Making our college football title, playoff and Heisman predictions. Plus, Cardinals’ QB room gets scrambled

rewrite this content material with complete period and stay HTML tags This is a piece of writing model of the CBS Sports HQ AM Newsletter, without equal information to each day in sports activities. You can signal as much as get it on your inbox each weekday morning right here. Please test the opt-in field to recognize that you just want to subscribe. Thanks for signing up! Keep a watch in your inbox. Sorry! There was once an error processing your subscription. 🗽Good morning to everybody however particularly … Getty Images THE NEW YORK LIBERTY For a lot of the season, it is been Aces this and Aces that. The Liberty are right here to remind you it takes two to tango on the best of the league. New York beat Las Vegas, 94-85, of their ultimate regular-season assembly, tying the season sequence 2-2 (no longer together with New York’s Commissioner’s Cup championship) and remaining the distance for the No. 1 seed. Sabrina Ionescu had 25 issues, and Breanna Stewart added 20 issues, 12 rebounds and seven assists.The Liberty are actually simply 1½ video games again of the Aces for the No. 1 seed.New York has gained 10 of its ultimate 11. Las Vegas, alternatively, has misplaced two immediately for the primary time this season.Ionescu and Stewart get the headlines, however a key position participant got here up giant once more, notes Jack Maloney. Maloney: “Marine Johannes didn’t change the game on Monday like she did in the Commissioner’s Cup championship when she came off the bench to pour in 17 points, but it was another solid performance from the Frenchwoman. She finished with eight points and four rebounds on 3-of-3 from the field, and once again showed the difference between the two teams’ reserve units.” 😄 Honorable mentions Team USA beaten Greece, 109-81, on the FIBA World Cup.Jaxon Smith-Njigba (wrist) will start the season at the energetic roster.The Browns have a new kicker: Dustin Hopkins.The Eagles signed Isaiah Rodgers, who’s suspended indefinitely for playing.Could Edwin Díaz (knee) go back this season?The Red Sox referred to as up Ceddanne Rafaela. 😕 And no longer one of these just right morning for … USATSI COLT McCOY AND THE ARIZONA CARDINALS Cardinals head trainer Jonathan Gannon refused to call his Week 1 beginning quarterback, however we all know two avid gamers who would possibly not be it. Arizona made two selections — one a lot more sudden than the opposite — Monday to slender its quarterback choices. First, the Cardinals, as anticipated, would possibly not turn on Kyler Murray off the bodily not able to accomplish record prior to these days’s 4 p.m. ET cut-off date for groups to get rosters all the way down to 53 avid gamers. Murray can not play within the Cardinals’ first 4 video games and does not rely in opposition to the 53-man prohibit.Shortly thereafter, the Cardinals launched veteran sign caller Colt McCoy, a call that can have raised quite a lot of eyebrows (regardless that Cody Benjamin nailed McCoy as a marvel minimize candidate). McCoy, 36, performed in 12 video games for Arizona during the last two seasons as Murray’s backup and began two preseason video games this 12 months.That leaves fifth-round rookie Clayton Tune and Joshua Dobbs — got from Cleveland ultimate week — in conjunction with David Blough and Jeff Driskel as the rest quarterbacks. Arizona visits Washington in Week 1.No one is anticipating the Cardinals to be particularly just right this season. According to SportsLine, they’re the favourite for worst document within the league. Cutting McCoy is the most recent in numerous preseason strikes that point out they are completely superb with that. But that would possibly not make it relaxing. You can stay alongside of all roster cuts right here. 