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Yahoo
02-06-2025
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Reports: Houston Texans CB Ronald Darby retiring at age 31
After a career that spanned 10 years, seven teams and included a Super Bowl 52 championship, cornerback Ronald Darby is retiring. ESPN reported Tuesday that Darby had informed the Houston Texans of his decision. At the time of writing, neither Darby nor the team have confirmed the news. Advertisement The Buffalo Bills drafted Darby out of Florida State, where he won the 2013 BCS National Championship, with their second-round pick in 2015. He finished as the runner-up to then-Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters for the Defensive Rookie of the Year award and played for the Bills for one more season. NFL RETIREMENTS: Lions center Frank Ragnow retires at 29 In August 2017, Buffalo traded him to the Philadelphia Eagles, where he won a Super Bowl in his first season with the team. After his rookie contract expired following the 2018 season, Darby played one more year for the Eagles, then had short stints – between one to two years – with four more teams: the Washington Football Team, Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars. Advertisement The Jaguars released Darby in March of this year, and he went on to sign with the Texans, his seventh team, before deciding to call it a career. Ronald Darby contract Length: One year Value: $2 million Darby's one-year, $2 million contract included $850,000 guaranteed and $500,000 in playing time incentives, according to Spotrac. Ronald Darby stats Darby started in 107 of the 118 regular-season games he played in his 10-year career. Here are his career (regular-season) stats: Tackles: 447 Passes defensed: 106 Interceptions: 8 Forced fumbles: 1 Fumble recoveries: 1 This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Ronald Darby retirement: 10-year NFL veteran calls it a career
USA Today
02-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Reports: Houston Texans CB Ronald Darby retiring at age 31
Reports: Houston Texans CB Ronald Darby retiring at age 31 Show Caption Hide Caption Will Anderson Jr. breaks down upcoming season for Houston Texans Mackenzie Salmon chats with Texans defensive end Will Anderson Jr. about the upcoming season and his partnership with USAA. Sports Seriously After a career that spanned 10 years, seven teams and included a Super Bowl 52 championship, cornerback Ronald Darby is retiring. ESPN reported Tuesday that Darby had informed the Houston Texans of his decision. At the time of writing, neither Darby nor the team have confirmed the news. The Buffalo Bills drafted Darby out of Florida State, where he won the 2013 BCS National Championship, with their second-round pick in 2015. He finished as the runner-up to then-Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters for the Defensive Rookie of the Year award and played for the Bills for one more season. NFL RETIREMENTS: Lions center Frank Ragnow retires at 29 In August 2017, Buffalo traded him to the Philadelphia Eagles, where he won a Super Bowl in his first season with the team. After his rookie contract expired following the 2018 season, Darby played one more year for the Eagles, then had short stints – between one to two years – with four more teams: the Washington Football Team, Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars. The Jaguars released Darby in March of this year, and he went on to sign with the Texans, his seventh team, before deciding to call it a career. Ronald Darby contract Length: One year One year Value: $2 million Darby's one-year, $2 million contract included $850,000 guaranteed and $500,000 in playing time incentives, according to Spotrac. Ronald Darby stats Darby started in 107 of the 118 regular-season games he played in his 10-year career. Here are his career (regular-season) stats:
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Sport
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Video Surfaces of Ex-Ohio State Star In Violent Road Rage Altercation
Former Ohio State standout and longtime NFL defensive lineman Kenny Peterson is making headlines — but not for his football skills. A viral video circulated online this week appearing to show Peterson in a violent road rage altercation in a parking lot. Advertisement The former Buckeye star was allegedly spit on by another driver, prompting a swift and aggressive response. In the video, Peterson is seen landing several punches, clearly getting the better of the exchange. The man on the receiving end? Let's just say he probably wasn't making the best decision that day. Picking a fight — or worse, spitting — on a former NFL lineman with a national title under his belt was never going to end well. Peterson, who played seven seasons in the NFL, didn't hold back. Fans quickly recognized Peterson, a former Ohio State hero who helped the Buckeyes secure a BCS National Championship in 2002. Advertisement The McKinley High School alum earned Second-Team All-Big Ten honors that season before getting drafted in the third round by the Green Bay Packers in 2003. He later played four seasons with the Denver Broncos. Now 46, Peterson is far removed from his playing days — but evidently, he still packs a punch. Ohio State's Kenny Peterson, left. © Fred Squillante / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images There's been no official word from law enforcement or Peterson himself on the incident as of yet. But the video, viewed over 500,000 times within hours of surfacing, has sparked some debate online about self-defense, restraint, and whether the physical response was justified at the end of the day. Related: Nick Saban Gives A Warning to Bill Belichick As He Makes College Football Transition
USA Today
14-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Rich Rodriguez is back at West Virginia and taking stand against player entitlement
