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Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
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:
USA Today
21-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Former Eagles assistants may have played the Benedict Arnold card perfectly
Former Eagles assistants may have played the Benedict Arnold card perfectly Did anyone notice Shane Steichen's Colts and Jonathan Gannon's Cardinals weren't among the Eagles' supporters in the proposal for a tush push ban? Perhaps this is where gratitude transforms into greed, where elation becomes entitlement and expectation. As happy as everyone is about seeing the Philadelphia Eagles win two Super Bowls during eight years, every so often, an uncontrollable thought finds its way in. Philadelphia could have (and probably should have) won three of them very well. Please don't read what hasn't been written. Don't hear what hasn't been said. There's an appreciation but also a feeling that 'one got away'. A fondness for Super Bowl 52 will always be attached because it brought the first Vince Lombardi Trophy to the City of Brotherly Love. A more satisfying feeling came during Super Bowl 59. We may not see that level of stress-free football in a championship game ever again. Two former Eagles assistants turn their backs on former allies during their time of need. Yes, it sounds crazy, but even with two Super Bowl wins on the ledger, years later, losing that first one in the desert to the Kansas City Chiefs still hurts. Shane Steichen and Jonathan Gannon both left during the 2023 offseason to become head coaches of their own football teams, the Indianapolis Colts and the Arizona Cardinals, respectively. J.G. has never seemingly shed his title as one of the goats of Philadelphia's loss on that Sunday evening in February of 2023 (and, we don't use the term 'goat' in its typical complimentary fashion. Steichen may have joined his former co-Eagles assistant on Philly's most-wanted list. By now, everyone has heard the news. The Eagles survived a proposal to ban the tush push as they received ten supporting votes from other NFL franchises. As expected, Kellen Moore and the New Orleans Saints did Nick Sirianni a solid, and N.O.'s coach and his new team stood with their former allies. Steichen and Gannon may have played the Benedict Arnold card. The Colts and Cards voted to ban the Eagles' tush push, which is surprising. Talk about 'forgetting where you come from'. Jalen Hurts and the Eagles ran a ton of Brotherly Shoves during Gannon and Steichen's two-year run with the franchise, and the high success rate ultimately assisted in winning both their head-coaching gigs. Maybe they forgot? Perhaps they went along with higher authorities. We'll never know, but here's what's important. Philadelphia's infamous play lives on for another season, and the Eagles can still run it in goal-line and short-yardage situations.
USA Today
21-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Patriots insider compares New England's rookie RB to a Philadelphia sports legend
Patriots insider compares New England's rookie RB to a Philadelphia sports legend Boston sports reporter Greg Bedard compared rookie running back TreVeyon Henderson to Eagles legend Brian Westbrook When the Philadelphia Eagles were toppled by the New England Patriots in Super Bowl 39, it left a sick feeling in all of our stomachs. When we later learned of, shall we say, the Pats' creative winning techniques, we all asked ourselves if some sort of foul play might have been afoot. That theory was tossed back and forth until Super Bowl 52, when the Birds earned some satisfying revenge. Who would have thought that, more than seven years later, New England would back Philly as an unexpected ally? The Patriots back the Eagles, and one of New England's rookies is compared to a Philly sports legend. Everyone has their fingers crossed for a successful title defense. Still, regardless of how things turn out, when the story of this season is told, the proposal to ban the tush push and the Eagles' day in court will be mentioned. Philadelphia survived said ban by two votes and a 22-10 advantage. That doubles as the final score of their Wild Card Round win over the Green Bay Packers. You can't make that stuff up. Here are the ten teams that sided with them. Let history show that, when it came down to it and the Birds needed the Pats to come through, they did (and so did some friends down in New Orleans). In New England's case, however, an occasional adversary became an ally for a day, and the legality of the Eagles' controversial play was preserved for at least one more season. Another intriguing parallel came earlier. A well-known Boston sports beat writer, Greg Bedard, recently spoke with Greg Cosell, and the legend wasted no time comparing Pats rookie running back TreVeyon Henderson to a Philadelphia Eagles Hall of Fame and 75th Anniversary Team member, Brian Westbrook. 'I came away feeling that they were kind of shades of Brian Westbrook in his game. He's explosive. He's a very good receiver. There's a physicality to the way he plays.' We can see it, somewhat. We'll see what happens when Henderson suits up for real NFL action because, right now, he has a long way to go before he can lay claim to being in the same class as one of the most significant chess pieces and most versatile players in pro football's history.
