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Love, 20, has a projected 40-yard dash time in the 4.3s and electric athleticism, the kind of traits that could inspire a storybook showing in Indianapolis this week.

Love had 40 total touchdowns as the featured back for the Fighting Irish and is No. 2 on the Field Level Media Top 100 list of prospects in the 2026 draft.

Big-play speed is a major selling point for Love in the draft. He might not be the No. 2 overall pick -- where Barkley went to the Giants -- but he's very much in play as a top-10 projection because of the number of teams in that range with a need at the position.

The Arizona Cardinals (third overall), Tennessee Titans (fourth), New York Giants (fifth), Washington Commanders (seventh), New Orleans Saints (eighth) and Kansas City Chiefs (ninth) all have a case for taking Love if they believe he can be a key ingredient for their offense.

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Barkley weighed in at 233 pounds and ran a 4.4 40-yard dash with a 41-inch vertical and 29 reps of 225 pounds on the bench press at the 2018 combine.

Love's 40 time and vertical could beat Barkley, and his 10-yard split (1.54 for Barkley) could be blazing fast.

One of the recurring comparisons we're hearing for Love is Darren McFadden, the Arkansas blazer who ran 4.33 in 2008.

Virginia Tech running back Bhayshul Tuten was the fastest running back at the 2025 combine (4.32). He was selected 104th overall by the Jaguars.

--Field Level Media

NEED TO KNOW

• Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman is expecting his fourth baby with wife Chelsea

• The two announced the news on Instagram, revealing they're expecting another little one via surrogate

• The Freemans are already parents to sons Max and Brandon, 5, and Charlie, 9

Los Angeles Dodgers'Freddie Freemanand his wifeChelseaare going to be parents again!

On Sunday, Feb. 22, the MLB star, 36, and his wife, 34, announced they are expecting their fourth baby together in a post onInstagram. The couple, who is already parents to sons Max and Brandon, 5, and Charlie, 9, shared that they are expecting their newest little one via surrogate.

In the family photo, Chelsea could be seen wearing a black turtleneck and posing behind her three boys. Freddie stood next to her and smiled as their oldest, Charlie, held up a sonogram image. His brothers Max and Brandon wore matching white sweaters on either side of him.

"Worth the wait 🤍 Baby#4is on the way and our hearts are already so full," Chelsea and Freddie wrote in their joint caption. "We are incredibly grateful for the amazing woman helping bring our baby into our lives, and we're choosing to honor her privacy as we walk this chapter. What do you think… brother or sister? 🤍💙🩷."

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The couple has been open in the past about wanting to grow their family. In February 2021, Chelsea told ESPN that her husband had always wanted to be a dad.

"As long as I've known [Freddie], he said that since he was a little boy, he always knew he wanted to be a dad," Chelsea toldESPN. "As important as being a baseball player to him is, I think being a dad is even more important."

After getting married in 2014, Freddie and Chelsea welcomed their first child, Frederick Charles II (who goes by Charlie), in 2016. After struggling to get pregnant again, the couple decided to expand their family through surrogacy. Days before the embryo transfer, Chelsea found out she was pregnant, and the MLB star told ESPN that they were happily surprised to go "from one to three."

They welcomed son Brandon John in 2020 and son Maximus Turner two months later in 2021. Chelsea and Freddie lovingly refer to their youngest boys as "twins with a twist."

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In March, Chelsea spoke with PEOPLE abouther son Max's health scareafter she attended the 2024 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Texas to support her husband with her three sons. All three boys got sick, but Max ended up needing to be hospitalized. According to Chelsea, those hours were some of the "scariest of my life."

"Max coded at check-in, and all of a sudden we were surrounded by countless doctors and nurses," she said. "At this point, he was paralyzed from the neck down. His breathing was weak, and they were worried about his lungs collapsing, so they immediately needed to sedate him and reinforce his lungs with a ventilator."

The head of the ER was certain that Max had Guillain-Barré syndrome. According to theMayo Clinic, Guillain-Barré is a condition in which the body's immune system attacks the nerves, resulting in weakness, numbness or paralysis.

"Max would need a lumbar puncture to confirm the diagnosis," Chelsea said, referring to a technique commonly known as a spinal tap. "The culture would take 48 hours, and Max would need a full-body MRI to rule out tumors, cancer and anything else. All words you never want to hear as a parent."

