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USA Today
3 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Broncos' Courtland Sutton makes PFF's list of ‘Safety-Blanket WRs'
Pro Football Focus writer Lauren Gray recently compiled a unique list describing the NFL's best safety blanket wide receivers. Gray's safety blanket measure is for the WRs who were their quarterback's top targets when blitzed/under pressure. Wide receiver Drake London from the Atlanta Falcons led the way with the 21.1 percent threat rate, while Baltimore Ravens WR Zay Flowers ranked third with a 20 percent threat rate. Fourth on the list is the Denver Broncos' own Courtland Sutton with a 19.7 percent threat rate. 'Bo Nix targeted Sutton 34 times when he was pressured as a rookie, and Sutton caught 19 of those passes for 289 yards and 13 first downs," Gray wrote for PFF. "He secured four of eight contested targets, tallied nine gains of 15-plus yards (tied for ninth most) and recorded a seventh-ranked 81.0 PFF receiving grade on such plays. "Sutton ranks sixth in PFF receiving grade on targets when his quarterback was pressured over the past three seasons (83.8). That mark is fueled by 55 catches for 851 yards, six touchdowns, 42 first downs and 27 explosive gains.' Sutton being a safety blanket for then-rookie quarterback Bo Nix helped the QB's transition in Sean Payton's offense. Sutton tallied 81 catches for 1,081 yards and eight touchdowns in 2024. Hopefully, Sutton can build off his productive pairing with Nix for 2025 and continue to be his safety blanket Social: Follow Broncos Wire on Facebook and Twitter/X! Did you know: These 25 celebrities are Broncos fans.
USA Today
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Crafty stingray outmaneuvers hammerhead shark during ‘high-speed chase' off Australia
An Australia-based fisherman has captured extraordinary footage showing a large ray trying to outrun a hammerhead shark in the shallows. 'Just another day in Cape York,' Brody Sutton stated via Instagram. ALSO: Fisherman hardly speechless during rare encounter with orcas off Hawaii (video) The footage, posted below, shows both creatures speeding over the flats and the ray leaping to escape the jaws of the shark. The ray then uses Sutton's boat to assist in its seemingly successful survival effort. (The footage contains brief profanity.) The footage has been widely shared via social media. BDOutdoors described the footage as 'insane' and added: 'High-speed chase in the shallows. What a juke by this ray!' The Cape York Peninsula is in Far North Queensland.
1News
5 days ago
- 1News
'Extreme inattention': Deadly Australian driver sent 44 Snapchats
A young Australian man had his head buried in his phone, when he looked up he had killed a beloved father and injured his son. Peter Agius sent 44 Snapchats while driving just 12km, at 100km/h down a busy Victorian country road. He received 41 replies, including one 20 seconds before the deadly crash. His victim, Adam Sutton, had just picked his six-year-old son up from school when they were struck by Agius' vehicle, in January 2023. Sutton died at the scene, while his son was taken to hospital with critical injuries and left with a permanent brain injury. ADVERTISEMENT County Court Judge Kevin Doyle labelled Agius' offending as "extreme inattention" as he threw him behind bars for at least six years on Thursday. Agius wept as he was sentenced "A life was lost and a young child's life has been damaged by your actions," the judge told Agius, aged 23, who cried upon learning his fate. Agius had fought the two charges of culpable driving causing death and negligently causing serious injury, at a jury trial in regional Victoria. He claimed to have dropped his sunglasses while driving, and looked down to pick them up, when the crash occurred. His lawyers argued Agius should be convicted of dangerous driving causing death and serious injury, not the more serious charges. But prosecutors argued Agius was not paying attention to the road because he was sending and receiving dozens of Snapchat messages while driving, which was grossly negligent behaviour. ADVERTISEMENT Analysis of Agius' phone revealed he sent and received 85 Snapchat messages while driving about 12km from his worksite to the crash scene, at the intersection of Traralgon-Maffra and Farmers roads in Glengarry. A jury ultimately convicted Agius of the culpable and negligent driving charges in April 2025. Judge Doyle said Agius was "an accident waiting to happen" and would have seen Sutton waiting to turn right if he was paying attention. "The duty of every driver is to pay proper attention to the road — you didn't do that," he said. Driving history included fleeing police Agius had a history of dangerous driving, including a fine and loss of licence for dangerous driving while being pursued by police in 2022. In 2020, he was ordered to undertake a road trauma awareness course for careless driving. ADVERTISEMENT In February 2024, he was caught driving while on bail for the offending which caused Sutton's death, after he had been banned. "Twice before this catastrophic collision, you had engaged in incredibly stupid driving offences," the judge said. "You should have understood the basic duties of driving from these experiences, but you did not." Death of family man left 'enormous void' Sutton's loved ones told the court he was "deeply loved as a husband, father, son, brother and friend to many people", Judge Doyle said. Leanne Sutton said 1000 people attended her son's funeral, with 2000 watching online, and his death left "an enormous void" in the lives of all who knew him. His father, Ray Sutton, said the pain and distress caused by Adam's death was "indescribable" and not a day went by that he did not think about "the life sentence we've been given". Agius was jailed for a maximum of nine years and eight months and has served 122 days of that sentence. He would be eligible for parole after serving six years.
