Former Vandal, Jeff Cotton has always been underrated, under-recruited, and under the radar. His entire life he has worked hard to make people notice his talent. It is with a chip on his shoulder that he became unstoppable. Joe McHale caught up with this NFL rookie as he prepares for his season with the LA Chargers.

At this point, it’s clear all the 2020 college football season’s participants will be a bit off their routines.

It’s entirely possible that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, UW sporting events could be played this fall without fans in attendance, pushed to the winter or spring – or, in the most painful projections, they might not be played at all.

The coronavirus pandemic, which has brought college athletics to a halt since early March, will result in ensuing athletic department cuts due to a $2.1 million loss in revenue, according to athletic director Lynn Hickey.

Thursday, the Seahawks made a move to put that talk to a stop, agreeing to re-sign Geno Smith, who served as Russell Wilson’s backup last year and will compete to do so again in 2020.

Quinton Dunbar spent Thursday morning on a video conference talking about what he could add to the Seattle Seahawks defense after arriving via a trade in March.

Even as Washington State plans for a normal, 12-game football schedule, the Cougars have also outlined strategies for their season ticket holders in case the season is altered or scrapped altogether because of COVID-19.

Facing cameras, microphones and a throng of reporters in Canada’s most populous city, quarterback Matt Nichols fielded questions in February after signing a three-year deal with the Toronto Argonauts.

Los Angeles Rams receiver Cooper Kupp announced on Twitter that he will switch his jersey number to 10, the number he wore in college while setting nearly every Football Championship Subdivision receiving record.

Some Pac-12 football coaches are pitching an NCAA-mandated uniform start to the season.

On Wednesday, new coach Nick Rolovich got his third commitment in the class from Brock Dieu, a three-star offensive guard from Casteel High School in Queen Creek, Arizona.

Rolovich’s hire was, and continues to be a popular one among the people that will be buying tickets to watch his team play, but Monday’s Pac-12 media webinar, which also featured Clay Helton and David Shaw, indicated the new WSU coach has also been embraced by the men who wear the same hat, share the same duties and live through the same experiences as him.

In the first of a three-part media webinar with head coaches from the Pac-12 , WSU’s Nick Rolovich joined Stanford’s David Shaw, USC’s Clay Helton and the Pac-12 Network’s Yogi Roth to discuss the current state of college football amid COVID-19, contingency plans for the 2020 season and the possibility of playing an 11-game conference schedule.

New coach Nick Rolovich and Washington State haven’t let off the gas on the west side of the state, as was evident by the top-five list released Monday by four-star Kennedy Catholic wide receiver Lonyatta “Junior” Alexander.

It’s just a matter of time for defensive end Benson Mayowa, an eighth-year NFL veteran.

New head coach Nick Rolovich and WSU may be able to recover if they’re somehow granted a few additional practices in June or July – something that would put the Cougars on level footing with the rest of their peers in the Pac-12 – but until then, we’ll recount five things the program lost out on by losing spring camp.

Since Nathan Rawlins-Kibonge committed to Kyle Smith and Washington State last summer, the 6-foot-7, 240-pound basketball prospect from Portland’s Jefferson High took up football and quickly established himself as one of the top defensive ends in the state, if not the country.

Whoever first said that timing is everything has never been proven wrong.

D.K. Metcalf says the best advice he received as a rookie was to sit down last at team meetings.