Both the MRI and the lumbar puncture came back as positive for Guillain-Barré syndrome. "It was the hardest eight days of our lives," Chelsea candidly admitted. "Maximus went from being one of the most critical patients in the PICU to getting discharged eight days later. The first few days were so scary — we were just praying for a miracle."

Later that month, Chelsea shared on her Instagram thather son Max was doing much better. "We had our 9 month neurologist check up for Max today. He is 80% recovered after today's assessment," Chelsea wrote over a sweet photo of Max at the doctor's office. "He had reflexes in both his knees and feet for the first time."

"He is finally above his pre GBS weight. He is still working hard in PT to build strength back in his legs & his feet (dorsiflexon) to improve. I cannot express how thankful I am for these improvements," she went on.

"Life has slowly started to feel more normal. I realize how precious health is now. It is everything. If you are a special needs parent I have no words for how incredible you are."

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APTOPIX Milan Cortina Olympics Alpine Skiing

Vonn shared inan Instagram poston Monday that her injuries went far beyond the complex tibia fracture in the leg she initially revealed after clipping a gate and sailing off course just 13 seconds into her run on Feb. 8.

The 41-year-old Vonn said the trauma from the crash led to compartment syndrome in the leg. Compartment syndrome involves excessive pressure building up inside a muscle, either from bleeding or swelling. High pressure restricts blood flow and can lead to permanent injury if not treated quickly.

"When you have so much trauma to one area of your body so that there's too much blood and it gets stuck and it basically crushes everything," Vonn said.

Vonn credited Dr. Tom Hackett, an orthopedic surgeon who works for Vonn and Team USA, for conducting a fasciotomy to salvage her leg.

"He filleted it open (and) let it breathe, and he saved me," she said.

Vonn noted that Hackett was only in Cortina because she was competingafter tearing the ACLin her left knee shortly before the Olympics.

"If I hadn't had done that, Tom wouldn't have been there (and he) wouldn't have been able to save my leg," she said.

Vonn, who said she has been discharged from the hospital, also broke her right ankle in the crash.

"It has been quite the journey and by far the most extreme and painful and challenging injury I've ever faced in my entire life times 100," she said.

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Vonn underwent multiple surgeries during a week-long stay at a hospital in Treviso, Italy, following the accident. She credited both Hackett and Italian doctors for their efforts to repair her leg, which she said was "in pieces" following the accident.

She says she struggled with pain and blood loss in the immediate aftermath and had to receive a transfusion to help raise her hemoglobin levels.

Vonn, who said she is "very much immobile," is confined to a wheelchair at the moment, but has turned her attention to her rehab and is working her way toward being able to use crutches. She estimated it will take about a year for the bones in her left leg to heal. Only after that will doctors be able to go in and repair the torn ACL, which played no role in the crash.

"It's going to be a long road," she said. "I always fight and we keep going."

Vonn stressed she had "no regrets" about her comeback following a six-year retirement or her decision to ski at the Olympics despite the knee injury.

"I wish it had ended differently, but I'd rather go down swinging than not try at all," said Vonn, who was atop the World Cup series rankings in the downhill when she arrived in Cortina. "I think what I was able to achieve was more than anyone expected to begin with. ... This year was incredible and so worth everything."

She likened her injuries to "one blip on the radar." She did not go into any sort of detail about her competitive career, though her father,Alan Kildow, told The Associated Pressshortly after the accident he would like her to retire.

"Life is life and we have to take the punches that come," Vonn said. "Going to do the best I can with this one. It really knocked me down. But I'm like Rocky. I'll just keep getting back up."

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Mar-a-Lago Shooting

Austin Tucker Martin rarely, if ever, talked about politics, seemed afraid of guns, and came from a family of Trump supporters, according to Braeden Fields, a cousin who said the two grew up together.

"I wouldn't believe he would do something like this. It's mind-blowing," Fields said. "He wouldn't even hurt an ant. He doesn't even know how to use a gun."

Martin walked up to the secure perimeter at Mar-a-Lago early Sunday and went through a gate when it opened for employees to leave, a U.S. Secret Service spokesperson said Monday. Martin dropped a gas can and raised a shotgun at two Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County sheriff's deputy who then opened fire "to neutralize the threat," said Sheriff Ric Bradshaw.

Trump, who often spends weekends at the Palm Beach, Florida, resort, was at the White House at the time.

