh Steelers head coach? Yahoo Sports’ Andrew Siciliano, Charles Robinson and Frank Schwab break down the impact of Mike Tomlin stepping down as head coach of the Steelers, along with the fate of Aaron Rodgers. Could the 42-year-old QB retire? The crew also discusses the Philadelphia Eagles and Los Angeles Chargers firing their offensive coordinators. Plus, should eliminated Wild Card teams panic ahead of the offseason?

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    (0:00) – Mike Tomlin steps down

    (23:57) – Is this it for Aaron Rodgers?

    (38:05) – OCs Kevin Patullo & Greg Roman fired

    (47:43) – Should these eliminated playoff teams be panicking?

    (1:03:30) – One More Thing

    Where will Mike Tomlin go next after stepping down as the head coach of the Steelers? (Photo by Joe Sargent/Getty Images)

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