The first is obviously talent, which was on full display as the Jaguars first-rounder and the Vikings second-rounder made their respective, much-anticipated debuts Thursday night. The second is that both backs are in great situations and are set up for feature duty right away. Talent and volume lead to big numbers, which lead to OROY. FANTASY SOURCE: How to put RBs into tiers Fournette’s first task was to face the defending Super Bowl champs in New England....

Fournette likes the idea of the 2015 NFL MVP being brought in to compete with expected starter Gardner Minshew. IYER: Browns should be trying to trade Beckham Newton, a three-time Pro Bowler, was released by the Carolina Panthers last month after spending his entire nine-year career with the franchise. He has battled significant shoulder and foot injuries over the past three seasons. “I feel like, you know, Cam went to the Super Bowl, he’s a great guy....

MORE: Collaborative process for SEC | Kickoff Weekend game times announced The LSU coach is following through on his hint last week that new coach Willie Fritz’s Green Wave coaches wouldn’t be invited to LSU’s camps if Tulane partnered with an out-of-state school on other camps. Tulane planned camps in Louisiana with LSU’s SEC rival Texas A&M. That, Miles told reporters Tuesday (via coachingsearch.com), is an indication that Tulane doesn’t want to partner with the Tigers....

McCoy told “I Am Athlete Tonight” that Bieniemy’s coaching style, not his race, is what has held him back in getting named to a head in the NFL. McCoy elaborated, saying that Bieniemy talks to some players “a certain way,” and that while some players responded to it positively, he was not one of them. The running back said Bieniemy was the reason he left the Chiefs. “It’s not because he’s a Black coach....

Not so fast. CBSSports.com’s Jon Heyman reports Boston is a “long shot” to land Lester, who spent the first eight-and-a-half years of his career with the team before he was traded to the A’s on July 31. “The Cubs and rival Yankees, among others, look like much more likely landing spots for Lester at this time,” according to Heyman. The Red Sox have been reluctant to hand out long-term contracts to pitchers on the wrong side of 30 (Lester will turn 31 in January), and the two sides could not come to an agreement, which is why he was traded in the first place....

So it obviously was an emotional decision when he announced in January that he would leave HMS after 20 years with the company to take become a color analyst at NBC. He would leave one of the most high-profile positions in the sport, leaving a car owner (Rick Hendrick) and a driver (Earnhardt) that many would think would be the pinnacle of a career. Letarte had concerns in January about his departure, not because he felt he had made a bad move but just knowing the cyclical nature of the sport....

FIFA 17 announces ratings upgrades The winger broke the deadlock 23 minutes into Leverkusen’s clash at Augsburg on Friday night to write his name in the history books as Germany’s top division reached the milestone. Kai Havertz’s low cross from the right created the opportunity and Bellarabi swept home with a first-time finish inside the penalty area. Wenger: There will be no retirement The landmark goal was Bellarabi’s first of the Bundesliga season despite the German having netted 25 over the course of the last two campaigns in all competitions....

Lewis’ comments appeared on ESPN’s NFL Countdown late Monday afternoon. First, Lewis was asked for his reaction to the video. “I was really … I’m disappointed. This is personal for me. So I’m torn, because this is a guy, a young man I took up under my wing and tried to mentor to make sure that he had a successful career and stayed away from things like this,” Lewis said....

“When I was considering transition, I didn’t see any trans men who were athletes,” Chris Mosier told The Advocate in 2014 when he was named one of the 40 most influential people under 40. “I didn’t know it was possible to continue to compete through transition, and I thought I would go from competitive to middle-of-the-pack in races. But the opposite has been true. I’ve gotten more and more competitive in the male age group, working toward the elite level....

In the grand scheme of things, those 72 points will do absolutely nothing for Ball’s draft stock. MORE: Every team’s most painful NBA Draft regret Despite LaVar making it his personal mission to guide all of his sons to their own personal Lakers jerseys, LiAngelo is not the same caliber of prospect as Lonzo or LaMelo. There is zero chance an NBA team would use a precious first- or second-round pick on LiAngelo....