Investigators have not identified a motive. Trump faced twoassassination attemptsduring the 2024 campaign, including one just a few miles (kilometers) from Mar-a-Lago when a man was spottedaiming a riflethrough shrubbery while Trump was golfing.

Following Sunday's incident, Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said investigators believe Martin bought his shotgun while driving to Florida. Authorities said his family had recently reported him missing.

Martin was from central North Carolina, where guns and hunting are a part of life, his cousin said. But whenever they'd go hunting or target shooting, Martin would never pick up a gun, Fields told The Associated Press on Sunday.

He lived with his mother in a modest modular house down a rutted sandy road near the town of Cameron. No one answered the door Monday, and the large police presence from the day before was gone.

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Martin's sister was just 21 when she was killed in a car accident in 2023, and he has an older brother who's in the military, Fields said.

For the past three years, Martin worked as a groundskeeper at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club.

"It's tragic. I feel for his family," said Kelly Miller, president of the course in nearby Southern Pines. "It's just unfortunate what transpired. It was totally unexpected."

Martin last year started a business to sell pen drawings he made, according to state records. A website matching the company name features illustrations of golf courses, buildings and ancient Roman architecture.

Politics didn't seem to be among his interests, his cousin said

"We are big Trump supporters, all of us. Everybody," Fields said, but his cousin was "real quiet, never really talked about anything."

This story was corrected to show that the suspect walked through the gate and didn't drive through it.

Associated Press reporters Michelle L. Price in Washington, Ali Swenson in New York, Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina, and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio, contributed.

The Mexican Army on Sunday said it carried out an operation that killed Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. U.S. officials have described the cartel as powerful as the Sinaloa organization and a major trafficker of drugs into the United States.

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In the aftermath, cartel gunmen torched vehicles to block roads across the country, prompting many residents to shelter indoors. According to The Associated Press, more than 1,000 people were trapped at the Guadalajara Zoo, afraid to risk traveling home. The U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Mexico has also urged American travelers to shelter in place as roadblocks have impacted airline operations and led to flight cancellations in both Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta — two popular tourist destinations for Americans.

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Aaron Mason, news director for the Scripps News Group station in Buffalo, New York, was vacationing in Puerto Vallarta when the killing happened. He said he is safe but described tense and unnerving scenes.

"I was walking into the downtown area yesterday morning and you could see smoke pouring from different points of the city," Mason said. "And then I turned one corner to go to the gym, actually, and that's when I saw flames from a car that was just in the middle of the intersection on fire."

"You saw the smoke — at one point it was so heavy that it was just pouring over the downtown area in Zona Romantica and right onto the beach," he said. "I mean, it was just such a surreal sight to see because this is such a beautiful, peaceful place."

US citizens in Mexico urged to shelter in place after killing of cartel leader

It is believed the operation to target Oseguera Cervantes was done with support from U.S. intelligence. The killing comes as President Donald Trump has urged Mexico to take stronger action against cartels and the flow of drugs into the U.S., threatening tariffs or military intervention if results are not seen.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, on Feb. 23 found that any public release of the report would be a "manifest injustice" to Trump and two associates because it would detail allegations of alleged criminal wrongdoing in a case that was dismissed before ever going to trial.

The ruling is the latest in a series of decisions by Cannon to protect Trump from having the contents of the case made public.

Jack Smith, the former U.S. Justice Department Special Counsel who brought two now-dropped criminal cases against President Donald Trump, will publicly testify to the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 22.

Pictured here, Special Counsel Jack Smith delivered remarks on a recently unsealed indictment against then-former President Trump at the Justice Department on June 9, 2023 in Washington, D.C. At the time, Trump was indicted in the special counsel's classified documents probe.

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Smith was appointed independent special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2022 to oversee two criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump's alleged role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Smith dropped both cases after Trump won the 2024 election, citing a Justice Department policy against prosecuting a sitting president.

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Smith was appointed independent special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2022 to oversee two criminal investigations into former President Donald Trump's alleged role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Smith dropped both cases after Trump won the 2024 presidential election.

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Smith is a long-time prosecutor whose experience ranges from prosecuting a sitting US senator to prosecuting a gang member who was ultimately convicted of murdering New York City police officers. He has also prosecuted war crimes at The Hague.

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Who Is Jack Smith? The special counsel named in historic Trump investigations.

