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76 days until Browns season opener: Every player to wear 76 for Cleveland

Only 76 more days before the Browns play regular season football

Training game is just a few weeks away and for the 2023 season for the Cleveland Browns, only 76 days remain until they play regular season football. The team has lofty expectations after aggressively adding talent at premium positions for a playoff run. The key will be if Deshaun Watson returns to form or else this team won’t go very far.

Jim Schwartz has all the tools he needs to make a complimentary defense for the team’s offense that has plenty of weapons. In the team’s history, there haven’t been many players to wear the number 76 which of course is a retired number for Cleveland.

Ohio State gets nod from Touchdown Wire with four of greatest 101 nicknames in football history

Four former Ohio State football players made the list of Touchdown Wire’s 101 greatest nicknames in football history. Who are they?

Nicknames.

Not everyone has one, and, certainly, not everyone has a good one. However, in college football, there have been a slew of really cool nicknames we still refer to today when talking about some of the best players to ever strap on the headgear and pads. The best ones aren’t forced and come about organically.

Thomas Neumann at Touchdown Wire went through what seems like a pretty extensive task of publishing a list of the greatest 101 names in football history. There are some pretty iconic ones on there like “The Minister of Defense,” “The Refrigerator” and many more.

For us though, we were interested to see which former Ohio State players made the list, and we’re happy to report that four have been enshrined with a glorious nickname. Can you guess the four that made it? I mean, this is the content we bring you in the offseason that you didn’t even know you yearned for.

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Alabama K Will Reichard named finalist for ‘Nation’s Best Place Kicker’

Will Reichard, Alabama K, is one of 20 finalists for the Lou Groza award, the award that recognizes the best place kicker in college foot…

Alabama sophomore place kicker Will Reichard has been named as one of 20 finalists for the Lou Groza award, which recognizes the nation’s top collegiate place kicker.

Reichard is perfect on kicks for the year through 69 total kicks through the uprights – 10 field goals and 59 extra points.

An Alabama kicker has never won the award, which began in 1992.

With one more regular season game, as well as a postseason that should see at least two more games, the Alabama-native will have pleny of time to add more onto his perfect resume on the year.

Reichard is not alone, the list of 19 others can be seen in the tweet below.

Oklahoma kicker Gabe Brkic named to Lou Groza Award Watch List

Oklahoma kicker Gabe Brkic was named to the 2020 Lou Groza Award Watch List on Wednesday

Oklahoma kicker Gabe Brkic was named to the 2020 Lou Groza Award Watch List on Wednesday.

The award is annually granted to college football’s best kicker, and no Sooner has ever won the award.

A finalist for the award in 2019, Brkic finished his freshman campaign a perfect 17-for-17 on field goals, as well as 52-for-52 on extra points. He was the only kicker in 2019 to make every attempt.

Brkic also broke the record for most attempts on a perfect season by a kicker with 69.

The redshirt sophomore was also named to the Preseason All-Big 12 team, as well as the Sporting News Preseason All-American First Team. Brkic joins Adrian Ealy, Creed Humphrey, Ronnie Perkins and Charleston Rambo on the Preseason All-Big 12 roster.

Oklahoma is currently schedule to begin the 2020 season on September 5 against Missouri State, but is working to move that game up one week in order to allow for testing in between games.

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