😣 Not so honorable mentions 🏈 Expert alternatives for college football playoff, identify, Heisman, extra Keytron Jordan, CBS Sports We’ve waited and waited and waited — and watched a tiny bit in Week 0 — and now the college football season is right here. As such, our mavens have made their alternatives for mainly the whole thing from a countrywide champion to the College Football Playoff box to the Heisman Trophy and extra. Let’s dig in, beginning with the Heisman. The hottest pick out garnered 4 votes, together with from Chip Patterson … “Marvin Harrison Jr., WR, Ohio State: Ohio State’s pursuit of a championship will provide plenty of high-profile opportunities, and in those biggest moments, the Buckeyes will be smart to turn to the player who has the biggest advantage over the competition. All of that shapes up for Harrison to emerge from a crowded field when voters are looking for a non-Caleb Williams option for the Heisman.”We’ll discuss Williams extra in a second, however there is a explanation why that just one participant, Archie Griffin, gained a couple of Heismans. Call it power, name it voter fatigue, name it anything else you wish to have: Williams has a ton of historical past to triumph over. You know what additionally has came about simply as soon as? A 3-peat. Yet Georgia is taking a look to do exactly that and sign up for 1934-36 Minnesota. The Bulldogs gained essentially the most identify votes of any group, and Dennis Dodd has a fantastic function on Kirby Smart’s team. 🏈 2024 NFL Draft giant board: Caleb Williams amongst six QBs in best 50 Getty Images It’s by no means too early to start out fascinated by subsequent 12 months’s NFL Draft — simply ask the Cardinals (sorry, Cardinals fanatics) — and with the college football season getting absolutely underway (sorry, Week 0) this weekend, our best 50 possibilities for the 2024 NFL Draft has arrived. Here’s the highest 5: Caleb Williams, QB, USCMarvin Harrison Jr., WR, Ohio StateOlumuyiwa Fashanu, OT, Penn StateDrake Maye, QB, North CarolinaJoe Alt, OT, Notre DameThe offense-heavy best of the category continues at No. 6 with Georgia tight finish Brock Bowers. Back on the best, regardless that, Ryan Wilson has top reward for Williams. Wilson: “It sounds silly when you say it out loud, but fully expect the “Caleb Williams is the following Patrick Mahomes” comparisons. The draft, in general, is full of hyperbole … but, man, this ain’t too far off. Williams is special, and while he’s not 6-foot-4, 235 pounds, he’s always the best player on the field.”If you might have learn this article for any period of time, you can know I’m in lockstep with Ryan in this one. The ridiculous arm skill, the off-platform throws, the creativity, the poise, the on-the-fly problem-solving … I may pass on and on. But Williams is a long way from on my own in what can be a loaded draft magnificence for quarterbacks. As you’ll see above, Maye is fourth at the giant board, and 4 extra sign callers made the highest 50 … Riley Leonard, Duke (twentieth)Quinn Ewers, Texas (thirty second)Bo Nix, Oregon (thirty seventh)J.J. McCarthy, Michigan (thirty ninth)If you are a college football diehard, you most likely already know those guys. If NFL is extra your pace, be sure you watch those guys on Saturdays, as a result of you can be gazing them on Sundays quickly. 🏀 NBA offseason grades: Four groups with ‘A’ marks USATSI The NBA is in its true “off” season. The NBA Draft is within the rearview, maximum unfastened agent signings and trades are achieved, the FIBA World Cup is underway, and we are nonetheless looking ahead to the opposite shoe to drop at the Damian Lillard industry entrance (if it ever does). That approach it is time for Colin Ward-Henninger’s offseason grades for all 30 franchises, and whilst 10 groups earned one thing within the “A” vary, handiest 4 were given an “A” or an “A+.” Spurs — A+: “When the best NBA prospect since LeBron James walks through your doors, you’ve won the offseason.”Lakers — A: “Getting Austin Reaves for four years, $56 million is borderline criminal, especially considering a cap space team could have presented him with a $100 million offer sheet.”Cavaliers — A: “The Cavs desperately needed a consistent shooter to fill the wing around their young core, and Max Strus certainly fits the bill. They also added even more shooting, and some attitude, with Georges Niang coming over from Philly.”Pacers — A: “The Pacers opened the checkbook (Venmo account?) for Bruce Brown, adding a secondary playmaker and defensive Swiss Army knife to a team that desperately needed both.”Meanwhile, due to the Lillard and James Harden dramas, the Trail Blazers, Heat and 76ers earned “incomplete” grades. As everyone knows, regardless that, the NBA ceaselessly produces news when it is least anticipated, so possibly the ones grades will alternate quickly. Colin’s research is superb and thorough, and I urge you to test it out. 📺 What we are gazing Tuesday 🏀 Mercury at Dream, 7 p.m. on CBS Sports Network🏀 Lynx at Mystics, 7 p.m. on NBA TV🏀 Sky at Sparks, 10:30 p.m. on CBS Sports Network 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