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Tre Swilling
Tre Swilling (born March 26, 1999) is an American professional football cornerback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Early life Swilling was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and attended Brother Martin High School. Swilling would decide to commit to play college football at Georgia Tech over other schools such as Alabama, Florida, Florida State, LSU, and Michigan. College career In week ten of the 2018 season, Swilling recorded his first career interception, as he helped Georgia Tech beat North Carolina. Swilling finished the 2018 season with 24 tackles with 1.5 going for a loss, a sack, six pass deflections, an interception, and a forced fumble. In week one of the 2019 season, Swilling broke up a pass and intercepted a pass off of quarterback Trevor Lawrence returning it 41 yards, but the Yellow Jackets would fall against Clemson. Swilling finished the 2019 season with 23 tackles with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornerback
A cornerback (CB) is a member of the defensive backfield or secondary in gridiron football. Cornerbacks cover Wide receiver, receivers most of the time, but also blitz and defend against such Play from scrimmage, offensive running plays as sweeps and reverses. They create Turnover (gridiron football), turnovers through hard tackle (football move), tackles, interceptions, and pass deflection, deflecting forward passes. Other members of the defensive backfield include strong and free Safety (gridiron football position), safeties. The cornerback position requires speed, agility, strength, and the ability to make rapid sharp turns. A cornerback's skill set typically requires proficiency in anticipating the quarterback, backpedaling, executing single and zone coverage, disrupting pass routes, block shedding, and tackling. Cornerbacks are among the 40-yard dash#Average time by position, fastest players on the field. Because of this, they are frequently used as return specialists on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 NFL Draft
The 2022 NFL draft was the 87th edition of the National Football League's annual NFL draft, draft and was held from April 28–30, 2022, at the Caesars Forum on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, Paradise next to Las Vegas. The first round was held on Thursday, April 28, and was followed by the second and third rounds on Friday, April 29. The draft concluded with rounds 4–7 on Saturday, April 30. It was the first draft to be held in the Las Vegas metropolitan area and the state of Nevada. The first five selections were defensive players, the second-most taken at the start of a draft after the six in 1991 NFL Draft, 1991. Along with the 1972 NFL Draft, 1972 and 2000 NFL Draft, 2000 drafts, it marked the third time defensive players were the first two picks after the first three picks in the previous year's draft were quarterbacks. Five Georgia Bulldogs football, Georgia defensive players were taken during the first round, the most from an individual school in a draft. In ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Undrafted Free Agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player or manager who is eligible to sign with other clubs or franchises; i.e., not under contract to any specific team. The term is also used in reference to a player who is under a contract at present but who is allowed to solicit offers from other teams. In some circumstances, the free agent's options are limited by the league's rules. Free agency was severely restricted in many sports leagues, instead clubs had a reserve clause which allowed them to retain players indefinitely. Usage Association football In professional association football, a free agent is either a player that has been released by a professional association football club and now is no longer affiliated with any league, or a player whose contract with their current club has expired and is thus free to join any other club under the terms of the Bosman ruling. Free agents do not have to be signed during the normal transfer window that is implemented in some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pro Day
The NFL draft, officially known as the Annual Player Selection Meeting, is an annual event which serves as the most common source of player recruitment in the National Football League. Each team is given a position in the drafting order in reverse order relative to its record in the previous year, which means that the team with the worst record is positioned first and the Super Bowl champion is last. For teams that had the same record, their position in the draft order for each round rotates in some way amongst the teams with tied records. From this position, the team can either select a player or trade its position to another team for other draft positions, a player, or players, or any combination thereof. The round is complete when each team has either selected a player or traded its position in the draft. The first draft was held in 1936 and has been held every year since. Certain aspects of the draft, including team positioning and the number of rounds in the draft, have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Clemson Tigers Football Team
The 2019 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson University during the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tigers were led by head coach Dabo Swinney, in his 11th full year. The Tigers competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, South Carolina. Entering the season as defending national champions, Clemson began the year ranked first in the polls. Despite securing another undefeated regular season and its fifth consecutive conference title after defeating Virginia in the ACC Championship Game, Clemson fell to third in the final College Football Playoff rankings of the season, owing to its comparatively weak strength of schedule. They were selected to the Fiesta Bowl to play second-seeded Ohio State, where the Tigers won by a score of 29–23. Clemson advanced to the National Championship Game, where they lost to LSU, 42–25, ending their winning streak at 29 games and finishing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Lawrence