Winnipeg Free Press
5 days ago
- Winnipeg Free Press
Man's appeal of 2nd-degree murder conviction dismissed
Manitoba's highest court has dismissed a man's claim he acted in self defence when he beat his roommate to death with a piece of lumber. Justin Monro was found guilty of second-degree murder in the May 2021 killing of 37-year-old Derek Sutton and sentenced in 2023 to life in prison with no chance of parole for 11 years. Monro appealed, arguing Court of King's Bench Justice Vic Toews erred when he rejected his claim he was provoked and acted in self-defence. John Woods / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES Manitoba's highest court has dismissed a man's claim he acted in self defence when he beat his roommate to death with a piece of lumber. In a written decision last month, the Court of Appeal of Manitoba dismissed Monro's appeal, ruling there were no grounds to reject Toews' conclusion Munro continued to attack Sutton when he no longer posed a threat and knew the attack would likely end in Sutton's death. 'I am not convinced that the reasons of the trial judge demonstrate that he failed to consider the cumulative effect of all the evidence,' Justice Diana Cameron wrote on behalf of the appeal court. 'Based on those findings, the trial judge could reasonably conclude that the accused had the requisite intent for murder.' Court heard evidence at trial that Monro and his girlfriend were at Sutton's Beverley Street home, where Monro had been living for a time, when the two men got into an argument that quickly became physical. It ended with Monro striking Sutton in the face with a piece of dimensional lumber at least seven times. Security video captured Monro walking down a back lane with his girlfriend and discarding the two-by-four behind a shed, where police later recovered it. In a subsequent interview with police, Monro claimed Sutton had returned home to find his belongings trashed by an unidentified intruder and blamed Monro for not stopping him. Sutton attacked him and, when the fight spilled outdoors, Sutton armed himself with a two-by-four and started swinging it, Monro said. Wednesdays Sent weekly from the heart of Turtle Island, an exploration of Indigenous voices, perspectives and experiences. Monro said he disarmed Sutton, and hit him several times in the head with the piece of wood. Monro told police he had used drugs earlier in the day but was not high at the time of the attack. Toews ruled that blood-trail evidence showed Monro had attacked Sutton with the two-by-four inside the house and that the attack continued as Monro, who was uninjured, chased Sutton out the front door. Toews rejected Monro's claim he was provoked, pointing to his comments to police stating he was 'totally… in control' during the attack. A pathologist report revealed Sutton suffered injuries akin to those suffered in a high-speed motor vehicle accident. Monro's life spiralled out of control during the pandemic after he lost his job and fell into drug use, defence lawyer Andrew McKelvey-Gunsen said at a sentencing hearing. Dean PritchardCourts reporter Dean Pritchard is courts reporter for the Free Press. He has covered the justice system since 1999, working for the Brandon Sun and Winnipeg Sun before joining the Free Press in 2019. Read more about Dean. Every piece of reporting Dean produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press's tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press's history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates. Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider becoming a subscriber. Our newsroom depends on its audience of readers to power our journalism. Thank you for your support.