It was there one freezing cold Friday night in late November 2012 that Mitchell Cole died, a stone’s throw from his mother’s flat where he grew up and where that evening his son and pregnant wife first received the news that he’d collapsed on the pitch. Mitchell’s family always had in the back of their minds that one day a call may come; that their son, husband, father, and brother would go down and not get up again....

They probably didn’t write that seventies superhit about the earlier days of the San Diego Super Chargers. But girl, man, woman and boy, does that ever apply now. The 2016 Chargers are 1-1 and doing their best to shake a 4-12 season, something they had most recently experienced an unlucky 13 years ago. Monday’s Bolts bulletin revealed that versatile receiving back Danny Woodhead will be out for the season with the knee injury he suffered in Sunday’s Week 2 38-14 rout of Jacksonville....

Stats show only Ronaldo compares to Ibrahimovic With 146 players incoming and another 151 leaving, the English top flight saw the largest number of transfers across Europe’s big five divisions throughout the transfer period, according to FIFA’s Transfer Matching System report, with its Spanish counterpart coming second after 127 players were imported and 65 left. However, signings such as Julian Draxler for Paris Saint-Germain from Wolfsburg, Memphis Depay to Lyon via Manchester United, and Dimitri Payet’s return to Marseille have seen the French league emerge as the continent’s biggest spenders, even though only 77 players came in....

Safety experts have known for years that inflatable restraints, leaping out of the dashboard at speeds of up to 200 miles an hour, can deal punishing or even lethal blows to people who contact them while they are still inflating. Since the government began phasing in an air-bag requirement in 1993, 28 children have been killed by the devices, as have 19 adults, almost all of them women. But until recently, it seemed that the children who were killed weren’t properly seated in the first place....

On Friday, it was announced that Malaysian Lim Kim Chon has signed a contract with Football Association of Thailand (FAT) to be their new head of coaching education. In his new assignment, Lim will be in charge of the all levels of coaching course - from the AFC ‘C’ Certificate Coaching course to the FC Pro Diploma Coaching course. The 62-year-old had previously worked with Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) as well as the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) as a technical director....

“I told her she was a monster on the field,” Andonovski said afterward. He has been in charge less than two years and hasn’t yet handled the USWNT in a major competition. So even with an 18-0-1 record to date, it seems a bit premature to label Andonovski a good coach for the national team. But his zeal to assure Horan she had delivered in the defensive midfield role typically handled by Julie Ertz – the No....

Man Utd fixture pile up spells trouble The Denmark international, 27, has helped his side into the knockout stages of the Europa League, in which they will tackle Krasnodar, and his form has been at such a level that a move to Antonio Conte’s men had been discussed as a possibility. While that comes as encouragement to the former Lille, Roma and Palermo defender, he is set upon doing the best he can with his current employers....

Undoubtedly, the 35-year-old magician will have ambitions of repeating this feat, as well as going deep into the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League and domestic cup competitions. Messi ended 2022 by finally lifting the FIFA World Cup with Argentina and now he’ll be hoping to lift more silverware with PSG. The Sporting News takes a look at his schedule for the 2022/23 campaign, alongside detailing where fans can watch all the action....

The good news is, for those teams (and this game picker), there are still three quarters of the season to make amends: NFC Games of the Week Detroit at Green Bay (Sunday 1 p.m., FOX) . The Lions are in first place in the NFC North for now, and if they win at Lambeau Field for the first time in almost 22 years, they should like their chances to stay there....

Chuck Miller, race director and president for the Empire Super Sprints circuit, told The Associated Press on Friday the series rule book prohibits drug or alcohol use at the track. Miller also said drivers are prohibited from competing while under the influence. MORE: Stewart says Ward tragedy an accident | Stewart may quit sprint cars | What next for Stewart? But, he added there are “currently no testing requirements in the rules....