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Fox News
7 hours ago
- Business
- Fox News
Will Levis says losing Titans' starting job to Cam Ward 'sucks,' but he's staying positive
Two years ago, Will Levis found himself falling in the NFL Draft after once being rumored to be a possible No. 2 overall pick. Instead, he was selected in the second round, prompting awkward moments in the draft green room. Today, Levis finds himself out of a starter's job after his Tennessee Titans selected Cam Ward with the first overall pick. It is a less than ideal situation for the third-year quarterback who once thought he would be the future of the franchise. "Anyone who's ever been in my situation would agree that it sucks," Levis said Wednesday, via Main Street Nashville. But the chin stays up, and the mentality stays the same. "I'm just trying to do the best I can to not let it affect me and just being the same dude every day in the building and being there for the guys however I can and just trying to get better every day," Levis said. Despite a new role, Levis plans on treating every day like he has in the last few years. "I haven't been a backup in a while, but I don't plan on shifting my mindset, regardless of what the situation is," he said. "I'm just going to be ready to play quarterback whenever my name is called." Levis showed promise early on, throwing four touchdowns in his NFL debut. But, overall, it's been less than stellar. In 21 games, he has a 5-16 record and has thrown for 3,899 yards and 21 touchdowns against 16 interceptions. He's completed just 61% of his passes. Levis figures to be the favorite to win the backup job against Tim Boyle and Brandon Allen. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
Yahoo
17 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jaguars star Travis Hunter marrying fiancee Leanna Lenee: What to know about wedding
The Jacksonville Jaguars made one of Travis Hunter's long-time dreams come true when they traded up to select him with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. Less than a month later, Hunter is celebrating another key life milestone. He is set to marry his fiancée, Leanna Lenee, on Saturday. Advertisement The ceremony is reportedly expected to take place in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Friends and family of the couple will be in attendance for the event, including Travis Hunter Sr., who was granted permission to attend his son's wedding after also being allowed to attend the 2025 NFL Draft. Of course, no wedding would be complete without wedding gifts. To that end, Hunter went the extra mile - no punt intended - for his new wife. Hunter surprised Lenee with a Mercedes-Benz AMG G63 BRABUS 800, which is valued anywhere between $400,000 and $650,000. Hunter Jr. and Lenee – whose full name is Leanna De La Fuente – began dating in 2022, several months after Hunter first reached out to Lenee on Instagram. Advertisement Initially, Lenee didn't respond to Hunter's message. "He just wasn't my type," Lenee said in a video the two posted to YouTube in October 2022. MEET LEANNA LENEE: Travis Hunter's fiancée getting married this weekend However, she eventually did send Hunter a message and the two established a friendship. They texted frequently over a two-month period, with both joking Hunter was in the "friend zone" during that time. Things changed after he accompanied Lenee to a friend's birthday party, to which she didn't want to go alone. "He went with me and then, we was in love," Lenee said. The two officially started dating on Feb. 26, 2022, as the two shared in social media posts celebrating their anniversary. The couple became engaged in 2024, as Lenee confirmed in a post to her Instagram. Advertisement "A million times, yes," the caption read. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Jaguars' Travis Hunter marries fiancee Leanna Lenee, gifts pricy car
Washington Post
a day ago
- General
- Washington Post
Bears QB Caleb Williams addresses controversy from book excerpt
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams sought to quiet the controversy about how he hadn't wanted to come to his current team prior to the 2024 draft. Williams admitted an ESPN story about an upcoming book by Seth Wickersham on quarterbacks was true in that he did like the idea of going to the Minnesota Vikings initially, but this was prior to his first visit to Chicago. Then, Williams said, he wanted to be with the Bears.