The Advertiser
5 days ago
- The Advertiser
'Extreme inattention': deadly driver sent 44 Snapchats
A young man had his head buried in his phone, when he looked up he had killed a beloved father and injured his son. Peter Agius sent 44 Snapchats while driving just 12 kilometres, at 100km/h down a busy Victorian country road. He received 41 replies, including one 20 seconds before the deadly crash. His victim, Adam Sutton, had just picked his six-year-old son up from school when they were struck by Agius' vehicle, in January 2023. Mr Sutton died at the scene, while his son was taken to hospital with critical injuries and left with a permanent brain injury. County Court Judge Kevin Doyle labelled Agius' offending as "extreme inattention" as he threw him behind bars for at least six years on Thursday. "A life was lost and a young child's life has been damaged by your actions," the judge told Agius, aged 23, who cried upon learning his fate. Agius had fought the two charges, of culpable driving causing death and negligently causing serious injury, at a jury trial in regional Victoria. He claimed to have dropped his sunglasses while driving, and looked down to pick them up, when the crash occurred. His lawyers argued Agius should be convicted of dangerous driving causing death and serious injury, not the more serious charges. But prosecutors argued Agius was not paying attention to the road because he was sending and receiving dozens of Snapchat messages while driving, which was grossly negligent behaviour. Analysis of Agius' phone revealed he sent and received 85 Snapchat messages while driving about 12 kilometres from his worksite to the crash scene, at the intersection of Traralgon-Maffra and Farmers roads in Glengarry. A jury ultimately convicted Agius of the culpable and negligent driving charges in April 2025. Judge Doyle said Agius was "an accident waiting to happen" and would have seen Mr Sutton waiting to turn right if he was paying attention. "The duty of every driver is to pay proper attention to the road - you didn't do that," he said. Agius had a history of dangerous driving, including a fine and loss of licence for dangerous driving while being pursued by police in 2022. In 2020, he was ordered to undertake a road trauma awareness course for careless driving. And in February 2024, he was caught driving while on bail for the offending which caused Mr Sutton's death, after he had been banned. "Twice before this catastrophic collision, you had engaged in incredibly stupid driving offences," the judge said. "You should have understood the basic duties of driving from these experiences, but you did not." Mr Sutton's loved ones told the court he was "deeply loved as a husband, father, son, brother and friend to many people", Judge Doyle said. Leanne Sutton said 1000 people attended her son's funeral, with 2000 watching online, and his death left "an enormous void" in the lives of all who knew him. His father, Ray Sutton, said the pain and distress caused by Adam's death was "indescribable" and not a day went by that he did not think about "the life sentence we've been given". Agius was jailed for a maximum of nine years and eight months, and has served 122 days of that sentence. He will be eligible for parole after serving six years. A young man had his head buried in his phone, when he looked up he had killed a beloved father and injured his son. Peter Agius sent 44 Snapchats while driving just 12 kilometres, at 100km/h down a busy Victorian country road. He received 41 replies, including one 20 seconds before the deadly crash. His victim, Adam Sutton, had just picked his six-year-old son up from school when they were struck by Agius' vehicle, in January 2023. Mr Sutton died at the scene, while his son was taken to hospital with critical injuries and left with a permanent brain injury. County Court Judge Kevin Doyle labelled Agius' offending as "extreme inattention" as he threw him behind bars for at least six years on Thursday. "A life was lost and a young child's life has been damaged by your actions," the judge told Agius, aged 23, who cried upon learning his fate. Agius had fought the two charges, of culpable driving causing death and negligently causing serious injury, at a jury trial in regional Victoria. He claimed to have dropped his sunglasses while driving, and looked down to pick them up, when the crash occurred. His lawyers argued Agius should be convicted of dangerous driving causing death and serious injury, not the more serious charges. But prosecutors argued Agius was not paying attention to the road because he was sending and receiving dozens of Snapchat messages while driving, which was grossly negligent behaviour. Analysis of Agius' phone revealed he sent and received 85 Snapchat messages while driving about 12 kilometres from his worksite to the crash scene, at the intersection of Traralgon-Maffra and Farmers roads in Glengarry. A jury ultimately convicted Agius of the culpable and negligent driving charges in April 2025. Judge Doyle said Agius was "an accident waiting to happen" and would have seen Mr Sutton waiting to turn right if he was paying attention. "The duty of every driver is to pay proper attention to the road - you didn't do that," he said. Agius had a history of dangerous driving, including a fine and loss of licence for dangerous driving while being pursued by police in 2022. In 2020, he was ordered to undertake a road trauma awareness course for careless driving. And in February 2024, he was caught driving while on bail for the offending which caused Mr Sutton's death, after he had been banned. "Twice before this catastrophic collision, you had engaged in incredibly stupid driving offences," the judge said. "You should have understood the basic duties of driving from these experiences, but you did not." Mr Sutton's loved ones told the court he was "deeply loved as a husband, father, son, brother and friend to many people", Judge Doyle said. Leanne Sutton said 1000 people attended her son's funeral, with 2000 watching online, and his death left "an enormous void" in the lives of all who knew him. His father, Ray Sutton, said the pain and distress caused by Adam's death was "indescribable" and not a day went by that he did not think about "the life sentence we've been given". Agius was jailed for a maximum of nine years and eight months, and has served 122 days of that sentence. He will