William Trevor Lawrence (born October 6, 1999) is an American professional American football, football quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). Considered among the highest-touted college football prospects, he won the 2019 College Football Playoff National Championship, 2019 National Championship Game as a freshman with the Clemson Tigers football, Clemson Tigers and set the school's record for quarterback wins. Selected List of first overall NFL draft picks, first overall by the Jaguars in the 2021 NFL draft, Lawrence had a breakout season in 2022 when he led the Jaguars to their first division title and playoff win since 2017. Early life William Trevor Lawrence was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on October 6, 1999. He later attended Cartersville High School in Cartersville, Georgia, where he played football and basketball. As a junior in 2016, he was ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' player of the year after completing 250 of 406 passe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 North Carolina Tar Heels Football Team
The 2018 North Carolina Tar Heels football team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a member of Coastal Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Tar Heels were led by seventh-year head coach Larry Fedora and played their home games at Kenan Memorial Stadium. They finished the season 2–9 overall and 1–7 in ACC play to place last out of seven teams in the Coastal Division. On November 25, one day after the conclusion of the season, Fedora was fired. He finished at North Carolina with a seven-year record of 45–43. On November 27, the school rehired Mack Brown, who had previously helmed the program from 1988 to 1997, as head coach. Preseason Award watch lists Listed in the order that they were released ACC media poll The ACC media poll was released on July 24, 2018. Schedule The Tar Heels' schedule was released on January 17, 2018. Game summaries At California At East Caro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michigan Wolverines Football
The Michigan Wolverines football team represents the University of Michigan in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level. Michigan has the List of NCAA football teams by wins, most all-time wins in college football history. The team is known for its distinctive winged football helmet, winged helmet, its The Victors, fight song, its record-breaking attendance figures at Michigan Stadium, and its many rivalries, particularly its annual, regular season-ending Michigan–Ohio State football rivalry, game against Ohio State, known simply as "The Game," once voted as ESPN's best sports rivalry. Michigan began competing in intercollegiate football in 1879. The Wolverines joined the Big Ten Conference at its inception in 1896, and other than a Charles A. Baird#1906 season and withdrawal from the Western Conference, hiatus from 1907 to 1916, have been members since. Michigan has won or shared 45 league titles, and since the inception of the AP poll in 1936, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LSU Tigers Football
The LSU Tigers football program, also known as the Fighting Tigers, represents Louisiana State University in college football. The LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers, Tigers compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). LSU ranks NCAA Division I FBS football win–loss records, 16th best in winning percentage in NCAA Division I FBS history and claims four College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS, national championships (1958 LSU Tigers football team, 1958, 2003 LSU Tigers football team, 2003, 2007 LSU Tigers football team, 2007, and 2019 LSU Tigers football team, 2019), 16 conference championships, and over 40 List of LSU Tigers football All-Americans, consensus All-Americans. Three players for the Tigers have won the Heisman Trophy: Billy Cannon (1959 LSU Tigers football team, 1959), Joe Burrow (2019 LSU Tigers football team, 2019), and Jayden Daniels (2023 LSU Tigers foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida State Seminoles Football
The Florida State Seminoles football team represents Florida State University (variously Florida State or FSU) in the sport of American football. The Florida State Seminoles, Seminoles compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The team is currently coached by Mike Norvell, and plays home games at Doak Campbell Stadium, the List of American football stadiums by capacity, 15th largest stadium in college football, located on-campus in Tallahassee, Florida. The Seminoles previously competed as part of the ACC Atlantic Division. Florida State has won three national championships, nineteen conference titles (three Dixie Conference, Dixie, sixteen Atlantic Coast Conference, ACC), and six division titles and have made one playoff appearance; the Seminoles have achieved three undefeated seasons, in 1950 Florida State Seminoles football team, 1950, 1999 Florida State Seminol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida Gators Football
The Florida Gators football program represents the University of Florida (UF) in American football, American college football. Florida competes in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They play their home games on Steve Spurrier-Florida Field at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on the university's Gainesville, Florida, Gainesville campus. Florida's football program was established along with the university in 1906. It took on the "Gators" nickname in 1911, began playing in newly constructed Florida Field in 1930, and joined the Southeastern Conference as a founding member in 1932. On the field, the Gators found intermittent success during the first half of the 20th century, with a highlight being the 1928 Florida Gators football team, 1928 squad that went 8–1 and led the nation in scoring. Florida football enjoyed its first sustained success in the 1960s under head coach Ray Graves. After having ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
