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Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Commanders announce addition of two Nunn-Wooten Scouting Fellowship applicants for 2025
One of the things football fans fail to consider is what a professional athlete does after retirement. Whether it's football or another sport, retirement comes much earlier in life than it does for 'typical' jobs. These athletes are retiring in their 30s, sometimes their 20s, and some players are forced to quit playing before they ever get the chance to be a professional. What happens when you retire at the age of 35, and now you don't know what you're going to do for the rest of your life? The NFL has a path for former college and professional football players to remain connected to the sport they love in the way of scouting. Advertisement 'The Nunn-Wooten Scouting Program offers a unique opportunity for former players to learn more about this important profession,' said Troy Vincent, the NFL's Executive Vice President of Football Operations. 'Scouting is a critical function for all NFL teams. Identifying talent and building rosters strategically are keys to every team's success.' Those who wish to take this path have to meet one of three prerequisites: Be a former player, be a former college football player, or be a current college football employee working in recruiting/personnel. If they meet those requirements, they can apply for the fellowship, where they will select five teams they are interested in working with. For the 2025 season, the Washington Commanders are bringing in Andrew Dowell, a former NFL player, and Luke Carr, a current college football employee. Powell and Carr will join the Commanders for the remainder of the offseason workouts and two weeks of training camp in July. They will learn the importance of scouting, how to watch film and write evaluations, and assist in training camp activities from a personnel perspective. Advertisement Applications for the Nunn-Wooten Scouting Fellowship are accepted through June 13, 2025, and all fellowships will conclude by July 31. This article originally appeared on Commanders Wire: Commanders add two Nunn-Wooten Scouting Fellowship applicants for 2025
NBC Sports
6 days ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Dion Dawkins: Creation of award for offensive linemen part of my legacy
The NFL announced the creation of a new award during last week's league meetings. NFL executive vice president Troy Vincent announced that a panel of retired offensive linemen will determine which current offensive lineman is named the Protector of the Year each season. During the announcement, Vincent credited Bills left tackle Dion Dawkins with getting the ball rolling by noting that there was no postseason award honoring offensive linemen and Dawkins shared his pride in having a hand in making sure his fellow blockers will be getting a little more recognition in the years to come. 'It's very cool that my domino piece makes noise when it falls,' Dawkins said, via Tim Graham of 'Just to be a regular kid from Jersey, go to Temple, be a second-round pick to Buffalo, to having a voice so big that it reaches all 32 teams and then some. This is a part of my legacy now, and I stand on it.' Dawkins is a four-time Pro Bowler and he'll take his first swing at winning the award he helped create during the 2025 season.
USA Today
25-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
49ers should have an easy favorite for NFL's newest award
49ers should have an easy favorite for NFL's newest award At the NFL league meetings this week, the league announced a bunch of news and notes, including that the league will not be banning the "Tush Push," the modified quarterback sneak that the Philadelphia Eagles have made famous in recent years. Among the other announcements from the league meetings was the NFL's executive vice president of football operations, Troy Vincent, sharing that the league will be introducing a new Protector of the Year Award following the 2025 season. According to the league, the winner will be decided by a panel that will include some of the greatest offensive linemen in the history of the game. This is great news as it will give some recognition to the big men in the trenches who usually only hear their names mentioned when they mess up. With this voted on by some former players, it also may mean more to winners than those who are named All-Pro by the Associated Press. While there will certainly be quite a few offensive linemen in the running for the league's newest award, San Francisco 49ers offensive tackle Trent Williams should be among the early favorites for the honor. Williams, 36, has been one of the best offensive tackles in the NFL since Washington took him with the fourth-overall pick in the 2010 NFL draft out of Oklahoma. Since then, he's made 11 Pro Bowls and four All-Pro teams (three first-teams and one second-team). In 2024, Williams was limited to just 10 starts at left tackle due to an ankle injury that kept him out for the final six weeks of the season. Despite missing time, Pro Football Focus still gave him an 85.6 overall grade for his performance, ranking him sixth out of 140 qualified offensive tackles. He also earned an 84.5 pass-blocking grade (ninth) and an 81.4 run-blocking grade. If Williams is healthy and on the field, he'll be one of the best offensive linemen in football, even as he creeps into his later 30s, and if that's the case, he should be in consideration for the first Protector of the Year Award. More 49ers: 49ers veteran has eyes on one specific matchup on 2025 schedule
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie reportedly likened tush-push opposition to 'wet dream,' drawing ire of NFL's Troy Vincent
The survival of the tush push arrived as a surprise. And it didn't come without some last-minute and reportedly lurid wrangling from Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie at Wednesday's NFL owners meetings in Minneapolis. Per multiple reports, Lurie held court during a lengthy speech ahead of a vote of owners on a proposal to ban the play that helped propel the Eagles to a Super Bowl victory in February. The pre-vote meeting also featured a plea from Jason Kelce, who was for years the centerpiece of the tush push as Philadelphia's All-Pro center. According to ESPN and The Athletic, Lurie spent roughly an hour arguing to fellow owners that the tush push should survive. Per both reports, Lurie took a, ahem, candid approach to making his case. Lurie told his fellow owners that other teams' efforts to ban the play that they otherwise overwhelmingly can't stop was "like a wet dream for a teenage boy." That's one way to put it. And one way to explain why "tempers flared" during the meeting, per ESPN's account. According to ESPN, Lurie's "wet dream" analogy drew the ire of NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent, who reportedly chastised Lurie for making the comment in front of women in the room. It's worth noting that Vincent was a proponent of the tush-push ban. And Lurie reportedly criticized him and commissioner Roger Goodell for their support of the ban during the meeting. In his plea, Lurie reportedly shot down arguments that the tush push presents an increased risk of player safety. In fact, he called it "the safest play in the history of the game." While that might be an overstatement, there's no established data to demonstrate that the tush push directly leads to an increased risk of injury — even if the Green Bay Packers made player safety the centerpiece of their proposal to ban it. The length of Lurie's plea grew weary for at least one fellow owner. Per ESPN, San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York asked Lurie "how much more s***" he needed to say as the speech crossed the one-hour mark. But ultimately, Lurie's speech may have proven worthwhile. Nine other teams joined the Eagles in voting to keep the tush push legal, enough to thwart the proposed ban. Wednesday was expected to be the death knell for the short-yardage play that frequently results in a first-down or touchdown sneak for Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts. But the vote to ban it fell two votes short of the 3/4 majority needed to bring its end. Twenty-two out of 32 NFL teams voted in favor of banning the play, where 24 votes were needed to change the rulebook. And a team that in part just rode the tush push to a Super Bowl championship will push on in the new NFL season. It's taking a victory lap in the meantime.
Reuters
21-05-2025
- Sport
- Reuters
NFL unveils new award: Protector of the Year
May 21 - The NFL on Wednesday announced a new end-of-year annual honor that will be awarded to the league's best offensive lineman, called Protector of the Year. NFL executive Troy Vincent announced the award and credited Buffalo Bills four-time Pro Bowl lineman Dion Dawkins and retired two-time All-Pro Andrew Whitworth for pushing the idea. "Recognize the big fellas," Vincent said Wednesday at the NFL owners meetings in Eagan, Minn. The winner will be decided by a panel that includes a number of former greats who played on the offensive line, Vincent said. --Field Level Media
