Sentences with phrase «teams as rookies»

How many of them do much for their NFL teams as rookies?

Peppers, the No. 25 pick in this year's NFL Draft, is expected to see time at defensive back and special teams as a rookie.

Scouts lauded him for his relentless motor and NBA - ready body before the draft, many considering him the most prepared to contribute to his team as a rookie.

Not exact matches

My second cousin (the son of my first cousin) has become a key player his rookie year as a New Orleans Saint and teams like the Broncos are kicking themselves for not signing him.

The truly interesting thing about the new era is that teams can structure their payrolls any way they want, as long as they pay every player at least the league minimum ($ 100,000 for rookies this season, $ 125,000 for players with a year's service, $ 150,000 for two or more years) and stay under the cap.

Kris Dunn didn't show anything as a rookie, Zach LaVine is a nice young player coming off a torn ACL and the team had to trade its No. 16 pick just to acquire No. 7.

Make the team better just in case J.P. Crawford is suddenly an NL Rookie of the Year and MVP candidate, or Maikel Franco hits 50 home runs, or something just as pleasantly random, while also preparing for the likelihood that they'll be sellers again at the deadline.

The 5» 11», 231 - pound Lewis has always been talented — he ran for a team - record 1,364 yards as a rookie, on Baltimore's 2000 Super Bowl championship team, and for another 1,327 last season after missing all of 2001 with a torn left ACL — but now he's downright scary.

Outspoken as always, the American League Manager of the Year is extraordinarily candid about the team he rescued from the bone pile and made respectable in his rookie season with the Washington Senators.

They didn't fly out of the gates, as is the case, with many Rookie Teams, but as the Regular Season progressed you could see they had all the makings of a great Team..

As of last week, these two teams featured the top three Offensive Rookie of the Year candidates according to Bovada.

They came out ready to go against Rookies Team Weisel in Week 4 as well.

They got the # 1 Seed as a Rookie Team — which is literally unheard of in All Sports Series.

They are going to get the Rookies Team Weisel in Week 2 and it will serve as a nice barometer for both Teams as squads are jockeying for position early in the season..

We haven't gotten to see Team McNichols in the Playoffs before as this is their Rookie campaign and they have surely got their work cut out for them.

They along with the Team Kollada and Team Zisook made the 2015 Playoffs memorable as the year the «Rookie Teams got to the Final4.»

As for Team Mazurek — they too are a Rookie squad and into the Final4 — they await the Winner of # 2 Team Kirshner and # 7 Team Bartlett...

Team Albanese came in this Summer as a Rookie squad and relative unknowns to the rest of the Co-Ed League.

In his absence, Salaam, the»94 Heisman winner, took over as Chicago's featured back, setting team rookie marks in both carries (296) and yards rushing (1,074).

Team Merritt is the youngest team in All Sports Series — which to make the Playoffs as Rookies who are also the youngest guys in the League — well thats pretty much unheardTeam Merritt is the youngest team in All Sports Series — which to make the Playoffs as Rookies who are also the youngest guys in the League — well thats pretty much unheardteam in All Sports Series — which to make the Playoffs as Rookies who are also the youngest guys in the League — well thats pretty much unheard of.

RUNNING BACK NICK GOINGS retired from the Panthers after 2008 and defensive end Kenwin Cummings joined the Jets as a rookie in» 09, so when the teams played each other in Week 12 of that season, America just missed the collision of Cummings and Goings, because Goings was going as Cummings was coming.

There are NO other teams in the league that have accomplished anything close to what the Sixers did this year who had their best players be a rookie and a 2nd year player, some of the teams that Philly is most often compared to in regards to young talent are Minnesota (they won less games than Philly, Wiggins sucks, and they were buoyed by Jimmy Butler as a veteran star) and the Lakers (most people don't view anybody on the Lakers on the same level as Embiid or Simmons and they only won 35 games this year).

Remove team records and media attention, and I think it's a decent debate between Lauri, Mitchell and Tatum (and I guess Simmons even as a super rookie)

Eric Watts, who took his lumps last season as the quarterback for a 2 - 9 Louisville team, is now a rookie on the World Championship Wrestling circuit.

The team desperately needs Ahmad Bradshaw to return, because despite the success of rookie David Wilson, as evidenced by his 12 carries Sunday, Coughlin doesn't view him as an every - down sort of back.

