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Philadelphia Eagles vs. Las Vegas Raiders final injury report: Anthony Harris among 2 questionable Sunday
#PHIvsLV Status Report pic.twitter.com/XP1L0hjHRo
— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) October 22, 2021
The Eagles released their final injury report before departing for Las Vegas and Nick Sirianni confirmed that Lane Johnson will return to the lineup.
Philadelphia (2-4) is looking for some offensive balance and the coaching staff has harped on getting Miles Sanders more involved.
With Brandon Brooks headed to IR, the Eagles sign offensive guard Jack Anderson off of the Bills practice squad
With Brandon Brooks headed to IR, the Eagles are signing G Jack Anderson off of the Bills' practice squad.
He's a 2021 7th round pick out of Texas Tech. https://t.co/20cHX8FTFk
— Field Yates (@FieldYates) September 21, 2021
With Brandon Brooks now on injured reserve after straining his pectoral muscle, the Philadelphia Eagles have signed offensive guard Jackson Anderson off of the Buffalo Bills practice squad.
Anderson, a rookie out of Texas Tech, was the Bills’ seventh-round draft pick in the 2021 NFL draft.
Anderson started 38 games at Texas Tech and offers versatility.
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A surprise No. 1 for the Bills’ rookie class via @pff_bills:
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The Buffalo Bills selected three offensive linemen at the 2021 NFL draft. Of that trio, one got some good news and one got some bad news.
Pro Football Focus announced their best and worst grades for every NFL team’s rookie classes from the preseason. The Bills’ top-drafted lineman, Spencer Brown in Round 3, landed somewhere in the middle.
It was actually Buffalo’s lowest-selected rookie, seventh rounder Jack Anderson, who was graded as the Bills’ best rookie. At the bottom was lineman Tommy Doyle.
Here are the marks and analysis from the football analytics outlet:
Highest: G Jack Anderson, 75.7
Lowest: T Tommy Doyle, 40.3Anderson looks like much welcomed interior depth at this point. He wasn’t asked to do much in the run game at Texas Tech, but Anderson has looked excellent in that regard so far. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to crack the active roster, but he’s back in Buffalo on the practice squad.
If Anderson ends up being even just a depth piece for the Bills, that’s a huge win for Buffalo. Often times a seventh-round pick may never even see any time on a NFL roster in their career.
Anderson receiving early rave reviews from PFF certainly is a welcomed surprise. Perhaps there’s a chance that he’s called up from Buffalo’s practice squad at some point in 2021.
On Doyle, the grade matches the eye test. Throughout the summer, he was inconsistent and struggled in pass protection. One of the biggest reasons he likely made the Bills’ final roster is because he is a fifth-round rookie.
The Bills might have felt that he would have gotten claimed on the wavier wire if they cut him.
All is not lost on Doyle, though. He’s young and has time to grow.
One thing to consider on this list, of course, is strength of competition.
First-round pick Greg Rousseau, in his own right, looked good in the preseason. But he might not have graded as well as Anderson because he was facing the opponent’s backups in the exhibition season. Rousseau saw playing time against many NFL veterans.
That’s not to take anything way from Anderson. A positive sign is a positive sign.
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As the season comes to an end, we track which Big 12 Conference players have declared for the NFL Draft.
With the 2020 regular season winding down for the Big 12 Conference, announcements are being made by players deciding to enter into the 2021 NFL Draft. The Texas Longhorns aren’t the only school in the conference to have their players forego their remaining eligibility.
Players such as Sam Ehlinger have yet to make that decision and likely won’t until after the bowl game. Ehlinger and many other seniors have the option to return for another season due to the NCAA freezing eligibility this year due to the pandemic.
Many of those seniors who are invited, will meet in Mobile, Alabama for this year’s senior bowl. Ehlinger and teammate Ta’Quon Graham have both accepted their invites to participate in the week-long process. They will meet with prospective teams, practice under the instruction of an NFL staff, and participate in the game on the Saturday following.
Last season the Longhorns saw Collin Johnson, Devin Duvernay, and Brandon Jones all selected in the 2020 NFL Draft.
Below is a list of the Big 12 Conference’s players who have already declared for the NFL Draft.
Notre Dame’s men’s swimming and diving team now has four commits for the class of 2026.
Notre Dame’s men’s swimming and diving team now has four commits for the class of 2026. This became official after Michael Flynn of Brookfield, Illinois, made the following announcement:
“I am extremely humbled to announce my commitment to continue my academic and athletic career at the University of Notre Dame. I would like to thank all my coaches, teammates, friends, and family who have helped me get to where I am today. Go Irish ☘️”
Flynn, who swims for Fenwick and Lyons Aquatics, has joined the group of junior commits that already featured Jack Anderson, Tate Bacon and Dillon Edge. He specializes in freestyle events as evidenced by his third-place finish in the 500-meter freestyle (4 minutes, 29.06 seconds) and ninth-place finish in the 200 (1:40.63) at the Illinois state meet. He also competes in the breaststroke and individual medley.
Flynn will be a freshman at Notre Dame at the same time current Irish swimmer Liam Hutchinson is a senior. Like Flynn, Hutchinson hails from Fenwick and also specializes in the freestyle and individual medley. He placed third in the 500 freestyle four times in 2019-20.
