12 Players Who Could Dominate the NFL Combine

Who will be this year's workout warriors at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis?

Chris Henry was a running back at the University of Arizona from 2003 to 2006. After redshirting, he rushed for 159 yards as a freshman, 119 yards as a sophomore and 581 yards as a junior. Henry had 859 career rushing yards over three seasons before skipping his senior season and declaring early for the NFL Draft.

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2013 College Football Recruiting Rankings No. 7: LSU Tigers

Athlon Sports continues counting down the Top 25 recruiting classes of 2013.

College football's 2013 National Signing Day is in the books and Athlon Sports kicks off its 2013 team recruiting rankings countdown with an in-depth look at the best classes in the nation. The LSU Tigers have recruited as well as any team in the nation in recent years and 2013 is no different. This group is nationally elite and sets a foundation for future success on the Bayou. The only issue? Finishing seventh nationally is only good for fourth in the SEC and third in the SEC West.

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SEC West Football Schedule Analysis for 2013

Athlon analyzes the schedules in the SEC West.

With signing day in the books, spring practice is just around the corner for all 125 FBS teams. And it’s never too early to start thinking about the upcoming season and some of the key games on the schedule. Alabama is widely considered the preseason favorite for 2013 and will be helped by a favorable schedule.

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Ranking the Best College Football-Basketball Coach Tandems in the SEC

With Nick Saban and Anthony Grant, Alabama takes the No. 1 spot here, too

With college football’s spring practice and basketball’s postseason around the corner, Athlon Sports decided this would be a good time to evaluate each school’s coaching tandem.

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College Football Team Recruiting Rankings: Top 25 Consensus for 2013

Athlon Sports compiles its top 25 recruiting classes for 2013.

Recruiting is the lifeblood of college football. Without good players, winning championships is nearly impossible. But there is much debate as too just how much recruiting rankings matter.

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National Signing Day's Most Bizarre Stories

National Signing Day has always provided plenty of bizarre, hilarious and eye-opening stories.

Teenagers are complicated, fickle, naive creatures who seldom have any perspective on the trappings of adult life.

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Ranking College Football's Top 10 Recruiting Classes Since 2001

Athlon Sports looks back at the last 12 years of recruiting and ranks the best classes.

The "modern" recruiting era is tied directly to the online recruiting websites. Rivals and Scout began the explosion around 2001 and ESPN and 247Sports have powerfully entered the market since. The rankings databases only go back 10 or 11 years, so it is difficult to evaluate historic recruiting classes. But since the turn of the millennium, fans and analysts alike have a tremendous amount of data to evaluate recruiting rankings, talent development and scouting evaluations.

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Ranking College Football's Most Talented Rosters

Athlon Sports analyzes how big-time college football rosters stack up nationally.

Preseason prognosticators like Athlon Sports — the most accurate college football preview magazine on newsstands — use many things to predict what the coming football season will look like. Returning starters, scheduling, historic trends, coaching, pending off-the-field issues and, of course, recruiting rankings all help Athlon editors predict the future of college football.

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2013 Football Recruiting Rankings: Quarterbacks

Athlon Sports releases its positional recruiting rankings for the Class of 2013.

National Signing Day 2013 is right around the corner and Athlon Sports is releasing its position-by-position rankings for the Class of 2013 based on the Athlon Consensus 100. Who is left on the board? Who has the best class at one position? Who had positional needs to fill?

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2013 Football Recruiting Rankings: Defensive Line

Athlon Sports releases its positional recruiting rankings for the Class of 2013.

National Signing Day 2013 is right around the corner and Athlon Sports is releasing its position-by-position rankings for the Class of 2013 based on the Athlon Consensus 100. Who is left on the board? Who has the best class at one position? Who had positional needs to fill?

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