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Subscribe (free or paid) to Good Game, my youth sports newsletter. | The 🏈 Girl | Contributor @guardian & @bbc & more. | Pitches: melissa@thefootballgirl.com.
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NFL 2026 draft predictions: the stars, the needs and the lower-round gems

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By Oliver Connolly , Melissa Jacobs , Andrew Lawrence , Graham Searles
| Yahoo Sports
Carnell Tate, Fernando Mendoza, Jeremiyah Love and Arvell Reese are all waiting for their name to be called in the coming days. Composite: Guardian Pictures; Getty Images; AP Arvell Reese, LB/Edge, Ohio State. He is one of the best pure linebacker prospects in a generation, and he has the athletic traits to become a full-time edge defender. Some teams view him as a linebacker; those at the top of the board prefer him as an edge rusher. In an ideal world, Reese will do a bit of everything.
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The Dianna Russini fallout is less about scandal than who carries blame in the NFL

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By Melissa Jacobs 
| Inkl
Dianna Russini resigned from her job at The Athletic this week. Photograph: Ben Margot/AP Dianna Russini, one of the NFL’s most high-profile reporters, is photographed holding hands with New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel at a fancy resort in Sedona, Arizona. Rumors fly. Vrabel and Russini, who are both married to other people, issue statements denying the assumptions of something untoward. But the firestorm only grows.
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Can Congress keep US sports teams from leaving their cities?

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By Melissa Jacobs 
| MSN UK
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