Spring Practices

**Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter to have their numbers retired during Black and Gold Day** … CU selects Teamworks General Manager to handle roster management and NIL … Offensive line transfer Zy Crisler a player to watch …

CBS Top 150 players for 2025 includes 25 Big 12 players (with one Buff and two former Buffs) … Starting QB at Tennessee leaves team over NIL restructuring dispute …

Cam’Ron Silmon-Craig on draft status: “My message to NFL teams is to watch the tape” … Full Seven Round CBS Mock Draft – Shedeur a Jet; no Buffs taken after Travis and Shedeur … Defensive End BJ Green on not being on draft boards: “Being an underrated guy … It’s a familiar burn” …

Syracuse won’t be in Boulder for the Spring game, but Buff fans won’t be subjected to a Tractor Pull, either … Here’s a unit-by-unit preview of what Buff fans should look for from CU’s Spring Game …

“You can build a winning team on transfers” … “You can’t build a foundation without freshmen” … “You can’t bring the NFL to college football” … Year-by-year, Coach Prime’s radical ideas are morphing into the mainstream …

December 3, 2022 (the hiring of Coach Prime) was a big day in the history of CU football … March 28, 2025, may also go down as a huge day, with CU announcing to the college football world that the Buffs wish to remain relevant nationally …

Pro Football Focus: Jordan Seaton one of the top ten returning offensive tackles in the nation … CBS Big 12 Over/Under takes: Ten Teams Achieve Overs and Six Suffer Unders … ESPN: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Big 12’s Top Teams …

Will Marshall Faulk and Andre Gurode make the difference in CU’s last-in-the-nation rushing attack? … Will the new additions to the defensive line staff create one of the best defensive lines in the nation? … Let’s find out …

CU needed new coaches at crucial positions: Running back; offensive line; and defensive line … Coach Prime, though, brought in inexperienced coaches, including another Hall of Famer … Anyone betting against CU’s chances? …

The battle for starting QB will be much discussed, but which other position groups will see the most competition, which are most likely to need Transfer Portal help, and which are most susceptible to losing talent? … Let’s find out …

The best signing of the off-season? Retaining DC Robert Livingston … Meanwhile, the defensive line is one of the best at CU in a generation, but the line’s coaches have no experience …

Without Shedeur and Travis, the work of offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur becomes more difficult … CU has talent to work with, but the coaches room has precious little experience … Can CU produce a balanced offensive attack in 2024? … Let’s find out …

CU gets seven home games for the first time since 1982 … No back-to-back home games … Buffs also get former Pac-12 rivals Utah and Arizona State after a bye, and have a schedule set up for a Big 12 run …