Author name: Ian Blizzard

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Don’t Count Out Jalen Hurts

Jalen Hurts came onto the scene as a true freshman for Alabama in 2016 and immediately captured the attention of the college football world after scoring four times in Alabama’s 52 to 6 beatdown of USC to start the season. Hurts was a four-star recruit, but very few expected that he would play right away for Alabama when he initially made his commitment (for context, he was only the 15th ranked Alabama commit according to the 247 consensus rankings). Hurts was considered to be a dual-threat quarterback, so it wasn’t entirely clear how he would fit into Lane Kiffin’s offense. If you had for some reason forgotten that Lane Kiffin was the offensive coordinator for Alabama at that time, I apologize for reminding you.

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Four-Star Running Back Tirek Murphy Commits to Purdue

Purdue is coming off of their best recruiting class ever and just scored a big win for their 2020 recruiting class this past Saturday by landing 4-star RB Tirek Murphy. The Boilermakers landed his commitment over LSU, Miami, Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas A&M, among others. Being a high priority for Jeff

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2018 Sleeper: Phillip Dorsett Breakout Season?

The New England Patriots already thin receiving corps just got thinner with the retirement of Eric Decker. Julian Edelman will be serving a 4-game suspension to start the season and [profiler]Kenny Britt[/profiler], [profiler]Jordan Matthews[/profiler], and [profiler]Malcolm Mitchell[/profiler] were all cut after suffering injuries and/or failing to prove themselves. Decker had a solid shot at starting

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NFL Draft Prep: TE Tyler Conklin, Central Michigan

The tight end class in this year’s draft often gets underrated because of the easy comparison to the 2017 tight end class, which was one of the strongest tight end classes in recent memory. While this year’s class doesn’t have the depth or top-end talent that there was one year ago, there are some intriguing

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