CBS News
a day ago
- General
- CBS News
Caleb Williams wants to move past stories of disparaging remarks about Bears before he was drafted
Instead of new head coach Ben Johnson getting all the off-season headlines, a lot of recent Bears chatter has been about reportedly disparaging comments from Caleb Williams and his dad before Johnson even arrived. On Wednesday, Williams tried to close the book on the controversy. Williams addressed what he called "the storm" — excerpts from an upcoming book with Williams saying he preferred to be drafted by the Vikings, not the Bears, where his dad said quarterbacks go to die. "All of the things that were supposed to be these big things that everybody's been talking about recently, one, never happened, in the sense of they were all thoughts. They were all ideas. If you're in the situation, I think, if your son or daughter, anybody is in a situation to be in that position, I think you think about all of the options, and you're looking at the history and at the facts," Williams s aid. "After I came on my visit here, it was a deliberate answer — and the deliberate and determined answer that I had is that I wanted to come here. Williams reiterated that he is focused on what is ahead of him now, wants to put all the discussion about the draft in the past, and especially wants to be the guy who changes history for the Bears. "That last thing that was in all of that I think is the most important thing, is that I wanted to here. I love being here. I love my teammate, and I love all the people that got me here," Williams said. "But the main goal, and the main objective of being here, is to turn around. That's why I was selected number one." As far as Williams saying nobody helped him watch film last year as a rookie, he laughed off that claim — saying it wasn't that he didn't know how to watch film, but it was just about learning ways to be more efficient. He said this is something with which Coach Ben Johnson has already helped him.
Associated Press
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Bears QB Caleb Williams addresses controversy from book excerpt
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams sought to quiet the controversy about how he hadn't wanted to come to his current team prior to the 2024 draft. Williams admitted an ESPN story about an upcoming book by Seth Wickersham on quarterbacks was true in that he did like the idea of going to the Minnesota Vikings initially, but this was prior to his first visit to Chicago. Then, Williams said, he wanted to be with the Bears. 'Yeah, I had a good visit at the other place — Minnesota, with (coach) Kevin O'Connell,' Williams said. 'Good staff and all of that obviously. He just won the coach of the year award and things like that. Obviously, good staff and things like that. 'But something that keeps getting lost, something that keeps getting, I think, not being addressed the way it needs to be is the fact that I went on that visit first, came here and then after I came here, I went back home and talked to my dad.' His comment to his father, Carl Williams, was he wanted to play for the Bears and become the quarterback who leads them out of a history of struggling quarterbacks. 'This whole storm that happened, it wasn't something that we wanted to have happen at this point,' Williams said during a news conference Wednesday during the Bears OTAs. 'We're focused on the present, we're focused on now, we're focused on trying to get this ship moving in the right direction. And I think so far that's what we've been doing. 'But for this to come out it's been a distraction.' The book, 'American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback,' looks at many QBs but Williams' part details how he and his father thought about the possibility of finding a way to circumvent the NFL draft in 2024 to avoid coming to Chicago. Williams labeled any of the early discussion as mere thoughts, not action. 'Those are thoughts that go throughout your head in those situations,' Williams said. 'All of those are thoughts. And then after I came on my visit here, it was a deliberate answer and deliberate and determined answer that I had is that I wanted to come here.' The Bears quarterback saw most of what had been written as ancient history, but did label one aspect of an ESPN story on the book as false or misinterpreted. It was a claim he didn't know how to watch film and the Bears staff under former coach Matt Eberflus failed to help him. 'So that was a funny one that came out, that in context, in how that was trying to be portrayed, didn't get portrayed that way,' Williams said. 'It wasn't that I didn't know how to watch film, it was trying to figure on the best ways and more efficient ways.' Williams expects new coach Ben Johnson will make a difference in his film watching. 'He's been in this offense for six years,' Williams said. 'He's really been on top of it and we're really only trying to catch up, I'm only trying to catch up to him and be on top of the details as much as possible.' Williams said his father's input was valued and always is, but in the case of the book he probably went too far or wasn't entirely clear with some comments made. 'Definitely a grown man, I shut him down quite a lot just because in season and out of season, it's something you have to do,' Williams said. 'He cares so much about me and my future and we have been along this journey so long together, all he wants is the best for me. 'So if anything happens and he's super hot-headed and it's more of like 'All right, go ahead and go away. Go reset.' Things like that. Love him to death and things like that, super fortunate to have him. We have talked about it. Understanding that there's a right place and a right time and there are times that there is not.' The book is scheduled to be released Sept. 9, a day after the Bears open the season against the Vikings in a home Monday night game to be televised by ESPN. ___ AP NFL:
