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Smalstig: The best and worst picks from the first 4 rounds of the 2021 NFL Draft

Gehrig Smalstig | Monday, May 3, 2021

A couple of months removed from the Super Bowl and a couple of months away from the start of training camps, football fans still manage to get hyped up about the NFL when the draft rolls around. Position classes were deep across the board and teams were eager to move the needle towards a winning

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Smalstig: Quiet free agency means Colts are not contenders yet

Gehrig Smalstig | Friday, April 23, 2021

Tom Brady, Leonard Fournette, Rob Gronkowski, Tristan Wirfs, Antoine Winfield Jr. That’s the haul of starters that it took to push the Tampa Bay Buccaneers into Super Bowl contention, where they would ultimately emerge victorious. That is the result of a very busy free agency, accompanied by one of the better draft classes in the

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Smalstig: The Chicago Cubs should not be content with their current state of affairs

Gehrig Smalstig | Monday, April 12, 2021

If you could travel back in time to April of 2016 and tell any Cubs fan that they would not have put Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo or Javier Baez on a long term contract by the year 2021, they would have called you crazy. The core that took them to their first World Series win