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ACC men’s basketball leaders as of Nov. 12

Quite a few names lead in free throws.

College basketball season is back, and fans couldn’t be more excited. What that initially means is high statistics across the board. Even if you know these numbers won’t hold up, they still are thrilling to look at. Here are the players who posses those numbers:

Colts’ Jacob Eason to work with QB guru Tom House

Eason will get some much-valued work with a QB guru.

As the Indianapolis Colts continue their search for a new quarterback, former fourth-round pick Jacob Eason is hard at work preparing in case he needs to step in behind center in 2021.

After a redshirt rookie season sitting behind Philip Rivers and Jacoby Brissett, Eason is hoping to get a shot at leading the Colts offense. Though Chris Ballard said that’s likely not in the plans for the 22-year-old, Eason is still doing what he can to make sure he’s ready.

That includes working with quarterback guru Tom House this offseason, per Jim Ayello of The Indianapolis Star.

In the weeks since the Colts season ended, Eason has taken some time away from the field to spend with friends and family. But the downtime is soon coming to an end. The Washington state native plans to head back west to Huntington Beach, Calif., to continue refining his game at the famed 3DQB training facility with the throwing experts Tom House and Adam Dedeaux, among others. Colts fans might remember that ex-Colts quarterback Andrew Luck worked extensively with House while recovering from a shoulder injury. Other famous 3DQB clients include Tom Brady, Matthew Stafford and Jared Goff.

This is great for Eason’s development. Because he didn’t get any game action in the preseason and regular season, the Colts don’t know what they have in the young gunslinger. But part of his development comes from making sure “I don’t take any steps back,” Eason told Ayello.

The Colts are still going to be heavily working in the quarterback market this offseason but Eason working with House is a great sign for his development.

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Jameis Winston tries out bizarre baseball bat training drill

New Orleans Saints backup quarterback Jameis Winston put on a football helmet and picked up a baseball bat for a strange NFL training drill.

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Well, there’s something you don’t see everyday. Jameis Winston is a backup quarterback for the New Orleans Saints this year, competing with Taysom Hill for rights to hold a clipboard and maybe a bag of sunflower seeds on the sideline while Drew Brees conducts one of the NFL’s best offenses.

And Winston knows that he has to improve over his final performance with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in which he lobbed nearly as many interceptions (30) as touchdown passes (33). At best, his 2019 season could be described as “high-variance.”

So it shouldn’t be a surprise to see Winston trying out new training methods this offseason. But the sight of him wearing his new Saints helmet and wielding a baseball bat came, well, out of left field.

Fortunately, one of Winston’s trainers took time to explain the idea behind this strange drill. John Beck is a former NFL quarterback who now works for 3DQB, a company run by passing guru Tom House that works closely with dozens of professional quarterbacks, including Brees and Tom Brady.

Beck spoke with NewOrleans.Football’s Nick Underhill, saying: “Training the similarities in the baseball swing can be applied to the movements of quarterbacking.” Beck noted that a well-practiced swing of the bat conditions the muscles in Winston’s body to perform when he’s slinging a football, even if the specifics are a little different.

If Winston were able to work out at the Saints practice facility, he’d probably be training more traditionally with highly-specialized equipment suited to what’s asked of him. But with many gyms still closed and the Saints having canceled the bulk of their offseason, Winston and his private coaches are forced to get creative to keep him in peak condition.

Hopefully it works. The critical flaws with Winston haven’t been an ugly windup or late release — he’s simply made too many poor decisions in the heat of the moment, resulting in a glut of turnovers. And there’s no number of swings at the plate that will cure that. It’s something Beck acknowledged in his interview with Underhill, adding that he thinks Winston has a lot to gain by watching Brees, one of the game’s finest decision-makers, go to work every day.

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