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Bucs coach Lovie Smith says Jameis Winston will start at quarterback

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There will be no easing him in. There will be no biding his time. There will be mp watch-and-learn phase. The Tampa Bay Bucs, as of now, are in the hands of Jameis Winston. Even before the team’s first training camp practice, head coach Lovie Smith pronounced Winston as the team’s starting quarterback Friday. Oh, it wasn’t much of a surprise. The Bucs drafted Winston No. 1 in the draft and, already, most of the team’s marketing has surrounded him. Over…

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Eagles teammate predicts Tim Tebow will make the roster, play

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Tim Tebow is going to make the team. And he’s going to play a lot. Those were the predictions of Philadelphia Eagles‘ teammate Brandon Graham, who seems to be going against the general opinion that the former University of Florida quarterback. Critics gave daily grades to Tebow during mini-camp, and the reviews were generally not very kind. The most generous of them seemed to be that Tebow would not be much more than a camp arm. But Graham told CBS…

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Dolphins re-sign Josh Freeman, who may make it to camp after all

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He’s back. Josh Freeman, who has been hanging onto his NFL career by a thread, has been re-signed by the Miami Dolphins only days after he was released by them. For Freeman, it should be sobering news just how few observers were surprised he had been cut, even before training camp. However, most NFL teams go to training camp with at least four quarterbacks to ensure continuity in the passing drills. Freeman is still considered to be behind starter Ryan…

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Gators gamble with pledge from backup quarterback Kyle Trask

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The Gators got a quarterback. But are they shooting high enough? Often, the University of Florida pursues Parade All-Americans, or five-star prospects. Usually, they try to pick a guy out of the most prestigious college camps. They outrecruit LSU and Alabama and Georgia for his services. This time, they got a commitment from Kyle Trask. He’s the second bast quarterback on his high school team. Huh? Trask, from Manvel High School near Houston, Texas, pledged to the Gators after attending…

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Florida’s Jim McElwain isn’t saying who his quarterback will be yet

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Wherever he goes, it is the question on everyone’s mind. The receivers? They’ll be OK. The defense? It will take care of itself. The running backs? The running backs will be fine. But for Jim McElwain, the head coach at Florida, it starts with a simple enough question. Who’s the quarterback? McElwain isn’t saying, of course. He visited the sets of ESPN’s College Football, of SportsCenter and of The Colin Cowherd Show, and in each case he played the competition…

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Transfer Everett Golson is 3rd on FSU depth chart; Dalvin Cook still first

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If transfer Everett Golson is going to be the next FSU quarterback, he has some work to do. Golson, who is coming in from Notre Dame, was listed as third on the Seminoles’ depth chart when the team released it Sunday afternoon, behind returning Sean MaGuire and redshirt freshman J.J. Cosentino. For Golson, that means there is a lot of making up to do before the team opens its season against Texas State. MaGuire had one start last year. Golson…

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Should USF be interested in ex-FSU quarterback Johnson?

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The University of South Florida needs a quarterback in the worst way. Is De’Andre Johnson that way? Johnson was recently dismissed from the Florida State football team for punching a woman in a bar, so the first reaction is probably to say no. Johnson is trouble, and South Florida certainly doesn’t need someone else’s. Why not pass and let Johnson go somewhere else? To a Division III school far away? To a junior college. But Johnson was a four-star recruit…

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