ON TODAY'S SCORECARD
Combine Happenings

This year’s NFL Combine is taking place right now in Indianapolis, Indiana, at Lucas Oil Stadium. The overall event runs from February 23 through March 2, 2026.

Friday found linemen and defensive secondary players taking center stage. According to SI.com here are the grades from Friday’s workouts:

The Risers: Dillon Thieneman, S, Oregon; Daylen Everette, CB, Georgia; Jalon Kilgore, DB, South Carolina; Collin Wright, CB; Stanford Jaren Kanak, TE, Oklahoma

The Fallers: TJ Hall, CB, Iowa; Miles Kitselman, TE, Tennessee

Other Combine News and Notes

• Many of the premier defensive backs didn’t test or participate in drills, including Ohio State safety Caleb Downs and cornerbacks Mansoor Delane and Jermod McCoy.

• Indiana cornerback D’Angelo Ponds has a fascinating profile. He’s a tremendous football player—second-team All-American in 2025—and had a group-best 43 1/2-inch vertical jump, but at 5' 8 5/8" and 182 pounds, he won’t be for everyone. Ponds may be forced to play nickel at the next level, but he’s pound-for-pound one of the best pure corners in the class.
  

• Avieon Terrell, an All-American cornerback this past season at Clemson, had a strong day, too. Terrell is a smooth mover with fluid hips, and he showed quality hands and ball skills.

• Toledo safety Emmanuel McNeil-Warren is a physical specimen at 6' 3 5/8" and 201 pounds, and his size and length stood out amongst the safeties. He was a bit clunky and stiff in movement drills, but his twitch and general athleticism relative to his size was impressive.

• The draft’s two best tight ends validated their hype Friday. Oregon’s Kenyon Sadiq blazed a 4.39 40-yard dash and Vanderbilt’s Eli Stowers jumped 45 1/2 inches in the vertical. Both shined during field drills, too, with their ball-tracking and ease of movement.

Sunday, March 1
BRADLEY over Murray State by 14

How big is this game, you ask? To use a phrase that is poorly bandied about, it's “yuge,” given the fact that the winner of this fray puts themselves into position to possibly land the No. 2 overall seed in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament. The 19-11 / 12-7 Racers will look to extend a 20-win campaign streak to four straight years, while the 20-10 / 12-7 Racers snapped a three-year 20-win dry spell with an 88-75 home win over Evansville to snap a two- game losing skid. Revenge from a 20-point loss at Murray State weighs heavily on the Braves today as they look to improve to 6-0 SU/ATS in the last six seasons in Senior Day Last Home Games. Consider it done.

The game write-up above is from this week’s Playbook Hoops newsletter. Click here to download.

TRENDING TODAY
Kon Man

Charlotte Hornets forward Kon Knueppel broke the NBA record for most 3-pointers made by a rookie in a single season, making his 207th on Thursday.

He set the record late in the third quarter of a 133-109 win over the Indiana Pacers, taking a kickout pass from Sion James (also his college teammate at Duke last season). Knueppel then pump-faked Kam Jones and took a dribble to the left before stepping behind the line and drilling the historic shot.

The previous mark for most 3s hit by a rookie was by the Sacramento Kings' Keegan Murray, set during the 2022-23 season when he knocked down 206.

Knueppel tied Murray's record late in the first half, stopping at the arc during a fast break to nail his fifth 3 of the game. He went 5-for-8 on 3-pointers in the first half, making his first four attempts.

The rookie star had an opportunity to break the record before halftime, but missed a contested turnaround from the wing at the buzzer.

Knueppel set the rookie 3-point mark with 22 games remaining in the regular season. Already three ahead of Murray (who played in 80 games as a rookie), he will likely put the record far out of reach. Both players are the only rookies to make 200 or more 3-pointers in a single season, topping the 187 Donovan Mitchell hit during the 2017-18 season.

We consider him the leading candidate for NBA Rookie of the Year.

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