SI’s picks for top offensive and defensive players of the year, the rookies, coaches, and comeback player of the year Key changes: The reduced importance of the overtime coin toss, the NFL allowing alternate helmet designs, broadcaster shuffles, and moreĪ way-too-early look at the top ten 2021 NFL draft prospects Conor Orr’s top ten must-watch games this season.

Welcome to ‘22: Everything you need to know about the season ahead, including:ġ2 teams who could actually win the Superbowl.In college football, Georgia’s Stetson Bennett faces a different kind of pressure: living up to the national championship standard he delivered in January. Now the league is expecting big things from him and his resurgent franchise-and Burrow is uniquely equipped to handle that pressure, according to Conor Orr. The NFL and College Football Preview Issue is on sale tomorrow on newsstands and at SI.com/issues, with more features below.Ī surprising Super Bowl run last year made Joe Burrow the face of the Bengals and arguably the entire NFL. Georgia’s Stetson Bennett, who is featured on a special flip cover for Sports Illustrated’s college football preview, spoke with Pat Forde about his dream offseason-and returning to his dream role-after winning the 2021 College Football National Championship with the Bulldogs. There’s a new weight on expectations on Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals in The New Normal, Conor Orr profiles the NFL’s newest superstar and his constant crusade just to be himself even as everything has changed around him. NEW YORK-( BUSINESS WIRE)-We rarely see a Super Bowl runner-up return to the NFL’s biggest stage (nearly one-third of them haven’t reached the postseason the following year)-but those teams didn’t have Joe Burrow.

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