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Darian Mensah is putting together a special season in Coral Gables, and the NFL world is starting to pay attention. Mel Kiper Junior has him pegged as the second quarterback off the board in the two thousand twenty seven draft, but the scouting report is far from a clean bill of health — Kiper sees real upside alongside some genuine question marks that Mensah will need to answer before draft night arrives.
Shifting to Pittsburgh, the Steelers walked away with a win over Tampa Bay, but Mike Tomlin's late-game decision-making is drawing heat heading into their Week six matchup with New Orleans. Critics are pointing to some questionable clock and situational management down the stretch — the kind of thing that flies under the radar in a win but tends to come back and bite you against a tougher opponent.
And on the hardwood, Louisville men's basketball is drawing real respect before a single tip-off this season. The Cardinals land at number eleven in the preseason AP poll, matching exactly where they started last year. The program knows that number means nothing until March, but after last season's disappointing finish, there's hunger in that locker room to make this ranking mean something.
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