be eligible for parole after serving six years. A young man had his head buried in his phone, when he looked up he had killed a beloved father and injured his son. Peter Agius sent 44 Snapchats while driving just 12 kilometres, at 100km/h down a busy Victorian country road. He received 41 replies, including one 20 seconds before the deadly crash. His victim, Adam Sutton, had just picked his six-year-old son up from school when they were struck by Agius' vehicle, in January 2023. Mr Sutton died at the scene, while his son was taken to hospital with critical injuries and left with a permanent brain injury. County Court Judge Kevin Doyle labelled Agius' offending as "extreme inattention" as he threw him behind bars for at least six years on Thursday. "A life was lost and a young child's life has been damaged by your actions," the judge told Agius, aged 23, who cried upon learning his fate. Agius had fought the two charges, of culpable driving causing death and negligently causing serious injury, at a jury trial in regional Victoria. He claimed to have dropped his sunglasses while driving, and looked down to pick them up, when the crash occurred. His lawyers argued Agius should be convicted of dangerous driving causing death and serious injury, not the more serious charges. But prosecutors argued Agius was not paying attention to the road because he was sending and receiving dozens of Snapchat messages while driving, which was grossly negligent behaviour. Analysis of Agius' phone revealed he sent and received 85 Snapchat messages while driving about 12 kilometres from his worksite to the crash scene, at the intersection of Traralgon-Maffra and Farmers roads in Glengarry. A jury ultimately convicted Agius of the culpable and negligent driving charges in April 2025. Judge Doyle said Agius was "an accident waiting to happen" and would have seen Mr Sutton waiting to turn right if he was paying attention. "The duty of every driver is to pay proper attention to the road - you didn't do that," he said. Agius had a history of dangerous driving, including a fine and loss of licence for dangerous driving while being pursued by police in 2022. In 2020, he was ordered to undertake a road trauma awareness course for careless driving. And in February 2024, he was caught driving while on bail for the offending which caused Mr Sutton's death, after he had been banned. "Twice before this catastrophic collision, you had engaged in incredibly stupid driving offences," the judge said. "You should have understood the basic duties of driving from these experiences, but you did not." Mr Sutton's loved ones told the court he was "deeply loved as a husband, father, son, brother and friend to many people", Judge Doyle said. Leanne Sutton said 1000 people attended her son's funeral, with 2000 watching online, and his death left "an enormous void" in the lives of all who knew him. His father, Ray Sutton, said the pain and distress caused by Adam's death was "indescribable" and not a day went by that he did not think about "the life sentence we've been given". Agius was jailed for a maximum of nine years and eight months, and has served 122 days of that sentence. He will be eligible for parole after serving six years. A young man had his head buried in his phone, when he looked up he had killed a beloved father and injured his son. Peter Agius sent 44 Snapchats while driving just 12 kilometres, at 100km/h down a busy Victorian country road. He received 41 replies, including one 20 seconds before the deadly crash. His victim, Adam Sutton, had just picked his six-year-old son up from school when they were struck by Agius' vehicle, in January 2023. Mr Sutton died at the scene, while his son was taken to hospital with critical injuries and left with a permanent brain injury. County Court Judge Kevin Doyle labelled Agius' offending as "extreme inattention" as he threw him behind bars for at least six years on Thursday. "A life was lost and a young child's life has been damaged by your actions," the judge told Agius, aged 23, who cried upon learning his fate. Agius had fought the two charges, of culpable driving causing death and negligently causing serious injury, at a jury trial in regional Victoria. He claimed to have dropped his sunglasses while driving, and looked down to pick them up, when the crash occurred. His lawyers argued Agius should be convicted of dangerous driving causing death and serious injury, not the more serious charges. But prosecutors argued Agius was not paying attention to the road because he was sending and receiving dozens of Snapchat messages while driving, which was grossly negligent behaviour. Analysis of Agius' phone revealed he sent and received 85 Snapchat messages while driving about 12 kilometres from his worksite to the crash scene, at the intersection of Traralgon-Maffra and Farmers roads in Glengarry. A jury ultimately convicted Agius of the culpable and negligent driving charges in April 2025. Judge Doyle said Agius was "an accident waiting to happen" and would have seen Mr Sutton waiting to turn right if he was paying attention. "The duty of every driver is to pay proper attention to the road - you didn't do that," he said. Agius had a history of dangerous driving, including a fine and loss of licence for dangerous driving while being pursued by police in 2022. In 2020, he was ordered to undertake a road trauma awareness course for careless driving. And in February 2024, he was caught driving while on bail for the offending which caused Mr Sutton's death, after he had been banned. "Twice before this catastrophic collision, you had engaged in incredibly stupid driving offences," the judge said. "You should have understood the basic duties of driving from these experiences, but you did not." Mr Sutton's loved ones told the court he was "deeply loved as a husband, father, son, brother and friend to many people", Judge Doyle said. Leanne Sutton said 1000 people attended her son's funeral, with 2000 watching online, and his death left "an enormous void" in the lives of all who knew him. His father, Ray Sutton, said the pain and distress caused by Adam's death was "indescribable" and not a day went by that he did not think about "the life sentence we've been given". Agius was jailed for a maximum of nine years and eight months, and has served 122 days of that sentence. He will be eligible for parole after serving six years.