Fox Sports
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
'Celebrity figure' Bill Belichick 'great thing' for ACC despite distractions
Bill Belichick arrived fashionably late to the ACC's spring meetings, his first one as North Carolina's head coach. Still wheeling luggage around the beachside resort in Amelia Island, Belichick banged his carry-on into the door frame as he joined league athletic directors, faculty representatives and football and basketball coaches. It was a mildly awkward entrance for the ACC's newest and brightest star. But if the former New England Patriots coach and six-time Super Bowl champion caused a distraction, no one seemed to care. The ACC, at least publicly, welcomed Belichick, baggage and all. "I thought I was done being tortured by him," joked Stanford interim coach Frank Reich, who went 6-7 against Belichick, including a win in Super Bowl 52, during 18 seasons on NFL sidelines. Belichick, with a new public relations communications person by his side, declined most interview requests at the Ritz-Carlton. He did two football-only interviews with North Carolina reporters, sat alongside Clemson coach Dabo Swinney for an ESPN feature and did a brief segment on ESPN's SportsCenter, whose appearance at the meetings surely had more to do with the former NFL coach than anything the conference had going on during its three-day event. ESPN already had made UNC's home opener against TCU a prime-time event, with Labor Day night becoming a showcase for Belichick's college coaching debut. It could be a launching point for the league, which trails the Big Ten and the Southeastern conferences in brand recognition, television ratings and — most importantly — revenue. "I think they ran to us before we could even run to them, our partners at Disney," ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips said. "Listen, it's a great thing for the league. It's a great thing for North Carolina. And we're all following just the massive coverage that Coach Belichick draws. "I don't know that he's got a private moment to himself at all from what I can see and read and what I follow. But I think it's good. I think it's good for our league. It's good for certainly North Carolina. It's good for college football people; it draws more interest. And it was enjoyable to have him here this week with our joint group in those meetings." Belichick, Reich and Boston College coach Bill O'Brien give the league three former NFL coaches, though none come with the titles and headaches — Spygate, Deflategate and more — of Belichick. Their experience and insight were widely regarded — no surprise considering many top programs are adapting NFL models as they navigate a changing landscape on the doorstep of paying players for use of their name, image and likeness. "I don't necessarily know where college football is going, but I have an idea," SMU coach Rhett Lashlee said. "We're not really a full pro model, but we're not an old-school, student-athlete-only model. We're kind of in the middle. "You start talking about salary caps and portal/free agency and rules of the game. I don't necessarily believe that just because the NFL does it, we should. But at the end of the day, we're grooming guys to go to the league, so as many things as we can do that line up with them makes sense. Having Bill Belichick, Bill O'Brien, Frank Reich, it definitely adds value to the room." With no TV cameras chasing his every move, the 73-year-old Belichick was somewhat removed from the spotlight during the ACC event. It may have been a welcome respite after the past few weeks, when he defended 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson for shutting down questions about their relationship, which has drawn outsized attention given their age gap and fed by frequent online glimpses into their relationship via social media. Earlier this month, UNC released a statement saying Hudson is "welcome" at Tar Heels football facilities to contradict a report that she had been banned. "I don't know that I concern myself with some of those things," Phillips said. "I think about the elements that affect the ACC. Some of those other things, I really don't even pay that much attention to." UNC hired Belichick last December, giving him a three-year, $30 million contract in hopes of reenergizing its football program. Belichick, whose 302 career coaching wins rank third in NFL history, has undoubtably created a stir. He limited access to practices and had players working out in numberless jerseys. "Bill's been great to work with," UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham said. "He's a celebrity figure, and he's doing a great job for us." Added Clemson coach Dabo Swinney: "He's an amazing football coach. You don't get lucky and do what he did, especially in the NFL where the margin is so, so small. He's going to be great for our league." Reporting by The Associated Press. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? 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