If Lonzo played on the Magic and didn't have Lavar as his dad, with the exact same stats do you think he makes NBA rookie 2nd team?

And no rookie receiver is going to be as good as Dez, which weakens the team when it has Super Bowl aspirations.

(Theo was injured else I am sure he would have started upfront) Playing Sanchez up front looks like a better option than playing a rookie upfront who clearly is not on the same wavelength as the rest of the team.

At the end of the year he was voted the Golden Glove as the best defensive catcher in the league (the first rookie to win it) and made the player - selected Sporting News national all - star team.

As a rookie Alstott ran for 377 yards, caught a team - high 65 passes and broke tackles more routinely than Pete Townshend once broke guitars.

# 32 Walt Bellamy NEW BERN Two - time All - America at Indiana; played on 1960 Olympic gold - medal - winning basketball team; averaged 31.6 points as a rookie with Chicago Packers.

If a guy who can start as a rookie is available at # 24 at any of those positions they will make the team better and the Panthers should take him.

Bourque, a first - team All - Star as a rookie, is a player whose greatness is not that he is a 35 - year - old who looks 18, but that he was once an 18 - year - old who played like 35.

Along with Glenn the Packers need rookie first - round pick Javon Walker (Florida State) and inexperienced players such as Donald Driver, Robert Ferguson and Charles Lee to energize an air attack that in 2001 relied heavily on running back Ahman Green, who had a team - high 62 receptions.

Former Raiders and Rams linebacker Mike Jones recalls Raiders fans in the Bay Area coming to see him play for the Sacramento Surge in the World League right after his innocuous first season as an undrafted rookie... three years before the team moved back to Oakland.

His 40 runs lead the team, as does his.397 on - base percentage making Trout an ideal leadoff hitter, but this rookie also swings a big stick.

«Naturally, as a football player, you have to make a statement to your peers on your team and against your opponents,» rookie cornerback Eli Apple said.

Do you ever hear / see any other team, especially championship - caliber ones, talk about hoarding their compensatory picks and / or saving salary cap room for rookie pools and in - season injury windfalls as reasons to not be active in free agency?

Berger, along with Brooks Koepka and Justin Thomas, are the American names that usually jump out as popular rookie choices for team events.

Fox could join DeMarcus Cousins (2010 - 11), Tyreke Evans (2009 - 10), Oscar Robertson (1960 - 61), Maurice Stokes (1955 - 56), and Arnie Risen (1948 - 49) as the only players in Kings» franchise history to lead the team in points per game during his rookie season.

Mitchell Trubisky didn't have much help as a rookie — Kendall Wright led the team in receiving yards with 614.

The 6» 1», 245 - pound Lewis, who played in the 3 - 4 as a rookie, will have to adjust to having another inside linebacker in the formation — Ed Hartwell, a 2001 fourth - round draft pick who impressed coaches with his play on special teams last season, or free agent Bernardo Harris — but says he'll blitz more, perhaps up to 30 times a game.

Unlike most years, undrafted rookies like Moore were behind the eight ball in 2011, as the lockout prevented them from signing with teams until right before training camp.

The rookie fourth - round pick has been masterful behind center, emerging as an MVP candidate while leading the Cowboys to a perfect record against any team not called the Giants.

Peake — a seventh - round pick in 2016, who finished his rookie season with 186 yards — may have as strong a chance as any to start for the team in Week 1.

He is willing to pay for someone he sees as a stud rookie QB when he believes the team and situation is ready for it.

But he is an important part of the Williams team for 2017, as the more experienced driver alongside 18 - year - old rookie Lance Stroll.

Each of the league's previous three top picks made an impact in her first season — Houston's Tina Thompson was named first - team All - WNBA in 1997; Dydek led the league in blocked shots in» 98; and Washington's Chamique Holdsclaw was Rookie of the Year in» 99 — but first - year Cleveland coach Dan Hughes doesn't expect as much out of Wauters: «I hope people will allow her to play a little bit and not have an expectation level that's too dramatic.»

Derek Carr's best game as a pro took a bad turn when he made a rookie mistake, the latest example of why one player isn't going to turn a team around in his first year.

If they are comfortable with the team being able to contend as is with the added rookie class, nothing wrong with saving it for the future.