Rich Rodriguez is back at West Virginia and taking stand against player entitlement Show Caption Hide Caption Tim Tebow weighs in on CFP format, top NFL draft prospects and more Tim Tebow weighs in on college football, what he loves about top NFL draft prospects, and his partnership with AT&T. This ain't about dancing, OK? Don't get caught in the minutiae. This is about how badly you want it, and how much you'll sacrifice to get it. 'There's a bigger sense of entitlement with our youth than ever before,' says West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez. And if you think he's done there, clutch your pearls. We're just getting started. So I ask how he deals with the entitlement, and that sent Rodriguez – in the news earlier this week because, sin of all sins, he told players he didn't want them dancing on TikTok – to a rare place only few coaches can go in this age of player empowerment. The place of I Don't Care. 'You don't have to put up with that. We won't,' Rodriguez said. 'That's just the way it is. It's not really a conversation. It's more of a directive. I'm not making a suggestion, I'm giving you a command.' He pauses momentarily, and chuckles, 'Sometimes I've got to yell a little louder.' Welcome, everyone, the return of RichRod in Morgantown. The coach who had West By God one win from playing for the 2007 BCS National Championship, is back in his old stomping ground — and it's like he never left. In some ways, anyway. It's still finding three-star players and developing them into All-Americans (hello, Pat White and Steve Slaton). It's still doing more with less, while dealing with blue blood football programs with more money and more advantages. SPRING POWER RANKINGS: Big Ten | SEC | ACC | Big 12 LOOKING AHEAD: Our way-too-early college football Top 25 for 2025 It's also still about Chris Borland. Years ago, I found Rodriguez at the NCAA annual coaches convention, and he was trying to explain why it didn't work at Michigan. He brought up Borland, a marginal linebacker recruit because of his size (5-feet-11 on a good day), but a beast of a player hours south of Michigan in Kettering, Ohio. Before Rodriguez turned down Alabama and stayed at West Virginia (and Nick Saban later accepted the job), and after he eventually left for Michigan and it went bad, he pointed to Borland as a microcosm of the failure. The Rodriguez of West Virginia would've snapped up Borland, developed him, and had an All-America linebacker (like Wisconsin did). But the Rodriguez of Michigan passed, opting instead for more stars, and height and weight that fit the mold — and fit what Michigan should be recruiting. Instead of what made Rodriguez, and by extension West Virginia, a team that could win it all despite the inherent disadvantages. He's not making that mistake again, everyone. And now he has coaching capital. West Virginia was desperate, and the fanbase was raging and restless after Bill Stewart, Dana Holgorsen and Neal Brown couldn't recapture the magic of RichRod. So the university brought back the one coach who broke its collective heart nearly two decades ago. Because now it finally made sense. So if you think Rodriguez, whose coaching motto is Hard Edge, who was 32-5 from 2005-07 at West Virginia before leaving for Michigan, is backing down from players who want to put me before we, you clearly haven't been following along. NIL has a place and a purpose in football, he says. It doesn't run football. 'You used to be able to tell a player to run through a wall, and he'll run through it no questions,' Rodriguez said. 'Now they want to know why, and when you give him the answer, he'll say, 'That's not what it says on Google.' I still think good players want to be coached hard. I still think you can be demanding. It's our job as coaches to get you better than you ever thought you could be.' Nothing about this reunion will be easy. West Virginia slipped late under Holgorsen, and then ran out of gas under Brown. The program that had elevated to national prominence under Rodriguez, struggled against rivals Pitt and Penn State and couldn't compete in the Big 12. The roster has been turned over, and Rodriguez doesn't yet have a quarterback. Heck, he may even turn it over at some point in 2025 to freshman Scott Fox Jr., who enrolled early and has been a revelation of sorts in spring practice. It should come as no surprise that Fox was a three-star recruit, and overlooked by blue blood power conference schools. He wants it. It's important to him. 'There's a lot of more things in your life than this sport. Your family, your religion,' Rodriguez said. 'But when we're practicing, when we're playing, that next play is the most important thing in your world." Or as his friend Mike Leach always said, if you're not coaching it, you're allowing it. In a few weeks, they'll open up Milan Puskar Stadium for the annual spring game, and they'll lock arms in the stands and sing "Country Roads". The rebirth will have begin. Somewhere in that crowd will be Rodriguez, call sheet in hand, looking for some help. 'I'm going to go in the stands and give fans a chance to call plays,' Rodriguez said. 'I did it at Arizona, and when they called a play that didn't work, I booed them at the top of my lungs. What a terrible call! Fire the bum!' He's laughing now, because it's good to be back home and good to be wanted. And good to have that coaching capital again. He's talking about competing at a high level early, and not settling. About toughness and intensity and a core belief that players want to be coached hard. All of those key building blocks of football that have gotten lost at times in a social media world. 'I'm still sticking to it,' Rodriguez said. '(Players) have to get refocused on exactly what the hell they're supposed to be doing. They're not on that team to be the best dancer on TikTok.' The world of I Don't Care has returned to West Virginia. Don't get caught in the minutiae. Matt Hayes is the senior national college football writer for USA TODAY Sports Network. Follow him on X at @MattHayesCFB.