Jack Smith, the former U.S. Justice Department Special Counsel who brought twonow-dropped criminal casesagainstPresident Donald Trump, will publicly testify to the House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 22.Pictured here, Special Counsel Jack Smith delivered remarks on a recently unsealed indictment against then-former President Trump at the Justice Department on June 9, 2023 in Washington, D.C. At the time, Trump was indicted in the special counsel's classified documents probe.

In July 2024, Cannon ruled that Smith's appointment as special counsel under the administration of PresidentJoe Bidenwas unconstitutional anddismissed the case.

The Biden Justice Department appealed that decision but ultimately dropped the case and another charging Trump withunlawfully trying to stay in powerafter losing the 2020 presidential election, after Trump was elected to a second term last November. In both, Smith citeda Justice Department policyagainst prosecuting a sitting president.

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More:'I don't regret it': Jan. 6 prosecutor defends Trump investigations

Citing her 2024 dismissal of the case, Cannon said in her current ruling that Smith was acting "without lawful authority" in obtaining the indictment against Trump, valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago employee Carlos de Oliveira.

"As a result, the former defendants in this case, like any other defendant in this situation, still enjoy the presumption of innocence held sacrosanct in our constitutional order," Cannon wrote in her new order.

Cannon's move means the American public may never see the substantial amount of evidence gathered by prosecutors in one of the four criminal cases Trump faced in his years out of office.

Trump was accused of illegally storing documents related to U.S. national security and defense at his Mar-a-Lago estate and social club and then obstructing U.S. government efforts to retrieve the material.

Trump, Nauta and de Oliveira pleaded not guilty to all charges, with Trump arguing he did nothing wrong in deciding to keep the documents. They asked Cannon to bar the release of the report, which detailed justification for the charges.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Judge blocks release of Jack Smith's Trump classified documents report

This year, theNFL's competition committeehasn't heard a peep about a new proposal to ban the play, a quarterback sneak that also involves one or more other players pushing the ball carrier from behind.

"There's no team proposal that I've seen from it," league competition committee co-chair Rich McKay said at the NFL combine. "So, I wouldn't envision it. But you never know."

The 2025 NFL season saw a year-over-year uptick in attempts but a decline in theeffectiveness of the Tush Pushafter its dominance in short yardage situations over the previous three years.

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Week 1: Detroit Lions wide receiver Isaac TeSlaa (18) makes a catch for a touchdown against the Green Bay Packers during the fourth quarter at Lambeau Field. The play was originally ruled an incomplete pass, but the call was overturned. Despite TeSlaa's effort, the Packers won the game 27-13.

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Best images of the 2025 NFL season

Week 1: Detroit Lions wide receiver Isaac TeSlaa (18)makes a catch for a touchdownagainst the Green Bay Packers during the fourth quarter at Lambeau Field. The play was originally ruled an incomplete pass, but the call was overturned. Despite TeSlaa's effort, the Packers won the game 27-13.

There were 112 Tush Push attempts in 2025, per ESPN, after a 2024 season that featured 101 attempts to run the play. ThePhiladelphia EaglesandBuffalo Billsled the way with 27 and 17 Tush Push attempts, respectively, in 2025.

Teams converted a first down on 76.8% of Tush Push attempts in 2025, according to ESPN, a notable dip from the 82% conversion rate on the play between 2022 and 2024.

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In September, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported that there was "no guarantee" for another attempt to ban the quarterback sneak play. The ESPN insider wrote that the conversation surrounding the Tush Push ban last offseason was heated and emotional, meaning the league's owners might decide to hold off on further discussion for another year.

Last year, theGreen Bay Packers' proposal to ban the Tush Push ultimately fell two votes shy of the requisite 24 votes needed to institute the ban. The proposal would have re-established the NFL rule that existed until 2005, which banned other players from pushing ball carriers regardless of where they were on the field.

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At the time, Green Bay and other teams that supported the Tush Push ban cited player safety among primary concerns for keeping the play permissible.

FormerEaglescenter Jason Kelce, who was an advocate for keeping the Tush Push legal, spoke at last year's owners meeting to share his perspective on the safety of the play.

"There was a narrative out there that one of the reasons I retired was because of the play, or that I somehow felt like the play led to more injuries or was injured because of it," Kelce said in an episode of his "New Heights" podcast last May. "So I was really just there to offer my perspective on that stuff not being true and the fact that I think it's a relatively safe play."

The NFL has not publicly shared any data regarding the health of players surrounding the Tush Push.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Tush Push ban in 2026? Why NFL rule-changers say it's unlikely