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When we think about players having breakout seasons, we often look past the league s best players and focus on young players that are making their first leap. While there s nothing wrong with that per se, it sometimes causes you to miss an elite player s breakout season happening right in front of you. Nikola Jokic is having a historically great offensive season this year and has proven that he can be one of the league s leading scorers if that s what his team needs him to be (26.2 PPG - a career-high by 6.1 PPG). And if the increased scoring weren t impressive enough, the Joker is also averaging career-highs in RPG (10.9), APG (8.5), and three-point percentage (41.2). He s damn near averaging a 55-40-90 (57-41-86)!! Jokic is a complete, one-man offensive system and is having the best year of his career.
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May 1, 2021 12:00 AM EDT
Ernest Jones was selected by the Los Angeles Rams with the 40
th pick in the third round of the NFL Draft on Friday night. He was the 103rd pick overall in the 2021 draft.
At South Carolina’s Pro Day, the Waycross, Ga. native measured in at 6-1 1/2 and 230 pounds. He posted a 38 1/2-inch vertical leap, broad jumped 10-6 and bench pressed 225 pounds 19 times while running a 4.69 hand-held timed 40-yard dash.
Jones becomes the second Gamecock selected so far in the 2021 NFL Draft, joining cornerback
Jaycee Horn who was selected No. 8 overall in the first round by the Carolina Panthers on Thursday night. He’s the 36
Mond, who was named
MVP of the 2021 Reese’s Senior Bowl, joins a Vikings quarterbacks room led by Kirk Cousins, who signed a three-year deal with Minnesota in 2018 as a free agent, and in March 2020 signed a two-year extension. Behind Cousins are Stanley and Jake Browning, who signed with the Vikings as an undrafted rookie in 2019.
NFL.com analyst Lance Zierlein called Mond a quarterback with dual-threat physical tools who has grown and matured into a role as a confident game manager.
Jordan Reid, a former QB and coach at North Carolina Central University who is now a Senior NFL Draft Analyst for