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Mel Kiper just dropped his two thousand twenty-seven Big Board and the headline is impossible to ignore — seven quarterbacks in the top twenty-five prospects. Seven. That is a generational signal for a position that drives everything in this league, and if even half of those signal-callers live up to the billing, next year's draft room is going to be electric.
Staying in college football, the playoff picture is about to get a whole lot bigger. Sources tell ESPN the CFP is nearing a deal to expand to twenty-four teams, with the new format set to launch in two thousand twenty-seven. That is a seismic shift for the sport — more programs, more chaos, more paths to a title, and inevitably, a longer postseason conversation that starts in August.
And on the field right now, Josh Allen is forty rushing yards away from becoming just the fifth quarterback in NFL history to eclipse five thousand career rushing yards. Lamar Jackson leads all quarterbacks all-time at six thousand six hundred sixty-six yards, but Allen closing in on that club against the Raiders on Sunday is a reminder that this man is genuinely unlike anything the position has produced.
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